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Apple Fanboy?s Love Letter On Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone

Microsoft?s Windows Phone website posted a letter sent to CEO Steve Ballmer from a Apple fanboy on his newly purchased Nokia Lumia 900 Windows Phone device. Read it below.

From: Scott G.

Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 1:50 PM

To: Steve Ballmer

Subject: Apple fanboy loves his Windows phone

Mr. Ballmer,

Hopefully this will get to you. Your team deserves credit for producing an excellent product in the newest version of Windows Phone. Yes, I am writing from my MacBook Pro. And I have been a fairly loyal Apple customer over the years. However, I recently bought a Nokia Lumia 900 and intend on keeping it. For full disclosure, I was sure to make sure it could be returned after a dismal experience with an Android phone.

My reasons for switching are:

• Call quality. I actually use my phone as a phone. That concept seems to get lost in many product reviews. One of my employees actually thanked me for getting rid of my iPhone as it was so much easier to hear me. I apologize for the tedium but it means a great deal to me and my business.
  
• Simplicity. My family owns five vehicles, including two Fords with Sync. The 4S didn?t support all functions in any of them. My Nokia 900 was flawless out of the box. It was refreshing to have something that just worked. I cannot afford to have my primary means of communication be a science experiment.
  
• No junk software. Speaking of science experiments, I also tried a Motorola Razr. Software that cannot be deleted and restarts itself? A company with questionable privacy rules. Software that terrified my poor in-laws? I guess if you like spending your day tinkering with your phone, it?s pretty cool. Maybe it beats playing with your Star Wars dolls?
  
• Simplicity again. Everything after set up has been painless as well. Adding apps, setting up email accounts, etc. I thought the iPhone was good. Your set up was actually smoother and took less time. Same for Wi-Fi, in-car Bluetooth, etc.
  
• Speed. The 900 doesn?t seem to lag the way the iPhone did at times. Everything seems to execute quickly. That I don?t think about it is probably the best compliment.
  
• Live Tiles. It?s a minor thing but the Metro tiles are pretty cool. I just like the look.
  

Best regards,

Scott G.

Source: WMPoweruser

Link: The love letter on the Microsoft website

[Japlabot]

Pretty accurate except:

A company with questionable privacy rules.... No their privacy rules are clear, you are just one of those who believe about the Google conspiracies :alien:

Software that terrified my poor in-laws?.... How can Google software terrify anyone? :blink:

[neo1911]

Hope this one is not a random publicity stunt.

If not then its actually cool!

[Praetor]

must say that, unless you got an high end Android device, the experience is gonna be flawed (sometimes lagging, locking, slowing). And that's the biggest problem with Android.

[tsupersonic]

Last time I checked, call quality is not a feature of the OS. After reading that, I can't take the rest of the points seriously.

[greenwizard88]

Last time I checked, call quality is not a feature of the OS. After reading that, I can't take the rest of the points seriously.

call quality of a feature of a phone, which runs an OS. He's comparing phones, not OS's, so both OS features as well as hardware are fair game.

+1 for reading comprehension.

[tsupersonic]

call quality of a feature of a phone, which runs an OS. He's comparing phones, not OS's, so both OS features as well as hardware are fair game.

+1 for reading comprehension.

Yes, they compared it to the iPhone, which is perfectly fine. But, he's loving Windows Phone (article title), so the rest of the points are directed at software, and this one point is not software related whatsoever. Each device will have different call quality, even amongst Windows phones. That's how I comprehended it.

[Vice]

I'm surprised he would comment on the call quality as my iPhone 4S is crystal clear for both sides of the call in my experience.

[BajiRav]

Software that terrified my poor in-laws?.... How can Google software terrify anyone? :blink:

Android UI can be and in my experience is very confusing for novice users.

I'm surprised he would comment on the call quality as my iPhone 4S is crystal clear for both sides of the call in my experience.

I guess that's the key.

Yes, they compared it to the iPhone, which is perfectly fine. But, he's loving Windows Phone (article title), so the rest of the points are directed at software, and this one point is not software related whatsoever. Each device will have different call quality, even amongst Windows phones. That's how I comprehended it.

Well :/ Lumia 900 is a Windows Phone. If you really want to be pedantic, the OS is Windows Phone 7.5 not Windows Phone.

[Vice]

I guess that's the key.

Yeah but this would mean his phone is broken. Obviously.

