Battery update. I'm on my 3rd full recharge from less than 20% with a full recharge overnight.
I took my phone off the charger at 7:30AM. It's now 12:00PM. I've made zero phone calls, sent zero text messages, downloaded nothing, played not a single song, and had about 5 minutes of screen time. I'm already down to 58% battery life.
Blue tooth is off. NFC is off. Drive is closed and blocked in the settings.
30 minutes later it's down to 53% with doing nothing more than unlocking and checking the settings screen. That's 1% every six minutes. It's losing 10% an hour. Doing nothing.
I'm not going to do a hard reset, several reports of the thing bricking over at WP Central trying to do it. It's going back in the box and back to the store and I will exit this thread. The OS and hardware are simply not ready for release.
I'm not going to do a hard reset, several reports of the thing bricking over at WP Central trying to do it. It's going back in the box and back to the store and I will exit this thread. The OS and hardware are simply not ready for release.
Hate isn't the right word. Dissapointed or frustrated would be more appropriate. I entered the smart phone world with an iPhone4 on Verizon. So it was a well fleshed out ecosystem with lots of options and most of the bugs were hammered out of the software/hardware by the time I came on board. At the time I bought that device I had no desire to look at Android devices because I felt they were still far to clunky and under developed for the stuff I wanted my device to do.
That's where I think WP8 is. Around that Gingerbread era of Android where it technically works, has some really nice function unique to the OS...but just not really ready for mass consumption. In WP's case it's not about the interface. That's it's trump card. The interface is wonderful. It's all the little stuff that needs to get filled in.
If it works for you fine. Early android devices were great for the people that wanted them too. But my self and whole lot of other people weren't interested in them at the time.
2 years later and Android and the hardware is exponentially improved in quality and user experience.
If WP8 survives the next two years and MS makes a commitment to it then it may be in Androids position that it is now as a legitimate rival to iOS. But it's going to be a very tough sell.
Hate isn't the right word. Dissapointed or frustrated would be more appropriate. I entered the smart phone world with an iPhone4 on Verizon. So it was a well fleshed out ecosystem with lots of options and most of the bugs were hammered out of the software/hardware by the time I came on board. At the time I bought that device I had no desire to look at Android devices because I felt they were still far to clunky and under developed for the stuff I wanted my device to do.
That's where I think WP8 is. Around that Gingerbread era of Android where it technically works, has some really nice function unique to the OS...but just not really ready for mass consumption. In WP's case it's not about the interface. That's it's trump card. The interface is wonderful. It's all the little stuff that needs to get filled in.
If it works for you fine. Early android devices were great for the people that wanted them too. But my self and whole lot of other people weren't interested in them at the time.
2 years later and Android and the hardware is exponentially improved in quality and user experience.
If WP8 survives the next two years and MS makes a commitment to it then it may be in Androids position that it is now as a legitimate rival to iOS. But it's going to be a very tough sell.
I have 14 days to return my Lumia and opening PDFs is really important for my work. If that simple app doesnt get fixed by middle next week, my Lumia 920 is going back to AT&T. (and I wonder how many other people like me are out there testing MS phones, but will be returning them within 14 days). I am expecting AT&T to have tons of returns on these next week.
its Nexus 4 (shipping delayed) or iPhone 5 for me next week (if MS doesnt come out with a quick patch)
I hope this thing flops so nokia can create android smartphones with it's awesome camera
i really really want microsoft to fail hard, or eat "hard rice." It'll definitely be a wake up call for them to release half baked software. Sure Android did it back in the day, but that was years ago. Today's age, you can't accept anything short of amazing to get someone to switch.
And with all these bugs? Please. MS. needs to taste failure first to enjoy the success they "stumbled" onto. Then, they can release REAL products that people want!
When Google did it, it was either that or accept Apple's controlling BS.So Google's OK to release "half baked software" but MS can't? You sure it's not a case of MS hatred?
i really really want microsoft to fail hard, or eat "hard rice." It'll definitely be a wake up call for them to release half baked software. Sure Android did it back in the day, but that was years ago. Today's age, you can't accept anything short of amazing to get someone to switch.
And with all these bugs? Please. MS. needs to taste failure first to enjoy the success they "stumbled" onto. Then, they can release REAL products that people want!