Killing your Wi-Fi bandwith? That's weird, could be an issue with your router.
I hate fanboys, whatever the OS they support. All conversations end up in irrational rage.
If you guys spot a WP7 ****** around here, tell him to take it down a notch, I hate seeing that stuff around here.
Check out very thread. JD914 ironically complaining about "trolls" and then he disparages anyone who dares to criticize this device. I really don't understand the blind ****** devotion to a platform that blinds people to the inadequacies and missteps that are currently present both in the platform in the device. There is certainly much to criticize.
But there's a lot to love as well - enough to more than make up for the glaring shortcomings present in WP and the 900. I'm not new to Windows Phone - I had the Arrive on Sprint for the past year - so I've learned to live with certain aspects of Windows Phone that I find annoying or frustrating. I will say that the 900 mitigates many of the issues that had plagued my Arrive: poor app performance when scrolling was a daily chore on my Arrive and on the 900 these problems are mostly gone. The OS is much faster and smoother in general, which I really am finding refreshing. Build quality is another big win for the 900, and so is the quality of the screen. I was really impressed that Nokia pushed out the update three days early - I'm really optimistic about future updates. As someone who experienced the 3G/4G/LTE data bug twice last week (and had to search the forums each time in order to apply temporary fixes), I was really started to get discouraged. Thankfully, Nokia pushed the update in a very satisfactory timeframe and kicked in $100 to boot. I'm more than satisfied with their response
And the data speeds - wow. Coming from Sprint, I had no idea what I was missing. HSPA+ is very fast. Speed test indicated 4Mbps on HSPA+ where my Arrive would get 200Kbps. The difference is unreal. And LTE - this thing flies on LTE. Load times are non-existent. Map tiles load instantly. Web pages load very quickly. App content populates almost instantly.
It's too bad that things aren't the same when I'm on WiFi, though. WiFi was never an issue on my Arrive but I'm finding it to be very flaky on my 900. Random 10-15 second pauses when content should be loading (content that loads almost instantly on LTE). The WiFi icon will sometimes indicate strong signal but content will not load. Cycling WiFi off/on usually fixes this problem, but it's been happening way too often for me to continue to overlook it. It's continued to happen post-update as well.
And as others have said, the camera is really disappointing. Obviously I knew that going in, since I read all the reviews and saw the sample camera shots, but it's something that really cannot be overstated. For Nokia to pimp this camera in commercials and marketing campaigns is ridiculous. My friend and I took side-by-side shots in several different lighting conditions, me on my 900 and him on his iPhone 4S and it wasn't even close. The 4S by a million miles.
But like I said, what I love about the 900 overshadows what irritates me about the 900 and I'm going to keep it. I'm optimistic that Nokia will release updates to address the shortcomings, and I'll learn to live with what isn't fixed. I already adjusted my life to revolve around the capabilities (and lack of them) in the Windows Phone ecosystem when I switched from Android to the Arrive in March 2011, so there wasn't any culture shock with the Lumia 900. But I certainly can understand those who return the 900 and go back to their iPhones and Android devices - at least for now, anyway.
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