Ejay Lozano
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I was tempted to get the M8 or the L830, but it was the camera on the M8 that didn't sell me on the offer, everything else was there with the high end specs.
I haven't seen any sign of this in nearly five years being accurate at all. In the windows phone 7 days there were lots of alternatives and in the windows phone 8 days all OEMs were on equal footing. Samsung and HTC slacked and Nokia rose to power....now with the Nokia sale, blu is an up and comer and HTC has the perfect opportunity to swoop in and be relevant except they aren't.
What will help windows phone is developer and carrier support. Not a rush of OEMs.
I don't mind being an isheep type of person. Because I like the idea that all windows phones are made from the same people who make my operating system and control that. I want Microsoft to take an apple approach because this current android approach is an utter mess.
I was tempted to get the M8 or the L830, but it was the camera on the M8 that didn't sell me on the offer, everything else was there with the high end specs.
Even though I have a Lumia and I have a fondness for Nokia's(now Microsoft's) phones, I'd switch to another OEM in a heartbeat if the specs were there. The m8 doesn't have a very good camera imo, and I'm not willing to downgrade the experience so drastically from my 1020. Now with the Hima/M9, I might possibly make the jump, that's if the phone is even confirmed for Windows.
Definitely disagree take Lumia camera out and HTC speakers, there is no true advantage over either phone truthfully.I try and keep up on the Phones for Windows and the forums are really the best place to find out how the phones really are out in the wild, and I have owned a few Lumias and now the M8 and I can say from a purely smart phone stand point the HTC is the best Windows phone out there right now , there is not a phone made that does not have some kind of problem and the Lumias are no different. I will admit the cameras on the Lumias are better and the 1520 has a little better battery life and as far as updates go all you have to do is look at the wreck of the updates for all the Windows phones, there are still some waiting for the 8.1 update and Cyan, and Denim is a real mess. I think I can take my chances with HTC and AT&T. And as far a cameras, I have a really nice Nokia Camera that cost a lot less than $ 4 to $6 hundred dollars to take pictures with, so the one on my M8 works just fine for facebook and Instagram, But oh man the rest of the phone flat smokes the Lumias from looks to performance. And yes I think we need more phone manufacturers to make Windows phone, there are a lot of people out there just like you who think LG and Samsung and Motorola and Sony are the best and they probable would buy a Windows phone if they made them, just for the brand name and they would ague to death that their phone is the best and tell you all the reasons yours isn't, If Nokia's name could not do it, Microsofts isn't going to come close, so we need as many makes as we can get selling Windows phones if we want this OS to grow.
Ok so I've been reading a bunch of forum posts lately and all I see is Nokia fan boys bashing HTC particularly the one m8. I've heard the terms Nokia =premium and stuff like that. The last I checked there is no nokia/microsoft flagship out right now. Aluminum feels more premium than the plastics used by Nokia/ms. Now granted HTC makes like one phone every two years but still shouldn't HTC deserve some credit because the one m8 is a killer device that in my opinion is the best windows phone you can be as of now.
I think the android approach is what is needed. Your right HTC and Samsung aren't taking advantage of the lack of the ms flagship however, choice and option helps personally I feel like they shouldn't have bought Nokia and just followed a nexus approach but its done and can't be changed.
1. THE CAMERA SUCKS! I almost bought the HTC, but in a head to head, my old 822 had a better camera. FAIL.
2. Excessive size due to dual front facing speaker. My phone is not a boom box.
3. Build quality.
4. Support.
5. Exclusive apps.
Moving on.
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In mid range camp, we have the Lumia 730 and 830... they may as well merged the phone into one. There's not that much difference between the two.
Same question can be ask, why does htc fanboys hate nokia? Like how htc themselves dissed nokia when they released the htc one. Plus the fact that they used nokia's audio microphones and labelled them as their own
I'm patiently waiting for next next Lumia flagship. I really like the 830 a lot, but the M8 has me spoiled because it's so fast lolYou should try Lumia flagship next gen It's pretty amazing.