4 days old device, first time WP user, I am going to return my Samsung Focus S device, lets see why... (appreciate your comment if you see i missed something and yet to be explored)
Issue 1:
If you connect wired headset (without microphone version) than other party cant hear your voice....this is true for Samsung Focus S only (working as expected on Focus and Titan I tested in AT&T store)
Here is the simple steps to reproduce issue...
1. Take any wired headphone without microphone functionality
2. Connect to phone
3. Place a call and you will notice other party is not able to hear you....
Issue 2:
Battery issue, this is a true thing after struggling for last 3 days with battery life today isearched on internet if others are facing same issue and apparently several people are facing this issue....some are lucky when they got battery life after removing battery for 5 second and putting back helps others are not that lucky
Issue 3: Camera Button
this is serious design flaw AFAIK whenever I am trying to use one hand operation camera button keep getting clicked because of its location on side....not sure why button is not placed on top of phone (Titan has same issue though I tried with my palm and due to bigger screen size I am not touching caera button easily, so better)
Issue 4:
Bluetooth 2.1 this is lacking some key features compare to Iphone, Iphone has bluetooth 4 now, c'mon bluetooth 3.0 is standard now a days....
Issue 5:
you want to buy "drop insurance", device is superlight/smooth/great looking yet tough.....though it slips from hand pretty easily (one hand operation) and I dropped it couple of times in 3-4 days, thus be careful....
Issue 6:
My 4G experience is not that steller, especially when i commute through caltrain there are several places where its just drop and keep searching (iphone 3GS has same issue but i checked with iphone 4 and android phone users and they dont see disconnection, maybe AT&T issue but than Iphone 4 is working fine), used wifi tethering to my win 8 acer w500 and it was fine except some disconnections as mentioned above
Speed is 3 MB normally mostly which is pretty good but not what agreed (14.4 MBPS) and I live in 4G coverage area....
Two windows mango issue to consider...
Issue 1:
Video playlist is not supported, I found a hack and used podcast to create video playlist functionality, though it keeps playing videos in only one by one sequence.....very limited and troublesome work....was surprised to see this behavior, how come no reviewer mentioned it.....Without video playlist zune exp is very bad as i have more than 600 of my favourite music videos....waiting hard to get video playlist works normally
Issue 2:
Bluetooth support, MS lacks big time in this area, when video is playing there is no way to switch output to bluetooth/speakerphone, if you have multiple BT headsets than no way to select on phone which one should take sound control (its possible through BT headset, but than how to transfer sound to phone speakerphone?)
Issue 3:
in browser there is no fwd button, you can go back to previous page ot previous tab but couldn't found a way to do fwd functionality (no big deal and here i am not sure whether i have explored this secion very well), just to be clear other than this browser implementation is at its best, IOS doesn't even come close to it, not sure on android though I tested on AT&T and while opening pages of multiple sites and IE opened these sites pretty faster...and page rendering is super smooth (other day i forgot that i have laptop in front of my eyes and keep browsing on phone)
If you can live with above than phone itself is amazing very very sleek and very very light, WP7 mango experience is fantabulous and there no way to even consider iphone/android anymore for me....Last 3-4 days every day I found something new and beautiful features making my experience smoother and smoother and smoother.... fun part is after I configured it properly now i use that i meeting and seems many people got interested and asking me if I recommend to by WP7 (ofcource yes, not many people are as advance as me thus they should be okay with missing these features, but for me these are key features)
Anyway I played today with Titan and its hack of a beautiful device, bit heavy but I guess if battery works for a day than I am fine and I am heavy user....and 4.7 inch screen is just wonderful one hand control experience was pretty good...I am going with Titan....
Prakash
These thougts are no means to suggest WP mango is inferior to Android or IOS....other than above issues in every other department WP7 has super smooth experience and much better implementation than rival OS's....some of the key areas in terme of user experience you will just love this OS and found no replacement in rival os's...Mango is practically super intelligent in implementating most ay 2 day tasks (I personally still like google for search than bing, and IOS Siri than any other voice implementation, apps are less on mango though i found all of the needed ones available)
Issue 1:
If you connect wired headset (without microphone version) than other party cant hear your voice....this is true for Samsung Focus S only (working as expected on Focus and Titan I tested in AT&T store)
Here is the simple steps to reproduce issue...
