Thank you. And that's just it.... I WANT to love the device....it's just there weren't some alternatives for some of the things that I needed and didn't work just yet.
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Thank you. And that's just it.... I WANT to love the device....it's just there weren't some alternatives for some of the things that I needed and didn't work just yet.
You took my quote completely out of context. And apparently didn't read. I have a windows 8 laptop as I stated in my review, so yes, I know IE 10. I was stating Facebook on the desktop setting of the IE browser is a horrible experience.
But yeah, thanks for the snarky reply in suggesting I don't know the basics of a web browser or that I don't even know how to use a computer properly. Choice.
Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
Jolly, sorry to see you go for the time being. I've been a WP user since just after launch of 7, and have also used all three OS. My personal ranking is WP7/8, iOS, then android. iOS and WP just work. With iPhone, yes it's nice, but I don't see the innovation there as much any more, see their current commercial about the noise cancellation feature. They're not the only one t offer that, nor the first I believe (feel free to correct me, I may be wrong). The 920s noise cancellation I good enough that when my car had a pre catalytic converter exhaust leak (basically was running open headers) people could still understand me while I was driving. If I could I would do a comparison, except I've gotten my car fixed now.
I do hope you come back to WP, it seems it/we have drawn you in, just you maybe jumped in a little early. Stick around and see what happens.
Jolly, sorry to see you go for the time being. I've been a WP user since just after launch of 7, and have also used all three OS. My personal ranking is WP7/8, iOS, then android. iOS and WP just work. With iPhone, yes it's nice, but I don't see the innovation there as much any more, see their current commercial about the noise cancellation feature. They're not the only one t offer that, nor the first I believe (feel free to correct me, I may be wrong). The 920s noise cancellation I good enough that when my car had a pre catalytic converter exhaust leak (basically was running open headers) people could still understand me while I was driving. If I could I would do a comparison, except I've gotten my car fixed now.
I do hope you come back to WP, it seems it/we have drawn you in, just you maybe jumped in a little early. Stick around and see what happens.
Lawrence Crecy
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Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
That's totally opposite of what your quote says. I'm reading a lot of your posts and it just seems like BS to me.. For 1 Microsoft has a perfect Facebook app on the phone with no ad's, and IE-Mobile puts Safari in the dirt because you can actually surf the desktop version of the sites with no problems what so ever on the phone(unlike Safari), and 1 more thing; Did you just post this to get everyone riled up? I mean anyone with a right mind can clearly see this is a new OS and it will have its problems but in a year or so it will be changing the Android vs iPhone argument into Android vs Windows, not that it hasn't already.
That's totally opposite of what your quote says. I'm reading a lot of your posts and it just seems like BS to me.. For 1 Microsoft has a perfect Facebook app on the phone with no ad's, and IE-Mobile puts Safari in the dirt because you can actually surf the desktop version of the sites with no problems what so ever on the phone(unlike Safari), and 1 more thing; Did you just post this to get everyone riled up? I mean anyone with a right mind can clearly see this is a new OS and it will have its problems but in a year or so it will be changing the Android vs iPhone argument into Android vs Windows, not that it hasn't already.
MojoDoj0
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Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
The thing that I cant understand is that you said you had problem with the navigation app. That one of the deal breakers for you. Did you do some research before you bought the 920? Because I have a big BETA writen on my Nokia Drive. if your dont know what BETA means, well thats your problem. You are complaining about a new OS. When I switched from iOS to WP8, I KNEW I had to patient for the biggest apps. If you dont do your research before you buy ANYTHING, then you dont have the right to complain when you dont like it. Did you do your research?
The thing that I cant understand is that you said you had problem with the navigation app. That one of the deal breakers for you. Did you do some research before you bought the 920? Because I have a big BETA writen on my Nokia Drive. if your dont know what BETA means, well thats your problem. You are complaining about a new OS. When I switched from iOS to WP8, I KNEW I had to patient for the biggest apps. If you dont do your research before you buy ANYTHING, then you dont have the right to complain when you dont like it. Did you do your research?
missionsparta
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Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
Oh, horsesh*t. Microsoft/Nokia love to play a game of slapping "Beta" on everything and then using that excuse as to why it doesn't work for a crap. Think I'm wrong? Who else pretends a POS app is in BETA for 2 1/2 yrs? Ala Skype anyone? BETA with Microsoft and it's affiliates is code for "we don't know what we are doing, so don't bother complaining". How long was Here in flipping BETA? Did it ever get out of it? I'm wearing a BETA hat to work for now on and I can't be responsible for anything.
Oh, horsesh*t. Microsoft/Nokia love to play a game of slapping "Beta" on everything and then using that excuse as to why it doesn't work for a crap. Think I'm wrong? Who else pretends a POS app is in BETA for 2 1/2 yrs? Ala Skype anyone? BETA with Microsoft and it's affiliates is code for "we don't know what we are doing, so don't bother complaining". How long was Here in flipping BETA? Did it ever get out of it? I'm wearing a BETA hat to work for now on and I can't be responsible for anything.
Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
I thought it was a well-written, thought-out post. I despise fanboyism, be it on macrumors or here. If no one cared, why did you bother responding?
I thought it was a well-written, thought-out post. I despise fanboyism, be it on macrumors or here. If no one cared, why did you bother responding?
