Many problems with Windows phone
I have been an Android and IOS user since both OS's were launched. I can 'get by' with Android, but IOS is always my first choice and the one I put in my pocket when I leave the house.
I recently bought a WP7.5 Nokia Lumia 800, as prior to iPhones I have always used exclusively Nokia's.
What a huge disappointment. The phone is actually unusable as a smartphone. Battery life is abysmal - from full to totally flat by lunchtime with only light use and all smartphone functions disabled. (defeats the whole purpose of a smartphone.)
Audio quality is very poor and on maximum volume, I can just about hear it in a silent room. In a gym or car, forget using the Nokia Drive or music player.
Nearly all the apps I use every day on my iPhone are not available for WP7.
Metro interface is constantly getting in the way.
No battery percentage remaining feature unless you dig down several menus, which is a disaster on this phone, as it needs charging 2 - 3 times per day.
To do this, you need to open a fiddly and fragile little flap that will surely break off before the phone is more than a month old.
I am unable to use Marketplace to buy apps and music as I set up my Windows Live account when I lived in the UK 10 years ago. Now I live in Singapore and Microsoft does not allow you to change countries. The only workaround is to set up a new account, lose all of my data, contacts etc, then set up the phone from scratch again. No thank you.
To put icing on the cake, Nokia will not repair or allow me to return my phone as I did not buy it in the country I live in, due to the long order lead times here.
I will not be using this phone again, and both Nokia and WP7.5 have missed their last chance.
