So updates are all done. Definitely an upgrade from my 950. Looks good, runs smoothly and feels very much like a quality flagship phone. I haven't played with too much yet, but liking it so far.
Set up was smoother and faster then any windows phone I have ever used. All my settings, apps, music and data restored quickly and with no hassles at all!
I’m listening to a playlist in Groove while I type and the B&O sound is pretty nice. Better than any cell phone I have used. It is definitely loud enough. Quality is better at mid-volume, as others have said an EQ would help for the higher volumes. I’ll likely still use my B&O headphones for serious listening, but I wouldn’t expect that kind of quality on a phone so all is good in the sound department.
I keep hitting the power button when I want to hit the volume up button, but muscle memory will eventually tell me that my Volume/Power buttons are no longer in those positions.
I also have to give a shout out to the dock. It is a heavy & solid piece of hardware. At the moment I am only using it on my desk to charge, Continuum will come soon. But it does not slip and putting the phone on the dock is effortless. No fumbling around or adjusting phone slides right on like butter and it does charge super fast.
So far I don’t miss glance and don’t think I will.
I had a little bit of a problem setting up the finger print scanner. Went through the process of it recognizing my finger, adding a second finger, then as suggested setting up a pin. It would then tell me that my "administer" only allows a hello pin and tried to take me through a setup that required I verify my MS account, more work than I wanted to do. When I exited out the finger print I set up was not there. What is important here is I am my administrator I have my own dedicated server and it does not require a Hello pin. I removed the pin tried again with the same results. Finally I tried it again without removing the pin and it works. So it looks like it likes to have the pin there prior to setting up the finger print. End result so far the scanner is working flawlessly first try every time! I can’t tell you how many times I see my husband struggling with the Edge scanner.
As far as hot spot goes Nate was right to suggest I wait until the phones arrives. I’m now getting around 4.0mbps to 5.5mbps. The highest this house has ever seen. This obviously blows away the slow speeds I was getting last night. Oddly enough my computer still thinks it is connecting to “Lumia 950” which makes very little sense especially considering the Lumis is laying here with no battery, SIM or SD!
I am having a few small issues :unhappysweat: When we went to AT&T to switch our plan yesterday they told me I did not have to come in or call to activate the phone, that I just needed to pop in the SIM card. I'm hoping that is the source of some of my problems.
1. I do not have LTE, instead I have H or H+ which I believe Nate reported in his AT&T thread for the Idol. Hoping a call or visit to AT&T will fix this.
2. I have the one SIM card and an SD card. And the phone wants me to know wherever it can tell me so that I am using SIM 1, which for some reason is very much annoying me. I don't like it!
Some tiles and apps are now displaying "SIM 1". The Phone tile has SIM 1 as well as a tiny 1 next to the phone.
My text messages use to display the day and time (Thursday, 5:15pm). Now instead it says "5:15pm, SIM 1" on each message instead and I liked having the day there. This is my biggest annoyance and I am hoping there is a fix.
Also after setup I had 2 new tiles, "No SIM" phone & message tiles with tiny 2's. If I click on them I go to phone and message screens with no data. I know I can just remove the tiles but I am curious what the purpose is and if I am missing out on some great dual SIM feature. Why would I want to have two separate phone apps using two different SIMs?
3. Visual Voice Mail is gone. Again maybe just need AT&T for this.
4. Messenger will not download it keeps failing. I'm very much over Facebook so I don't really care. It downloaded and installed all of my other apps, about 40, quickly and efficiently. The best and fastest restore of a backup I’ve experienced on WP.
5. As expected all of my emails accounts were ready to go after setup. All I had to do is open Outlook it had my 3 exchange accounts displayed and I hit go. I was very surprised to find all 3 accounts were almost done synching upon launch of Outlook. In the past I would have to initiate a first sync to get started. But I'm not having the same luck with the Calendar. No accounts there. I will need to add them manually, but not the worst thing in the world.
On a side note is Outlook the best App for running multiple exchange accounts or are there better ones.
So the phone is very big! And did I mention it is big! But I like it. I have tiny hands. I’m only 4’10” so when I say I have tiny hands I mean it. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to manage it. I wouldn’t have even thought about using it a few years back, but as phones have gotten increasingly larger I’ve gotten more used to a larger phone. When the first Samsung Note came out years back I had a Note tablet and really wanted the phone until I went into the store. The Note dwarfed whatever phone I was using at the time and sent me running. While my 950 is by no means a phablet it is not as dwarfed by the X3 as older phones were by that first Note. And there was a list of things I could not do with my 950 one handed.
I was prepared for it to be big so I ordered a phone ring with the X3 to put on the back to assist me in holding it more comfortably and securely. To my surprise it is actually working very well. I can hold the X3 in one hand with a finger through the ring and surprisingly enough I am able to use the phone with one hand and reach many things I could not reach on my 950. I do need to use the other hand here and there but not as much as the smaller 950. Should have gotten a ring for the 950. The ring will also be helpful with how slippery the phone is. The phone actually slipped right through my hands when I took it out of the box. Luckily I was sitting on the couch and it didn’t go far. No harm done.
The ring also serves as a stand. However the X3 is SO big that the stand does not work in portrait only landscape. In portrait it just topples over. I also ordered a ring for my daughters iPhone and it does not topple in portrait for her.
Does anyone know of an app that I can use kind of like a car dock app when I use the ring as a stand at night on my night stand.
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