Karthik Naik
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I was doing Nokia WP promotion in Berlin O2 Shops lately, and the thing is this: You not only have to convice customers of bying/using WPs, but you have to literally talk them into considering one. Popular media might be to blame, but people mostly don't care about tiles, UI/UX, offline maps, integrated navigation, OCR, song recognition, and different approaches to doing something.
Thanks, my point exactly! Who cares?
So what do they care about with Android or iOS? Please don't say apps because only people like us care about apps.
If a buyer is new to Windows Phone, and the sales rep is pitching it to them, he/she should let the customer know up front that there is no WhatsApp or Candy Crush. Honestly though, there hasn't been a single carrier store I've ever been where sales rep even mention a WP device to customers. 2 weeks ago when I went to my local T-Mobile store, I only heard them pitching the Galaxy S5 to customers.
You'd think they'd pitch the 521...That's what I have, and lord do I love this phone. I was originally going for a 925, but the lack of SD Card support kind of nerfed me on that.
But yes, definitely mention the lack of candy crush. It was a deal breaker for someone I know. They actually returned their 1020 because of that reason.
On a positive note, I'm seeing more Lumia's in the wild lately. Today, I went shopping for a light fixture for my kitchen. Since the one I have is dead. Anyway...Forgot my phone in the car, and the guy was nice enough to look up prices of hanging brackets for lights on home depot and stuff for me. moral of the story? it was on a lumia.
Also went to get new tires for my car the other day, and bam. there was a girl with a lumia.
We're growing!
It's because that game is the latest trend.I'm not a gamer so I don't get the fuss, but can you honestly agree with someone returning a phone (a 1020 no less) because it doesn't have access to a game? I can certainly understand if there are other niggling issues and that is the straw that breaks the camel's back but seriously? If that game is so important wouldn't they have checked first to see if it was even available?
I'm not a gamer so I don't get the fuss, but can you honestly agree with someone returning a phone (a 1020 no less) because it doesn't have access to a game? I can certainly understand if there are other niggling issues and that is the straw that breaks the camel's back but seriously? If that game is so important wouldn't they have checked first to see if it was even available?
I'm with you on that one, that's one of the most ridiculous things i've ever heard regarding this subject.I'm not a gamer so I don't get the fuss, but can you honestly agree with someone returning a phone (a 1020 no less) because it doesn't have access to a game? I can certainly understand if there are other niggling issues and that is the straw that breaks the camel's back but seriously? If that game is so important wouldn't they have checked first to see if it was even available?
So it would be fair to say that these sales reps should mention that Office 365 is only available through subscription but free and built in on WP.
Do you mean that an Office 365 subscription is necessary to use the official Office app on iOS & Android? I actually thought this was true until a few minutes ago. I had read awhile ago that Microsoft updated the Android app (iOS too I believe) to remove the Office 365 requirement. However, I have an Office 365 account so I couldn't tell the difference.
I have a 2nd Android device at the moment, a Moto G. I reset Microsoft's official Office app so it was "new". I verified that I was not logged in with my Office 365 account. I wasn't logged in at all, not with any Microsoft account. I then opened an .xls file in my Google Drive account. It opened fine with the Office app. I could read it, but I couldn't edit it due to it being an .xls. I then opened a .docx, and once again Microsoft's Office app was one of the options to open it. It opened, and I could edit the document. I was not logged in!
Evidently the login is now only necessary to give you direct access to OneDrive & SharePoint. There's not much else you can do in the app. You cannot browse for local files. But if you browse to a local file outside of the app, you can open it with the app. Android is a lot like Windows in that if you do not have defaults set for certain actions, a popup will appear asking which app you want to use. It will also ask if you want it for this time only, or always.
Office 365 is no longer necessary to use Microsoft's Office app for Android. So now even that advantage for WP is gone.
I'm guessing that whatever files you create or edit aren't auto-saved to OneDrive. Once again, I don't know how it works with Android. I do know that on my company iPhone, unless I open it in OneDrive, it won't save to that location.