Hi all,
I know most people here are WP fans like I am, but I have been debating between staying on wp or switching to ios.
I have been a long time NOKIA fan, 15 years to be exact. When the Lumia line entered the states, I did not hesitate one bit and switched from my N79 (I am still impressed with its AF 5mp camera w/ zeiss even though it's a phone from what, 8 years ago?) to the L900, then L920, L640, and finally L950. So yeah, I've been through all the major MS ditching user scene.
I just love the layout of WP ever since it came out. I like the tiles, later on the live tiles, and now the transparent live tiles. I like the fluid feel of the interface as well. I enjoyed the camera on pretty much every Lumia phones I owned.
However, with the W10M so far, I started to feel MS asking $550 retail being too much for the L950 with sort of a beta platform. I know the W10M keeps on updating frequently, but there is still a very very long way until it is really a mature platform. I would have the camera not launching once in a while, iris scanner not launching once in a while, screen blinks twice every time I launch the camera with the hardware button, and lack of certain important apps. I'm not a heavy app user, I don't play games, and I have less than 30 apps on my phone, but lack of official panorama apps, banking apps, and airline/ hotel apps is disappointing to me. Also, I did not have any doubt for the camera before I purchased the 950, since it is a flagship Lumia. However, I do feel that the accuracy of focus isn't as good as the 920 percentage wise. I am having a hard time getting a focused picture at low light, and even at some day light situations and I used it the same way I took pictures with the 920 for the past 2+ years. (If I used the hardware button for focus in low light, 950 came out blur 8/10, 920 would usually be clear 8/10. Day light isn't that bad, 950 would be clear about 90/100, but 920 would be 95+/100)
Just recently, I purchased an used iphone 5s for cheap. Well, cheap for apple's standard... It's a 2+ year phone. I won't talk about the app part, since it's obvious. But the old iphone actually doesn't really feel that dated to me. Everything is fast, and it takes okay pictures.
This makes me really started debating about switching. But deep in my mind, I would still want to convince myself staying with the 950.
Anybody had this debate before? How'd you convince yourself going either way?
I know most people here are WP fans like I am, but I have been debating between staying on wp or switching to ios.
I have been a long time NOKIA fan, 15 years to be exact. When the Lumia line entered the states, I did not hesitate one bit and switched from my N79 (I am still impressed with its AF 5mp camera w/ zeiss even though it's a phone from what, 8 years ago?) to the L900, then L920, L640, and finally L950. So yeah, I've been through all the major MS ditching user scene.
I just love the layout of WP ever since it came out. I like the tiles, later on the live tiles, and now the transparent live tiles. I like the fluid feel of the interface as well. I enjoyed the camera on pretty much every Lumia phones I owned.
However, with the W10M so far, I started to feel MS asking $550 retail being too much for the L950 with sort of a beta platform. I know the W10M keeps on updating frequently, but there is still a very very long way until it is really a mature platform. I would have the camera not launching once in a while, iris scanner not launching once in a while, screen blinks twice every time I launch the camera with the hardware button, and lack of certain important apps. I'm not a heavy app user, I don't play games, and I have less than 30 apps on my phone, but lack of official panorama apps, banking apps, and airline/ hotel apps is disappointing to me. Also, I did not have any doubt for the camera before I purchased the 950, since it is a flagship Lumia. However, I do feel that the accuracy of focus isn't as good as the 920 percentage wise. I am having a hard time getting a focused picture at low light, and even at some day light situations and I used it the same way I took pictures with the 920 for the past 2+ years. (If I used the hardware button for focus in low light, 950 came out blur 8/10, 920 would usually be clear 8/10. Day light isn't that bad, 950 would be clear about 90/100, but 920 would be 95+/100)
Just recently, I purchased an used iphone 5s for cheap. Well, cheap for apple's standard... It's a 2+ year phone. I won't talk about the app part, since it's obvious. But the old iphone actually doesn't really feel that dated to me. Everything is fast, and it takes okay pictures.
This makes me really started debating about switching. But deep in my mind, I would still want to convince myself staying with the 950.
Anybody had this debate before? How'd you convince yourself going either way?
I still prefer what the 950 offers in terms of hardware, see below. The Lumia prices include a 10% edu discount in this table.
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