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Sounds pretty good overall. All the more reason to try it. Nokia's map applications have been great since Symbian S60v3 was in its prime, so I'd love to see wha

Sounds pretty good overall. All the more reason to try it. Nokia's map applications have been great since Symbian S60v3 was in its prime, so I'd love to see what their developers were able to do with them on a more capable platform. I would disagree that the problem with Outlook.com is not related to the phone itself or the mobile platform, though. It certainly does seem to me that Windows Phone is intended to be used with Windows Live by its average user. For example, using Outlook.com is the officially recommended way of getting Outlook contacts on your phone if you don't have an Exchange server [1]. The camera app is tightly integrated with SkyDrive, too. I understand that you cannot blame the developers of Windows Phone for this (given the sheer size of Microsoft the teams behind Windows Live and WP may well not share any personnel) but my initial experience as a user makes me wish they had paid as much attention to it as they did to the mobile OS itself. [1] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2844991 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2844991

harrytuttle 13y ago
Well you get full offline turn by turn voice navigation now for free! Integrated traffic and commute status as well. I regularly use it to get around the UK and it's never let me down. I get people staunchly defending google maps against it until they are shown exactly how good it is. I tried google's nav stuff but it relies too much on a data connection. Not only that, on the 720, I can do a 4 hour drive with nav on, play around on the phone for ages when I get there and do a 4 hour drive back and I've still got 60% battery! Remarkable! My wife uses a Lumia 620 with outlook.com with no problems. As a casual user it's pretty good. She manually added contacts to the people thing and they appear on the phone when you next get a sync with outlook.com. I've not heard her complain at all about it so far. Edit: just spoke to her and she actually used contacts transfer from Nokia to use BT to transfer it from her (drowned but still working well enough to get stuff off) Asha 302 that she was using before. You can also import contacts from the SIM with it but she didn't know that until afterwards.

harrytuttle 13y ago

Well you get full offline turn by turn voice navigation now for free! Integrated traffic and commute status as well. I regularly use it to get around the UK and it's never let me down. I get people staunchly defending google maps against it until they are shown exactly how good it is. I tried google's nav stuff but it relies too much on a data connection. Not only that, on the 720, I can do a 4 hour drive with nav on, play around on the phone for ages when I get there and do a 4 hour drive back and I've still got 60% battery! Remarkable! My wife uses a Lumia 620 with outlook.com with no problems. As a casual user it's pretty good. She manually added contacts to the people thing and they appear on the phone when you next get a sync with outlook.com. I've not heard her complain at all about it so far. Edit: just spoke to her and she actually used contacts transfer from Nokia to use BT to transfer it from her (drowned but still working well enough to get stuff off) Asha 302 that she was using before. You can also import contacts from the SIM with it but she didn't know that until afterwards.