I first bought my Samsung Focus in November of 2010, I love it and WP7.8 was a lot of fun. I absolutely loved the Zune software and the biggest attraction to the phone was how the Messaging app combined Facebook chat along with Texts, LinkedIn Chat, etc...I went years without using a Facebook app because that along with the People hub had everything I needed. Considering 90% of what my phone was used for was a MP3 player and Facebook/Texting, I loved that the WP did both better than any other phone.
Although new and great features have come out, I feel like my overall experience is getting more and more frustrating over time since WP8 has released. Music + Videos app is a pile of **** with an ugly interface (the black in Zune was very attractive, I don't get the dull grey we have now or why I can't change it, or why it takes 5 seconds to launch the app, 3 seconds to load my artists list, 2 seconds to load the albums list, and 3 seconds to load the songs inside an album when Zune on WP7 had no delays. Apps used to follow the same UI pattern of the phone (ie: MetroTube being a perfect example), but now they just do anything and look like every other phone. To use Facebook I now need 2 apps, when before I needed 0.
Another thing to touch on is reliability. I went weeks if not months without ever rebooting my Samsung Focus. I now have a Lumia 920 and reset it on a daily basis. I never had any bugs or issues with my Focus, but I've had to reformat my L920 several times. Most recently I have recently RMAd the phone because randomly it would stop playing from the right side when I connected headphones or Bluetooth. My new L920 still has the same problem, so it's a bug in the software that's been there since April based on threads in this forum. I also reformatted my newest L920 2 weeks ago and am experiencing a bug where the phone does not show texts between the time it was formatted and when I last rebooted it. Sometimes I can get them to appear by turning text backup off and then back on, or changing "Download Messages from" Any time, to a different setting, then back to anytime. But the next time I reboot the phone the texts will be gone again.These are sorts of things I shouldn't be dealing with on a daily basis, and didn't for the 2.5 years I used my Samsung Focus on WP7.
There are a lot of great feature but I feel like the experience has gone from being something unique to just being the same as an Android or iPhone, except lacking in quantity of what it offers. I was always able to deal with the lack of apps but I feel they have not made enough progress, it's started to get more frustrating because I recently started working for a developer that does not have a WP app, so I can't even test our product, and we use a lot of tools like Slack which is still months away from a WP release.
Anyone else feeling the same? I haven't used an Android since 2010 and aside from using some at work I haven't really touched an iPhone, but they seem rather nice...maybe it's just a case of grass being greener because I've been with WP for so long, but at least with the others I wouldn't be missing out on the apps.
Although new and great features have come out, I feel like my overall experience is getting more and more frustrating over time since WP8 has released. Music + Videos app is a pile of **** with an ugly interface (the black in Zune was very attractive, I don't get the dull grey we have now or why I can't change it, or why it takes 5 seconds to launch the app, 3 seconds to load my artists list, 2 seconds to load the albums list, and 3 seconds to load the songs inside an album when Zune on WP7 had no delays. Apps used to follow the same UI pattern of the phone (ie: MetroTube being a perfect example), but now they just do anything and look like every other phone. To use Facebook I now need 2 apps, when before I needed 0.
Another thing to touch on is reliability. I went weeks if not months without ever rebooting my Samsung Focus. I now have a Lumia 920 and reset it on a daily basis. I never had any bugs or issues with my Focus, but I've had to reformat my L920 several times. Most recently I have recently RMAd the phone because randomly it would stop playing from the right side when I connected headphones or Bluetooth. My new L920 still has the same problem, so it's a bug in the software that's been there since April based on threads in this forum. I also reformatted my newest L920 2 weeks ago and am experiencing a bug where the phone does not show texts between the time it was formatted and when I last rebooted it. Sometimes I can get them to appear by turning text backup off and then back on, or changing "Download Messages from" Any time, to a different setting, then back to anytime. But the next time I reboot the phone the texts will be gone again.These are sorts of things I shouldn't be dealing with on a daily basis, and didn't for the 2.5 years I used my Samsung Focus on WP7.
There are a lot of great feature but I feel like the experience has gone from being something unique to just being the same as an Android or iPhone, except lacking in quantity of what it offers. I was always able to deal with the lack of apps but I feel they have not made enough progress, it's started to get more frustrating because I recently started working for a developer that does not have a WP app, so I can't even test our product, and we use a lot of tools like Slack which is still months away from a WP release.
Anyone else feeling the same? I haven't used an Android since 2010 and aside from using some at work I haven't really touched an iPhone, but they seem rather nice...maybe it's just a case of grass being greener because I've been with WP for so long, but at least with the others I wouldn't be missing out on the apps.
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