[Windows Phone 8 General] Venekor:
4G is completely useless in the UK, it'll cost more and will have a small data cap like 2GB, so you'll just hit it faster if you even have it in your area. So for me I'll stick with Three and their unlimited data + free tethering and they're the only Network where your bills are what they should be and their customer service is the best I've experienced. I know they're based in India but they just sent me a new phone and collected my old one no questions asked because it had a dead pixel and they annoy me. However other Networks they wanted it so I was phoneless and wouldn't exchange it, every phone I get seems to have dead pixels in the first one.

So for me I'll ignore 4G and it isn't in my town anyways.

Wireless charging isn't anything new, Samsung showed it off on the GS3 where you jsut replace the back cover and put it on a pad. This is no different to the Lumia 920 as it added no size to the phone and you still had to go out and buy it. The Lumia 920 doesn't come with wireless charging, you have to buy the pad. Anyways wireless charging has always been slower so you end up never using it anyways, there is a reason why it hasn't caught on in the past and it'll be no different, especially as it doesn't come with it.

So for me I don't care about that.

The specs are mediocre, you can try make excuses all you want but they're nothing to get excited about. The only reason Android uses more ram is due to it having true multi-tasking which IOS doesn't have and I'm pretty sure Windows Phone uses the same trick as IOS or limits it. I bet Windows Phone uses the same amount of ram on idle as Android, my GS2 uses 200mb on idle using a custom rom and it never uses above 600mb even with multi-tasking. I bet Windows Phone is no better than this and raw CPU and GPU speed is important, Android doesn't use it when it doesn't need it, it's not some drain. I got the same battery like outta my GS2 as i did my old iPhone 4 and yet Android being a battery hog was always the argument, the difference is you can change your battery if you really want to with many Android phones but you cannot with Lumia.

I expect a Quad Core + 2GB of ram + a good GPU.... I don't care if apps are optimized, why buy dated hardware? The new LG Optimus G has the same CPU but with 4 cores and 2GB of ram, it should be up to that level because that is where hardware is now. It just edges out the GS3 so in benchmarks the dual core of the Lumia 920 wont touch it.... Lets not forget it uses like a 2 year old Adreno 225, which wasn't amazing then and isn't now, even the iPhone 5 has a great GPU.

Other than it looking different, having a nice looking OS and a good camera in theory I don't see why it has the fuss it does. To me it looks different and that is part of the appeal but no Micro SD and no removable back cover is a deal breaker, I hate how big not only the bezel is but how it has that giant plastic edge around it too. Why make the screen so small when the phone is so big? I don't get why it has them giant buttons at the bottom of the screen too, it's a giant space wasted, they could have made that area way smaller and screen bigger. It's a fat phone as well so it will be obvious in your pocket, not for people who wear tight clothes that is for sure.

I don't like Windows Phone for one simple fact and that is it's a locked OS, I hate IOS for the same reason because I hate them telling me how to use my phone, I want an OS I can do what I want with and Android offers that. For me Flash Player is a must no matter what all the haters say, it's used by most sites and I#m fed up of having to use site apps on phones like iPhone to be able to view them... just let me view desktop mode with flash player... if you don't want flash player as default then don't, let me install it myself though. Yes Jelly Bean doesn't have it but it is so easy to download the apk file and install it urself.

This camera has just had faked pictures that are not representative of how it looks in the real world to make people impressed. I look forward to see actual real world tests, while it'll probably still be a better camera, it's not the giant leap like their marketing has said.

I'm just gonna probably get the Galaxy Note 2, I love the massive screen and it has everything I want. It doesn't support 4G but in the UK that isn't a big deal, coverage and prices won't be good for years to come.

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I also find it funny how people complain about plastic phones like GS3 and then forgive the Nokia for being one giant lump of plastic.. it's the same quality plastic.