phlamethrowre
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I hate post that start with " Sell me" , "Convince me" , "Stop me from leaving" or any variation of these. They assume that strangers care what phone or what OS the poster uses.
Thing with all these "better" features is that very few if any are due to any inherent deficiency in WP 8.1, its just Microsoft's incompetence and laziness in actually making WP better.
But honestly its true to form for them, they tend not to fix issues in a current OS but rather defer to the next version and then everyone calls it better and bash the previous version.
Case in point, why did it take Nokia to release their Storage Check beta to allow storing maps on SD cards even though users had begged for it on Microsoft uservoice sites for such a long time and been ignored? That's not a failing of the OS but the company supposedly developing it. That's the whole crux of WP 8.1 vs W10M, one OS was ignored while the other is the golden child and getting all the attention.....
Finally, someone called it out for what it is.And then there's Continuum. Most useless feature ever. First, Continuum only gives you the WinRT experience.
Well that's typical Microsoft. Not sure what, if anything, has changed there over the years, on mobile or on the desktop.They need a reason for when they will kill the mobile platform, so, they push a horrible new OS, new devices with dozens of problems just for the users to drive off the platform. with no users left, there's no reason to keep a platform. I feel your pain in your wallet. I did the same mistake too, buying into MS's new 950, but managed to sell it while the price was still high. Lucky for me I managed to find another fool, like I was, to buy it.
I chose the 640 because it was cheap, the tiles, keypad, caller ID Pictures and words were big and easy to read on use. Now it seems with WM10 they are making everything smaller and more compact. That's not good for me.
So I've moved from a 640 to a 650 ... what are the giant leaps forward in the design of the os (that warrant skipping a WP9) that I can look forward to enjoying?
Contrary to those who like to grasp on to the "it's still in its early stages" excuse, the fact is MY complaints about W10M stem from the very DESIGN of it. It is nothing like WP8.1, by DESIGN. Some of the issues are subtle, some are dramatic. My wife and I STUPIDLY bought the LUMIA 950. I went back to my 1020. The camera on the 1020 is STILL the best one, with the exception of speed. I will choose quality over speed any day. I'm also a fan of judicious use of "white space", which Microsoft completely threw out the window in W10M. Example: The Start Screen now has all the tiles crammed together, where they had a nicer-to-look-at spacing on WP8.1. Pivots almost completely gone in W10M, as is the nicer look OF the pivot--Microsoft has really turned it into more of an Android clone. I hate the stupid hamburger menus. There was absolutely no reason they had to go that route with the design. Cortana doesn't work NEARLY as well on W10M as it does on WP8.1. Live tiles are much harder to read, no matter what you change your font and other settings to. The People life tile is especially horrible. There's no Me tile anymore, which was my central place for following the most important people to me AND my way to connect to social networks -- I tend to post to all my social networks simultaneously, which is easy w/the Me tile. Now that's gone. The Store looks and works MUCH better in WP8.1 than W10M. Bing Vision is GONE in W10M--I use this a LOT. I just generally despise the design of Universal apps altogether, compared to the unique and beautiful design of real Metro apps in WP8.1. Also, you cannot delete a number of Microsoft's apps. For example, I MUCH prefer HERE Maps and Drive+ compared to the horrible Microsoft Maps app. You can't uninstall their Maps app and you can't make HERE the default. And then there's Continuum. Most useless feature ever. First, Continuum only gives you the WinRT experience. And WHO has a spare monitor, keyboard and mouse just sitting around NOT connected to a computer already? I have a tablet -- an SP3 -- which is much more capable than the 950 and I need no extra accessories to use it. And even WP8.1 supports DLNA, so on the rare occasions I need to send pictures, etc. to a TV I can do that effortlessly. Oh, and the iris scanner on the 950 is a horrible joke. They should have gone with the fingerprint scanner instead. I gave up trying to get any sort of consistent--and quick--response from the stupid thing and turned it off. Also, I like having the Glance background on my 1020. You can't do that with the 950. I loved Zune. I tolerated Microsoft Music. I can't stand Groove. Basically, they are going backward with Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. And don't get me started on Xbox One.
Windows 10 mobile is nothing more than a visual upgrade from wp8.1 with a few tweaks here and there.
I mean.. the dial pad lags for christ sakes!
Edge is a mess
I can't close all my apps in the mulit tasking screen with one click
Random Crashes and reboots.
Swiping to the "app list" there is a delay and i have to wait while app icons load. (really?)
I have to wait for a mail to load.. while staring at a white screen. When it does load it does not even render propaly
I could go on and on...
Can't sell you. There ain't nothing to sell.
Hi Orange,
I've been using WM10 for months, and I there are some features get me addicted on it:
1. Integration between SMS and Skype. As translator, Skype is a must-app for me since various agencies and project managers contacting me through the app. The integration made messaging experience lighter (you know it takes forever to open and sync the Skype app). Cons: Sometimes the notification didn't do its job well, so have to open messaging app to see new messages.
2. Outlook mail makes me possible to attach any file easily. I can also search my email contacts easier than in 8.1.
3. Keyboard prediction is actually better in 8.1, but word-flow feature is available for all languages. So, I can use my language to type better and faster.
4. Photo app integrated well with OneDrive, so I can view my images collection in OneDrive (which are not in my local storage) easily from it without sacrificing more storage.
5. Actionable notification makes me able to reply message faster.
Those are some features which makes me tied more to this device than in 8.1.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't officially supported. It might've been for an old version of WP maybe. I remember needing to download this Lumia storage check app (which you can't download from the store anymore btw) to get offline maps onto the SD card in 8.1, but otherwise the maps went into the internal storage. W10m gives you the option to save the offline maps onto an SD card without needing to do any tricks.
I tried downloading maps to sd card and it was really slow, ...