Hi Guys, need some advice about this lumia 930 phone and windows 8.1 in general.

Here's my story:
I am an early adopter of windows 7.8 , lumia 800. My experience with this phone is a love & hate relationship. I like the phone's amazing built quality, love the screen, the windows user interface, they are just so cool and smooth. But later I faced with few frustration that forced me abandoned the system.

1. Really poor battery life, especially if using apps like facebook, & browsing. usually only last me 1-2 hours before the phone enter the power saving mode. The phone gets extremely hot.

2. No upgrade to windows 8. Despite being a new phone, and to find out there is no further upgrade after windows 7.8 really turns me off. Microsoft seem to ignore their fan, and it makes me worry about their future support for their consumer.

3. Very bad apps selection/unstable/unoptimized apps. I have to live without few of the most common apps. I'll say I am not really a power user, nor a hardcore gamers. But during the early days, there is no Instagram, no waze, no flipboard, no remote desktop apps, no gopro apps, even facebook apps are a crap to use.

4. Whatsapp- luckily there is whatsapp app available.. Unfortunately this is the reason that forced me to change the phone! My whatsapp notification always come in late/or never. The message will only be received when I open my whatsapp app (on the phone at homescreen wont work) I tried many many ways.. and I finally gave up. Maybe the early windows phone don't support multitasking...but this has make conversation in whatsapp useless.

5. Phone unable to boot if I let my phone battery dies completely. During the warranty period, I experienced this, and end up sending to service center, and they requires me to complete wipe up my phone. Luckily I do not any important data stored in my phone. 1-2 months later. I faced with the same problem again.. and this time I do not bother sending it to SC anymore because my warranty has expired and is too frustrating. I ended up buying a cheap android xiaomi phone, which I am currently still using.

Before using the lumia 800, i am using android phone. And I use ios too on my ipad mini. Therefore I play games purely on my ipad & pc. So at least i will say i have experience in all the 3 OS in general. But in my own preferences, I still like the windows interface the best... android and ios are a bit ...boring looking to me. There is no excitement when using these os compare to windows...I seriously missed those livetiles!

Anyway, after many years, I am thinking maybe is time for me to give windows another chance... but part of me still unsure. That's why I need some advice from you guys here. I have zero friends who has any idea of what windows phone is about... so the best way is to seek advice at forum here. Hope you guys can shed some light.

Has the above problems been solved or improved with the latest phone and updates? How is the battery on this device, and is whatsapp/facebook/spotify/ waze works flawlessly compare to IOS/android version? Will this device gets windows 10 update or it is stuck with windows 8.1 in future?

I am now considering getting either this phone or oneplus one. Sorry for the long post..

This post has been edited by clivengu: May 10 2015, 05:59 PM

Did you won this in the lucky draw? I thought malaysia dont have the gold version... I think it look sleek!

Lucky you.. I am still considering wanna jump back to windows phone... as I have no way to resurrect my lumia 800 until today...