Re: So what made you pick a windows phone in the first place?
I have a long history before jumping boat to Lumia 920, I was all the while Nokia ******, owned most of the N series through out my colleage and uni year, then my first "real" smart phone was the infamous Samsung Galaxy S, it was running Android 2.2 and it was horrible, back in that days I always have the "phone call slide of death", anyone called me had a chance unable to pick up due to the slide of death, then update to 2.3, my god it doesnt fix much, force to root and do this and that, it just keep getting worse, and getting slower.
The following year I bought iPhone4s, being owner of Macbook pro not getting iPhone was a big joke to my friends and family, so I have it, screen was small, everything small, doesn't like the eco system due to Android too open, sold it off after 3 months and getting HTC One X, I though HTC One X will be my next killer phone, but no I having hard time with it instead, phone arrived half dying (wifi and call signal always drop), speaker and mic very soft, screen died after 3 months, motherboard died after 8 months, screw it!
Then saw my friend using Lumia 700, omg so smooth and nice, i mean not prefect but as normal phone usage it was prefect, I dont play games much on mobile, if i playing it will be on my psp or 3ds, I just want a good phone at least able to facebook, read pdf/ebook, and office doc will be big plus. Years later I pre-order Lumia 920 and using it till now, I am happy, I even bought Lumia 525 for my mom and she love it, and it's her first smart phone.
I really love Windows phone and with 8.1, I tried to spread the love to my friends and colleagues, they always give me some reasons such no apps or games, games wise I know lacking but for apps Windows Phone have some popular apps available and they all working fine, nevertheless good works Microsoft and Nokia, do elignten us in the future release!
TL;DR: Been thru iOS and Android and fell in love to Windows Phone