iPhone to Lumia

My notes from trying out a Lumia 1020 for 20 days instead of my iPhone 5C.

First Day

• Camera is, as expected, fantastic
• Battery life: Lumia > iPhone
• Lumia is MASSIVE, but feels nicer than the iPhone
• Yellow

Camera

• Low-light test & cropped (left Lumia, right iPhone):

• Lumia allows for shooting in RAW/DNG format, which is awesome (left auto-5MP from Lumia Camera, right photoshop-imported 35MP RAW):

Phone

• Solid signal/call quality
• Texting with the keyboard is excellent

Apps

Internet Explorer

• Pretty good, solid performance
• Excellent tab view
• Awful font rendering

Emails/Calendar/Alarms

• Lovely, simple interface
• Need a quicker archive option (emails)
• No alarm stopwatch?

Music

• Bit slow
• Can’t get it to default to playlists view when opening

Other Good Apps

• OneNote
• Facebook
• NextGen reader
• VGBA - yep, a GBA emulator - good luck finding that on the Apple Store
  • bonus: big screen makes it perfect in vertical mode (controls at bottom, gba size window at top)
• Authenticator
• Files (though file counts aren’t always perfect)

Other Poor/Average Apps

• Twitter
• Flipboard (no offline access, no flip)

Missing Apps

• Dropbox