Getting Rid of the 920 - Nokia Lumia 920

After six days with my new 920, I have decided to return it and get a HOX+.
Up until yesterday, I had been drifting towards getting rid of it. WP8 simply lacks a lot of basic functionality that I expect a handheld to have. Most of it is small stuff, any one thing I could live with. It really all boils down to a massive lack of customization, and no cross-access to apps. For instance, I can't call from the messaging app, I can't tweak the mixer from the music app, I can't get driving directions from the calendar, etc.. The phone does not display word document very well, the Word app is appallingly slow and has no scroll bar. Text wrapping is similar to iPhone (mostly non-existent). Any one of these (or two) I could live with, though they make me unhappy.
The final straw is battery life and the keyboard. I wrote a two paragraph email with it yesterday, and it was a painful experience. The landscape keyboard is absolutely horrible. The autocorrect is very slow, and often does not correct words. After two hours of writing emails and using the internet, then some light texting during the day, the phone died before 8:00pm. Yes, I have already deep cycled the battery because I noticed poor battery right away.
To any of you coming from Android or Blackberry that use the phone for more than very basic texting, checking email, and very limited calendar, I suggest not making the switch.

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peace out
Ive often wondered why people announce they are leaving a device. What do you expect us to say....lol

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I don't understand the people that prefer the HOX keyboard. That was my previous daily driver and you couldn't pay me enough to go back... It's just so unintuitive

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TOA Duck said:
peace out
Ive often wondered why people announce they are leaving a device. What do you expect us to say....lol
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I would expect it's more information for people deciding on whether they want to move to the 920 from Android. Can't complain about having too much information.
Poecifer said:
I don't understand the people that prefer the HOX keyboard. That was my previous daily driver and you couldn't pay me enough to go back... It's just so unintuitive
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Well, I think the point is that if you don't like the HOX keyboard there are plenty of other choices on Android (Swype/Swiftkey etc.).

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i am gonna buy a new phone soon....i finally decided to go for either ATIV S or Lumia 920??? by this post i guess i have only one option left...is it actually that horrible??

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misal6666 said:
i am gonna buy a new phone soon....i finally decided to go for either ATIV S or Lumia 920??? by this post i guess i have only one option left...is it actually that horrible??
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I don't think this is a complaint about the 920 per se. I think these are WinPhone 8 issues he is talking about and will be present with either the ATIV S or the 920.
BTW, the 920 is a great piece of hardware. I'm not sure of the OS, however, as there are many quirks to it. I'm going to try it for a week and see if it works for me. If not, I'll go back to my Motorola RAZR HD and Android.

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joshua43214 said:
After six days with my new 920, I have decided to return it and get a HOX+.
Up until yesterday, I had been drifting towards getting rid of it. WP8 simply lacks a lot of basic functionality that I expect a handheld to have. Most of it is small stuff, any one thing I could live with. It really all boils down to a massive lack of customization, and no cross-access to apps. For instance, I can't call from the messaging app, I can't tweak the mixer from the music app, I can't get driving directions from the calendar, etc.. The phone does not display word document very well, the Word app is appallingly slow and has no scroll bar. Text wrapping is similar to iPhone (mostly non-existent). Any one of these (or two) I could live with, though they make me unhappy.
The final straw is battery life and the keyboard. I wrote a two paragraph email with it yesterday, and it was a painful experience. The landscape keyboard is absolutely horrible. The autocorrect is very slow, and often does not correct words. After two hours of writing emails and using the internet, then some light texting during the day, the phone died before 8:00pm. Yes, I have already deep cycled the battery because I noticed poor battery right away.
To any of you coming from Android or Blackberry that use the phone for more than very basic texting, checking email, and very limited calendar, I suggest not making the switch.
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See-Ya, but I mostly disagree.
And Android or Blackberry or Apple people not stuck to 1 type of device, consider more facts and possibilities before listening.
My battery life has been awesome, pretty much on par with my Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note N7000. The device functions so much smoother though. Will it make it days on 1 charge? Nope, neither would any smartphone I have EVER owned. I charge my smartphones nightly. But it makes it through a day just fine, yesterday I pulled it off the wireless charger when I woke up at 5:30am, when I went to go to bed last night at 11pm I was still at 58%. I sent tons of texts, took some pictures, had an hour long phone call with my brother, etc...
If all you care about is customization or apps, then yes I whole-heartedly agree WP8 is not for you.
The WP8 market has MOST of the apps I care about, and it has just enough customization to make it a very pleasant user experience, it is not however a great hours on hours of endless entertainment device. What it is instead is an amazing PHONE, with great assistance from apps like Weather Channel, Facebook, ESPN Fantasy Football, ESPN, Skype, Slacker Radio, etc...
All in all I find WP8 to be a great compromise between the iPhone and an Android device. It is SUPER smooth, with some of the apps, and some of the customization (just some, not nearly as much of either). There are little things here or there that would be nice
However I can point the same flaws at both iOS and Android. Android has uber customization, but a serious lack of any quality applications (yes there are some, but not many. Games for example, there are about 3-4 good ones, maybe).
iOS has TONS of awesome and quality applications and games, but pretty much 0 customization.

