Lumia, My Friend

Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak said recently ”Nokia Lumia Windows Phone is more a friend than a tool”. See WPCentral or WPPoweruser. I share his opinion as I have the same experience. The Lumia is elegant, and the use is simple and smooth. Even the little hatch covering the USB port which was criticized by many is flawless, and looks really nice.

The use of tiles makes more sense than the old way of putting small icons on a background image which is often confusing. And the fact that Windows Phone is new and dynamic, has the weight of Microsoft behind it and therefore will evolve into something really great has much appeal to me.

Of course, Wozniak mentioned that there are not so much applications for WP than for iPhone or Android, but we are just at the beginning of the life cycle of WP, more will come in an increasing pace. 

I just tested Skype for WP and it worked extremely well, simple yet very functional. The quality of the connection using 3G was excellent. My favorite weather applications are AccuWeather and Weather (by Matti Nieminen).  To follow the stock market I use MyStocks Portfolio. Other good Apps are Facebook, Google, Compass VO, GPS Satellite, Spotify, WhatsApp (free messaging) and Free Talking Alarm Clock. There are many mapping apps besides the Nokia and Microsoft ones, for example SketchMap Free, making it possible to make a quick sketch on top of a map.  I am not in games, but anyway Angry Birds are there if you are interested.  Another application is the NightVision Goggles, App, which changes the camera into night vision mode, well ….

There are also unofficial Apps on the web, and these can be “sideloaded”, but you need to do some “hacking” for that, not too complicated, but anyway, if you are interested.