Re: [Real Users] My Lumia 950 Detailed Review
By the end of today, it will be one week officially since I have had a 950. I think I have had enough time to try things out and do a review.
Anyway, let's go:
Short version:
-It feels nice in the hand. Not that big in comparison to the 640.
-Cameras are very good. The "finishing touches" bit is kind of annoying.
-My app experience is alright. It's not as poor, since I have most of what I use and it works well.
-Battery life seems to be a 20-24 hour deal, I'll place it as above average.
-What is bugginess? Not seeing any.
-Iris scanner randomly works for me. 1 out of 8 times at the most, it's much faster to just use my PIN.
Long version.
-The 950 feels great in the hand. Not as great as my iPhone SE, but it feels like it isn't huge to me like some of my previous Androids have been. If not huge, it felt tall. I spend a good amount of time under the hair dryer (in and out of the salon), and it was great that my hand did not get tired or feel strained from holding it. The back of this phone not being metal was great for me because I didn't feel like it was burning me as much. lol. It just felt slightly wider than my Lumia 640. I made a thread about that here, with pictures:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/ge...640-950-actually-slightly-different-size.html
-The cameras (both of them) are pretty good. I have been mostly pleased with every picture I have taken on it. In my case, it's random pictures and selfies, here and there. I say mostly because I'm not a fan of the "finishing touches" thing. I don't use HDR, and I'm indifferent about all of that. I would like if there's a way that I can skip the finishing touches, better. I love the results I see in the lenses but it feels like it's slightly less nicer with the final picture?
-The grand question most people probably want to know is the apps. "How do I deal with the apps? Do I have all of them, etc.". In this week, for the first two days, I picked up my iPhone because I was missing Instagram Stories. To be honest, I am still kind of missing it, but not as much. Instagram is just fine on the 950 for me. Before doing this trial, I noted that there are 2 apps that are lacking/not the same on W10M that I actually use on a regular, pretty much daily basis. One of them is a social media app, and my solution has been to use Edge, which I'm missing the push notifications. The other one is a book app. It's here but so outdated. I use it to check out books, but I use Edge to read said books. That has been great. Everything else, I am good with substitutions or they work great.
-Battery life hasn't fully impressed me. It's not horrible, but it's just above average. It seems like I can use it for 20-24 hours before charging. I have had an oddball day when I have been able to charge it the day after the next. In my opinion, it gets scary hot when fast charging. When it charges slowly, I'm good. I generally slow charge most of the time at work or in the car. To be fair, it does have an estimated time of a day and 6 hours on a full charge. Just missing my iPhone battery life, but this is better than all of the Androids I have tried. I must note that there were 2 days when I have been installing updates.
-Haven't experienced much bugginess software wise. No issues really. Wow, I know, this is short. There really isn't much to say.
-The iris scanner is random. Maybe I need more practice with it but I feel like it takes too long to recognize me most of the time so I'm kind of preferring to just put in the PIN. I would say maybe one out of 8 times, it recognizes me. I do have to give it props for being able to work through my not as light prescription for my glasses though. Very cool, when it does work.
Notes:
-I have had MMS issues that have been resolved thanks to the great patience of @Werentuckl with my particular model.
-I do kind of fear burn-in though with this AMOLED screen.
-I have had random display issues. Not frequent enough to be bothersome but they happen here and there. More so double tap to wake and the power button having a delayed response.
As for if I will keep it, I'm going to have to give it another week. I have really liked some phones I have tried after the first week, and by the second, I started to feel differently. My SE has been the only exception.
Edit: Decided to edit the text around to make it easier to understand. Added a tl;dr version at the top.