Dropped Windows Phone

Loved the OS, hated the shortcomings. In the end, the app gapp killed it for me.


I'll give it a shot again if the app gapp ever improves.

 

Very cool. I've never had the pleasure of trying out a Windows phone. So are you using a Droid or iPhone now?

 

I still have my old(ish) Nokia E-71. (The one that looks similar to Blackberries), but I am getting a bit old to see the teeny buttons and text nowadays.
Used and liked Win-phones, but yeah, they have their down-sides as well.

 

I develop Android apps too, so it made sense.

 

Motorola Droid Turbo 64GB.

 

Good to see people that can judge merits and change.
I stayed with the iPhone (6+) because son and friends have some home grown apps that are pure magic. I call one "Find my friend" because you can choose a contact and an arrow points to him. We use it all the time when we meet or lose each other at car shows. It's surprisingly accurate.
Nice looking Droid, much better looking than my iPhone.

 

It is ridiculously overbuilt.


Woven nylon fiber back
Water resistant
2560x1440 5.2 in. amoled screen
Snapdragon 805 quad core @ 2.7ghz + two non-ARM contextual cores for sensors and voice
3GB ram
64GB NAND storage (only available with ballistic nylon edition)
21MP camera with dual flash
5 microphones







I really do like Windows Phone better than Android, but I couldn't even do something simple like override hardware volume keys because MS doesn't allow access. Then the app gap was terrible too. I found myself relying heavily on my development tablet for apps (which is tough when you wipe it regularly).

 

Other than raw storage capacity, that phone out-specs my current laptop...time to upgrade, methinks.

 

Hangouts
Teamwork
Harvest
Chromecast app
HBO Go
Google Voice
Parrot RC app thingy
CHROME << Not having this impacted my job

If I had these, I would have been happy.

I know some of these had non-officials, but things like harvest and teamwork use work credentials and I don't trust a third party.

 

CyanogenMod is a version of Android that comes "rooted" by default, it allows a very large amount of customization to every aspect of the operating system and the use of apps that utilize features of the phone in a way that stock Android might restrict. However, as it's not stock Android, it is usually less stable unless it is highly perfected for a particular device.

$143 seems like a pretty good deal for those specs, depending on the build quality of the device itself it might be worth looking into! My experience with inexpensive import phones is spread across the board. Some are good and some are bad.