Living With Lumia - Final Wrap-Up

You can read my full written review here: http://mashable.com/2012/11/27/living...

Mashable's Christina Warren offers her final wrap-up after 12 days of living with the Lumia 920 and Windows Phone 8 instead of iOS and an iPhone 5.

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[Christina Warren]

@expectafight -- thanks for your comments! I agree the apps are getting better, I'd just like to see more movement. I look forward to watching it develop.

[Rohan Pujara]

Christina not a lot of people care about instagram so its not a big deal!

apps are missing i agree

but u didnt need to mention it like 5 times that instagram is missing

like come on

its not that big a deal!

[doubledeej]

The lack of Instagram is actually a great selling point.

[HiddenPhantom175]

I find it funny how people are making a big deal when WP8 don't have instagram. I'm both Nokia and Samsung user. I have a Galaxy S2 for 1 year+ and I don't even bother to download instagram from the play store up until today. I mean like what @gladbecker82 said, there is nothing else you can do other than post food pics and watch other people food pics. Is that such a big deal? They really need to get a life. Overall this is a good review but the instagram part really made me lol-ed.

[ramji404]

instagram???i dont need dat shit....check for some cool apps in w8

[gladbecker82]

you use instagram for MANY things? LMAO what if i may ask? Post food pics and watch other peoples food pics? there is nothing else you can do.

[Timothy Turcich]

It's really funny how the lack of Instagram is the only real complaint you have. For 2 years windows phone 7+ by default has had almost all the features of instagram built right into the camera software. You must really love those photo filters, because that's all that windows phone doesn't have in comparison(and this is without a third party application).

[TOXICINNAMON]

It's a great phone but I've been having tooo many issues where it just turns off by itself.

[Juan Valladares]

Nice job. I am a TV producer and I think you should address the camera when you do your reviews. User interface on a camera is not really a fair assessment of the camera itself and how *well* it takes pics. Otherwise, a pretty fair review. I see the blind devotion to your Apple ecosystem has clouded your judgement just a bit. I just want to know as a consumer which phone is better. It sounds like you like the experience better but wish that Apple had done it. Brainwashing is what Apple does best

[Michael Craddock]

Instagram photos look really bad. I would not use it even if it was on there. However, it is going to be released soon from what I heard.

I don't believe Instagram is not going to hinder sales. Creative Studio is like Instagram and doesn't use a 3rd party application.

The Camera itself is sooooo much better than the iPhone camera.

Skydrive is better because you get more space.

[michaelhtvr]

Microsoft will add a central notification page soon at a next update.

[michaelhtvr]

Instagram and Dropbox are both coming on the Windows Phone OS. See "Instagram is coming to Windows Phone (updated)" on theverge dot com with a Google search.

Stick to Nokia if you want to have a smaller sized Windows Phone 8 for several reasons. Several useful apps for Nokia and usually with a Nokia, you know it will be a good phone too.

[michaelhtvr]

Excellent review, Christine and a fair one from an Apple fan and iPhone user and that is very rare nowadays.

I particularly like your experience comparing the Nokia with the iPhone and Google Android OS.