lumia – Enavigo

I have a debt to reality that I am very late to pay back.

I kept my Lumia 1020.

Why? Because it’s love. And when you love a device – you accept its flaws. And the camera over-compensates for many things.

So its email capability, battery life and overall lack of novelty apps suck. But it is just a piece of hardware that you love and enjoy. I will not go at length into everything I love about it, but it’s just different enough, fun enough and great enough in some things that I kept it.

And while I am still out to find a car charger that can charge it faster than it discharges its battery while using the GPS and Bluetooth, while the camera is not fast, and while many things drive me mad – I love it. That’s all. So there. If you used it for a couple of weeks, you too will find it difficult to return.

Debt paid.

Nokia Lumia 1020: First week’s impressions of Windows Phone

CN Tower at night — The CN Tower in Toronto, shot at night without flash on Nokia Lumia 1020

It has now been a week since I got the Nokia Lumia 1020.
The phone feels great in your hand.
The photos are very good.
You do feel like you live on an island.

Windows Phone is still a novelty.

I love the flat design and once you get its implementation of panels, its interface seems more fluid than iOS’ dependency on tabs. The user interface’s fit and finish are polished and smooth, nothing like the noisy bumpy experience on Android.

I am what I believe is an enterprise user.
I need impeccable email and calendar experience, as close as you would get in Outlook (however frustrating it is sometimes). Windows Phone is not there. It is smooth, but close (see gripes below). Microsoft can and should improve on this, but who do you talk to in order to ask?

Presently, with a week left for me to return the phone, I am swaying between keeping it and getting the new iPhone 5s. Below are some of the impressions I gathered over the last week.