[Windows Phone 7 General] kamenlitchev:
Hi, guys, here's a short story comparing my Android and Windows Phone life. I guess most of you have encountered few of the issues I've had. Place your issues in the comment. And make them fun

Just a note - I bought my Nokia Windows Phone because I thought I'd like it. And I do like it. But there are some things that are urgent to be fixed. Judge by yourself what they are.

Microsoft, guys, you need to understand that people want applications and the country being not changeable is a dead stop for their money (we cannot change the billing country of the Xbox account associated to the Live ID). You see - there are a lot of people with accounts that have been initially US - just because 5 years ago in the era of @hotmail there were no other countries.

### Android ###

- I get the phone.

- I create Google account.

- I mess with some settings.

- I download a bunch of apps.

- I add Bulgarian credit card without even being asked for my country.

- I pay for apps.

- I download Eclipse and start coding because I know Java.

- I upload my app and it gets downloaded. I'm happy.

- The phone starts lagging, has preinstalled apps that I do not want and lasts for two days. But, hey, I like it.

### Windows Phone ###

- I buy a phone (Lumia 800). It's waaay cool and has no bloatware.

- I try to login with my existing Hotmail account (because, hey, I've got it for ages). Oops, wrong APN - edited the one that the phone tried to use and logged in after half an hour of wondering what's wrong.

- Thanks God I can send MMSes (unlike some people that cannot set the MMS APN because such setting is missing).

- Say what? Issue with the battery. Hm, it actually lasts a little less than my Android handset. It will get better, though, after the first few charges - I know it.

- I mess with some settings.

- Okay, fine, there is no Bulgarian keyboard. I will bravely use Russion - it's with strange layout and only one letter is not present. I type the letter by having it constantly remembered in the clipboard.

- I then browse the market - poor in apps; some people cry that Adobe Reader is not available for Bulgaria. But I found it and downloaded it - strange.

- Hey, that's the Amazon Kindle app - I get it to read the newspaper that I have subscribed to. One wasted hour later I discover that Kindle for WP does not support periodicals. Anyway, I have a real Kindle reader.

- Grr, why does the player sound as a can on my $100 worth earbuds and does not have equalizer? Why does it blow my ears off after a ring? Oh, it's a bug.

- One sound level setting for everything? Okay, I will change from 5 to 25 each single time after listening to radio. And those player controls on the lock screen that never disappear... ah, they do disappear – there’s an app for that.

- That’s impossible – my two weeks old charger does not charge anymore. For 10 phones I have had so far that’s the first occasion of failed charger. Hope it will be the last.

- "Find my phone" is not working. The phone number that it lists is correct. Half an hour later I see that my Bulgarian number is listed but when I try to update it, the country code is missing. I guess there are no tracking SMSes to Bulgaria yet. Yes, after setting to push method it works.

- Hooray, there’s one personal budget app that I like – let’s buy it. Enter my credit card, checked. Enter my address… my US address? W Da F?! Country field cannot be changed. Never mind, I put some gibberish data and, of course, transaction fails. And I get SMS from my bank that the payment is authorized? What Da F?! Hour and a half later I get to billing.microsoft.com which states that refund is issued. And along the way I have understood that sometime in the past when only US existed I have registered Xbox account with US location and I CANNOT CHANGE IT. So, that’s why I see all apps and can buy none of them. Pity!

Of course, I was aware that there won’t be any apps – almost an year ago I tried to register in AppHub and develop for Windows Phone – I know some C#. But, hey, only privileged countries can publish. That’s why app number is so low.

I may have also registered Xbox account with US during the phone setup. Who knows.

What is known is that I will not abandon my mail - I use it often. And I will never buy apps - Microsoft doesn't want me to.