Throughout my experience with smartphones, the experience has largely been the same through their lifetime. This is with Android devices and with trying IOS devices. This is my first Windows Phone. Well with each one, in the beginning honeymoon period, I would try everything I could. I would download an excess amount of apps trying to see how I can make the phone more interesting. Then I go around trying the camera. Then progressively it just becomes a weather, e-mail, social networks, and most importantly a telephone and texting device. This happens every-time. I look at new phones and think how much more powerful they are getting and then soon after I realize that not much has changed and I'm not even stressing the hardware with my usage. I try to watch videos from Hulu, Crunchyroll, Netflix, or Youtube and each time I realize that I don't like watching videos on such a small screen. I would rather on a tablet. So this review is mainly in the opinion of using as just a phone with a good calendar and email app.
The performance is great. It is incredibly snappy and consistent. I haven't had a single crash in the two months having this thing. Things run fast and there really isn't any frustration at all with this phone. It is really straight forward in everything. People will caution you on the 512mb of RAM but that is only a real problem with the best looking games. Everything else is fine. Gaming on a phone isn't even that great of an experience. I always ended up on any phone trying the nicest looking games and then defaulting back to puzzle games, tetris, word search, sudoku, and bejewled. Battery life is the best thing about this thing. I'm not a heavy user. I can get through a couple days without needing to recharge. I use this thing mainly for email, communication, news, and to monitor my Fidelity account with their app. This is the most pleased I've been with a smartphone in terms of battery life since the days of regular tank Nokia phones. The screen is very nice and even though the resolution is sub-720p, everything looks crisp and vibrant. The camera takes very detailed photos in comparison to most other smartphones especially in this price range. My main motivation for buying this phone was for the camera and battery life. This phone excels in both of these.
It's a gorgeous phone. The design looks amazing in person. The thing feels solid and built tough. I put it in a case just out of paranoia but it probably isn't necessary. the screen so far hasn't been scratched so that I could notice in my pockets. I haven't dropped it once. I was able to put in a 64GB SDXC card and it worked immediately after formatting. It does very well as a music player. It pretty much doesn't eat at the battery much at all. To manage the music I use Window Media Player; the sync app is atrocious. Nokia has a pretty nice equalizer and it supports Dolby headphone. This thing can drive an AKG Q701 pretty well at about 50% max volume. My desktop needs amping with those headphones but this phone does real well with them.
This phone is a great deal. Look around and find it for less than $350. Unless you require the customization of Android, this phone will be more than sufficient. Unless you want to play the most graphics intensive games available, this phone will suffice. Just think how you use your phone before buying one of the $600 top of the line phones. If your just using it for communication phone, text, facebook, email or news and finance apps, this phone will please you. It has a great camera, comparable to the high end phones and the battery life will get most people though the day without reacquiring a recharge. You can use it to watch movies/tv but I don't like watching on such a small screen. I love this phone. I only worry about Microsoft being slow to update things. Nokia though churns out great applications and features. If you're buying a Windows Phone, right now Nokia has the best support for their devices.
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