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samcode7

Any recently-switch-user of windows phone to iphone?

I've been with windows phone since early days of WP 7.0 until now (8.1) but has been eyeing the iphone for the past months thinking to switch. My only apple products are ipod touch 2nd gen and imac 2009 (never used an iphone). So, i'm not really a heavy user of apple products. But i do know apple make good products.

For those who switch from WP, may I ask for some of your thoughts on these issues please.

  1. What are the things you miss from Windows phone experience?
  2. How does MS services in apple ecosystem treat you so far?
  3. How long does it take for you to finally settled with the iphone (and not thinking of going back)?

oo.. Should I wait for iphone 6 btw? When is it coming? Thank you very much for your time and response! Really appreciate it!

Posted Jul 13, 2014, 6:05 AM UTC

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[deleted]•

iPhone 6 is coming in September. Definitely wait.

Don't know about the rest, never used Windows Phone. Hopefully someone else can answer those questions for you. :)

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samcode7OP•

Thank you!

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swat_ldn•

I have used windows phone for probably 3 or 4 years now and bought an iPhone 5c last week.

To answer your questions in turn:

  1. Sad to say I can't see myself looking back, at least not until WP has some critical mass behind it. I miss the live tiles but the quality of the apps, performance and general usability more than outweighs that.

  2. The one drive app is great and email/contacts/calendar syncing all as smooth as pie.

  3. Less than a week

I guess waiting for an iphone 6 is quite subjective. Yes you'll get the best hardware and probably some cool new stuff... But I imagine there will be a hefty premium at launch there are great deals out there on the existing iPhones just now (in the uk at least)

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samcode7OP•

Thank you! Yes I would imagine the transition wouldn't be so bad as ios has all MS apps.

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digitalsinphony•

Only downfall is that the calendar app is complete garbage on the iphone.

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swat_ldn•

Not only that but one drive for example is better on iphone than WP. Go figure.

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