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الثلاثاء، 11 يونيو 2013

Aaron Hockley

Posted: 11 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Nokia recently gave me a Nokia Lumia 928 Windows Phone after I helped them judge a mobile photo contest. Having been an iPhone user for a few years, and an Android user before that, I was curious to try out the Windows Phone experience.

My biggest objective will be to explore photography with the device, but at first I tried to set up the phone for some basic social networking and casual use. Here are my current issues and observations after a few hours with the phone:

There doesn’t seem to be a battery indicator anywhere while using the phone’s menu system (desktop, interface… whatever the main Windows Phone screen is called), but there is one on the lock screen.
Speaking of the lock screen, it has an icon that seems to indicate I have some sort of message (the icon looks like a speech bubble), but tapping that icon (or holding down for a long press on it) seems to do nothing.
I added my Twitter account via the settings, and it then took over 15 minutes (!!!) for it to finish saying that it was setting up my account.
Related to that last point, nearly everything on the phone feels slow. Even the “swipe up to unlock” movement is much slower than on the iPhone (or what I vaguely remember from the Android 2.x days).
I downloaded the official Twitter app and was dismayed that it requires I enable geolocation for my tweets in order to use the app, so I went back to Tweeting from the people card thingy.
After a bunch of Googling, I’m seeing a conclusion that there’s no way to sync Google Calendar w/ this phone? Yes? No?

I’ve been capturing some photos and intend to give it a good photo workout in the coming weeks. I’m going to hold off on writing about that until I can put a bunch of information together and will likely write about it over on Splat Photo. If anyone has Windows Phone tips/tricks/apps/suggestions, please do leave a comment. I’d like to see just how good it is.

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