Window 8 smart phone

Man I hear you...I want to have LOGOS ported to Windows Phone 8 too (Lumia 920)...Come on team logos! Please tell us WP8 users that you are at least considering the port![H]

Yup yup yup! Another Lumia 920 user here that would be really happy to see a Logos app for our devices.

Hi, Jim...

Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 are separate (but related) platforms. The appearance of a Windows 8 app is encouraging, and suggests that Windows Phone users might see an app in the future.

Two caveats:

1. The Windows 8 app is still quite slow, buggy and rudimentary. I find it unusable. I would almost rather Logos have nothing in the app store than to tarnish their reputation with an app that's so clearly pre-alpha. Let's hope that when a Windows Phone app appears, it's approaching the same level of quality as what we find on other mobile platforms, and not an embarrassment.
2. Apps that are developed for Windows Phone 7 will also work on Windows Phone 8. Apps developed specifically for WP8 are not backwards compatible. Since there's a significant WP7 audience (myself included), I'm hoping Logos will choose the first route.

Yes please make a very good (willing to wait) WP app.

I can completely understand.

I have the Win8 Phone and the Surface RT. I love my phone, but I would much rather have Logos on my Surface! I know you guys are doing a lot and that it takes money to get these Apps going, so I just want to thank you and I look forward to the apps you do produce for Logos in the future!

Loyal customer and Windows Fan!

Thanks Bob.  We are looking forward to more Logos support on the Windows platform!  Appreciate your work on that. 

Hi!

My Lumia 820 is also waiting for Logos. I understand that the US markets are your primary markets and the WP8 is not so popular there as in Europe, but I hope there will be WP8 version for Logos sooner or later. Developing the Win8 metro version should help in developing the WP8 version too.

Is Logos any closer to releasing an app for Windows Phone 8?

Folks, I've been a decade-long customer of both Logos (on the PC) and Laridian (on the mobile).  I've been following Logos' progressing in developing for the WP platform, and have now lost my support. This week, Laridian released their WP8 app, and it's all I need. 

If the only thing you need is WP8 Bible application, fine.

I am a little bit more demanding [:)]  I need one fully synchronized Bible ecosystem and my WP8 Nokia Lumia 820 should work well as part of that. I can't imagine to go back to the "stone-age" of using separate Bible programs on each platform.

I haven't found any other system than Logos being that fully synced ecosystem. I use PC laptop, iPad, iPhone and now I started to use Nokia Lumia 820 where I need to have just the same we have on iPhone or Android. I hope it makes sense. 

Observing market momentum, I don't think WP will fade away. The longer Logos takes to release a WP product, the more it will cost them to regain market.

I fully agree with you and also believe WP will gain much of the market soon. WP8 is just great platform. 

I used to have Laridian many years ago on my iPhone so it looks it grew a lot since then. Sorry for my wrong assumptions in the precious post. I understand your logic now. I hope however Logos will come with WP8 Logos application soon. I would really not like to leave Windows Phone platform for anything else. I have been using iPhone for years and still use iPad.   

Yet another vote for a Windows Phone 8 app. The market for Windows Phone is only going to grow. I hope you get to it sooner rather than later!

Microsoft announced earlier this week their plans to officially stop supporting both Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8 in the second half of 2014.

I don't know what you wanted to say by your post, but the information about the date of the end of support for the WP 7.8 and 8 just means we will have a new Windows Phone 9 soon. That's all. 

Having Logos for the W8 platform would help me make the decision to switch.  But I'm also thinking I use Logos more on my laptop and my tablet than my phone so it might not make that big of a difference to me.

Also on Lumia 920.

Microsoft announced earlier this week their plans to officially stop supporting both Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8 in the second half of 2014.

I don't know what you wanted to say by your post, but the information about the date of the end of support for the WP 7.8 and 8 just means we will have a new Windows Phone 9 soon. That's all. 

The point seems to me to be (and I realize i am comping at this a couple months late), MS has no continuity on the mobile platform. 6(I know the previous was never called 6 but i don;t remember it's proper name even though I had one of those phones) - 7 - 8. These are not iOS update like Windows OS or iOS updates. Many items running on the first generation of iPhones functions great still on  the current one. No Software that was on pre 7 phones worked on 7 phones. When 8 came out again there was a software barrier again (although it was easier to migrate code to make 7 apps into 8 apps). With this history and an announcement that support will ending leaves one to believe in Windows Phone 9  is under development it;s not going to share much with 7/8…. It is a pretty startling announcement in my mind about the equivalent of them saying we won't be supporting Windows 7/8 after next year… When it still hasn't fully dropped XP support all these years after it's discontinuation. That announcement is to me a slap in the face to everyone they are hoping to see phones to, and they have just in the last couple weeks started up a new TV AD, reminds me of back when their new flagship 7 phone was released and 2 weeks later it was announced it would't be upgradable to 8. Windows Phones have failed to gain a significant market share in no small part to their lack of continued support. If every year apple released an iOS all previous iPhones were not upgradable Apple would rightly have few iPhone users. Apple sheds what it sees as archaic code and hardware, but not in such away as to make transitions hard or force the majority of users to get a new computer/phone to continue using the latest software. In general Apple attempts to offer hardware/software support to computers five years old, i do believe first generation iPADs are not upgradable past iOS 5, but I know my old iPhone 3GS supports the latest IOS and it's 4 years old. 

-Dan

Dan, if I understand the situation properly, we have pre-WP8 times in Microsoft Mobile platform and post-WP8 times. There is no continuity between WP 7 and WP8. I don't think the situation with the new WP9 can be similar. The reason behind the WP8 was to build a new platform for the next generations of Microsoft mobile OS. The difference is that Apple entered the market quite late, while Microsoft have had already all kind of PDAs and WM phones etc (I used them for years). There had to be a moment of drawing line and starting a new platform. That's what I believe happened with the WP8 discontinuity. (And I had iPhone 3 and 4 and I have experienced a similar discontinuity of iOS).