[George P Global Moderator]

I think for years AT&T got most of the flack of poor call quality but it's just as much the iPhones fault. Maybe Apple fixed it in the 4s but regardless I've heard people say they've experienced a jump in call quality after moving off of their iPhones while still on AT&T.

[Japlabot]

Android UI can be and in my experience is very confusing for novice users.

Confusing or Terrifying? Terrifying seems a bit of a strong word here. It sounds like the very appearance of the UI sends them trembling in their boots in fear that it's going to jump out an attack them.

[Dashel]

It does work great with Sync.

[Denis W. Veteran]

Don't see what merits this story to be exceptional or why it merits coverage in this way.

A written experience of a person who was primarily in the Apple ecosystem should not differ in weight over say a person with their hands in all three ecosystems (Apple's, Microsoft's, Google's).

Regarding call quality: coming from a feature phone, call quality was almost the same after moving to an iPhone. Rogers's network isn't amazing by any shot :p

[Rudy]

I would bet money that it's just a lame publicity stunt :/

[.Neo]

Apple in respond should post the tens of millions of positive experiences Windows users have with their iPod, iPhone and iPad. :laugh:

That said my contract ends next month, I'll probably be getting a Nokia Lumia 900.

[BajiRav]

I think for years AT&T got most of the flack of poor call quality but it's just as much the iPhones fault. Maybe Apple fixed it in the 4s but regardless I've heard people say they've experienced a jump in call quality after moving off of their iPhones while still on AT&T.

Well I never had call quality problems with my iPhone 3G on AT&T but I did have a lot of random call drops that have disappeared after I stopped using iPhone. Never had problems before (SE w810i) or after (Samsung Focus) in the same locations home/work, downtown Boston and surrounding areas etc..

[Stokkolm]

Well I never had call quality problems with my iPhone 3G on AT&T but I did have a lot of random call drops that have disappeared after I stopped using iPhone. Never had problems before (SE w810i) or after (Samsung Focus) in the same locations home/work, downtown Boston and surrounding areas etc..

Same here, although I'm still on an iPhone. I had dropped calls all the time on my 3GS. I have a 4S now, but I can't test it until I return to America. The biggest thing for me with the iPhone is the amount of storage you can get. I love having 64GB built in!

[jakem1]

I'm surprised he would comment on the call quality as my iPhone 4S is crystal clear for both sides of the call in my experience.

Two of the guys I work with have iPhones and they're both really hard to hear. I laughed when I read the letter because I often ask them to upgrade to a better phone because of this. Whenever I complain they say that everyone they speak to says the same thing.

[jakem1]

Pretty accurate except:

A company with questionable privacy rules.... No their privacy rules are clear, you are just one of those who believe about the Google conspiracies :alien:

Software that terrified my poor in-laws?.... How can Google software terrify anyone? :blink:

Google's rules may well be clear but they're still questionable. When a company's privacy rules tell you that they'll use your data and personal files for anything they want to I think that's questionable.

must say that, unless you got an high end Android device, the experience is gonna be flawed (sometimes lagging, locking, slowing). And that's the biggest problem with Android.

It would be nice if that were true but Android's lagginess isn't restricted to cheaper phones. Even superphones like the One X suffer from the problem.

[majortom1981]

I think for years AT&T got most of the flack of poor call quality but it's just as much the iPhones fault. Maybe Apple fixed it in the 4s but regardless I've heard people say they've experienced a jump in call quality after moving off of their iPhones while still on AT&T.

I noticed that iphones are hrrible when moving from wifi to 3g and back and from tower to tower. a lot of times i have to end up turning airplane mode on then off again. I have had an iphone 3gs, iphone 4 and now the 4s . All of them do the same thing. My call quality is horrible because of it. I am pretty sure its a software thing and not a hardware thing.

[Dashel]

iPhones are still terrible tower hopping from my experience and yes, call volume is generally on the low side. If anything WP is a little on the loud side.

[Manish]

Don't see what merits this story to be exceptional or why it merits coverage in this way.

Exactly. I must be missing something too.

Having said that, I do feel that the call quality on the iPhone could be better. Though it might just be O2 UK's fault.

[.Neo]

I kinda wonder what the Lumia 900 screen is like, since the resolution seems pretty low for such a large screen.

[Dashel]

Its the same as the Focus S, its a great display and resolution is more than adequate (217ppi).