Again, out of context. We were talking about the desktop version of the mobile ie 10 browser of Facebook. I can't happen to notice the reviews on the app in the ap store of the MS Facebook. It gets very, very poor reviews, and I for one agree with all of them. And I have had difficulty on a few of the sites for ie 10, not all. Like I said, YMMV.
Did I post this to rile everyone up? Apparently that answers my question on if you really read my posts and responses. There's no need to be riled up at all since I give praise across the board for all three OS platforms. You're right, I'm most likely not an early adopter. I'm simply pointing out that some of the only alternatives for what I use are there, but not functioning the way that is expected. Again.....YMMV. If you're getting riled up, that's on your end bud.
RyanR47
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RyanR47
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MojoDoj0
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Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
Beacuse he wrote a review about something he did not research. If he did the research, why buy the phone? If he did not, he dont have the right to complain. Simple as that...
Beacuse he wrote a review about something he did not research. If he did the research, why buy the phone? If he did not, he dont have the right to complain. Simple as that...
Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
If you were to give one reason that made you return to the iPhone what would it be?
If you were to give one reason that made you return to the iPhone what would it be?
Again, more validation you didn't read anything I wrote. I stated many times I came to this forum for information about the phone before test driving it. Im sorry my stated review didn't line up with yours. I have every right to complain as a consumer if companies publish apps and they don't work as intended, ESPECIALLY if I am paying for them. Nokia Drive plus is a HUGE marketing point right now for the 920, and you can't deny it. Simply stated, there are huge issues for it right now, and I know I'm not the only one experiencing them.
My review is only to help those who are on the fence about the phone. If you aren't dependent on the Nokia Drive as the GPS option such as I am (new to my area, live close to a toll road so I NEED alternative routes. I'm a staffing nurse so I get sent to different facilities DAILY), then it might be a good option.
Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
Two reasons....lack of WORKING Spotify alternative, and no Google maps alternative that is even on the same level.
Two reasons....lack of WORKING Spotify alternative, and no Google maps alternative that is even on the same level.
Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
Great outline of how the average user might view a Lumia 920 when purchasing. But for someone trying to put out a unbiased and balanced review, one thing stands out as flawed
Great outline of how the average user might view a Lumia 920 when purchasing. But for someone trying to put out a unbiased and balanced review, one thing stands out as flawed
No valid decision on a product, design, consumer opinion, etc. can be made in simply 3 days. If that were true the iPod never would have made it out of the early 2000's.
unstoppablekem
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Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
Like I said in my previous post, I can understand some of your decisions. Nokia drive, I like it, but it does still need work. Fortunately I personally have Navigon as an alternate, picked it up a while back when they ran it for $25 or $30. Having the offline maps is a major thing for me, if 'm out on my motorcycle and I have no signal for an online map app. Spotify, I'm curious about t, but I haven't used t before, so not a major issue to me right now. You're going where your needs/wants are currently met, but you're interested enough to stick around and see where WP8 goes, and that makes me think you will be back.
Like I said in my previous post, I can understand some of your decisions. Nokia drive, I like it, but it does still need work. Fortunately I personally have Navigon as an alternate, picked it up a while back when they ran it for $25 or $30. Having the offline maps is a major thing for me, if 'm out on my motorcycle and I have no signal for an online map app. Spotify, I'm curious about t, but I haven't used t before, so not a major issue to me right now. You're going where your needs/wants are currently met, but you're interested enough to stick around and see where WP8 goes, and that makes me think you will be back.
12Danny123
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Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
that is what I was going to say.
that is what I was going to say.
a5cent
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Re: An honest Lumia 920 review: Why I'm returning to an iPhone 5
WP8 is a completely new OS, that has almost nothing in common with WP7, and even less with Windows Mobile. To make that judgement, whether or not WP8 is a new OS, requires an understanding of software that most people simply lack.
I think Brian Klug from Anandtech also stated it rather well:
"Superficially Windows Phone 8 is very similar to Windows Phone 7.5 and 7 that came before it, but what’s different under the hood is dramatic. The move away from the Windows CE kernel and onto the same NT kernel as Windows 8 and RT run will have far reaching implications for the platform that won’t be immediately visible to users, but is nonetheless the core of what’s new in Windows Phone 8 (henceforth WP8)."
The user interface is a very small (almost irrelevant) part of what makes an operating system tick. The important things are "under the hood", of which nothing has remained the same. In this case even 1st party apps (dialler, calendar, messenger) were redeveloped from the ground up.
WP8, together with WRT are the newest consumer OS's on the market.
WP8 is a completely new OS, that has almost nothing in common with WP7, and even less with Windows Mobile. To make that judgement, whether or not WP8 is a new OS, requires an understanding of software that most people simply lack.
I think Brian Klug from Anandtech also stated it rather well:
"Superficially Windows Phone 8 is very similar to Windows Phone 7.5 and 7 that came before it, but what’s different under the hood is dramatic. The move away from the Windows CE kernel and onto the same NT kernel as Windows 8 and RT run will have far reaching implications for the platform that won’t be immediately visible to users, but is nonetheless the core of what’s new in Windows Phone 8 (henceforth WP8)."
The user interface is a very small (almost irrelevant) part of what makes an operating system tick. The important things are "under the hood", of which nothing has remained the same. In this case even 1st party apps (dialler, calendar, messenger) were redeveloped from the ground up.
WP8, together with WRT are the newest consumer OS's on the market.
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