After Years of Extensive Research, I Have Finally Concluded That a Nokia Lumia Phone Actually is Good for Something!
I used to work in the telecommunications field for several years, as a sales rep, and was lucky (up for interpretation in some cases) enough to get models from all the major smart phone manufacturers free from work to use.
I'm an Apple guy myself, I've mainly used an Apple phone since 2012 when I got the iPhone 5, and currently I'm using the SE model. The new, bigger models are way too clunky for me, but me and my SE are good friends.
I was able to find positives about Android phones, too. Not my cup of tea, but they have their upsides. I wouldn't blame you for going with Android. Be it Samsung, Huawei, Sony, LG, or whatever.
A phone model I never, ever, not once, ever, not for a second, evvver was able to figure out positives about was Nokia's Lumia line.
Now, being in Finland, of course the goddamn Lumia was what a lot of people were interested in buying once it came out. Also, my employer had a good deal going with Nokia, so pushing Lumia was something we were pressured to do, instead of, say, Apple. It was understandable, Nokia is a much better company to do business with. You can ask anyone who's had experience with it, and they'll say that Apple is a absolutely infuriating company to work with. You'll do things the Apple way, or they'll give you the middle finger, and they won't negotiate, about anything. Samsung and Sony were somewhere in between.
Aaanyway, what became an extremely easy way to trigger me at work was when a customer would ask me to sell them on a Lumia. And I don't mean sell them a Lumia, hey it's their loss, but to sell them on a Lumia.
I'm a pretty good salesman. Honestly.
In my field, I was recognized a few times as being among the top of the country in what I did.
So, it's safe to say I'm no slouch.
But.
I stayed awake at night coming up with good sales arguments for the fucking terrifying abominations that were the Nokia Lumia phones. I just couldn't!
Sure, the hardware is good on the top of the line models. Especially the Lumias that were mostly built in Finland, the hardware was very good.
However, the OS. The Windows Phone OS.
There's nothing you can do with that piece of shit that is not a fucking chore.
Want to send a text message? Good luck! You'll finish writing all the works of Shakespeare and coming up with a cure for cancer in the offtime after that, during the time it will take to finish a text message saying "Yeah true lol" with a Lumia.
Everything is clunky, it's hard to hit anything on the keyboard, things require multiple clicks, everything is unorganized, it's hell.
If it's true that hell does exist, and we all have our own personalized hell, I know for a fact that after I day I'm stuck searching for stuff on the Lumia's built in Bing search engine FOR ETERNITY.
And when I say eternity, I'm only searching for a single cheese cake recipe, but that's how long it will take!
So, yeah not a fan.
Today was the day, though! If I'm ever going to return to my previous field, I now have an argument for the use of Nokia Lumia!
It's unfortunate that this revelation came only after the fact that the Lumia line has been discontinued, and I no longer even work at my old job, but still!
Achievement unlocked.
It's fucking good for something, it really is. They should have told us this at the sales seminars.
Making the Nokia Lumia useful. #lifehack of the day.
I run a smartphone shop and whenever someone shows to fix up their lumia, it's a pain in the ass. Why do people buy these phones the camera is great and the specs but that OS you can't even get basic apps like fucking youtube. Thank god Nokia did a 180 and switched to android.
Don't mess with Nokia!
Sometime the phones that are a little less popular or a little less expensive end up actually being the really good ones or at least have a success story to be told. I remember before I got my first galaxy phone I was using an old nokia flip phone and it worked excellent for me.
Last friday I stopped using my last Lumia and switched to Android. Lumia was actually really good, but as the very little sofware support started to die out it was time to let it go.
This is not a joke. It'd be interesting to know what is the major difference what makes us see things so differently, as always when I have touched an iPhone, I've hated to use it. I've felt everything is made so stupid and people are talking about how easy, quick and fun it is to use. I've been playing around iPhones more than once or twice and every time I've hated iPhones more and more.
Lucky for me, Android seems good enough, even if lacks some things that WP could have been.
The pleasure you derived from using a Lumia phone has always been a mystery to me. You seem perfectly healthy and normal otherwise.
Maybe it's an engineer thing.
Conversely, I find iOS and Android clunky to use. In and out of apps, in and out of the home page, the whole whack-a-mole thing. It's probably something everyone's used to, but Windows Phone had a better vision - where it would collate all apps, people and content fluidly on the live start page, or the various hubs. It was simply a more elegant design that no one bothered to get used to.
You are a man stronger than me.
It has to be an engineer thing.
"Man, those boys at Apple are stupid as they don't have as many engineers as we have. They will lose in this competition so hard!", unknown source from Nokia when they started to produce Lumia phones.
I agree, Windows Phone was pretty good as an OS. The live tiles, the hubs, the pinnable tabs etc made it pretty much a far more efficient interface than Android or iOS, which were rudimentary "grid of icons". Barely different from the dumbphones of the 90s. The Windows UI was different to be sure, so there's a learning curve, but I feel it was far more elegant, and simpler to use. Obviously, iOS and Android copied the general cleaner, minimalist style later.
Too bad it was too late and hence didn't get any support from app developers. I had a Lumia a long time ago, I do recall it had the best camera on the market at the time. It was going well for a few months, but then I hit upon an app which was only on Android and iOS. I had to return it right then.
That said, Windows 10 now encompasses all form factors, so I can see a future once foldable displays and such hit the markets.
I don't find much of a difference between Android or iOS, personally, though I do prefer the freedom of Android - which is why I use it. iOS feels like a dictatorship, albeit a comfortable one.
All kidding aside, yes, the cameras were top of the line on the flagship models.
As I started with Windows Phone, I didn't have an actual learning curve, as it became the native approach for smartphones for me.
The camera and camera software (along with maps) were good a long time, but now they are ruined too, at least on those parts I want.
Haha congrats as I've never owned a Nokia nor plan on purchasing one at this point I don't think this achievement will every be unlocked for me and may one day become unobtainable as the Nokia Lumia becomes harder and harder to purchase.
Unrelated, but now I know why you knock over your coffee mugs so often, those Ikea mugs are more unstable than my mental health.
Yes...and it doesn't help that he balances that mug on a phone that's on top of a blanket.
And the coffee mug in this photo is next to a game controller and a TV remote. That @schattenjaeger never learns his lessons, does he?
Says @ats-david who's still invested in Steemit, despite all conventional wisdom pointing that it's a terrible idea. It was a terrible idea a year ago, and it's an even more terrible idea a year from now.
Some of us never learn, as you said. :)
Just you wait for hardfork 9000.
That may be true. But my laptop still works.
And I did buy some plane tickets, a camera, and a mountain getaway with my STEEMs. So it wasn't a total loss.
You are right though. We just happen to not learn different lessons in life. It might all balance out in the end.
i guess everything has a use
Lol great idea and funny. I am also victim of Lumia phone I bought it for my wife and it always created headache for me. It's always sick and after four operations recently died.
Now you just have to replace the Juhla Mokka with actual coffee.
I never drink Juhla Mokka, yuck. I have a more expensive taste.
Well, you might not be that bad after all.
Lumia, i really hated that phone. Android is my choice no minding d brand so far the battery is good. Right now i love my gionee M5 marathon series