Quote Originally Posted by HSV,_I_GOT_ONE View Post
What was it that you didn't like about the Samsung? Just curious. I know you liked the windows platform which I loathed myself.

My experience of windows was 6.5 on my Samsung Omnia and I just found that horrible to use. I initially got it thinking it would be an easy thing to link up and use with my PC, how very wrong I was. The best thing I have found to work with PC hookup is Symbian. I know a lot of people hate it but I have found it the easiest to use out of anyother mobile OS.
I have never had great experiences with Symbian over the years. Admittedly I haven't used the OS for about 5-6 years, so my arguements are null and void I would imagine. I loved the N900 and the N9 with Meego looks awesome, but is a stillborn environment.

Windows 6.5 was an interesting step. Amazing how much you have to wrestle with a Windows Product to make it work with Windows - never a huge fan of 6.5, but I havent used it in 18 months so I had pretty much forgotten about its problems.

Windows Phone is a complete rewrite and works exceptionally well with Windows. Windows Apollo (which is Windows Phone 8) next year will tie in even closer to Windows 8.

The Samsung, for all of its power, still seems to lag at certain points, which is disconcerting with such a device. It gets pretty warm after about 10 minutes of gaming/movies which is ok except it points to lack of heat removal, which for me will be an issue in a lot of circumstances.

I will focus on the things I find annoying the most, which Windows Phone does a lot better:

* browsing - IE9 is exceptionally faster and smoother, and the zooming in/out, font smoothing is immediate, whereas it is laggy and slower than it should be on the SG2 (Checkrom v2,0, DK Silyah Kernel 2.1.1)
* BT stack - I have tried numerous apps on the marketplace, none have the ability to read my messages as they come to the phone whilst in the car - they can all read from the phone speaker, just not through the car BT. Windows Phone is a matter of turning BT on, pairing with the car and that is it - works perfectly with no configurations.
* - Audio quality - listening to music through Senneheiser headphones, the Windows Phone gives a much warmer sound - not huge, but annoys me just the same.
* - Email - basic app on SG2 is crap for Exchange - Touchdown is great, but fiddly to get it just how I need it. Windows Phone exchange is just very well done, email threading is well done.

That's pretty much it - there are a few others, but these are the things I do most, so they have the most visibility to me.

Like I said, the phone is great, Android is better than it has been, and there are some nice apps available, but it doesn't suit the horse on my course.

My wife on the other hand, really uses her phone to call/sms/take photos/social media, and leaves it alone until something goes wrong with it. She is happy, I am happy everybody wins.