Hi everyone, before continuing I absolutely love Windows Phone, the OS is brilliant and I am a proud owner of the Lumia 1520. What I say is the genuinely the truth from what I have observed.
Windows Phone marketing is awful. I would strongly urge Microsoft to sack those incompetent fools! From what I have seen in the UK about Windows Phone and Nokia recently is just useless marketing. "Lets shove a Lumia 1020 onto Hollyoaks(UK Soap), lets shove a Lumia into a movie." Since the Lumia 920 I have only seen about 3 adverts about Windows Phone, one for Lumia 920, another for 630 and finally one for the 930. Yet with Samsung its on billboards, TV, gyms, buses etc. Same with Apple!
I have never seen a 1520 advert, I have never even seen one in a shop in the UK (Meadowhall, Sheffield), despite going to various ex-Phones4U outlets, EE shops, Carphone Warehouse etc. I never saw it once in person, until I ordered it off online... (they were going to charge me ?52 per month + ?99 from Vodafone). I wonder why Microsoft never took the decision to market it properly after all it was hailed "amazing" "brilliant"... Even surpassing S5,
Now the stupidest rumour I have heard about of Windows Phone is about an idiotic female I work with... "Windows crashes all the time, my mate had one it was s**t. All Windows does is crash" This can partly be blamed onto Microsoft (By illiterate IT users) who decided to use Windows branding (Even though it's never crashed on me... Perhaps it will do if you're on a low spec device running X-Plane) onto a mobile device.
Now here's the reason why I am writing this. I work at a call-centre before starting my university next year, I am 19 years of age and I have bought a Windows Phone because I enjoy the aesthetics and the practicality. I also like the fact that it has certain key apps that iOS nor Android have. Now since I work at this call-centre they have Sony, Microsoft etc. coming in to pitch how amazing their products are! So lets do a comparison of Sony and Microsoft here.
MICROSOFT
2 guys set a simple table away from the entrance, near the canteen and had put 2 Lumia 930's on the table alongside them their wireless charging plates. Next to the table was one of them big signs detailing Windows Phone. I observed themselves throughout the day, they hardly had any people coming to them and they rarely even engaged bringing customers to their silly little table with just 2 phones on it. So in total from what I observed as I had them visible throughout the day, I recall seeing 5 people going to them. That was all from Windows Phone! The next day I heard no one talking about the 930 at all.
Sony
3 guys, 2 girls set up a big stall right next to the entrance, they were marketing the Z3 and the Z3 compact. They had 4 stalls, one with a water canon enclosed within a box, one with a Playstation 4, one with the 2 phones on display and the fourth one had a competition. Now cleverly enough they set up the stall next to the entrance, this means delivery drivers, people coming for interviews were ALL being approached. I again watched the Sony team approach people with these cards detailing a competition, all they had to do was sign it and put their name on it... Whilst they did that they pitched the Z3 and Z3 compact, how amazing their camera is (even though it's nothing compared to Lumia 930/1520 tried and tested) and how amazingly waterproof it is and PS4 remote play (yes they had it working '_'). Now this competition was the chance to win a Z3, even I literally wanted to go up to the stall ask to enter the competition as people were coming off their breaks and letting others know "there's a free competition out there, go sign you name..." Now I have to be honest there was queues, crowds gathered around the stall all because of a simple competition, but by far how they marketed the Z3 was brilliant and one of the guys working next to me was approached and given the Z3 as he won the competition. Over next few days I didn't hear anything about the Z3, but 2 days later, someone bought a Z3... Discussing with another person on the bus who asked him about the Z3 and he was in a dilemma on getting it. Lucky here, he was speaking about the "amazing camera, the SD card, the android software etc." From what I am aware at work I believe 5 people got a Z3 just because of that marketing, its annoying they think they have a super camera xD! I have to admit I would like a Z3, maybe a Z4 next year just for that remote play feature.
