Hi, so I've had my Nokia Lumia 1520 for a couple days now and for the most part I like it but I'm not completely sold on the WP experience. I've always been an iPhone user but I haven't updated because I feel Apple hasn't made a phone to give the features I want in years.
Upgrading from an iPhone 4s to a Lumia 1520 is a world of a difference. My 4s wasn't even close to being as powerful. And the screen size and SD card capability is awesome. I do wish I could open the SD card without a pin though. I also hate that my headphone options are now very limited. From my understanding Apple doesn't use the standard but with so many manufacturers working on iPhone the standard should just change. The playback controls don't even seem to respond with my car's Bluetooth! Live tiles kick regular icons ****. I wish I could choose which ones are transparent without a third party app but that's a small gripe.
I did a lot of online research and Windows phone seemed like the OS for me. I produce music with a partner and we both feel that OneDrive is the best cloud service for us. Having it integrated seemed like a great idea but it doesn't work like I expected. IOS does not have a file manager so I'm forced to use crappy third party apps for the duty that often crash. I understand Windows phone 8.1 doesn't have a file manager yet but I was very surprised to see no option to open files in other apps like ios has.
My vices is the lack of polish on WP. It's so powerful and completely non intuitive at the same time. There are times when I have to click the ellipsis to bring up more options even though the bar had plenty space for those options to display. The settings are great with plenty options but I'm baffled as to why they're not in alphabetical order and why not merge subcategories eg. display, lock screen and theme. IE 11 is terrible. There are dozens of faults I've found with it. The search bar acts more like an address bar and less like a search bar which is annoying. No scrubbing for video playback. And it loads Google's mobile site without all of the options. The bar that displays battery, time, Wi-Fi etc... Hides in apps and some screens. It would be nice to know the status of my phone at all times. When the phone proximity sensor is covered during a phone call it goes bad to the phone app. Which is annoying as I may still want to do things in another app. Things like these are just a few examples of what make the user experience less enjoyable. Is there a place I can go to give Microsoft feedback? Do you think the official WP 8.1 will fix these things? Am i just too noob and doing it wrong? Should I just return my Lumia and wait until more kinks are worked out with the OS? Maybe its just not ready just yet for me.
Upgrading from an iPhone 4s to a Lumia 1520 is a world of a difference. My 4s wasn't even close to being as powerful. And the screen size and SD card capability is awesome. I do wish I could open the SD card without a pin though. I also hate that my headphone options are now very limited. From my understanding Apple doesn't use the standard but with so many manufacturers working on iPhone the standard should just change. The playback controls don't even seem to respond with my car's Bluetooth! Live tiles kick regular icons ****. I wish I could choose which ones are transparent without a third party app but that's a small gripe.
I did a lot of online research and Windows phone seemed like the OS for me. I produce music with a partner and we both feel that OneDrive is the best cloud service for us. Having it integrated seemed like a great idea but it doesn't work like I expected. IOS does not have a file manager so I'm forced to use crappy third party apps for the duty that often crash. I understand Windows phone 8.1 doesn't have a file manager yet but I was very surprised to see no option to open files in other apps like ios has.
My vices is the lack of polish on WP. It's so powerful and completely non intuitive at the same time. There are times when I have to click the ellipsis to bring up more options even though the bar had plenty space for those options to display. The settings are great with plenty options but I'm baffled as to why they're not in alphabetical order and why not merge subcategories eg. display, lock screen and theme. IE 11 is terrible. There are dozens of faults I've found with it. The search bar acts more like an address bar and less like a search bar which is annoying. No scrubbing for video playback. And it loads Google's mobile site without all of the options. The bar that displays battery, time, Wi-Fi etc... Hides in apps and some screens. It would be nice to know the status of my phone at all times. When the phone proximity sensor is covered during a phone call it goes bad to the phone app. Which is annoying as I may still want to do things in another app. Things like these are just a few examples of what make the user experience less enjoyable. Is there a place I can go to give Microsoft feedback? Do you think the official WP 8.1 will fix these things? Am i just too noob and doing it wrong? Should I just return my Lumia and wait until more kinks are worked out with the OS? Maybe its just not ready just yet for me.
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