not going to buy and not going to recommend too currently. most people nowadays need at least whatsapp and facebook, until MS get this right it'll be hard to live with WP unless you are not heavy user.

sorry bro, i use android 4.4.4 on moto x (1st gen) while my wife and father use WP8.1 on L925 stock and L920 dev unlock respectively.

whatsapp always delay notification...and i mean it, always.

facebook slow update feature wise. no stickers yet, no option to approve tag/timeline review within app, some page just doesn't show content etc2.
most of the time my wife just use mobile fb on browser since it's more reliable than the official app.


yes, I do make sure the apps on their phone receive latest update whenever available. after all, I'm the one encourage them to try WP and I do keep track of WP progress despite leaving the platform personally few months ago.

Battery saver set to trigger at 20% and no fancy stuff running in background. Maybe I need to elaborate a bit on whatsapp notification. By 'always' I mean every time there's a latest update the app work fine for a while but the problem happen again some time and until now it still happen once in a while. Maybe because you are on group the app activates most of the time so the process always remain in background. In my wife case, she's mostly on WeChat and sometimes (still, few times in a day) on whatsapp.

troll?

Don't get me wrong.

I have owned/used/tested several WP devices, ranging from WP7 Mozart to Wp8.1 Cyan 1520 in these past 2 years.


If I don't like WP I won't use it past my first L800 but then I did upgraded several times and recommended it to my friends and family. Aside from notification issue that I experienced with Whatsapp, the fact remain that major apps experience still lacking behind and in my case the priority is on Facebook.
To make it worse, with release of WP8.1 the very smooth and fast experience that has been major selling point for WP in the past are now no longer the case here. Yes, they are still smooth but from my experience comparing side by side quad core snapdragon 800 Lumia 1520 to dual core s4 pro Moto X, I don't find 1520 to be much smoother and faster despite rocking much superior hardware inside.

same here, I still prefer the experience on wp7.8 and 8 since most of the features are built in so most of the time it's a trade off between lacking features and responsiveness; I choose responsiveness every time and can forgive the lack of features.

because it's the only Lumia flagship available aside from the huuuuge 1520. besides 930 has comparable internal to flagship android phone while back with 920 the specs only comparable to mid range phone that cost about Rm1k-1.2k.