I like this forum, and i like this community, but this is not the first time i come to such thread that in somehow we end up with a mid end phone being better than a very competitive high end device that sells waaay more than the entire WP eco system.
how on earth could someone reach this conclusion? at least, at least, say that the 1520 or 930 is better than the galaxy note 4.....
lets keep it real with these weird comparisons.
yes the 640 is a good device, but it is no way near the GN4.... next time when you want to give up a phone with this mentality, i will be more than happy to provide a swap for you.
I didn't actually say the 640 is better than the Note 4. The Note 4 hardware, build, screen, camera are clearly a cut above the 640. The 640 doesn't have the S-Pen either. Let's not conveniently forget the huge price difference between the two. With the exception of the mysterious battery drain, the issues I experienced were really with the OS and apps that came on the phone.
I'll give you some examples. I added one Exchange account (where I keep all my contacts), one Gmail account, one Facebook account, one Twitter account and one Whatsapp account. Next I tried to add some Favourites to the phone/contacts. Searching for one colleagues name revealed three different separate entries, with no way in the search results to figure out which contact type was which. The only way to get the correct one on my Favourites was to add them all, then go through each one separately and delete the unwanted ones. When I add the same accounts on WP the contacts are all merged without any manual effort. On the Note, none of the contacts on the Favourites screen had any pictures, whereas if you expanded an individual contact the pic was there.
By default when I pressed the button to unlock the phone, I got only 2 seconds to start entering the PIN or I would lock again. Not long enough sometimes with my dumbly fingers. Installing a different lock screen app fixed that.
I have no idea why email stopped synching using the default maul app. I tried deleting and re adding the account but it stopped at the same point. This may have been something to do with my email account or data but I tried a bunch of other mail apps such as Nine and Touchdown that didn't have this problem.
I set up the phone to show me a notification on the lock screen when I got a new mail, but the success of this was 50/50. An alternative notification app behaved a lot better.
Battery consumption was all over the place. More than once I would unplug the phone at 100%, go to bed, wake up 7 hours later and find 30-40% gone. When checking the power usage details, one of the chief consumers was "Google Play Services". However, the OS refused to let me disable/uninstall this. I did manage to disable Google music/books etc in an attempt to save power, however these were reinstalled as an "update" later on. The Samsung Fast Charger was a real life saver.
The WP OS has its fair share of niggles and I'm not a fan of the new WP10 email and calendar apps in particular. I was really happy to finally get stuck in to Android, and yes there were workarounds for a lot of the problems I had, but for a Premium, expensive device - 3.5 times the price of the 640, for me the experience was frustrating. I'm sorry if that's hard to accept.