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That's interesting, I haven't had any of those problems... shrugs, oh well... to each his own, but word works wonders for me, I have written long emails without a hitch.. (portrait mode gives me more than enough space on the 920), I can call someone I'm texting by tapping their name, and if I want to jump into a recent app I just hold the back button, doing everything on this phone is amazingly simple, I've never experience lag and I regularly get more than 24 hrs from the battery.. and in response to no customization, I have seen at least 20-30 different start screens and ALL of them have been totally different from the others... Sorry you didn't have a better experience, good riddance!!

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Coming from Android, the three things I find weak with this OS are:
1. Notifications
2. Keyboard (the fact that you can't get a Swype style one)
3. Calendar (I cannot sync multiple calendars from one Google account - it only syncs the default).
I figure I can't do anything about #1 until MS adds it and for #2, I'll just need to get used to it.
Do you have any suggestions for an alternate calendar app that would sync multiple calendars from my Google account?

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rajeshr said:
Coming from Android, the three things I find weak with this OS are:
1. Notifications
2. Keyboard (the fact that you can't get a Swype style one)
3. Calendar (I cannot sync multiple calendars from one Google account - it only syncs the default).
I figure I can't do anything about #1 until MS adds it and for #2, I'll just need to get used to it.
Do you have any suggestions for an alternate calendar app that would sync multiple calendars from my Google account?
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i dont use a google account, but i remember reading this workaround:
http://wonderreader.tumblr.com/post/7360213627/multiple-google-calendars-windows-phone
let us know if it works

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Eh, when I have android I feel like the user needs to be smart for the phone to do anything. When I have WP7 I feel like I have a smart phone.

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revrak said:
i dont use a google account, but i remember reading this workaround:
http://wonderreader.tumblr.com/post/7360213627/multiple-google-calendars-windows-phone
let us know if it works
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Thanks a ton! It worked perfectly!!! That is exactly what I was looking for! :good:

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joshua43214 said:
After six days with my new 920, I have decided to return it and get a HOX+.
Up until yesterday, I had been drifting towards getting rid of it. WP8 simply lacks a lot of basic functionality that I expect a handheld to have. Most of it is small stuff, any one thing I could live with. It really all boils down to a massive lack of customization, and no cross-access to apps. For instance, I can't call from the messaging app, I can't tweak the mixer from the music app, I can't get driving directions from the calendar, etc.. The phone does not display word document very well, the Word app is appallingly slow and has no scroll bar. Text wrapping is similar to iPhone (mostly non-existent). Any one of these (or two) I could live with, though they make me unhappy.
The final straw is battery life and the keyboard. I wrote a two paragraph email with it yesterday, and it was a painful experience. The landscape keyboard is absolutely horrible. The autocorrect is very slow, and often does not correct words. After two hours of writing emails and using the internet, then some light texting during the day, the phone died before 8:00pm. Yes, I have already deep cycled the battery because I noticed poor battery right away.
To any of you coming from Android or Blackberry that use the phone for more than very basic texting, checking email, and very limited calendar, I suggest not making the switch.
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From the messaging app just click on the persons name and it will take you to a list to call, text, email, etc.
Office has been nothing but awesome for me so. Also to help your battery you should block Nokia Drive+ beta from running as a background task. After doing this the phone will last much longer battery wise.
The WP keyboard is not like andriod or iOS it will not simply replace words with suggestions, you have to hit the correction from the jump list. In my opinion this is the best way because it stops you from typing accidental things to important people like co workers or your boss.

