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I have owned a Lumia 820 and 920. The hardware was absolutely great, but I have grown to dislike Windows Phone's shortcomings: - No separate volume control for

I have owned a Lumia 820 and 920. The hardware was absolutely great, but I have grown to dislike Windows Phone's shortcomings: - No separate volume control for the ringer, music, etc. I swear I've become almost deaf twice. - No notification center. I do believe tiles are great, but they are not enough alone. I quickly want to have an overview of new messages, if possible reply inline. - Sometimes I had random reboots (on both phones). Sometimes I couldn't turn the phone off (it would immediately start again). - You cannot put applications on an SD card, which was annoying, given the 820's 8GB. - There is a serious lack of applications. The applications that are there are generally of a bad quality. Even Microsoft's Facebook application is flaky compared to the iOS and Android counterparts. I sold both phones and bought a Nexus 4, which I am very happy with, and has great battery life (not noticeably better or worse than the 920). I still like the iPhone the most (I had iPhones for 4.5 years), but the extra value of a 5s or 5c is not worth the price difference between an iPhone and a Nexus to me.

freehunter 13y ago
I like the "one volume control" feature best of all. I used a Nexus 4 and I now own an iPhone, and the volume behavior is... unexpected, to put it nicely. On my iPhone right now, I have the silent switch turned on, so the phone doesn't ring. I'm opening up a YouTube video to see something but I don't want to disturb the people around me. Thinking ahead at the home screen, I hold the volume down button until the volume is at the lowest. I then load up the video, and it starts blaring at full volume. I can't turn it down until it's already making noise? How does that make any sense? While it might be better to have different controls for everything, at least on Windows Phone I know that if the phone is muted, sound will not play. At all.

freehunter 13y ago

I like the "one volume control" feature best of all. I used a Nexus 4 and I now own an iPhone, and the volume behavior is... unexpected, to put it nicely. On my iPhone right now, I have the silent switch turned on, so the phone doesn't ring. I'm opening up a YouTube video to see something but I don't want to disturb the people around me. Thinking ahead at the home screen, I hold the volume down button until the volume is at the lowest. I then load up the video, and it starts blaring at full volume. I can't turn it down until it's already making noise? How does that make any sense? While it might be better to have different controls for everything, at least on Windows Phone I know that if the phone is muted, sound will not play. At all.