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Windows Phone 8 Versus iOS 6: Have We Seen Everything?

Windows Phone product manager Ed Sullivan's comments that known Windows Phone 8 features are just a "sneak peek" may be similar to iOS 6, which is expected to offer a UI refresh after the same grid-based app layout has been used since the iPhone debuted in 2007. So from what's known, how do the two mobile operating systems compare?

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