Here's my thing ....
I've had mobile phones right from the early days of the Mercury One2One handsets. Since texting began I have ALWAYS chosen Nokias because of the ease of predictive texting on a T9 keypad - I can hold the phone in my right hand & text with my right thumb & knock out long texts (with complete words & punctuation) in no time at all.
I've had a go with my mates' Sony/Erics, Motorolas, IPhones & the gorgeous Samsungs. But they all have a stupid system of having to scroll through suggested words to find the word you want.
I like my T9 keyboard - with physical keys or touchscreen. Very happy with my last 2 previous phones wonderful X6 Smartphone & the N8. (I dropped it & the screen cracked & I also had to push a ball-point pen in the side to unlock the screen, otherwise I would have held onto them.)
My current contract being "up", I've upgraded to the 520. I HATE IT.
I mean, I LOVE the phone... light, beautiful design, & the icons drift across the screen effortlessly with a touch - unlike the icons that used to "jump" at your finger when you touched the screen.
It's a beautiful phone. But I am not into the 160,000 apps which apparently you can have. I want a phone that calls folk, texts folk, has a radio & takes pics.
Ok.. here are my problems with the 520 ....
1) It has a different charger plug/socket - ok it's only a niggle but it means I've got to buy new ones & get a new one for the car.
2) THERE IS NO FM RADIO !! I use my radio a lot especially when I am travelling - coaches, trains, laying in the sun abroad etc etc.
Even the basic old cheap phones had an FM Radio. This is a BIG step back for me. There are no plans for an FM Radio app because there is no built-in antenna so it wouldn't work anyway.
3) Windows phones are NOT compatible with Nokia Suite. I had to contact TMobile to activate my new micro-sim card, which meant deleting the one in my old phone, so I downloaded all the contacts to my pc via Nokia Suite (as I would pics & messages etc.) before TMobile deleted the contents of the old card. Great. But now, because the new phone is not compatible with Nokia Suite, I cannot upload all my contacts onto the new sim & will have to input all 183 of them MANUALLY ! So, until I do, I cannot phone anyone !
4) There is NO T9 text keypad. It is qwerty & I HATE IT. Folk say it will take time to get used to it. But my fingers press 2 keys at the same time & I have to keep deleting words & correcting them. It took me over 10minutes to type & send 2 sentences to a mate. I use my phone for texting more than anything else & the T9 keypad is the ONLY reason I have stuck with Nokia all these years. Cannot believe that they have taken away the option to change the look of the keypad.
5) Being a Windows phone, everything comes through Microsoft, so it's kinda complicated to even do emails or search the net.
And - again a small thing, but I wonder WHY?... there is no flash for the camera.
I'm contacting my supplier &, either they will have to take it back & give me last year's N8 or I will buy a 2nd hand one on Ebay (?50) & sell my 520 for about ?120 (it's ?175 new). That sounds like a better option. Either way, there is no way I am keeping it. Lovely phone, but useless to me - it does not do the basic stuff I need it to.