I am now on Windows Phone

It rocks!! Lumia 920.  Its way cooler than I though it was going to be.  Blazing fast.  Interconnected to everything.  

I've tried for years to remove google from my life, and I think I have been as successful as anybody could be.  Now with Nokia Maps, I only need google to sign in to a very old gmail account, where some of my software licenses are tied to. Other than that!! Hooray!  I am totally as, "ungoogled," as I am going to get.

Also!!  Happy, I am out of Apples ecosystem as well.   There's a company that hasn't been the same since its founder past.

Well, over the 2/3 years I had an iphone, I never used any of these apps I spent money on.  I learned very quickly, I was buying a $0.99 here, and a $4.99 there and they were getting no use.

My most used iphones apps in proper order: Facebook, Google Maps, LinkedIn, Twitter.  Everything else I did with free apps, "jotting down notes, or checking the weather, or world clock; accessing my cloud accounts like soundcloud, box, etc."  

Everything else was reading emails, sending texts, talking, a little facetime, and using the safari browser.

So, I wasn't so deep into these apps, that it actually was a huge concern when I decided to switch platforms.

What annoyed me most, was that my iphone kept freezing on calls.  it didn't drop them per se, as the connection still existed, but it would cut out a lot.  It became impossible to talk on, and I suppose it may have been broken, and I could have fixed that issue by upgrading to a new model of the iphone, but apple failed to entice me with their current offering.

Also, I was in an apple store today, because switching platforms is, "kinda a big deal," and I looked at an iphone 5 before I went with the Nokia, and I found the apple store, and the people working in there, and shopping in there, to be really weird...   In an, "I've done too much acid in a former life," kind of way.

However, switching phones, not so easy.  I'm having trouble setting up my yahoo mail, and I've given up for the evening, and I've got to make some calls about that tomorrow.

Yep, windows phone is a little naked in the app department.  But the operating system is way cool.  and the phone is fast, although this nokia is a little bulky, like the reviews say.

I've got a good mind to think that in another two years, windows phone is really going to be slamming and apple and google are really going to be feeling the pressure.
We will see.

+1 for the past two and a half years, absolutely great mobile OS, my Samsung phone never drops a call, and as Danny mentioned, lots of great FREE apps!
 
 
Good luck with yours, LP!
Bob

I must admit, when I put a new bit of kit in our data rack, (server, network switch,etc,) the first thing I look for is the quality of the flashing lights. Must have flashing lights... flashing lights...

New Windows Phone user, too.  It seems to work pretty good, even tho I was starting to get along w/ android.  But went to the store to figure out something, and it was time to update the phone (in the US many phone plans allow you to upgrade the phone for practically free every two years).  So here I am.  I hope I'm happy - I'm getting too old to continue to figure out OSs.

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