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Microsoft Winds Down Its Phone Business
- pedalpete 10y agoI switched to Android about 3 weeks ago, I still believe that Microsoft had some unique and better features, but I gave up in the end due to lack of consistency and some poorly thought out UX. After a few weeks with Android, I'd probably jump at a Surface phone, should one come out. The key things which so far I notice are better than Android 1) Separate email for each account: I've got both outlook and mail but I have 6 different email accounts. Windows gave me a different homescreen icon for each email. Now everything is treated as if it is the same. 2) People Hub: Contacts is just boring. People hub was so much more useful and interesting Well, unfortunately, I think those are my two standouts that I miss. Why did I leave? 1) Really bad experience in a bunch of apps. Twitter would always tell me I had new followers and show me the followers from 3 weeks ago. Skype would give me notifications days after somebody messaged me. 2) Connectivity: If wifi was available, it would try to use that, even if I wasn't connected. It would 'ping' me every time I walked past an open wifi, even though I turned off that notification (yeah, imagine how many times that is when you walk down the block - annoying as F) Randomly, connectivity would be lost, turn airplane mode on and off - and it would all come back. 3) Damn it took for ever to start up. I don't turn off my phone that often but the 830 was over a minute