I’ve been an iPhone user for years and years, but this time when my latest one started to go all screwy, I picked up a cheap Windows phone until I could get the iPhone fixed…
Well, after a brief period of using the Windows phone, I chucked the iPhone in a drawer and deregistered it from my Apple account. I’m not going back. I even went as far as ordering the bigger brother to the cheapie phone I have just because. The two together still cost half of what an iPhone does.
Yes, Windows could use more apps, but in all honesty, almost every app I had on the iPhone was just a toy that I played with once or twice and then forgot about. The important ones have equivalents under Windows so far, so I’m good. I really like this phone, and even though I am a techie, I’m thinking I may get one for my 86 year old mother who hasn’t been able to operate any cell phone at all.
I still have my iPhone 4, but it’s no longer a phone, just a media player I can plug into my car. Upgraded the cell phone contract to a Sony Experia Z3-compact, (running Android,) which is working out pretty well.
I love my andriod. I can use my Apple wireless magic mouse and keyboard with it.
Just rooted mine nexus 5 / 7 and love being able to plug in a external HD!
I used to own an iphone 5 which I did love but Android is more versatile!
Phone arena did a detailed camera comparisonof the major smartphones and the Note 4 came out on top slightly ahead of the iPhone 6+. I have seen lots of photos from both cameras and I would confirm that ranking. The 6+ is a fine cameraphone and sometimes comes out better than the Note 4 but overall I would give it the edge.
Needless to say the Note 4 or for that matter the Note 1 has a vastly superior camera to the iPhone 3GS.
The quality of the camera in this Lumia is fantastic, and I love having full manual control over everything if I desire (focus, flash, shutter speed, sensitivity, etc). It’s not as fast as the iphone, but every picture I take is much better.
Same issue, but the past 4 iPhones that I have had have all died in odd ways. This last one started shutting down, and starting up again. First once every couple days, then every day, then eventually every 15 minutes or so. I performed the surgery to change the battery, and that wasn’t it, so I just gave up. And they just cost so much!
Anyway, I’m extremely happy with the Lumia 830 (final model I am sticking with for a while)… I was even more pleased when I plugged the USB port into my computer, and it easily synched all of my iTunes music, photos, and whatnot. I had more trouble registering and deregistering iThings to get them to sync than I did with this MS phone.
I also like the live tiles, now that I see how they actually work.
Best benefit of all though, is Cortana (the MS assistant) actually understands everything I say every time. Siri was a nice novelty when it came out, but it never actually worked for me. Cortana does.
I have an iPhone 1 that still works when I am in the USA. The software version is 3.1.3 and I have not had to replaced the battery about 3 years . No Siri though.
My current iPhone is a 4s and it works fine and the camera takes pretty good pictures. I’ll probably wait until the iPhone 8 to upgrade.
A quick Google shows that the reviewers agree with you.
On second thought, I may have been handling a Note 3 (not a 4), but even that still outperforms iPhones in reviews.
I don’t really understand this, I’ve never been impressed with the pictures of the Notes. I own a 2, and the camera flat sucks. Maybe on a tripod, in a laboratory, they would provide a higher resolution picture than an iPhone, but man. The Note’s pictures seem blurry and flat, where as the iPhones for the past few generations take more pleasing pictures than even my brand name point-and-shoot.
I am in no way educated in the ways of pitcher takin’, just my impressions.
That said: I’m in a mixed marriage: he uses an iPhone and I use an Android. iPhones are cool, but Androids demand that you know what you’re doing and have a willingness to fool around with customization.
And, many of the things where sharing a platform would be useful are handled by cloud-based features, like a shared calendar using Google.
I contemplate changing from iPhone to Android regularly. However my hatred of the Samsung Galaxy tablet I own makes me reconsider switching. Maybe I will check out a Windows phone. I just don’t know anyone who has one that I can play with for a few minutes…
I had the iPhone 3G, 4, 5 and 6. I have loved all of them and they were all working great until the day that I upgraded to a new version.
Security on Android OS phone is or is perceived to be shitty. The IT department at my company will only allow iPhones to access the mail servers so an Android is a non-starter for me. They stopped allowing Blackberries when they realized that there was only one person in the company with one and they didn’t want to support it anymore.
They make them again. Microsoft has gone through several iterations of their phone OS.
I shipped products in the early 2000s on Windows CE (4.2) and Windows Smartphone (6.0 and 6.1).
Microsoft was working on Windows Smartphone 7.0, getting into the touch screen market, in 2008ish. I had an early version of it - in fact, the first live phone call ever made with 7.0 was done in my cube. The Microsoft people sent my team a box of coffee mugs as a thank you for the help.
Anyway…Microsoft realized that they needed to do a ton of rework to actually get a good touch interface, and they delayed the whole thing. They eventually came out with what is now known as Windows Phone - the stuff you can buy today. But my company couldn’t wait for that, and eliminated my entire department instead.
A long time ago, I had a Windows phone, but the new software is nothing like that. This is actually 8.1, and can share apps across Windows 8 OS’s, tablets, and Windows 10 OS’s.
It can be techie, but it was usable right out of the box, after a simple walk through setup of the basics (WiFi settings, account logins, etc).
Still playing around with it, and still loving it.
My first-ever smartphone ran Windows in the pre-8 days. While it was very limited in many ways, as you would expect a 2011 Windows phone to be, it performed very well in some ways.
