its not always about looks either. sure you can make android look like whatever you want, but you cant make it work like what you want... i found too many times that apps dont work right, nothing is unified, and behaves like a stubborn child. where as wp seems to be more matured and fluent.
additonally , having the ability to over-customize your phone means you never truly get it. always flashing new roms, changing widgets, wallpapers, launchers... i agree with the fact people dont want to deeply customize their phones to make them work for them... too much time and effort required.
+1 to socialcarpets comments
i dunno, i get the idea behind android, and ive experienced on many deifferent high end devices.. just not for me. and man, my worst complaint on my last android device, bionic", was the keyboard was awful!!! even tried swift key, and go sms, nothing like wp keyboard
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I'm really sorry for the badly constructed post ahead of time. I know I kind of fly through a couple topics really quick, but I just woke up -_-
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Now, just be clear before I say anything: I have owned 3 windows phones, and many more android phones. I'm not bashing anything here, just simply commenting on my own experience.
On any of my Android phones, there were simply some applications I had to use... be it ESPN score center, phone my pc (or more often than not lately i've been using Splashtop), Tapatalk (Android's Board Express), Facebook, baby bump for info on my little one that's on the way... etc etc etc.
The one thing I see when it comes to a lot of those applications, is that they either A) offer more options than the WP7 counterpart or B) simply actually work a **** of a lot more smoothly because of maturity in the app developer world on Android as compared to WP7.
Tapatalk has always worked more smoothly for me when scrolling through posts and replying, and Board Express on my Lumia has problems on almost every page of threads I surf through. Not sure if it's due to more info being loaded or what, but it's annoying as ****.
Phone my PC and Splashtop are very important to me, and over 3g are the BEST remote pc applications i've ever used, and cannot find anything on WP7 that can come close (please feel free to direct me to one if there is one so I can try it, and thanks in advance).
ESPN app on Lumia, I realize there are two that are available. One ships with the phone, the other you can download. Both load very slowly, and one takes you do a website. Why why WHY WHY WHY do quite a few apps on WP7 simply take you to some mobile website? The youtube does this as well. (I know "Youtube Pro" is a standalone application, but has issues playing lots of the HQ videos. I've never once had issues playing HQ video on my android phones.) This is one thing that bugs the crap out of me as well about some WP7 apps.
Facebook... where do I start. I give the "edge" of facebook to WP7 intergration. I love that I can get a lot of the quick info that I need without using an application... so WP7 wins in that area, but the actual application is slow to load, and lacks some of the functionality that the Android app has. Now, that's not to say that Android's app has always been that way, because it hasn't. Only in the last 5 months has Androids app really wowed me with everything they've done to improve it. But out of base uses for facebook, i'll still give WP7 the edge.
And the baby bump reference.... i simply bring that up because this thread is partly why "wp7 isn't popular" or something like that, right? I think a lot of the issues I see is that people who have an android or iphone already have apps that they use on a daily basis that they just have gotten used to using on a daily basis. When you take that away, they feel like their phone just doesn't work for them. I know it's because the OS is young, and possibly some day down the line their favorite apps MAY come to WP7, but it's not here now, so why move away from something that already has what they want/need.
I recently gave up an android as my daily driver and have been using a Lumia for a month now, but I just find myself not enjoying my phone as thoroughly as I used to when I had my android as a daily driver. It does a lot of stuff well, and I think it does a great job at being a unified experience, and making social networking on facebook a breeze. But in terms of applications, that is enough of a reason alone to make me stick with Android for now, until Wp7 can provide for me in that area.
I have pre-ordered an HTC One X from AT&T and will have it next friday. I'll be using that as my daily driver personal phone, and will be keeping my Lumia for my work phone. I'll have the best of both worlds, and hopefully will be able to watch WP7 mature.
Once I get my one X though, i'll make a comparison video and post it over in the lumia forum. I'll go over what I like best about both operating systems and show why BOTH can work for me....