My review of the Windows Lumia 900 Phone

May 18th, 2012

I have no idea why I feel I need to write a review.

Just to note: I’m into technology but I’m not into technology, feel me dawg? More like, technology is into me.

Okay. Okay. Okay. I know what you people are going to say, “Karen…got…a WINDOWS PHONE? after being all PRO-APPLE IPHONE AND NOTHING BUT IPHONE SO HELP HER SOUL? Yeah. I know.

It all started when THE husband and I went on a mission to find a harddrive case for me and a good deal on a 16 gig usb drive. Well, as it so happens technology just hates me because my MacAir is running out of space (hence the harddrive) and 8GB usb drive won’t be enough space for my WORK COMPUTER’s info. You’ve got that right. I have a looooot of gigs on to back up on that sucker.

Anyway, we were talking about my husband. We went to CompUSA and Dan saw the Lumia 900. He drooled enough that it formed into a river and we had to find a canoe to find our way to the line. While standing in line, he had this puppy dog look on his face and I was like, “Whatever, go against Apple and BUY the stupid thing anyway.” He did….but only because it was a good deal no upgrade fee and only $35 for the $99 (on a 2 year contract) phone.

I played with it over that weekend and started liking it. Or, more like I started getting hungry for a new phone because I have had this 3GS for over two years. So on Monday, we went to AT&T and I got myself the white Lumia 900 for $45 + upgrade.

I decided that having 200+ apps on my iPhone was too distracting and I needed something to limit myself. Yeah, well.

Setting up the phone was pretty okay. As I’ve advertised everywhere, I name my phones. My lumia 900 is named: Skeleton•Sunshine.

After using this device for almost a week, here are my positive thoughts:

• The white slick back phone looks a little better than the black matte. The buttons don’t rock (with sound) so much on the white phone being inclosed with the material.
• Love the bigger screen. I seriously LOVE the bigger screen.
• The way the boxes and rectangles move on the main screen is awesome and the basic flow of the apps when opened and closed.
• I can have a white screen and almost all icons are pink. I think that’s mostly why I like it.
• Things move on the main screen- like, live feeds / live weather and so on and for people (like me) who have adhd this is a great feature.
• Live weather updates on the main app tile / the “me” center where you can see all connected updates in one look / local scout (a faster way to see what’s around you) / threaded email / maps / Facebook / calendar allows for FB / etc events to show up on the days = cooler features or app changes, totally better than iPhone.

I’m sure that’s not all but I haven’t used it more than almost 5 days, so.

Here are my negative thoughts:

• Unfortunately, what I wanted wasn’t really want I wanted and what I wanted was… limit to apps or what I put on my phone. It’s kind of boring. A lot of boring.
• Some of the apps work very wrong.
• I hate the whole “people” thing. As soon as you put your accounts out there, it ties everyone into everything and puts EVERYONE in your contact list from EVERYWHERE.
• Nothing like iMessage (yeah, stupid live chat) but still.
• Did I mention very boring?
• They need to fully develop a few of the apps like eBay, G+ where it doesn’t make you sign in EVERY SINGLE TIME.
• I think I really hate having more than one button. Thanks, Apple.
• I need a better Twitter app and can’t seem to find one like the iPhone.
• I HATE NOT HAVING NOTIFICATIONS. MY PHONE IS SO DAMN LONELY WITHOUT THEM. I can hear Skeleton•Sunshine’s tears through the silence.

I guess I was just spoiled by the iPhone and their quantity of apps. I have only found half of the apps I had (which, I guess in reality is what I thought I wanted) and kind of miss having everything there. I still have Pluranus, my iPhone, and I use it daily as an alarm still and to keep updated on whatever apps I don’t have or playing that stupid butterfly bejeweled game that I lose sooo much time playing!

As far as being an Apple freak, yeah, I’m still an all-Apple person. I’m going to give this phone a real chance, as do like a few select things a whole lot… but after this, I really hope Apple makes a larger screen phone because I’m totally going back to Apple.

Overall, as the whole entirety of the phone is concerned, I like it about 70%. But this is me speaking – I went from a non-working BlackBerry four years ago to an iPhone for goodness sakes. I almost feel like a step back using this phone, but, I think that Apple should learn a few of the things I have stated in what I liked about this phone. (Such as, the movement on the screen or at least live apps. Faster turnaround of the apps moving when you open something, developed FB app & maps & adding the really cool fonts.) Apple is still better in several different ways.

Anyway, there’s my review. Oh and:

PS:

Dear Brothers of Technology,

Toast is what happens when you put bread in the toaster. Then, you spread butter on it. You can’t toast a phone or it will blow up, you can’t put butter on that toast because your phone will slip out of your hands and fall to the floor and break! Seriously. Name the screen something other than toast.

Love, Maybe jelly.