Earlier this week Microsoft decided to promote a “DroidRage” hash tag for people to complain about their Droid.
Earlier this week I got a Windows Phone 8. Never before have I seen such a huge step backwards.
In Windows Phone 7 I had software I hated in Zune, but it at least did the minimum. Made it possible to manage playlist, made it possible to subscribe to podcast not in the Market Place, and gave you control over what syncs to your phone without having to do it manually. If I rated songs as a broken heart, my Zune software would not sync it with my phone.
What do I get with Windows Phone 8? I was expecting the Windows 8 desktop OS to work great with my Windows Phone 8, boy was I wrong.
There is a Market Place application which is worthless and there is a “Preview” application that just gives me nothing more than what I see when I navigate to the phone via the Windows explorer.
Now to be honest, that was enough to frustrate me greatly.. but I just keep noticing things I don’t have on my phone.
In WP7 I had an FM radio, great when I wanted to just listen to the radio and not use my precious data. Or if I was at a gym and wanted to listen to one of their TV’s synced to an FM station. Guess what is missing from my phone, even though the hardware apparently supports a FM Radio.
Today I was going to my son’s basketball game. I decided to open up the map software to use the built in turn by turn directions. Only to find out that to use this I have to use the VZ Navigator, which is a monthly bill add on from Verizon.
If Windows Phone had even 20% of the market saturation of the iPhone there would have been whole teams fired for what they have done to this phone.
The updates to this phone in the future better fix this, or I’ll not be buying another Windows Phone again and when a company starts losing fan boys like me it does not bode will for a usable product. I couldn’t, in good conscience recommend Windows Phone 8 to anybody today.