[philliphaydon]

I moved from android to iphone to Windows phone to android to iphone.

I'm sticking with iphone. Android has been the worst experience for me. Had an old HTC with 2.# and a Samsung note4, plagued with issues.

The thing that annoyed me most (besides Samsung bugs like not being able to remove keyboard notification) is when you register with an email, you cannot use the same email for another service.

My contacts exist on my windows live account which happens to be my gmail addy, when I register the phone with gmail I cannot sign in with windows live using the same email because the email already exists. A bug that doesn't happen on Windows phone or iphone.

Coupled with slow buggy laggy android phones, and malware. I ditched iphone. Android with so much market share is not a good thing either. Just a IE scenario all over again.

[viraptor]

I'm having trouble understanding your issue with email addresses. What do you mean by "another service"? What do you mean by "register the phone with gmail"? What do you mean by "sign in with windows live"?

[IkmoIkmo]

I've got no clue, I use the same email account for gmail, microsoft, samsung, facebook etc. I have lots of services with the same email setup.

[philliphaydon]

My gmail is registered as a Windows Live account.

So same email / different password / different service.

I store all my contacts on my Windows Live account.

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When you register the phone with a Google Account it automatically creates an Account for the email associated to the Google Account.

I then want to add a Windows Live account in order to sync my contacts.

Android OS prevents this by disallowing the registration of the Windows Live service by telling me that the email address is already associated with an account.

[pjmlp]

I will never get an iPhone as it is a luxury on my part of the planet or when I eventually do get one, it will most likely be second hand.

The Windows Phone developer stack is great in regards to Android, but with all the missteps Microsoft did, the last being the failure to fulfill the promise of upgrading all WP 8.1 devices to WP 10, we really only have Android as viable alternative to iOS.