36 hours with mine and here our my thoughts...
-Coming from Moto X Pure
Pros
-Phone build and design is absolutely fine. Not everything HAS to be metal and resemble and iphone. I like the way it looks. I like the Microsoft branding on the back. I have dry skin so the phone is a little slippery. May not be able to go nude much longer.
-I'm on ATT and get full LTE. I removed my SIM from the MX Pure and inserted before I powered up and also didn't restore anything (Had an Icon for 6 months a while back). No issues here.
-Cortana works well. Not sure if she does as good a job as OK Google, but I haven't noticed any glaring deficiencies yet. Plus I like her voice and name better
-Windows Hello is way cool...when it decides to scan my eyes...(update, I restarted my phone and now it's working)
-Camera is better than MX Pure. Colors are way more accurate. Subject details are sharper as well. Pressing the camera button launches the camera 2-3 times quicker than the Moto twisting action...which I felt was pretty quick. 950 is lightning getting to the snapshot.
-Apps have improved since pre 8.1 Icon quite a bit. Ebay app is actually useful. Apps that I use for work and pleasure have both been vastly improved.
-DUAL SIM is really cool. I'm thinking of all sorts of possibilities.
-Edge browser is fast and works well. It finally stores passwords but....
-Call quality is good.
-Audio with headphones is night and day superior to MX Pure, Sony Xperia Z5 Compact, and LG G4. This is important. I like to use the headphones when I mow the lawn (or throw snow nowadays) and that was my gripe with G4, Z5, and Pure. 950 is loud and good quality.
-Glance screen is nice. MX Active display is wicked cool, but glance does a good job.
-How cool is it to have the entire suite of Word, Excel, PP, etc right there!
-Battery life is fine. I used mine from 6:30 am until 8pm and was at 24% and that was with about 30 minutes of using navigation and also downloading new apps.
Cons
-Sometimes when contacts call me there name doesn't show up on the caller id screen. They are in my contacts so I'm not sure why they aren't showing up. Annoying as I don't memorize contacts numbers so I have no idea who is calling.
-No visual voicemail is a bummer. Voicemail in general is lame. Like faxing it needs to go away, but at least VV made it tolerable. In my job, people still leave me VM's for whatever reason so I hope this gets addressed sooner rather than later.
-The post processing for pictures taken is too long. I take a picture and want to text it to someone, sometimes I have to wait ten seconds, but sometimes up to 60 seconds it will sit there saying "adding finishing touches". This is the case with both rich capture enabled and disabled. I was hoping with the 810 in here that wouldn't be the case so hopefully an update will come soon that addresses this.
-When I click to install an app, it thinks about it for like 5-10 seconds before it starts downloading. That seems about 5-10 seconds too long.
All in all, not too shabby at all. Feeling confident that the Pure will in fact be relegated to full on back up status and that 950 can be daily driver!
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