Noted with thanks. It's not causing me any problems. I've been testing this handset for just over two weeks. First two days it froze once each day. Since then, totally stable. Most of the issues I have with wp8 are just inconveniences like missing shortcuts in the menus.

I used the battery saver and set display brightness to low (it's still bright enough). With that the battery seems good to me.

Nokia wins with a great piece of hardware. Microsoft is still on trial with an unfinished os in need of many improvements.

Really annoying things include:

cannot off the auto rotate

cannot save, edit or delete sim contacts

cannot share a file via Bluetooth without switching Bluetooth on before going to the file

on-screen menu button very poor design choice, fouls the screen content

dunno how to exit music player - hit the volume control shows last song paused

auto hide of battery, signal, WiFi, Bluetooth icons

clock hidden when using browser

Things that impressed me include :

solid, compact and good quality build

great display

good touch sensitivity

very loud - useful for alarm

can take screenshot even of the lock screen

Nokia maps

GPS very fast one

smooth and stable with slowness hidden by screen activity

This post has been edited by dgboy: Feb 20 2013, 12:42 AM

Battery+ is a cute app - you can have the battery % and remaining time in a live tile, the limitation is it will auto update at 30 mins interval.

This post has been edited by dgboy: Feb 20 2013, 01:13 AM

my gf is the only app i need

[quote=Ah hao]
This is so ridiculous.

>> Agreed. And how do we search music other than scrolling down the whole list? I can't find any search option. The only menu item is Add to Now Playing.

Once you ve got over the excitement of the tiles, wp8 is kinda all downhill after that.

This post has been edited by dgboy: Feb 21 2013, 11:02 PM

First week I was very tempted to sell mine. Now three weeks gone and I still got it. The phone is quite jeckyll and hide. Plenty of good but some seriously irritating things too. Luckily the bad one are all software issues and hopefully future updates will solved it.

This post has been edited by dgboy: Feb 21 2013, 08:31 PM

This Lumia is the best alarm clock I ever had. It's so loud and it doesn't seem to stop ringing if you just ignores it. I haven't been late for work since I got this handset.

I'm using "alarm 5" which seems to be one of the louder ringtones, but I also take care that the loudspeaker is not covered up (which makes a big difference to the volume level).

that bad huh?

i don't know for me really downhill or not

perhaps more a journey of discovery

mostly discovering new insects and other horrors


This post has been edited by dgboy: Feb 21 2013, 11:09 PM

I don't need perfection, yet I expect basic convenience to use out of the box.

We need to install app like Easy Connect or Toggle to easily on/off WiFi, Bluetooth, etc. Without these, the best can be done is pin Settings to the handtop.

This post has been edited by dgboy: Feb 22 2013, 07:03 AM

Then Nokia should recall that guy. I'm one of those old school boys that uses one finger. Sometimes did pinch with two to resize stuff in the browser. I had no problem at all. Yet I wonder if this is why the product launch in India has been so delayed?

RM100 seems about right to me. The cover is complex inside with the headset jack and all the button mechanisms.

This post has been edited by dgboy: Feb 23 2013, 09:42 AM

Ha, luckily I don't really do games. I tried some air traffic control game on my Samsung last time and crashed so many planes... I like fruit ninja too yet became scared my finger will get shorter with all that slicing...

This post has been edited by dgboy: Feb 23 2013, 12:47 AM

According to GSM Arena, the Lumia 720 will have a 2000 mAh battery. Makes our 620's battery look stingy.

Even Nokia announce today, they are slow to release models after that. At least, we can enjoy our 620 now. Some countries are still waiting for 620 even.

DG Engineering informed me this app and another one called Open Signal have no official status. And the information is far from accurate. Still, it's quite fun to play

Cannot be done apparently. But if saved in the Phone memory it can be opened from Office.

Apart from the call history under Phone, this handset has no communications log?

there is a few PDF Reader in the Store

recommended to use the one from Microsoft

I tried other brand and it was less good