Lumia 930 to 550
Recently, my Lumia 930 got a little crack in the screen.... and it wasn't very long until the little crack became a "whole of screen is shattered" crack.... the touchscreen still worked - but the seeming inability to get the screen replaced without the digitiser (at a cost of around $250) put me off trying to get it fixed.
I looked at the current generation of phones.... Lumia 950... approx. $1100 ($AUD), Lumia 550 $198 ($AUD)
I picked up a the Lumia 550, as, as the time I was undecided if I was going to try and get the 930 fixed still.... but now that I have the 550 - fuck that.
The 550 is plastic and has a 5MP camera.... but after a week of using it - so what.
The 550 is a good phone, the battery is easily swappable, its responsive, WinPhone10 has a decent music app (Unlike win phone 8.1), the Bluetooth works without dropouts.... on paper its an inferior phone.... but actually using it, its a bloody good phone at a far more reasonable price point than the 950.
I would really like to see the windows phone app for PC evolve a little though.... why on earth is it used for only syncing?
Why can't I do things like import my internal certificates, setup email accounts, customise the start screen, create ringtones from MP3s ? This is pretty basic stuff - why make me do it from a tiny keyboard on my phone ?
