I've had my Lumia for three weeks now, and I still like it a lot.
A cute thing happened yesterday. My mother (almost 80, has not technical know-how whatsoever, even her good old flipphone seems complicated to her) is quite impressed with my phone. She told all her friends how neat it was that a phone could guide us through unknown territory (she was with me in my car when we drove around last week). And yesterday, I showed her some pictures I made with it. She saw the homescreen, gazed at the tiles and said: "I like the way that everything is so clearly visible. But the phone is rather complicated, isn't it?" (My answer was: Depends on what you want to do with it, and it's much easier then my last phone).
Makes me wonder if my mom would like it and be able to handle it? My idea is: I could get her the same (or a similar, maybe the Lumia 710 might be good enough) phone, configure everything for her, like moving her contacts over from her old phone, pinnning the most important ones to the homescreen, remove anything that could be confusing?
Unforutunately she doesnt (and never will) own a computer. I'm just asking myself if it is possible to have a windows phone only - without zune, without connection to a computer?
What I'll do is the following: I see her every week, and each time, I'll show her something on my phone and watch her reaction. I also let her play with it, to help her to get used to a touch screen. I started this yesterday, by showing her my tarot app - I made her pick a tarot card (trying to get her used to a touch screen). Maybe, maybe, if she loses her fear, she would find it neat to have something easy to use to make her first steps in a modern world?
What do you think about it?