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At the start of the new year, I switched to a windows phone (Lumia 730) from android.
After 2 months of usage, I am not regretting it.
Initally I had few hiccups adjusting to it but then it was a smooth sailing.
To be honest I am impressed by the phone.My device is really not at the high end but its smooth and display are vibrant.
The actions are smooth and I see no lagging.Most of the feature I used as an app in android, is part of the OS.
Battery and data plan managemebt is really good features of OS. No extra apps needed.
The only issue I had/have was too much intergration with the social networking. But few tweaks took care of it. And also trying to streamline the contacts info.
My final impression, Win phone is not a bad choice at all. Hope few more people give a try and see its pros and cons.
cheers,
Super
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yes you are right , i also got the same phone last month and found it very nice. this is my first smart phone and both front and rare camera are very good. i have not used android or iphone so don't know much about their features but i am very much comfortable with the windows phone.
Ravi Khoda
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The phone itself and the OS are ok, actually very snappy and fast! BUT... if you try to switch back to Android (or iOS) you are in for some troubles! for example you can never get your SMS back, you can't even export them!
I tried WinPhone, I liked the OS but I hated the fact that Microsoft tried to lock me in WinPhone with nasty tricks like the impossibility to export SMS!
I'm back to Android and glad I did.
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SMS massages are automatically backed up to "the cloud" or whatever...Outlook.com?
It's a pain in the butt to get to, completely non-obvious, but they're there.
Google/Bing it to get instructions on how to access it...I don't remember. :p
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They are backed up on the cloud somewhere and you can get them back... but only on a WinPhone device, if you want to get them back on anything else you just can't. Microsoft in their great commercial wisdom are trying to lock you in the Winphone world by allowing your data in but not out.
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Well, I have and see no real need to get them back onto the phone...or any other device. I'd just use messages from a year ago for forensic evidence, etc.
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Who keeps their SMS stuff? I've never understood message or email hoarders (or even digital hoarders in general. I've been at several companies where IT has asked people to purge their emails, sometimes in the terabytes, and finally just did it themselves [the worse offenders usually being executives and marketing with crazy big attachments.] One company finally put a cap on attachments and purged all attachments after six months or so.)
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I really like it, with the exception of some media playback issues which have been there since I moved to windows phone 18 months ago.
No gapless playback when playing local media, the generally crappy 'xbox music' app in the first place.
The audio popping, when skipping ahead in some videos there will be a very loud crack even if the sound is turned off, and at the end of songs it will occasionally replay some of what was (presumably) left in the buffer again, so you get an extra frame of audio from the previous song as the next starts.
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As a heads up, when windows phone 10 comes out (free upgrade), there is a major overhaul of the gaming and media apps, so hopefully that will be better!
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I know, fingers crossed it will finally be sorted.
I really want gapless playback. I don't even know why it was never there to begin with, 3rd party apps can't even do it (in a sane way).
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I have a Lumia 520 that I bought to use with a 64gb uSD card as a cheap music player when I'm out walking or as something I could keep semi-permanently wired to a speaker during road trips. It's been too cold and dark to do that for a while where I live; but as of last summer the music app still really sucked for how I wanted to use it. It no longer locked up (either the phone as a whole, or later just itself, as two earlier versions did) for several minutes when I tried to create/use a shuffle playlist with all ~11k songs in my library; unfortunately it did so by generating a list of 100 randomly selected songs (so far so good, nothing wrong with keeping the working set small for performance) and then looping that list of 100 indefinitely instead of selecting 100 more when it hit the end of the list.     
As I said, I haven't used it recently, so it's possible that a newer version of the music app has been released that's fixed my problem. I never noticed the cracking sound you described or a replay of junk in the buffer; could be new bugs in a version of the app I haven't used, or something hardware/driver specific if your phone's a different model than mine...
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--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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As I had occasion to say the same exact things in another post, I totally agree with you. It is fast, it never crashes and has almost anything builtin. The most important apps are there (even if with less quality than iOS or Adroid versions) and the battery seems eternal compared to Android.
Right now I'm experiencing a higher data consumption but I have it since Saturday only and need to tweak it a bit, as I did with Android. Also, it is way cheaper than an average Android Phone, holding the smae quality.
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I have both, Android (Samsung Galaxy S5) and Winphone (Nokia 720). Quite happy with both devices, so the battery consume on the Samsung is better since it installed Android 5.0. I like the winPhone interface, for gaming I prefer the Samsung.
Edit: updated the Nokia version, it's actually the 720. Got confused...
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super wrote: I switched to a windows phone (Lumia 730) from android.
After 2 months of
usage, I am not regretting it.
Same here, except that I switched 3 years ago and never looked back. Some people don't like the lack on apps, but I don't care for apps anyway.
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Nemanja Trifunovic wrote: Some people don't like the lack on apps
Well, I found out that though there was million of apps on android. I was using only few regularly and those are already in WIN. Except a couple of apps, all are available. I hope they will be released soon
cheers,
Super
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I've had a Lumia 928 for over two years. I really like the phone and OS for all the reasons you mentioned. Over those two years, I have only needed to install four of five apps from the app store, and all those were free.
I like the fact that I don't need a third-party application (like iTunes  ) to manage the media (music and pictures) on the phone.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Oy! (and OT) leave your bloody neighbours hardware alone and do the bloody WSOCCC or I'll have to do another one tomorrow!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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And the morrow after that... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Can we have the answer now.
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Sorry, haven't got a clue today.
Well, apart from "We Rastafari make soup with soluble saab" which means nothing to me 
Told you it was one of those mornings, didn't I? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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He'd better concentrate on the MQOTD instead of the WSOCCC !
I think Griff still has a lot of important things to do today...
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Jeeze!
If it had 847 malware items after the site fixed a lot of problems for him, I wonder how many there were to begin with!
Thank God that such sites are there to help us!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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