What are the biggest disadvantages of windows phone 8 ?

[Landshark]

Lack of trending apps for younger people; but all the important ones are in the store now. Gamers like a faster processor. Things that have irritated me so far have been: Xbox music store not liking different windows accounts... security I suppose. A couple of USB crashes when copying music from the PC... turn off the phone and plug in again and the PC finds the phone OK. No such issues when done wirelessly.

When you have actually used a modern Windows phone you'll find that 90% of the criticism is BS. The keyboard is very accurate and word text suggestions very intuitive - at least as good as iphone - so there is no need for a different design. Voice control and dictation are both excellent (maybe outstanding) - better than Android. Connectivity to PCs is better and more fluent. On the Nokias the cameras are better too with the one on the 1020 being class leader by a mile.

It's kind of like Android being a hot hatch and Windows being a more comfortable yet very capable car like a BMW.