After 5 happy years as a iPhone user I'v just bought a windows phone! Nokia 820

Not heard anything bad about them.......would have got one but the prices were a bit on the high side when I changed

After 5 happy years as a iPhone user I'v just bought a windows phone! Nokia 820

Well, tell us all about it then Matt. :think:

Supposedly ok but might struggle to still be around in a few years.

My girlfriend has just done the exact same thing as you, her contract was up for renewal and she wanted a change so she got the Lumia 820 and she loves it.

A friends got a 920 and it's a really nice phone.

It's defiantly a step up from an iOS device IMO

The big issue is going to be support, as soon as the next windows mobile OS is released Microsoft will just as they have done with Windows Mobile, 6 , 6.5 and 7 they will drop support and some functionality will just stop working. So in 12 months time expect some things to stop working.

For some convoluted reason support for windows phone 8 is likely be stopped before the final version of 7 and support for both will end next year with no confirmation of what, if anything will follow. It is entirely possible that MS will drop their mobile OS next year.

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Yup, article I read yesterday says support ends in April 2014.

I'm sure the cunning folk at xda-developers will come up with something though.

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Yep, oddly support for 7.8 is said to be longer than that of 8, although I suspect all 8 devices will be offered an upgrade path, much like my 7 (via 7.5 and 7.8).

The phones seem good, just the slight lack of apps. That said, the only app I am really missing is one to remotely monitor my cctv at home.

I think 7 was more enterprise friendly hence the longer support. 8 was pure consumer. Unfortunately iOS and Android pretty much have the consumer market sewn up. Blackberry can hang onto the Governmental and high security market leaving Microsoft with not a lot. It's not a bad OS by all accounts just too late and a half arsed roll out by MS.

Surface is going to bomb for similar reasons. MS thought they could breeze in at the top of the market and takes sales from Apple. But they've cocked it up again. Surface RT is under powered and over priced next to the Android tabs, Surface pro is overpriced and under licensed. It doesn't matter that the Pro is a touchscreen laptop without a keyboard, if a director gets the offer of Surface pro or Apple they'll go Apple because it is still in boardroom fashion. The magnetic keyboard is nothing special but they think it is. Bluetooth keyboards for tabs have been around for ages.

MS are dropping *******s left right and centre at the moment.

Edited 20 March, 201313 yr by Aspman

My dad works for a worldwide computer company and they no longer support Blackberry or Windows phones for their business mobiles for email etc. They have Android or Apple to choose from. I was surprised as BB was/is the most secure I thought.

My dad works for a worldwide computer company and they no longer support Blackberry or Windows phones for their business mobiles for email etc. They have Android or Apple to choose from. I was surprised as BB was/is the most secure I thought.

Same with us, although the BB drop I think was down to costs for the enterprise server link.

BES costs a fortune. Some people are starting to do Cloud hosting of BES with all the regulatory compliance.

You can make iPhones secure with an MDM but most people won't like the phone they get back at the end of that process. And that's without all the privacy issues you get with BYOD.

Android is still the wild west. I'm more surprised no one has produced a secure Android fork of the main distro yet. Probably just because there are new versions every week it seems.

BB10 and BES10 actually could have the best of all worlds since it supports a partitioned device natively. So you can easily have a super secure work area and a personal area. Might well be too little too late for them.

Plus I've heard a rumor Lenovo might buy RIM. In that case you might find all the certifications get dropped since governments don't like Chinese controlled manufacturers.

you can tell I'v only had it a day, half a post by accident.

Each year I get the new iPhone and the mrs has my old one. This has worked fine until the last couple of phones (4 & 4s) which started playing up around the 18 month old mark. The Mrs 4s has started playing up and I couldn't really justify another £600 on a second iPhone 5 so had a look about and found 820's going for a little over £200. After having a play on a 920 I decided to take a punt on the slightly smaller 820. I'm no stranger to phone swapping, until I got my first iPhone (5 years ago) I would change mine every 6 months so as much as I liked my iPhone I was/am looking forward to trying something new.

So first impressions, OS is easy to use, quick, and makes the apple setup look a little dated. There is a lack of apps, but then everything I use is available so it's not a issue for me. As for the phone itself, it feels well made, its heavy but solid, which I always liked about the iPhones. The screen is fantastic, really bright and clear. I'll be honest, part of the attraction is the slightly gimmicky wireless charging and NFC for card payments etc but taking that away, I'm not disappointed with it so far.

I doubt I'll have the phone by the end of the year, let alone 2 years, providing apple bring out a decent iPhone I'll be back, if not then I'm not sure what to look at, a mate works for samsung, but I dont like the plastic cheap feel of them. I'll have to see nearer the time.

I've got a Nokia lumia 710 arm. Its ok but im upgrading soon. Its gotta be the lumia 920. The camera is said to be far superior to the other lumias. And it being that bit bigger it will be easier to play the windows games for gamerscore :-D

You gotta love the cheevs

I'm on my second win phone. Had a HTC HD7 and now got a Lumia 820.

Brilliant phones, easy to use OS, much cleaner looking than iOS and of course there's no Apple tax.

Also, win phone 8 has got built in bits for business accounts - we are currently testing the 820's for work to replace all the iphones as they are so much cheaper and much easier to use.

Apps aren't an issue - it's got most of the important ones, the games are much better and it means that the app store isn't populated with hundreds of fart generators!

I think 7 was more enterprise friendly hence the longer support. 8 was pure consumer.

Nah, it's more to do with the wording of their support cycles. Their support term reads something like "18 months from release or latest service pack". Since 7.8 was a service pack, the support date starts counting for 18 months from its date of release, which was after 8 came out. Since 8 has no service packs, and they've presumably stopped plans for them, that only gets 18 months from its own launch date. It's only 7.8 which will have the extra support, earlier releases of 7 will be dropped as normal. And then once 8 and 7.8 are off support, who knows what'll happen next cos of the rumours that MS are giving up on mobile again.

Didn't they, or analysts say win 8 or bust?

Nokia must be regretting choosing windows over android. Elsops days are numbered

Shame because the actual phone is very very nice

Underneath the phone components all come from the same suppliers. Samsung is one apples biggest suppliers. The fact that people have got android running on windows phones should say something.

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