Ok, I switched from an aging Andorid device to a shiny Lumia 710.
Upon importing my PRIVATE PERSONAL CONTACTS (phone numbers) I was overjoyed to learn that they are immediately published to an ONLINE "Live" account with no obvious warning - less, any choice in the matter.
Now, I may be old-fashioned, but was I foolish to assume that all my phone numbers would be stored on the device itself, rather than in a cloud?
Although Android nudges its users into trading their privacy for convenience also, at least you can opt out from all the intrusions to a great degree. Not so with WP7 it seems..
So unless this situation changes fairly soon, this will be my first - and last Windows device.
I found a temporary workaround in the form of an app called "My People" which stores your phone numbers locally. If it were not for that app, the phone would now be up for sale/given away.
I'm frankly shocked that there seems to be so little discussion/outrage about this fact.
I fully accept that I may be mistaken about all of the above, so please correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.
Upon importing my PRIVATE PERSONAL CONTACTS (phone numbers) I was overjoyed to learn that they are immediately published to an ONLINE "Live" account with no obvious warning - less, any choice in the matter.
Now, I may be old-fashioned, but was I foolish to assume that all my phone numbers would be stored on the device itself, rather than in a cloud?
Although Android nudges its users into trading their privacy for convenience also, at least you can opt out from all the intrusions to a great degree. Not so with WP7 it seems..
So unless this situation changes fairly soon, this will be my first - and last Windows device.
I found a temporary workaround in the form of an app called "My People" which stores your phone numbers locally. If it were not for that app, the phone would now be up for sale/given away.
I'm frankly shocked that there seems to be so little discussion/outrage about this fact.
I fully accept that I may be mistaken about all of the above, so please correct me if I'm wrong about any of this.