Meanwhile, by happenstance I also found myself simultaneously the owner of a Nokia Lumia 635, which costs just $70, compared with around $250 for my discounted 5c, and $450 for a 5s from Apple.
And to my surprise, it’s the iPhone, not the Lumia, that I’m dumping.
The screen is much bigger. The phone is lighter. The keyboard works better for my fingers.
I can add all the memory I want through SD cards. The Windows Phone does absolutely everything I want, just as well as the iPhone or better — for a fraction of the cost. It also comes with Microsoft Office. And it will be updated to Windows Phone 10 later this year.
Oh, and it’s a minor point, but I don’t need to buy a special iPhone cable to charge it. The Nokia uses standard micro-USB. Apple must be the only phone company that still pulls that annoying proprietary-cable crap. Even Sony SNE, +0.28% has given in.
I appreciate that Apple fanatics are absolutely, er, fanatical.
And I reiterate that my experience is surely not typical. If you love your iPhone, good for you.
Maybe if I had spent $549 on an iPhone 6 (with 16 gigabytes of memory), I’d have been happier.
But that’s eight times as much as the phone in my hand now. And maybe the new iPhone 6s crushes every other high-end smartphone. But I didn’t want to spend $649.
Ein Praktiker, der sich nicht für dumm verkaufen lässt. Als Pelzig im ZDF von "von Apple instrumentalisierten Konsumidioten" sprach, war der WSJ Autor sicher nicht gemeint... :-)
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/...microsoft-phone-2015-10-08?page=2
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