Living With Lumia: Day 2, The Story of Apps

On my second full day with the Lumia 920 and Windows Phone 8, it's time to start talking about two of the most important parts of a smartphone: the web browser and the app catalog.

Windows Phone 8 uses a version of Internet Explorer 10 that is remarkably similar to its desktop counterpart. There are some differences in plugin support and the HTML5 stuff isn't as robust on mobile (yet), but the engines themselves are now nearly the same.

This is a good thing because it means that the platform has a first-class web browser on board. Websites that are coded according to common standards load well and perform as expected. Note, I said websites that are coded correctly.

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