Well its been a month now with the HTC and i must say I am not impressed. Against my better judgement I went with HTC over the Icon, hell I went to WP over Android or Apple for a 3rd time. I thought 8.1 was going to be this pot of gold at the end of the rainbow since everyone over on the Icon forum was going to die if they didnt get 8.1, look what happen to the Icon, shame. Anyways my FB still SUCKS. Now I am not your typical FB guy. I dodnt post every min of my life on there, I dont post at all. I do look at my friends post and some interest pages I have. You would think MS would have this working right by now. I just saw that clown from MS saying they are closing the gap on apps to Google and Apple. Yeah, so what, the apps suck anyways. They are limited and dont work right when compared to their competitors apps. What good is it if you have 1 billion apps if they are all half ***. Google and Apples app store does have MANY useless apps, which is why they are big, BUT the main apps that most people use are full featured and way better than WP apps. Not to mention there are apps i still want that will probably not make it to WP.
Cortana, what can I say. She isnt Google or Siri, thats for sure. I find that I have to repeat stuff to her and the search results are not that great, then again its using Bing search. Also I cannt see Bing searches in landscape. So if I am in landscape and return to my Bing search it goes to portrait, so I find myself flipping the phone over and over. Really MS, you could make Bing in landscape mode.
Maps, well they suck. I went on a trip this weekend and my wife has a S5, holy hell, I forgot how great Google maps was. Runs smooth, doesnt open up another app for voice directions, better directions, it just works.
I still get the random reboots, HTCs problem, but I think they wont fix this anytime soon. Sometimes when I wake up my phone it takes me back to my last opened app even though I was in the home screen. Still no quick search on the phone dial pad. You either have to know the number or go looking for it in the contact list. And whats up with the contact list now not displaying contact info. Now i have to go to people to get info on any of my contacts. So if I am taking to someone and they ask me for a persons number I have get out of the phone screen to my home screen, swipe over to my list, go to people, find the contact. How *** backwards was this MS.
I like WP's, dont get me wrong. If the Icon had 8.1 it would be better than the HTC, **** I think its better now. But MS and WP are lacking alot over Android and Apple. I know there is no perfect phone, I just wish MS would invest time and money into WP. There is a ton of stuff that Android and Apple phones do, which I miss, that MS still hasnt integrated into there phones. I remember the Cortana promotion videos, I wasnt amazed, now that I have it it still doesnt amaze me. Its sill behind Google and Siri.
I think this is why VZW doesnt show importance to WP, they are just lagging behind. I wouldnt put it pass them if they dropped WP all together. They dropped the Icon and aside form it not having 8.1, to me its a better phone than the M8.
Now I have to decide on which phone to get, not WP thats for sure. I know i will get ALOT of pissed off people on here now but it is what it is. I am not brand or OS loyal and I call it like I see it. If WP where at the same stage as Android with everything, kinda like Android and Apple I would keep the WP. I just cannt see WP catching up anytime soon.