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Windows 8 Phone? Thoughts?

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ORD_Buckeye

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Wrong glass, Sir.
Anyone using one of these? My Android phone bricked on me, and it's time to get a new phone. I am militantly anti-Apple, so no iphone for El Duderino.

My first smartphone before the Android was an old Samsung Blackjack that I really liked for its time and place. I was wondering what people's experiences with the newer Windows phones have been, specifically the Nokia Lumias. In particular, how well does syncing calendars and contacts with various gmail accounts work?

Phone needs to be GMS and ulocked (I'll pay full tariff upfront), so that I can drop European SIM cards into it.
 
ORD_Buckeye said:
Anyone using one of these? My Android phone bricked on me, and it's time to get a new phone. I am militantly anti-Apple, so no iphone for El Duderino.

My first smartphone before the Android was an old Samsung Blackjack that I really liked for its time and place. I was wondering what people's experiences with the newer Windows phones have been, specifically the Nokia Lumias. In particular, how well does syncing calendars and contacts with various gmail accounts work?

Phone needs to be GMS and ulocked (I'll pay full tariff upfront), so that I can drop European SIM cards into it.
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Windows just had to pull an update for Windows 8 because it was bricking the phones. I'd avoid anything Windows as well.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Anyone using one of these? My Android phone bricked on me, and it's time to get a new phone. I am militantly anti-Apple, so no iphone for El Duderino.

My first smartphone before the Android was an old Samsung Blackjack that I really liked for its time and place. I was wondering what people's experiences with the newer Windows phones have been, specifically the Nokia Lumias. In particular, how well does syncing calendars and contacts with various gmail accounts work?

Phone needs to be GMS and ulocked (I'll pay full tariff upfront), so that I can drop European SIM cards into it.
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Samsung Note 2 is on its way to becoming the second-gen, so it's available for fewer $$$. It's got LTE, CDMA and GSM radios and it's been unlocked by VZW so foreign SIMs can be dropped in painlessly (I've done it a couple times). The Note 3 doesn't look like a big upgrade, honestly.

Interestingly, although there's no LTE in Europe yet, I found the "3G" networks there to be much faster than what we have in the US; so much so that I wouldn't care if 4G never arrived.
 
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