What's your story ... How did you end up with a WP?

[TechFreak1]

Long story short my daily driver died and ended up getting the 920. If I was to elaborate, as my a few of my friends would say "don't elaborate, you always end up typing a novel". sooo I'm really trying to kick that habit .

 

[Karthik Naik]

I am completely with you on this one bro. But here's what I have learned from countless phones:

A. NO phone gives you more than a day. None. Take it from me. I have lot of people using iPhone 5S, by far the most expensive iPhone, and they panic for battery life, just like fish without water. Moral of the story? Even money can't buy you a good battery life.

B. The location is an important feature. Turning it off is NOT going to help.

C. Battery dies quicker on 3G/Data internet than on Wi-Fi.

The iPhone 6 is going to be groundbreaking in many ways. But not sure if a long battery life is one of them.

My wife's 720's battery lasts longer than my 820's. But I get half a day, almost, with moderate to heavy use of camera, news apps, weather apps, 3G. So, say I leave home at 9 in the morning, lasts at least till 8 in the night.

It is completely your decision to jump ship. But all I can say is, jump wisely. You don't want to go from frying pan to the fire.

thats strange
my 820 lasts a day of rough use
my 720 has atleast 1.5 day, maybe its an issue with low connectivity-i get terrible battery life on all devices on roaming including my nexus 5, 7 and ipads

 

[DBZo07]

Hey, nice thread.

My story goes as... I have s4 and iPhone 5s. I wasn't happy with both. Android is great OS but full of advertisements and highly unsecured. I had privacy concerns about android. I have made I thread on popular Android forum for why google wants to steal your data... I was ****$ed.
Than I took iPhone 5s. It's too small phone for my palm and moreover its a jail. Jailbreak made phone crap and unstable. So I finally decided to try windows phone. I had doubt that I will be happy with it. So I went for Lumia 625. I hated at early stage. Than slowly I explorer potential of windows phone, it's best companion. Quality and performance is mind blowing even with budget phone. What will be performance of flagship product I can imagine. I will go for better phone soon.
That's my story with windows phone, in short.

 

[Salamy]

Hi all:

I was a Symbian guy I didn't like it because of the connectivity issues in my Nokia 801, then I saw how people was happy with iPhone & Android.

So iPhone is really expensive, I found Samsung Galaxy mini and I told my self this is my dreams smartphone, then I got htc one x then Galaxy S3 mini and I felt unsatisfied & angry because of Android lag and the risk with rooting the device and trying different roms, it was a real pain.

at the time Windows Phone 8 was around, so I start reading about it, and I decide to get Nokia Lumia 520 to try WP8 and really that was a very stable Phone and OS, so I decide to get Lumia 920, my L920 was a faulty unit without warranty, there was so many problems, so I trade my Lumia 920 with a new Lumia 720, it was such a great smartphone, the most stable phone I have ever used.

but I left Windows Phone 8 for Android again because there is no file manager or VPN at the time (before Windows Phone GDR3).

Now I'd like to go back to WP8.1 if there is nice prime flagship with good battery and specs.

 

[roni09riku]

I've always been a user of Nokia. My first phone was 3310, then upgraded every few years, to 3530, 3230, 6600, N73, X2.. Then finally when smartphones are starting to take over, I decided to stick to Nokia. This is when I found out that they've been making phones that run on Windows Phone OS. Being a Nokia and Windows user for years, I decided to get the Lumia 900. It was good. It exceeded my expectations actually. Then, just a month ago, I upgraded to Lumia 1520. Once again, I was impressed. I probably won't try other phones. WP is the one for me.

 

[Guytronic]

bump for old times sake
Come a ways since my T-Mo 521.
Never thought I would ever end up with the likes of the 925 or the 1020 and beyond!

 

[MSFTisMIA]

bump for old times sake
Come a ways since my T-Mo 521.
Never thought I would ever end up with the likes of the 925 or the 1020 and beyond!

Surprised I never answered this...

I'd gotten fed up with ****ty battery life during the Ice Cream Sandwich days of Android. I was a dual user at the time with Blackberry and Android. I've used some Windows device from the Dell Axim X50 days with 2003SE up to the Xperia X1 before jumping to Android brief then Apple and back to Android (never bought a HD2, sadly). I decided while Android got more suitated for my tastes (got tired of flashing ROMs being a Galaxy Nexus user at the time) I need...something else. I thought Blackberry was getting stale, so I scored a HTC Mozart from a seller on XDA.

I went from the Mozart to a Focus S to a HTC Titan to a Lumia 810 to a HTC 8X to a Lumia 920 to a Lumia 925 to a Lumia 1520 to a Lumia 720 to a Lumia 930 to a HTC M8 (current). I'm back on Android and while it sucks my M8 won't get more updates, I'll still hold on to it to keep an eye on the platform.

Approved by Z3 Tablet Compact!

 

[Monim Al]

Windows phone Lumia looks good & all parts are good but windows phone can't fast to android. If you decide to buy windows phone you can must buy Nokia Lumia.

 

[libra89]

It was my first smartphone. I wanted a smartphone but at the time, data plans were so expensive and so were the phones. I found out about the 521 being under $80 for a new one in May 2014. I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile and never looked back.

 

[r2SN]

The first smartphone/windows phone in my house was a NL520,which I ordered for mum. Like the word of mouth spins the world,i too believed that WP was bad (first I was about to order an android), but since it was "Nokia" i ordered it, although it was my mum's but i fell in love with it. Good build quality,good screen,awesome camera/video quality for that price. Manual controls were mind blowing for starters. Loved the OS,although no toggles initially+file explorer was a pain in the ***. It got me hooked with the world of photography(to an extent that I thought whether the graduate course, M.E., i am pursuing is right for me or not, sometimes i still do ). Then got myself a Lumia 730. Just love it and no ugly cases to hide it's beauty. #lumialove

 

[Bittah Pupil]

I shared this in the Introductions section but in short, I was curious about Windows phone, liked the customized tiles, SD slot and removable battery. I all really needed for my personal phone was to call, text and do group messaging, something I couldn't do with my flip phone and Windows phone does just enough for me. I kind of miss my flip phone though.