(+) Good display
(+) Fixed side buttons that can not be pushed so easily accidentally
(+) Total for easy operation
(+) Very good handling of Nokia Here cards. Entire countries can be downloaded and used offline.
(+) Pre-installed apps like Facebook could be removed
(+) Good Task Manager
(-) Wireless without WPS
(-) USB connection is not optimal. On one of my Windows 8.1 PCs as possible, on the other hand, the mobile phone will be recognized and displayed by the devices. But there are no drives in Explorer. The drives are not 1: 1 reflected. So you can see who are actually on the phone in the mobile phone Pictures folder only the images. An image program that reads the whole directory, but also finds images on the PC. The cell phone directory is thus mixed with a local directory.
(-) The Contacts app is usable against various statements on the Internet without MS account, a plus. With MS account but carried out a forced synchronization with this account. There is no way to turn this. Consequently, the contacts from Microsoft (and various, has become known lately organizations) can be tapped. In addition, a large, non-configurable and non-erasable I-tile in the contacts but is otherwise useless appears. Contacts export / import on the Dateiweg is also not possible.
(-) The store is available only with MS-Account. This also applies if you download apps from a PC and installed yourself. Even with free apps.
(-) App rights are visi- on the phone, nor configurable. This can affect the rights, I know both from the desktop Windows 8.1, as well as from older Windows Phone versions. A significant deterioration so.
(-) Back and again is in demand. For example, if an app requires locating. One then has two options: "Allow" and "Cancel". Often, the app works even when Cancel is pressed. Only sometimes then no installation. The "Cancel" but suggests in any case that it was not without it. An Impudence.
(-) Office: it is recognized only files from the Documents folder. And even where it is stored. No way to create a clear structure.
(-) OneNote: Forced sync on the MS account. There is no way to disable this or to use notebooks in the home network.
(-) Some apps - eg contacts - nerves with animations in the origin tile. These can be switched off only via the app itself when this provides. The contacts for example not see it before! Here the necessary configuration setting is missing from the operating system itself.
(-) No German umlauts in the keyboard! That's just embarrassing.
(-) Music from the Music folder does not appear in the folder structure that is there.
(-) There is no Explorer. But even with the MS-App 'files' is not able to access the drives on your local network. File sharing seems to be only via USB or the MS account.
(-) Every now and then does not respond individual areas of the touch panel. Seems to be a software problem. For example, you can alert the center back and not back up to scroll back.
Finally, a small comparison between Windows Desktop 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. MS has been known is a lot of trouble with the tile, the majority preferred just a start menu. But the argument was always that consistent service on all systems. Really?
- The desktop apps can close with a wipe from top to bottom. I thought that was immediately good because as you know the app is about. On Android, where you have only the back button, you can never be sure that an app is really about. Only: on Windows Phone also comes the back button is used - nothing with wiping.
- On the desktop opens a wipe down from the context menu. No trace of it on Windows Phone.
- The tiles can be arranged very difficult on the desktop because each gap is filled immediately. Even if you like the tiles, you get so out no reasonable start-up screen. On Windows Phone that works amazingly, much better.
Well, you could keep the smart phone because of the good Nokia Maps as a GPS replacement without personal information can be found. But after a few days it was said that the password of the newly created MS account has expired. You may change a browser application it first. Only ... that does not work, if you are not willing to pay a real phone number. And even if you are prepared, it will take effect after 30 days! So, no password change, no store access. And who knows what else stops working with expired password ?! And above all, how often is such a thing happen? Consequence: returned
Conclusion: Put, six, love Microsofties. If you want to be ahead of Google and Apple, then you do not run afterwards. And even bad. Go ahead! Power a phone that does not require MS Account and cloud and is very configurable. This can be easily integrated into the home network. And on which one must try out their own apps without Enwickler account. The cloud and the convenience that you have it, may be happy to be offered as an option. But of course encrypted! Moreover App rights must be configurable and indeed all! The risk that an app then things are not going weighs less than the safety benefits thereof. I know also Android phones are inherently not in all respects better: but they rooten and then configure - not the nicest way, but currently probably the only viable.
