Well, I've had an interesting couple of weeks in the cell phone world. I have been predominately a Windows Phone user since three days before the HD7 initially released (Managed to get one early) and have used most every Windows Phone since. I am, however, a developer and thus I do keep an Android device around to play with as I see fit. Well, this last week my trusty old 920 took a swim, courtesy of my three year old. It was an accident and it had a good life, I'm not too torn up about it. Problem is that I didn't want to shell out another $600 for a phone right away so I turned towards my Galaxy S4 for technological sustenance in the meantime. Considering I'd grown used to the wordflow keyboard and the notification panel, it couldn't be too painful, right? Wrong. This was awful.
First things first, this S4 had been purchased only weeks earlier. I got it for cheap so why not? Well, I got used to the cheapo fisher price feel after enough time but when I went to charge it for the first time, nothing. Absolutely nothing. So, I, after much scrutiny, had them send me another charger. This one showed charging but was dying faster than it charged even when it was off. I popped out the USB board and popped another one in and 4 days later had a functional phone. (As functional as Android gets anyway) So, I go to type. I don't know how anyone is comparing that to wordflow because it's awful. Samsung's swype-style keyboard is hands down the worst keyboard I have ever used. I corrected more words than it got right. Well, that sucks but whatever, it's temporary. Sure, it's possibly the most used feature on a phone but I'll put up with a lot.
Next trouble, the games that I'd downloaded on everything from my nexus tablets to my old G1, only about 2/3 of them would load. So many different hardware variations that on these apparently high end phones they couldn't load half the games. Well, there goes the whole apps argument. It has more apps... if you can use them. Then the apps they did have, Snapchat, vine, etc. were infinitely worse than Rudy Huyn's offerings... Like painfully bad. Yes, I do love snapchat. It sucks to see that a company like that can't pull it together as well as one guy.
Honestly, I don't see how anyone could use Android. I made the hastiest transition into a high end Windows Phone I could get by trading for the 1520 and I will never look back to Android for a daily driver again. I didn't want the 1520 because of the size but I needed something worthwhile as a daily driver and that thing was awful. android may seem like a pleasant alternative guys, but once you go Windows Phone, you develop standards.
First things first, this S4 had been purchased only weeks earlier. I got it for cheap so why not? Well, I got used to the cheapo fisher price feel after enough time but when I went to charge it for the first time, nothing. Absolutely nothing. So, I, after much scrutiny, had them send me another charger. This one showed charging but was dying faster than it charged even when it was off. I popped out the USB board and popped another one in and 4 days later had a functional phone. (As functional as Android gets anyway) So, I go to type. I don't know how anyone is comparing that to wordflow because it's awful. Samsung's swype-style keyboard is hands down the worst keyboard I have ever used. I corrected more words than it got right. Well, that sucks but whatever, it's temporary. Sure, it's possibly the most used feature on a phone but I'll put up with a lot.
Next trouble, the games that I'd downloaded on everything from my nexus tablets to my old G1, only about 2/3 of them would load. So many different hardware variations that on these apparently high end phones they couldn't load half the games. Well, there goes the whole apps argument. It has more apps... if you can use them. Then the apps they did have, Snapchat, vine, etc. were infinitely worse than Rudy Huyn's offerings... Like painfully bad. Yes, I do love snapchat. It sucks to see that a company like that can't pull it together as well as one guy.
Honestly, I don't see how anyone could use Android. I made the hastiest transition into a high end Windows Phone I could get by trading for the 1520 and I will never look back to Android for a daily driver again. I didn't want the 1520 because of the size but I needed something worthwhile as a daily driver and that thing was awful. android may seem like a pleasant alternative guys, but once you go Windows Phone, you develop standards.