I've been wanting to check out WP8 for quite awhile now, but I've invested myself pretty heavily into the Android ecosystem so I don't know how I feel about dropping top dollar for a phone OS that I may possibly hate. However, with how cheap this phone is, even if I hate it, I won't even notice the money missing.
The thing is, I'll be coming from a Nexus 4, a high end phone, to the Lumia 521, a low budget phone, and I'm afraid that, due to this, I won't be able to properly and fairly judge the WP8 experience. So my question is this: will buying the Lumia 521 do the WP8 experience justice? If I like it, I'll definitely pick up a better phone later (the in-store T-Mobile rep says they're expecting to get one of the 900 phones next). If I don't like it, I can comfortably stay on Android.
Some things to keep in mind:
- I don't play games on my phone so what the WP8 store lacks in games, I could care less.
- I very rarely take photos and, for photos I do take, I'm not very picky about the quality of them.
- Rather than swapping SIM cards, I may just tether with my Nexus 4 to make the Lumia 521 functional while still having access to some apps that I just can't do without on my N4
- I don't take advantage of the NFC or wireless charging of my N4
Getting used to a small screen again will be different, but I guess one of my biggest concerns would be how I'll like the performance of a budget phone compared to mine and that I'll just blow up WP8 based on that. I know if I were to buy a budget Android phone now that I'd probably hate it to hell.
Thanks in advance!
The thing is, I'll be coming from a Nexus 4, a high end phone, to the Lumia 521, a low budget phone, and I'm afraid that, due to this, I won't be able to properly and fairly judge the WP8 experience. So my question is this: will buying the Lumia 521 do the WP8 experience justice? If I like it, I'll definitely pick up a better phone later (the in-store T-Mobile rep says they're expecting to get one of the 900 phones next). If I don't like it, I can comfortably stay on Android.
Some things to keep in mind:
- I don't play games on my phone so what the WP8 store lacks in games, I could care less.
- I very rarely take photos and, for photos I do take, I'm not very picky about the quality of them.
- Rather than swapping SIM cards, I may just tether with my Nexus 4 to make the Lumia 521 functional while still having access to some apps that I just can't do without on my N4
- I don't take advantage of the NFC or wireless charging of my N4
Getting used to a small screen again will be different, but I guess one of my biggest concerns would be how I'll like the performance of a budget phone compared to mine and that I'll just blow up WP8 based on that. I know if I were to buy a budget Android phone now that I'd probably hate it to hell.
Thanks in advance!
Last edited: