iPhone 5, meh....

[JClishe]

Windows Phone all the way, I have the Nokia Lumia 900 and you'd have to pry it from my cold, dead hands before I gave it up. As far as recent phone announcements go, last weeks Nokia Lumia 920 announcement was EASILY more impressive than the Motorola and Apple announcements. The Lumia 920 is going to be a beast of a phone as far as features are concerned. Wireless charging, better screen than the iPhone 5 (higher res, more PPI), screen works with gloves on, NFC support, etc. Apple's making you buy a new charging cable for the iPhone 5. Nokia is letting you charge without a cable at all.

2 photogs I shoot with, both iPhone 4s users, told me over the weekend that they were impressed enough by the Lumia 920 to consider switching platforms, but they would wait until the iPhone 5 announcement to make up their mind. I talked to both of them today, they're both switching to the Lumia 920 in November.

My wife has been an iPhone user since day 1 and it's looking more and more like she's going to switch to a Windows Phone when she's due for an upgrade. And funny thing here, we have 2 kids - ages 9 and 11 - and they fight over playing with my Windows Phone, not her iPhone. People, strangers, stop me all the time to ask about my phone. Airplane seat mates, people next to me in lines, etc. I'm always getting "is that one of those Windows Phones? What's it like?" It's different, it's innovative, it's not the same ole, same ole, sea of icons that every other phone on the planet is. It's fast, it's smooth, it's stable, it's just cool.

I agree with the other comments about Android, it's a hot mess. The UI is awful on a phone, and I too have a Kindle Fire that overall I've been underwhelmed by.

It's interesting, when I mention "Windows Phone" to non Windows phone users I usually get a chuckle or a "yeah, right" look. But talk to an actual Windows Phone owner and it's a different story, they have terrific customer loyalty. Windows Phones have very high customer sat ratings and very low return rates. In fact the Lumia 900 is the highest rated cell phone on Amazon right now and it's held that spot for about 4 months. 3 of Amazon's top 5 highest rated phones are Windows Phones. And the Lumia 900 has more than twice as many reviews as the most-reviewed Android phone (Lumia 900 is 4.6/5 stars with 437 reviews while the Galaxy Nexus 16GB is 4.1/5 stars with only 196 reviews).

I'm telling you, if you're due for a phone soon and you haven't seriously considered a Windows Phone, you should. At the very least go over to Twitter and search on Lumia920, you might be surprised at what you find. The overwhelming sentiment on Twitter is that the iPhone 5 announcement made the Lumia 920 look ever better.

 

[Derrel]

Here's what the Apple press conference SHOULD have been! A mega-conference Announcing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING@!!!!!@

Tim Cook Should Have Done This At Today's iPhone 5 Event

 

[Compaq]

Distasteful consumerism, throwing away perfectly decent phones for new ones because you're "tired" of them.

 

[mjhoward]

Windows Phone all the way... when I mention "Windows Phone" to non Windows phone users I usually get a chuckle or a "yeah, right" look. But talk to an actual Windows Phone owner and it's a different story

About 8 years ago I had a couple of different Windows Mobile/Windows CE type phones. They were all TERRIBLE. They were slow, buggy, and always crashing just like the desktops. They were also battery hogs. I've had zero problems out of my Macbook/iPhone. The funny thing is when I'm running MacOS on my Macbook, I get about 8 hrs. continuous web browsing. When I switch over to my Windows7 partition, that gets cut down to a whopping 2.5hrs!

 

[ThrowbacK]

I still have a HTC Evo 3D... When I first got it, I thought it was amazing.
Now, I can barely look at it. First week with it, I dropped it and cracked the back housing. Stupid cheap plastic.

I will buy myself a new phone for Christmas, my list is

Galaxy Note II
Lumia 920
iPhone 5

So far, the features I've seen on the new Galaxy are just amazing. But Battery life might be a problem.

Anyone else checking out the Note?

 

[JClishe]

Windows Phone all the way... when I mention "Windows Phone" to non Windows phone users I usually get a chuckle or a "yeah, right" look. But talk to an actual Windows Phone owner and it's a different story

About 8 years ago I had a couple of different Windows Mobile/Windows CE type phones. They were all TERRIBLE.

Agreed. Which is why Windows Mobile doesn't exist any longer. But what does a comment about a retired operating system have to do with this discussion?

 

[mjhoward]

Windows Phone all the way... when I mention "Windows Phone" to non Windows phone users I usually get a chuckle or a "yeah, right" look. But talk to an actual Windows Phone owner and it's a different story

About 8 years ago I had a couple of different Windows Mobile/Windows CE type phones. They were all TERRIBLE.

Agreed. Which is why Windows Mobile doesn't exist any longer. But what does a comment about a retired operating system have to do with this discussion?

Windows sucks... Thats what it has to do with. Windows mobile/CE was based on the most stable OS windows has ever had and it was STILL terrible. If Win7 was decent and wasn't riddled with constant freezing, crashing, periodicly slow response, and everything else under the sun, then I might have more faith in their new mobile platform.... But that isnt the case. It seems some things never change.

 

[Derrel]

Windows Phone all the way... when I mention "Windows Phone" to non Windows phone users I usually get a chuckle or a "yeah, right" look. But talk to an actual Windows Phone owner and it's a different story

About 8 years ago I had a couple of different Windows Mobile/Windows CE type phones. They were all TERRIBLE. They were slow, buggy, and always crashing just like the desktops. They were also battery hogs. I've had zero problems out of my Macbook/iPhone. The funny thing is when I'm running MacOS on my Macbook, I get about 8 hrs. continuous web browsing. When I switch over to my Windows7 partition, that gets cut down to a whopping 2.5hrs!

But Win-doze is awwwwwwesome dooood!

Windows CE was aweeeesome...it had the poifect nickname-- "Wince"... RTFLMFAO at the stupidity out of Redmond...

I thought the Zune was also another totally awewwwwesome Micro$haft offering....I know all the cool kids wanted a Zune...

 

[ceejtank]

Describes most iphone/apple product users i know personally

 

[molested_cow]

Gizmodo tried this trick when the new ipad came out. Same results.

 

[PhotoWrangler]

What I want to know is that if you can now do facetime over the cellular network... will this be retroactive for the 4s as well???

 

[charlie76]

I agree with everything the OP stated.

But I will never turn my back on a new iPhone! Never!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gerardo2068]

I already pre-order. And for me the improvement of the iPhone 5 are worth it. I bought my iPhone 4 when it came out 2 years ago and I will definitely see improvement. How is this disappointing to some I don't know. With a mature device like the iPhone. You won't see a lot of breakthroughs as fast as they were at the beginning. I will even bet the the Galaxy S3 to GS4 will have the same treatment. It will be mostly improvements.

 

[gerardo2068]

Also. Why Change to another phone? Yeah GS4 will come out And they will say its better. But then another iPhone will come out and will be good for me. And so on. Would be silly change to cannon when the release a new camera then switch to Nikon when they release a newer one then back to cannon and so on. Just pick one and stay with it. You know your company will release a new one sooner or later.

 

[molested_cow]

Oh not that you people care, my friend just got a Galaxy S3 and when I compare it with my small Incredible S viewing the same photo..... OMG THE S3 SCREEN IS LIKE SPEAKING TO MY BRAIN while my Incredible S looks like a bad inkjet print.