So Microsoft, are you going to sit there?
Windows Phone marketing is awful. I would strongly urge Microsoft to sack those incompetent fools! From what I have seen in the UK about Windows Phone and Nokia recently is just useless marketing. "Lets shove a Lumia 1020 onto Hollyoaks(UK Soap), lets shove a Lumia into a movie." Since the Lumia 920 I have only seen about 3 adverts about Windows Phone, one for Lumia 920, another for 630 and finally one for the 930. Yet with Samsung its on billboards, TV, gyms, buses etc. Same with Apple!
I have never seen a 1520 advert, I have never even seen one in a shop in the UK (Meadowhall, Sheffield), despite going to various ex-Phones4U outlets, EE shops, Carphone Warehouse etc. I never saw it once in person, until I ordered it off online... (they were going to charge me ?52 per month + ?99 from Vodafone). I wonder why Microsoft never took the decision to market it properly after all it was hailed "amazing" "brilliant"... Even surpassing S5,
Now the stupidest rumour I have heard about of Windows Phone is about an idiotic female I work with... "Windows crashes all the time, my mate had one it was s**t. All Windows does is crash" This can partly be blamed onto Microsoft (By illiterate IT users) who decided to use Windows branding (Even though it's never crashed on me... Perhaps it will do if you're on a low spec device running X-Plane) onto a mobile device.
Now here's the reason why I am writing this. I work at a call-centre before starting my university next year, I am 19 years of age and I have bought a Windows Phone because I enjoy the aesthetics and the practicality. I also like the fact that it has certain key apps that iOS nor Android have. Now since I work at this call-centre they have Sony, Microsoft etc. coming in to pitch how amazing their products are! So lets do a comparison of Sony and Microsoft here.
MICROSOFT
2 guys set a simple table away from the entrance, near the canteen and had put 2 Lumia 930's on the table alongside them their wireless charging plates. Next to the table was one of them big signs detailing Windows Phone. I observed themselves throughout the day, they hardly had any people coming to them and they rarely even engaged bringing customers to their silly little table with just 2 phones on it. So in total from what I observed as I had them visible throughout the day, I recall seeing 5 people going to them. That was all from Windows Phone! The next day I heard no one talking about the 930 at all.
Sony
3 guys, 2 girls set up a big stall right next to the entrance, they were marketing the Z3 and the Z3 compact. They had 4 stalls, one with a water canon enclosed within a box, one with a Playstation 4, one with the 2 phones on display and the fourth one had a competition. Now cleverly enough they set up the stall next to the entrance, this means delivery drivers, people coming for interviews were ALL being approached. I again watched the Sony team approach people with these cards detailing a competition, all they had to do was sign it and put their name on it... Whilst they did that they pitched the Z3 and Z3 compact, how amazing their camera is (even though it's nothing compared to Lumia 930/1520 tried and tested) and how amazingly waterproof it is and PS4 remote play (yes they had it working '_'). Now this competition was the chance to win a Z3, even I literally wanted to go up to the stall ask to enter the competition as people were coming off their breaks and letting others know "there's a free competition out there, go sign you name..." Now I have to be honest there was queues, crowds gathered around the stall all because of a simple competition, but by far how they marketed the Z3 was brilliant and one of the guys working next to me was approached and given the Z3 as he won the competition. Over next few days I didn't hear anything about the Z3, but 2 days later, someone bought a Z3... Discussing with another person on the bus who asked him about the Z3 and he was in a dilemma on getting it. Lucky here, he was speaking about the "amazing camera, the SD card, the android software etc." From what I am aware at work I believe 5 people got a Z3 just because of that marketing, its annoying they think they have a super camera xD! I have to admit I would like a Z3, maybe a Z4 next year just for that remote play feature.
So Microsoft, are you going to sit there?
, way advanced an up to the point
WP
meanwhile iOS has things that bother me and makes me think " if wp and android have this why can't iOS " 
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