Windows Phone 8.1 - A burning platform

Having recently fallen backwards into the Windows Phone ecosystem after being pretty much exclusively Android since the G1 (Symbian on an E51 before that, Windows Mobile / dumphone combo before that), I feel like I'm qualified to get on the Windows Phone 8.1 hate bandwagon. So without further ado, here we go!

Microsoft Lumia 435 - Cheap, cheerful, surprisingly not crap

Having recently moved to the backwoods, I found myself in need of a phone supporting T-Mobile's excellent WiFi calling service. Despite being firmly entrenched in the Android ecosystem, the Nexus 6 was just too big and too expensive for my tastes. In a sudden bout of pragmatism, I picked up the cheapest phone available at WalMart which happened to support WiFi calling. Enter the Microsoft Lumia 435.