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I don't think you have ever used a Lumia 800. While inferior to SII on paper, it was significantly better in actual use. It sold okay, but was abandoned by Mic

by bostand 10y ago

I don't think you have ever used a Lumia 800. While inferior to SII on paper, it was significantly better in actual use. It sold okay, but was abandoned by Microsoft and never updated past 8.3

gtirloni 10y ago
I really like my Lumia 925 and the lack of apps was not of problem for me. The apps that mattered were all there. What bothered me was that vendors didn't bother updating those apps or giving it feature parity. When I dropped it for nth time and the display went dead, I bought a Moto G and have been happy with it (gave the G3 away and bought a G4 recently). I miss Windows Phone, it was a really nice and fast OS and it looked great to me... but I guess it went the Betamax way maybe.
- philliphaydon 10y ago
  I went Android > iPhone 4, HTC HD7, Lumia 900, Lumia 925, Note 4, iPhone 6s+, iPhone 7+. My iPhone 4 was terrible. Replaced 3 times because it kept breaking (drops calls randomly, random reboots) But I've had nothing but terrible experience with Android. The first month is fine then it slows down to a grinding halt... My windows phones to date are still the best phone experience. But MS didn't release the newest phones in Singapore so I went iPhone. I'm basically an iPhone convert now. 0 issues. No slow downs. Just rock solid phone. My flat mate had nothing but androids and thee I the towel with the nexus 6 for an iPhone 6s+ and now he refuses to touch Android again. I don't understand Android popularity. (Personal opinion)
  - bostand 10y ago
    Android popularity is due to it's multi vendor nature. You don't like the latest Sony? Then buy HTC or moto or Xiaomi or whatever. You will even keep your apps and settings. Your problem with Windows was really due to lack of this.
  - herbst 10y ago
    Youe issues with android are easy to explain. You were not using android. You used horrible forks by HTC and Samsung. Its kind of sad that peoples android impression gets downed when they actually never run a clean Android..
    - philliphaydon 10y ago
      That's not entirely true. The problems I encountered on the Note 4 were no different from those encountered by my flatmate who was using the Nexus 6. For example if we did a clean install. What's App or LINE would both open the camera in ~1-2 seconds. With only installing a few apps (facebook, twitter, whats app, line...) after 1 month, both the note 4 and nexus would degrade in performance that What's App or LINE would take ~8 seconds to open the camera... After using an iPhone 6s+ for over a year, the camera opens instantly, every time... I thought it was my Note 4 and got it replaced twice... my flatmate couldn't replace the nexus since he bought it in Hong Kong and Google Singapore wont help. Everyone I know who has Android says iPhone sucks, but constantly complain their (android) phones are slow and laggy. Again, I don't understand why people like Android.
      - herbst 10y ago
        well ok. Guess i have to take this. Personally i never experience such issues at all with clean android flavors (Nexus or AOKP). I use a different camera app since ages tho, maybe thats why i never experienced that issue. Overall i remember especially Samsungs flavors slowing down a lot after just a few months.

by bostand 10y ago

I don't think you have ever used a Lumia 800. While inferior to SII on paper, it was significantly better in actual use. It sold okay, but was abandoned by Microsoft and never updated past 8.3

gtirloni 10y ago

I really like my Lumia 925 and the lack of apps was not of problem for me. The apps that mattered were all there. What bothered me was that vendors didn't bother updating those apps or giving it feature parity. When I dropped it for nth time and the display went dead, I bought a Moto G and have been happy with it (gave the G3 away and bought a G4 recently). I miss Windows Phone, it was a really nice and fast OS and it looked great to me... but I guess it went the Betamax way maybe.

philliphaydon 10y ago
I went Android > iPhone 4, HTC HD7, Lumia 900, Lumia 925, Note 4, iPhone 6s+, iPhone 7+. My iPhone 4 was terrible. Replaced 3 times because it kept breaking (drops calls randomly, random reboots) But I've had nothing but terrible experience with Android. The first month is fine then it slows down to a grinding halt... My windows phones to date are still the best phone experience. But MS didn't release the newest phones in Singapore so I went iPhone. I'm basically an iPhone convert now. 0 issues. No slow downs. Just rock solid phone. My flat mate had nothing but androids and thee I the towel with the nexus 6 for an iPhone 6s+ and now he refuses to touch Android again. I don't understand Android popularity. (Personal opinion)
- bostand 10y ago
  Android popularity is due to it's multi vendor nature. You don't like the latest Sony? Then buy HTC or moto or Xiaomi or whatever. You will even keep your apps and settings. Your problem with Windows was really due to lack of this.
- herbst 10y ago
  Youe issues with android are easy to explain. You were not using android. You used horrible forks by HTC and Samsung. Its kind of sad that peoples android impression gets downed when they actually never run a clean Android..
  - philliphaydon 10y ago
    That's not entirely true. The problems I encountered on the Note 4 were no different from those encountered by my flatmate who was using the Nexus 6. For example if we did a clean install. What's App or LINE would both open the camera in ~1-2 seconds. With only installing a few apps (facebook, twitter, whats app, line...) after 1 month, both the note 4 and nexus would degrade in performance that What's App or LINE would take ~8 seconds to open the camera... After using an iPhone 6s+ for over a year, the camera opens instantly, every time... I thought it was my Note 4 and got it replaced twice... my flatmate couldn't replace the nexus since he bought it in Hong Kong and Google Singapore wont help. Everyone I know who has Android says iPhone sucks, but constantly complain their (android) phones are slow and laggy. Again, I don't understand why people like Android.
    - herbst 10y ago
      well ok. Guess i have to take this. Personally i never experience such issues at all with clean android flavors (Nexus or AOKP). I use a different camera app since ages tho, maybe thats why i never experienced that issue. Overall i remember especially Samsungs flavors slowing down a lot after just a few months.