Windows Phone is great... until you run afoul of stupid restrictions.
You probably will never come across them, but one of my cousins got a Lumia, and made the mistake of not lying when registering the phone.
She ran afoul of two things:
1) Marketplace simply does not work if you're a minor
2) Almost nothing works if you set your place of residence to Uruguay.
So I had to create a false account for her, and reset her phone twice, before she had a passable user experience.
It might "work" if you live in the U.S., but I absolutely do not recommend it for small third world countries, and will only recommend Android here.
Btw, I'd add a third caveat:
3) Most software doesn't have "free" alternatives like on Android (absolutely deal-breaking if you don't have access to a credit card, which most Uruguayans don't)
It's sad, because the hardware beats the crap out of Samsung phones, the UX is better, and I love the Camera button. Too bad Nokia chose Windows, I loved my Nokia phones (still use one, an N86).
You probably will never come across them, but one of my cousins got a Lumia, and made the mistake of not lying when registering the phone.
She ran afoul of two things:
1) Marketplace simply does not work if you're a minor
2) Almost nothing works if you set your place of residence to Uruguay.
So I had to create a false account for her, and reset her phone twice, before she had a passable user experience.
It might "work" if you live in the U.S., but I absolutely do not recommend it for small third world countries, and will only recommend Android here.
Btw, I'd add a third caveat:
3) Most software doesn't have "free" alternatives like on Android (absolutely deal-breaking if you don't have access to a credit card, which most Uruguayans don't)
It's sad, because the hardware beats the crap out of Samsung phones, the UX is better, and I love the Camera button. Too bad Nokia chose Windows, I loved my Nokia phones (still use one, an N86).