Salon.com > lumia http://www.salon.com Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:45:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Who has the best smartphone? http://www.salon.com/2012/12/14/who_has_the_best_smartphone/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/14/who_has_the_best_smartphone/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13124428

"Aesthetically pleasing" is very subjective.

I was deep into the fifth page of the reader comments of the first installment of Ars Technica's excellent "The State of Smartphones in 2012," when I encountered this observation, which is simultaneously the most illuminating and worthless Internet comment of all time. It was a response to the declaration by Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham that the "Live Tiles" user interface in the brand-spanking-new Windows Phone 8 operating system was more "aesthetically striking" than the icons of Apple's iOS or the widgets of Google's Android.

(With Live Tiles, the restless smartphone user can expand or shrink the on-screen real estate devoted to a particular app or function, providing a level of configurability alien to the straitlaced universe that iPhone lovers, in particular, are accustomed to. Remember this, for future reference: Windows: freedom! Apple: tyranny!)

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