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User experience is a lot more than the direction you scroll in, and hopefully you know that.

I haven't personally seen choppy scrolling on my Windows Phone in a long, long time. Certainly not WP8. Its freakishly smooth and consistent.

As far as the other things, I agree some need work and I don't think anyone is making excuses for their absence, merely providing insight as to the best way to go about implementing them.

Live Tiles are a twist on notifications, but they're not enough. I would however be disappointed to just see them rip a notification center from Android. I don't think its unreasonable to be hopeful for creativity and thoughtfulness.

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The scrolling is certainly consistent, but it's always ~30 fps. I would have expected a consistent 60 fps, which is certainly possible. It's certainly a lot worse than the Nexus 4. Perhaps better than the old Nexus 7, which is a bit jerky (and Android really is more inconsistent at this).

WP8's user experience has some things going for it, at the moment mainly the use of big icons instead of small ones. But. The keyboard sucks donkey balls. My last Nokia was the N9, and its keyboard is so much better than Microsoft's that it's an insult. The WP8 keyboard is worse than Android 1.6. The menues are messier than Android 1.6. The functionality isn't on par with Android 1.6. The whole OS is a bit shit. But it's got big rectangles. Really. That's all it's got going for it.

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Nelson Member since:

Come on man. You're talking to someone who runs with a debugging FPS counter on all the time. Scrolling is consistently ~60FPS.

As for the other stuff, I guess that's your opinion.

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