As I am thinking seriously about buying a Lumia 1020 I thought it would be an idea to get to know what WP8 is like, in case I hated it after paying a bomb for a 1020.
Then I saw a special price for a black one at NOK 999. Pretty good! So I ordered it and hopped over to MyTrendyPhone to pick up some coloured back covers and a spare battery.
It arrived last Saturday 17th August in a tiny box.. opened it up and immediately had finger trouble with the SIM card. Finally solved that and away it went :)
Must say the Tiles interface is quite intuitive, as is the flip to the side for the Apps drawer, one of which is Settings, which naturally got quite a bit of use on Sunday. Battery use seemed to be impressively low, until later.
I use Skydrive with my 808 Pureview, so I installed that. I use Dropbox everywhere, so I found BoxFiles for Dropbox and added that. Then I noticed a comment saying that not only did apps get installed to the Phone memory, but the App files remained there too, so it was best to use the SD card for that.
Thats when I discovered my Prime CON with the WP8 OS.. the Store only shows you SD card IF you have manually downloaded apps to your PC and dragged them across to the SD card root!!! What...
Hopefully Microsoft will resolve this in the very near future as there is an enormous number of unhappy users asking for this 'feature' ASAP.
So, I again downloaded the few apps I had already installed, deinstalled those, and after restarting the phone was able to see my manually added apps under SD in the Store window.. yes!
All was plain sailing from there on in, though I quickly learnt that adding too many apps as Tiles soon had the battery running down.
I like the phone. Readability is great. The camera is OK in daylight. Things are pretty easy to set up, Gmail works, and a Software Update to GDR2 is just around the corner...
So bring on the Lumia 1020 'camera' :)
Edit: There was a problem I forgot. After using the camera OK with the Black cover I swapped to the Red one, and when I had visitors, we discovered the Camera button did not function. All but the Red worked fine, but I must say, the covers do NOT meet Nokia Quality in my opinion. Perhaps its a Chinese issue, as all these parts are made there.
