Going to get first smartphone, will it work with Linux? - Page 2

I'm with you - I currently have a Samsung Galaxy S2.
And I'm looking to pick up a Yellow / White 820. Yet every person who has any clue about phones is bashing on it.

They tell me it has limited apps, yet it supports the 3 I use - Fancy, Facebook and Skype. I love the interface, and the seamless menus - especially the 'pick a letter' stuff on their menus.

I dunno, it just looks good.

But, I don't want to buy into it, and then regret it.. so why is it so bad?

I have WP7.5, WP8 might be a huge step up but i doubt it.

The problem is with Metro; it looks pretty but is completely useless at anything other than appealing to the brain dead groupies. It's so limiting in what it can do that it makes Apples walled garden of an OS look like the garden of Eden. Then you have the arbitrary monochrome glyphs and hidden gestures that leave you scratching your head when trying to perform even the most basic of functions and fake multi-tasking that means just an accidental brush with your finger will lose everything you were doing on the current app.

Even pre-Android Samsung was a nice user experience than the crap that Microsoft have released for smart phones.

Apple iOS:
- Locked garden
- Lots of apps
- You can jailbreak but that can slow the phone down
-Only 1 device per generation (iPhone 4, 4S, 5 etc)

Android:
-Open for you to do almost anything to it....(stay away from locked bootloader phones)
-Still a huge app selection
-Rooting opens up the phone even more
-Huge choice selection (budget to flagship)
- Integration with google
-Able to flash to latest version if there is a ROM for it

WP7.5/7.8/8:
- Semi-locked garden (theres a "jailbreaking/unlocking" that you can do for $ I think...but I think thats for WP7/7.5 and not 8)
- Integration with MS
- "pretty tiles" (Subjective)
- Lower app choice (some popular apps are not made by the native company. There was a list I read about; but I can't find it saved in my RSS feeds anymore)
-Semi-multi choice selection (there are some budget and flagship; not really mainstream)
-WP7-7.8 phones can't run WP8

Just a small list. Any questions ask away.
I'm just going to ask; how many people do you know use Windows Phone? Here in Hong Kong I only know of 2 people that use it. Everywhere else I see android (Predominantly SGS3, SGS Note 2 other other Sammy Androids. Or Iphones) This leads to a lower demand for paid apps (market share wise) so most of the time even if a paid app exists for WindowsPhone its often more expensive vs Android/iOS counterparts.

I've used windows phone. Its just not my thing. Yes its smooth and shiny; but to me unless you want to just pickup the phone to use without tweaking it to make it yours its not your thing. My

Got bored tried Angry Birds and it ran beautifully not even a touch of lag like some of my older phones.