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Windows Phone 8 Users Hit Some Snags

Posted by timothy on from the my-android-phone-freezes-way-too-often dept.

symbolset writes "As reported on The Verge, many people are experiencing freezing, rebooting and battery problems on their new Windows Phone 8 devices. This WP8Central thread shows many of the issues. Affected devices include Lumia 920 and HTC 8X." Every phone and every OS has its problems, and happy users probably aren't as vocal; it would be good to know how Windows Phone users who are also iOS and Android users compare them for reliability.

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  1. Absolutely not true... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have not faced a single, tiny issue with Windows Phone 8. I have not used it for the past 1 month. Actually I have not used it for the past 1 year or even more.

  2. Freezing, rebooting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...on Windows. Isn't that normal?

    1. Re:Freezing, rebooting... by crutchy · · Score: 3, Funny

      so you stopped using windows since last decade then?

    2. Re:Freezing, rebooting... by symbolset · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm kind of curious how you got Microsoft Office to boot.

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  3. I don't get it. by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why are people complaining?

    They told them they where going to give them windows on a phone. They bought windows on a phone. Random reboots, completely unstable, uses up all resources including battery, the only solution is to wipe it out and start over, and even then you end up with a broken device. Sounds like they managed to port the whole windows experience, I don't get the complains. Maybe it's the lack of a blue screen of dead that's bothering them?

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    1. Re:I don't get it. by crutchy · · Score: 5, Funny

      he tripped over the hole where the start menu used to be

    2. Re:I don't get it. by Barlo_Mung_42 · · Score: 5, Funny

      To be fair, not many use it on the desktop.

    3. Re:I don't get it. by JanneM · · Score: 3, Funny

      Oh that; it's just the liberal-industrial War on Christmas. Nothing to see, please move along.

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    4. Re:I don't get it. by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

      1998 called, they want their Windows complaints back, oddly enough when that stuff was true of Windows OSX still had the problem of apps locking up the whole system, damn that beachball!

      Hey, OS X has improved tremendously of late. Now it doesn't need apps to lock the system up - the OS can do it all by itself.

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  4. This is actually a Slashdot sting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're getting all the Microsoft shills to post in defense of this knowing they're the only ones that would claim to own a Windows 8 phone.

    1. Re:This is actually a Slashdot sting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The difference is that it is believable that there are Apple and Google fans/users on Slashdot. The idea that there are Microsoft fans or users on Slashdot is just tough to accept, like if you told us a unicorn was posting to Slashdot.

    2. Re:This is actually a Slashdot sting by scdeimos · · Score: 5, Funny

      it is hard to understand why after all the years of abuse from the Linux/Apple crowd the Microsoft fans would continue to come in and spend most of their time defending their fanboyness to people who wouldn't use windows if it came with a blowjob from Selma Hayek.

      Tempting.

  5. Re:I had a Windows phone... once. by William+Robinson · · Score: 3, Funny

    All you needed was this keyboard

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  6. Re:If all you need are anectodes by Doctor_Jest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Calm down, Ballmer. You're getting worked up for no good reason. You know what the doctors said. Any more excitement and you can't throw chairs anymore. You don't want that, now do you?

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  7. Re:Had a Lumia 920 for several weeks now.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ..and it lasts longer on a charge than my Galaxy Nexus ever did.

    I've had one reboot. I used to get freezes and reboots on occasion with the Gnex too.

    Overall it's been fine. More responsive and reliable than the last 2 Androids I've had.

    Quick, mod parent down! The poster is reporting on direct experience. Let's not allow this to clutter up our thread of digs and pokes at Microsoft! Because those never, ever get old!

  8. Re:Had a Lumia 920 for several weeks now.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    As if your bias wasn't already apparent now your admitting to being a Microsoft shill. God you shills are stupid.

  9. Re:No issue with my Lumia 920 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows has detected an incoming call and must restart for the changes to take effect. Windows will restart in 1 minute.

    Windows has detected that you've moved to a new location and must restart for the changes to take effect. Windows will restart in 1 minute.

  10. Re:No issue with my Lumia 920 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course it's defective!

    Which part of "Microsoft Product" did you not understand?

  11. Re:kjhkjhkjhkhj by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    hhgfhghgfhgf

    Try rebooting to see if you get your keyboard back. Then tell us which smartphone you're using.

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  12. Re:No issue with my Lumia 920 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Android will just freeze and be a laggy piece of shit. No warnings though, just a kernel pani-

  13. Re:No issue with my Lumia 920 by BonThomme · · Score: 4, Funny

    ERROR_SUCCESS !