Originally Posted by
AnalogMan
I have a Nexus 4 and two Nexus 7's, and I get to decide whether I want the updates or not. My Nexus 4 is still on 4.2.1 just in case I wanted to enable LTE
One of my Nexus 7 will not be upgraded because I really like the blue/gray WiFi icon vs. White in the latest version. Too bad I had to 'upgrade' one Nexus 7 to find out I don't like the new version.
I bought a Lumia 520 just to check out Windows Phone, and the availability of Apps is pretty poor. I certainly don't see everything I use regularly on it. But I do like Here Map, which is a main selling point of Lumia devices as far as I am concerned.
Leaving Android and not going to iOS is probably pretty hard. I have an iPod touch which gives me access to iOS App eco system. For example, the iOS version of Google Hangouts allows VoIP calls but the Android version does not....
Thanks for your report. I'm having a hard time getting used to the whole smartphone concept as it is implemented: my previous phone was a Motorola flip-phone (Razr V, I believe
). It is nice to have some computing power in my hands, but I'm not used to the always on, always (and fully) connected environment. I vastly prefer an on-demand system, where I'm not interrupted every few minutes with some notification or other, mostly irrelevant.
I'm used to fully customized computers (both hardware and software), so no love for the Apple approach here and no desire to enter their ecosystem.
My previous experience with Android was through an Asus TFT700 tablet (which was wi-fi only) so I had not encountered these "features" I really dislike until the battery of my old phone died.