I took the update on the first day it was available to general users in the US. Some of the features are great conceptually. Overall, though, I'm left pretty frustrated.
First, battery life is much reduced. It is hard for me to tell exactly what is using all of the power, but at this point I am guessing that the WiFi and Cellular radios' constant checking for signals and trying to decide which one is going to control the current activity. I also use ActiveSync for a corporate Outlook account and I have seen it swallow a lot of electrons trying to sync continuously even when the connection is unavailable.
I have also uninstalled the Facebook application as I'm not 100% sure it is not continuous sucking power to fuel its never ending quest for all that is mundane and stupid. We'll see if that helps.
Location services seems to be used far more than in 8.0 as well.
The biggest problem is the almost 100% occurrence of delays and even lockups when resuming from lock screen. Power up, lift the screen, and wait while "Resuming" or, occasionally "loading" stares back at you. I switched to the Bing screen as others have suggested with discernable effect.
Cortana works, mostly, and has some nice features. I think it is long on promise and not as fulfilling as the hype suggests. It is also my opinion that [she] talks too much. Fewer words please. Get to the point. You're a machine.
I also think the autocorrect function is not as useful as it used to be. It used to be >/= 90% at recognizing contractions. It might be 50% now. And it has gotten less aggressive with replacing typos with best guesses at the cost of being less useful, in my opinion.
If anyone has suggestions for the power consumption problems or hang-ups on resuming please post. Thanks for reading.
Regards,
First, battery life is much reduced. It is hard for me to tell exactly what is using all of the power, but at this point I am guessing that the WiFi and Cellular radios' constant checking for signals and trying to decide which one is going to control the current activity. I also use ActiveSync for a corporate Outlook account and I have seen it swallow a lot of electrons trying to sync continuously even when the connection is unavailable.
I have also uninstalled the Facebook application as I'm not 100% sure it is not continuous sucking power to fuel its never ending quest for all that is mundane and stupid. We'll see if that helps.
Location services seems to be used far more than in 8.0 as well.
The biggest problem is the almost 100% occurrence of delays and even lockups when resuming from lock screen. Power up, lift the screen, and wait while "Resuming" or, occasionally "loading" stares back at you. I switched to the Bing screen as others have suggested with discernable effect.
Cortana works, mostly, and has some nice features. I think it is long on promise and not as fulfilling as the hype suggests. It is also my opinion that [she] talks too much. Fewer words please. Get to the point. You're a machine.
I also think the autocorrect function is not as useful as it used to be. It used to be >/= 90% at recognizing contractions. It might be 50% now. And it has gotten less aggressive with replacing typos with best guesses at the cost of being less useful, in my opinion.
If anyone has suggestions for the power consumption problems or hang-ups on resuming please post. Thanks for reading.
Regards,
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