Re: Thinking of Leaving | Switching platforms...comment here!
After only having my Samsung Galaxy 7Edge for 2 months, I'm DONE! It's not the phone, the phone is absolutely beautiful. The Android OS on the other hand just got to be too much to deal with, so I just switched back to a brand new Lumia Icon on Verizon.
1: HERE Maps, they don't work the way that MAPS. On Android you have to put HERE back on line in order to update. Not so with MAPS. Plus all I could get in English was either British Male or Female, and if I were just driving looking at the map to see where I was. I had to refresh it to get it accurate! WTF? Google maps was not an option!
2: OneNote. All I can say here is what a joke! Not even close to as good as the W10M version! The rest of the MSFT suite Excel, and Word. were on par.
3:Outlook Mail/Calendar: What a joke on Android!
4: Rating an app one has to sign up for Google + < Seriously!
5: Other than a few apps like BofA and MSFT. It seemed every time I turned around I there was another ad staring at me. No matter what I did there they were! < Go figure, it is Google after all.
6: App permissions. With the exceptions of a few again. Un like most of the W10M apps that I had previously Damn near every app wanted access to everything when there was no reason. Yea! I could turn off a lot of those permissions after the fact, but even then....Sheesh!
Before someone opens their troll mouth and decides to rip me, I understand had I used apps for Google Maps, and say Evernote over One Note, and Gmail rather than Outlook and Chrome over Firefox, thing might have been different, and they may have been, but that's not the case here or with me. So let rip trolls!
On the plus side, there were 4 or 5 apps that I really enjoyed using, but the bottom line is that these apps in particular had/have great mobile web pages and I used them before w/o any problems. Folks there might be an app gap that can easily be over come. I'm just an ordinary everyday user, so for what its worth W10M is the best IMHO. Look carefully before you leap!
For those of you on Verizon, I was able to fine a brand new Lumia Icon on their business side, not the Consumer side. and was able to make the switch. The SKU is NDK929W and there are now only 36 of these (White) Lumia Icons left/ Hoorah! I didn't have to switch to AT&T.