Why I have chosen Windows mobile phone

Android, iPhone or Windows? That is the question. The question which all people buying a new mobile phone need to decide. For the moment being, let's suppose for normal users this question reduces to Android and Windows, as iPhone has its own users base, users who are buying it because, well, just because it's iPhone. And they are able to stand in a queue for couple of days, in a rain and wind, just to be within the first users of the brand-new but same-looking, still-no-better and even-more-overpriced model.

Anyway, let's get back to the decision Android vs. Windows. I, personally, did such decision about three years ago and chose Android, because at that time it seemed to me as the better option. However, the times are changing, my requirements for a mobile phone are changing and also my experience with Android is growing and so since the time of my first decision, I have gradually made up my mind that my next mobile phone will be with Windows operating system. I'll try to politely explain my thoughts behind this decision and say my opinions - in any case I'm not persuading anyone about my truth, as different people may have not only different opinions but also different expectations from a mobile device.

The dark sides of Android

I must admit I don't have almost any previous experience with Windows mobile but there are still some bad things at Android which I believe I will get rid of by changing to Windows. Let's start from what many people judge a lot and what they overestimate often - the performance. Android users are saying they can get an Android phone with better performance for the price of Windows phone. And basically they're right, on the paper the Android phone will be really stronger. However, only on the paper. In reality, Android is more demanding on the hardware resources and thus even a “weaker” phone with Windows can work faster in real than high-performance Android.

Keeping the focus on performance, a disadvantage of Android is that the system might be quite fast when freshly installed but the performance decreases quickly as you're using it, installing apps etc. Of course, there's always a possibility to reinstall the system, but it's nothing I would be willing to do every two months.

The straw that breaks the camel's back is for me the error message about insufficient memory whenever I try to install a new app or even update already installed one. Why? Why the system is talking about insufficient memory when half of the RAM and half of the SD card is free? Isn't it just poor way of working with available memory by Android? I know those tips, clean the cache, move apps to phone memory instead of internal memory and so on. But all of these solutions are only very temporary and I need to face the same problem again when installing or updating next app.

Apart from performance, it's also about visual aspect. The icon matrix on Android is, in my honest opinion, a bit chaotic. A few pages (or desktops) full of icons, making it difficult to find an app and reminding a Windows desktop of many users, also unorganized and overfilled with icons. Despite having not much experience with them, I think tiles on Windows are providing with a better organization.

Finally, I don't like that Android is too much open system. All apps can do whatever they want and in fact all apps require permissions to everything - even things that have absolutely no connection with the app's function. By the way, no, I don't prefer the way iPhone system works either, because it's the other extreme - too closed system. Windows are the golden mean, from my point of view.

Less apps, more quality

Very often I hear the argument against Windows - there are much less apps for this system. In essence, this argument is true. However, it's important to realize that you actually use only a few apps. For example, on Android there are thousands apps for doing one thing, on Windows there are only tens. First, you still have usually a choice, even on Windows, and second, on Windows the apps are on average of more quality than on Android, which means, in practice, that you don't need to browse through hundreds of useless apps to find the one that will fit you.

Similar argument is being told by Android users about the selection of phones. And again it's true - there are much more phones with Android than with Windows. Let's not dig into discussions if it's the same as with apps, that Windows phones are of more quality on average (anyway, I personally think so). The import thing is, there are already enough Windows phones in the market, enough that basically everyone can choose what he needs and wants.

Maybe certain people will also say something like “I don't want Microsoft”, as an argument against Windows phones. I guess most of them have a PC or laptop with desktop version of Windows, by, surprise, Microsoft. Anyway, I personally simply don't mind neither Google, nor Microsoft and decide according to different features.

My choice of phone

Finally, a few words about which phone I am going to buy. Microsoft recently introduced new Lumia x50 series of mobile phones which are probably among the best phones you can get in their respective price categories. As I need Dual SIM phone and Lumia 950 is just too expensive for me, I was a bit disappointed at first. However, after most recent introduction of Lumia 650, I didn't hesitate too long. Pretty nice design, acceptable size, LTE, Dual SIM, not bad parameters overall, good price and, of course, Windows operating systems, it's my reasons in favor of this new phone.