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revrak said:
i dont use a google account, but i remember reading this workaround:
http://wonderreader.tumblr.com/post/7360213627/multiple-google-calendars-windows-phone
let us know if it works
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yes, this does work.
joshua43214 said:
After six days with my new 920, I have decided to return it and get a HOX+.
Up until yesterday, I had been drifting towards getting rid of it. WP8 simply lacks a lot of basic functionality that I expect a handheld to have. Most of it is small stuff, any one thing I could live with. It really all boils down to a massive lack of customization, and no cross-access to apps. For instance, I can't call from the messaging app, I can't tweak the mixer from the music app, I can't get driving directions from the calendar, etc.. The phone does not display word document very well, the Word app is appallingly slow and has no scroll bar. Text wrapping is similar to iPhone (mostly non-existent). Any one of these (or two) I could live with, though they make me unhappy.
The final straw is battery life and the keyboard. I wrote a two paragraph email with it yesterday, and it was a painful experience. The landscape keyboard is absolutely horrible. The autocorrect is very slow, and often does not correct words. After two hours of writing emails and using the internet, then some light texting during the day, the phone died before 8:00pm. Yes, I have already deep cycled the battery because I noticed poor battery right away.
To any of you coming from Android or Blackberry that use the phone for more than very basic texting, checking email, and very limited calendar, I suggest not making the switch.
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1. if you click the name of the person in the text app, it will open the card and allow you to call them.
2. if addresses are formatted correctly clicking on them will open the map and allow you to navigate
keyboard is personal preference. personally i find wp's keyboard to be the best out there, the standard HTC keyboard is a pile of ****, however the stock android keyboard on 4.x and above is pretty decent.
i get 10-12 hours of battery pretty consistently, i have read that google accounts could be the culprit as sometimes they get stuck constantly syncing for some reason. a reset fixes the issue for now.

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Screen on time is terrible with this thing. Camera also isn't as great as they said they would be. Just like the 900 was supposed to be an "amazing camera". Fool me once... Etc etc.
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Well I'm a fan of smartphones in general. Love to screw up Android phones, iPhones and Windows phones. In that respect, no complaints about any of them
Thing I like about the Windows Phone is it's interface. Very well designed. I notice that in general I get my things done just a tad easier and with a little less hassle. Also like the way you can customize the home screen. Not a desktop that get cluttered, no matter how well you organize things, but a set of tiles that keep the home screen clean and pleasant to look at. No matter how many tiles you throw at the home screen, it stays clean and usable. Consistency of the apps is also great.

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I so wanted to buy the 920, but disappointed by the shenanigans, and bad timing around this phone decided to buy something else.
I loved the simplicity of my wife's 800, but one of the things that really bugged me which I hoped would be solved in the 920 was the lack of word wrap. Seems small I know but it's a detail that without it can irritate me to distraction and spoil the overall experience.
I'm relieved I didn't go with the 920 but will be watching to see if these irritations can be ironed out in the future.

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Tuffcheez said:
I so wanted to buy the 920, but disappointed by the shenanigans, and bad timing around this phone decided to buy something else.
I loved the simplicity of my wife's 800, but one of the things that really bugged me which I hoped would be solved in the 920 was the lack of word wrap. Seems small I know but it's a detail that without it can irritate me to distraction and spoil the overall experience.
I'm relieved I didn't go with the 920 but will be watching to see if these irritations can be ironed out in the future.
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You mean the lack of word wrap in the browser?

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appelflap said:
You mean the lack of word wrap in the browser?
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Yes, having to scroll left and right and down is not fun.

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Tuffcheez said:
Yes, having to scroll left and right and down is not fun.
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Agreed. Something for developers to pick up.