1. Take any wired headphone without microphone functionality
2. Connect to phone
3. Place a call and you will notice other party is not able to hear you....
Issue 2:
Battery issue, this is a true thing after struggling for last 3 days with battery life today isearched on internet if others are facing same issue and apparently several people are facing this issue....some are lucky when they got battery life after removing battery for 5 second and putting back helps others are not that lucky
Issue 3: Camera Button
this is serious design flaw AFAIK whenever I am trying to use one hand operation camera button keep getting clicked because of its location on side....not sure why button is not placed on top of phone (Titan has same issue though I tried with my palm and due to bigger screen size I am not touching caera button easily, so better)
Issue 4:
Bluetooth 2.1 this is lacking some key features compare to Iphone, Iphone has bluetooth 4 now, c'mon bluetooth 3.0 is standard now a days....
Issue 5:
you want to buy "drop insurance", device is superlight/smooth/great looking yet tough.....though it slips from hand pretty easily (one hand operation) and I dropped it couple of times in 3-4 days, thus be careful....
Issue 6:
My 4G experience is not that steller, especially when i commute through caltrain there are several places where its just drop and keep searching (iphone 3GS has same issue but i checked with iphone 4 and android phone users and they dont see disconnection, maybe AT&T issue but than Iphone 4 is working fine), used wifi tethering to my win 8 acer w500 and it was fine except some disconnections as mentioned above
Speed is 3 MB normally mostly which is pretty good but not what agreed (14.4 MBPS) and I live in 4G coverage area....
Two windows mango issue to consider...
Issue 1:
Video playlist is not supported, I found a hack and used podcast to create video playlist functionality, though it keeps playing videos in only one by one sequence.....very limited and troublesome work....was surprised to see this behavior, how come no reviewer mentioned it.....Without video playlist zune exp is very bad as i have more than 600 of my favourite music videos....waiting hard to get video playlist works normally
Issue 2:
Bluetooth support, MS lacks big time in this area, when video is playing there is no way to switch output to bluetooth/speakerphone, if you have multiple BT headsets than no way to select on phone which one should take sound control (its possible through BT headset, but than how to transfer sound to phone speakerphone?)
Issue 3:
in browser there is no fwd button, you can go back to previous page ot previous tab but couldn't found a way to do fwd functionality (no big deal and here i am not sure whether i have explored this secion very well), just to be clear other than this browser implementation is at its best, IOS doesn't even come close to it, not sure on android though I tested on AT&T and while opening pages of multiple sites and IE opened these sites pretty faster...and page rendering is super smooth (other day i forgot that i have laptop in front of my eyes and keep browsing on phone)
If you can live with above than phone itself is amazing very very sleek and very very light, WP7 mango experience is fantabulous and there no way to even consider iphone/android anymore for me....Last 3-4 days every day I found something new and beautiful features making my experience smoother and smoother and smoother.... fun part is after I configured it properly now i use that i meeting and seems many people got interested and asking me if I recommend to by WP7 (ofcource yes, not many people are as advance as me thus they should be okay with missing these features, but for me these are key features)
Anyway I played today with Titan and its hack of a beautiful device, bit heavy but I guess if battery works for a day than I am fine and I am heavy user....and 4.7 inch screen is just wonderful one hand control experience was pretty good...I am going with Titan....
Prakash
These thougts are no means to suggest WP mango is inferior to Android or IOS....other than above issues in every other department WP7 has super smooth experience and much better implementation than rival OS's....some of the key areas in terme of user experience you will just love this OS and found no replacement in rival os's...Mango is practically super intelligent in implementating most ay 2 day tasks (I personally still like google for search than bing, and IOS Siri than any other voice implementation, apps are less on mango though i found all of the needed ones available)
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