I went back to iOS and the iPhone today.
Don't get me wrong, Lumia's are great phone, and the 710 is quite the seller. Relatively cheap, relatively new, sure you need more time to talk people through the use of the phone, but they get the hang of using it quite fast. The looks of the Lumia 800 gets people buying all the time, well, except for the 3 pink sets I still have. The keyboard of the 800 is on par with iPhone, in fact, if you were talking about the best soft keyboard, I'd say forget Android and get either iOS or Windows Phone.
The reason I switched back is because of little app niggles.
Sure, the app list is growing. But while some of the software providers are updating their software that you have bought, the big ones are lagging. Chief of them are Xbox Live branded games.
Take for example, the Angry Birds game.
The original Angry Birds game that I bought was at ver 1.6, Rovio has updated the game now to version 2.1, and I don't have to pay a cent more to get the update. I bought the same game when it first came out last year on my Mozart, and when I reinstalled the game on my lumia this week, guess what version it was on.
Yep. 1.6. No birthday cake for me. The kicker is the game itself is Xbox Live branded, suggesting a premier brand compared to the no name branded games floating around the markerplace. Heck, its in Space! But no birthday cake for you.
And still designers need to pay attention if you have devices with flush capacitive keys. Fruit ninja becomes fruit whoops I touched the windows key again and no matter what they tell you, if you have to show your splash screen that means you are loading the game again.
So who do I hang my hopes on? The only manufacturer with a chance to actually advance the platform forward is Nokia, everyone else pretty much hung everything on the Android OS already.
Oh, and no 3g videocall yet on Wp7 phones. Pretty much no one got a front facing camera anyway.
Indeed, I hear lots of people complaining about Angry Birds on WP lately and I can understand your feelings to the Marketplace, it's not pack with lots of apps and it's not comparable with the giants. Some apps do run slowly on WP as well which is the only complain I can make for WP.
Heck, I'd even switch to iPhone anytime but my love for the UI is totally on WP so I might as well get an iPad for myself.
At the end of the day, it depends on the users, see which one fits that person perfectly, I'm glad the iOS fits you.