Is the End Near for Windows Phone?
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The I still have a Windows phone sitting around for testing on. The newer software updates make it a bit more stable and decent. However the windows store is still sucky though :(. Really not the greatest options there.
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The store really undermines it significantly. It's hard to describe just how useless and dangerous the phone is until you try to get common software and realize the store is nothing but a way to get malware onto your phone.
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Used a Windows phone once....was very happy when I went back to my Galaxy. Took me months to get used to the WP8. Was used to my Android again after 2 days. I just need cared for the interface, which was always so backwards in so many ways. @nadnerB I would not ever go to a Windows 8 Phone again by choice.
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@thanksaj said:
Used a Windows phone once....was very happy when I went back to my Galaxy. Took me months to get used to the WP8. Was used to my Android again after 2 days. I just need cared for the interface, which was always so backwards in so many ways. @nadnerB I would not ever go to a Windows 8 Phone again by choice.
Yeah, I remember that from the last time that WP 8.1 etc was discussed.
The only good 'droids are the flagship models. I may as well buy an iPhone -
@nadnerB said:
The only good 'droids are the flagship models. I may as well buy an iPhone
Yes, that seems to be true. You need an Android phone with a ton of investment and a ton of ongoing support or they have major issues.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB said:
The only good 'droids are the flagship models. I may as well buy an iPhone
Yes, that seems to be true. You need an Android phone with a ton of investment and a ton of ongoing support or they have major issues.
Also, at less than a moments notice, your droid can be considered "old hat" by the manufacturer and the updates stop... either that or they stuffed the design and left you stranded cough HTC Desire cough
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@scottalanmiller said:
@nadnerB said:
The only good 'droids are the flagship models. I may as well buy an iPhone
Yes, that seems to be true. You need an Android phone with a ton of investment and a ton of ongoing support or they have major issues.
I won't disagree with that. If you buy the knock-offs, you're going to get a crappy phone. But that's not really different from other products on the market.
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@thanksaj said:
I won't disagree with that. If you buy the knock-offs, you're going to get a crappy phone. But that's not really different from other products on the market.
They aren't knock offs. Android is the platform and all Androids are equally Androids.
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@nadnerB said:
Also, at less than a moments notice, your droid can be considered "old hat" by the manufacturer and the updates stop... either that or they stuffed the design and left you stranded cough HTC Desire cough
Yeah, the upgrade support on them is horrible.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
I won't disagree with that. If you buy the knock-offs, you're going to get a crappy phone. But that's not really different from other products on the market.
They aren't knock offs. Android is the platform and all Androids are equally Androids.
Except that most of them are crap
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
I won't disagree with that. If you buy the knock-offs, you're going to get a crappy phone. But that's not really different from other products on the market.
They aren't knock offs. Android is the platform and all Androids are equally Androids.
It's true they all run Android, but if you put a cheap $300 Gateway machine against a $1500 HP machine and said "well they both run Windows", how is that any different? A product is good if it is strong in all ways. If you have a solid OS/firmware, but crappy hardware, then yeah, it's gonna suck. That's why people who want a good Android phone don't buy the "generic" Android phones. You buy a Samsung, Moto, HTC, etc.
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@thanksaj said:
It's true they all run Android, but if you put a cheap $300 Gateway machine against a $1500 HP machine and said "well they both run Windows", how is that any different? A product is good if it is strong in all ways. If you have a solid OS/firmware, but crappy hardware, then yeah, it's gonna suck. That's why people who want a good Android phone don't buy the "generic" Android phones. You buy a Samsung, Moto, HTC, etc.
Gateway is not a knock off of HP though. Both are fully PCs. HP is just as much a knock off of Gateway in that logic. Knock off means something specific that doesn't apply to generic devices like PCs or Android phones.
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@thanksaj said:
You buy a Samsung, Moto, HTC, etc.
Ah, no thanks. I've seen issues with those three
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@nadnerB said:
@thanksaj said:
You buy a Samsung, Moto, HTC, etc.
Ah, no thanks. I've seen issues with those three
Here too, none of them were reliable for us.
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I have seen the newer Samsung's be a bit more stable. However it depends on how the person is using it.
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They are improving, I'm sure. As Android matures and the manufacturing volume increases they must be getting better.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 that I picked up the Summer of 2013. About 8 months ago it really started having issues, so I had to back up everything, (moving Google Authenticator is a HUGE pain) and wipe it. It was good again for around 4 months and I've been just dealing with it since then.
I probably have around 30 non standard apps installed, mostly airline apps, a few store apps (like Starbucks) and it just in general seems to suck. I'm working if I overheated it by running it hard one day and now it is bad in some way..
Not to mention that under normal use I get around 8 hours of battery life right now, and if I'm traveling, I get way less - constantly find myself looking for a wall outlet.
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It's a shame that the store sucked and poisoned the well so to speak.
There is great potential here for MS to make an amazing product that integrates with exchange and does SO MANY NEAT THINGS. I want them to not screw this up but I think that ship has sailed.
My hope now is that as the Windows core improves and we see smaller x86 CPU's that eventually it'll just be a port of the core OS running on Intel chippery. Wintel all over again. -
I'm clinging to my Lumia ICON. I've had iPhone and Android and by far, Windows Phone has been the best experience for me. Didn't like the static ICONS of the iPhone and every Android I've owned would always end up crashing over time, like rebooting in the middle of doing something on the phone. And tired of the slow push for Android updates.
My ICON takes dazzling pictures and it is one of the reasons I am holding on to it.
Is the end near? Hard to say when it is doing well in other countries. And they are focused on the low end market right now though. If there was another flagship available right now, I'd take it and stay with Windows Phone. If I was forced to choose another, I'd go with iPhone.
