They say that when you buy a smartphone, you tend to stick with the same device maker or mobile operating system for the long haul. Looking back at my personal device history, I’ve gone from Symbian to Android to iOS to Windows Phone to iOS and then finally back to Android. You wouldn’t expect anything different from a phone geek, right?
Microsoft knows normal people don’t often change their habits however, and according to Neowin the company is going to do something about that next week. They’re going to launch an application called “Switch to Windows Phone” that’s powered by the Quixey application search engine. Here’s how it works: You install the app on your device, it then creates a list of all the applications on your phone, and then it displays whether or not those apps are available in the Windows Phone Store.
The application will probably do more than that, but this is all that’s known thus far. “Switch to Windows Phone” was supposed to come out today, but it’s been delayed for reasons that haven’t been stated. Confession: My main SIM card is currently inside a Nokia Lumia 620. I’m testing it for two weeks to see what life is like on the other side of the fence.
