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Why I don’t like WP Mango

Uncategorized January 10, 2012 Leave a comment

I have been waiting forever to lay my hands on the Nokia Lumia 800. Have been tracking WP Mango for a long time. Now as I have the phone for over a fortnight, I am loving it, but not quite.

The issue is, I love the OS for the Live Tiles and the People’s Hub. And this is where the problems begin. Live Tiles are awesome but developers are not really making use of the immense possibilities with it at this point in time.

Even Windows Phone isn’t, for that matter. Case in point”: If I get an sms the Messaging Live Tiles shows the number 1. If the People’s hub can show pics of my contacts in a 3×3 grid why can’t messaging? Why doesn’t it flip the picture of the person who has sent the sms? Same with calls.

Expecting app developers to make full use of this OS when the makers themselves aren’t. Worrisome.

Anyway, this is my opinion.

My second and last grudge with the OS is the absence of push notifications in the Me Tile.

Now, the idea of one stream of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is compromised because of absence of push notifications.

Why should I open the Me Tile swipe right for notifications and wait for the phone to tell me if there are any mentions on Twitter or on Facebook?

Now, to solve this issue, we have to rely on third party apps like Seesmic which gives push notifications for Twitter. This means, that if someone tweets to me specifically, the phone will alert me right then. If the Me Tile had this option push notifications, then the possibility of a third party app would have been greatly reduced.

Because it doesn’t do that, I have installed Seesmic which notifies me if there is a tweet mentioning me. With this, I have actually doubled my social networks on the phone.

The People’s Hub also has my entire stream and just for the notifications, I have Seesmic, which again gives me my Twitter Timeline.

And same goes with the Facebook app. It gives notifications hence downloaded.

So now, I have the Facebook app, the Twitter app (Seesmic) and the People’s Hub. The need for Facebook app and Twitter app would have been nullified (in my case) only if Microsoft had given push notifications in the Me Tile.

Why I hate Nokia all the more now.

Uncategorized January 10, 2012 Leave a comment

To begin with, I am fan of Nokia. My last Nokia phone was the 6600 and before that, 8250 and 3310. After 6600 I lost my love for the company. Not because it wasnt a great phone. I loved it. But, because of the policies that Nokia adopts to ridicule its customers.

With the Lumia series, I thought Nokia would have changed itself and won’t take the customer for a ride. It turns out, I was wrong. Again.

I have been waiting for the Lumia 800 since the day it was announced. Bunked office and went to book the phone the moment bookings opened. Tracked everyday when the phone is
launching and was the first one at the store to take the delivery.

nNow, Dear Nokia, the price of your Lumia 800, at Rs 29,999 ( $577) is pretty steep. And I come from using an iPhone4. Yet I decided to pay this money to buy this phone. Because I love Nokia and the WP OS truly is amazing.

And this is how you care for your customers?

Just a couple of months after launching the phone, you launch a bigger and better phone, the Lumia 900, in the US. Exclusively.

People talk about the brand loyalty and customer loyalty. I want to ask where the company loyalty towards its customers?

The early adopters of Nokia Lumia 800, the phone, you are supposedly betting your future on, are being treated as a second class citizens.

I dont really care about the dual core processor but a front facing camera and a better battery is missing on Lumia 800 yet people are paying through the neck.

Because its Nokia’s comeback phone and all the fans want to be a part of the success story.

And this is how Nokia responds to us. By launching a bigger and better phone exclusively in the US just 2-3 months after Lumia 800’s launch.

Nokia’s comments that the phone will be priced aggressively clearly shows that Lumia 800’s price will be slashed going forward.

Clearly, Nokia has no regards for its customers who believed in the company and waited to buy Lumia 800 and 710 for such high prices.

I feel stupid that I was so excited about the phone and spent a fortune to buy it when the company doesnt value its customer.