Why lumia is better than android

Another cool thing that you could do is to configure the lock screen to display artist information when playing music. Microsoft has worked hard to integrate Xbox functionality , meaning you can work with your console avatar to gain points, check your Gamerscore, message your friends and see your avatar. All of the games run smoothly; even on the low end Nokia Lumia Phones, playing games is a breeze.

Windows Phones allow users to pin whatever they want and how they want. Instead of widgets, each app on your home screen acts as a Live Tile. We can see the time and weather via the weather tile and notifications from Twitter, WhatsApp, SMS and email all from the main screen. Widgets on Android are their own separate entities and their customized looks as designed by their developers. These designs thus can hardly mesh together aesthetically, especially without any form of standardization.

Tiles, on the other hand, blend in and complement the overall aesthetic perfectly and they also change dynamically. It comes with full offline capabilities. Some Android smartphones such as Galaxy S4 also has offline navigation in Google Maps, but while Google Maps only allows you to download small areas of offline maps, you can download maps of countries with the Nokia Lumia Phones and navigate across the country without a data connection while driving.

The free 7 GB cloud storage from Onedrive makes it even better. This reduces the need to fall back on third-party online storage solutions, which may come with compatibility issues. While Android offers greater app flexibility, Windows Phone offers great potential, better integration over more platforms and fluidity. On an Exchange server, especially in large companies, being able to search the GAL Global Address List when selecting recipients in a new email message is a very important feature.

Android does this automatically, Windows Phone provides it as an option , and iOS doesn't do it all. Windows Phone has no distinct advantage on this point. I thank the commenters who pointed this out. When declining an appointment on Android, you can't include a text response as to why. On iOS you can embed a comment before declining, but that's not a terribly obvious technique. On Windows Phone, after deciding whether to accept, decline or reply as tentative, you are given the option to specify a augmenting text response, which is much more polite.

If you're running late for a meeting, Windows Phone provides an explicit option to email the meeting organizer and other attendees to let them know. That email has boilerplate text in it, allowing you to send it in just a few taps, with no text entry necessary. When a meeting invitation arrives on a Windows Phone, a "Show scheduling conflict" link will appear if the proposed meeting time conflicts with another appointment, allowing the user to tap and reconcile.

Although Android and iOS offer options for checking a calendar manually, neither offers an automatic alert of a conflict. Little differences like this sound picayune at first, but once you take advantage of them every day, their value becomes much more apparent. The Windows Phone for business story isn't just about email and calendar features -- it extends to word processing, spreadsheets and presentations as well. Word and Excel documents can be created and edited on a Windows Phone and files in both of those formats, as well as PowerPoint presentations, can be viewed as well.

In addition to the device itself, Windows Phone opens and saves Office documents from SkyDrive, Microsoft's cloud storage platform that gives you 25GB of free storage.

You can also connect to SharePoint sites, view documents there not to mention other SharePoint items like announcements, links and lists , then edit and save them. The native desktop Office applications can also read and write from SkyDrive and SharePoint, allowing you easily to keep your phone and PC documents in sync. Since Office is part of the Windows Phone platform, you won't need to locate and install third party applications, like Quickoffice, Documents To Go or iWork, and you certainly won't need to pay separately for them.

Nor will you have to deal with file format conversions or loss of fidelity in the documents themselves. This comes in especially handy when someone sends a PowerPoint presentation before a meeting; you can preview it in full-screen slideshow mode, with animations intact. The large screens on the Lumia and the Titan II should work especially well for this.

Microsoft's OneNote, which I have always found vastly superior to Evernote in all aspects but platform ubiquity, integrates nicely as well. Of course, even if you have a Windows Phone, you may still want to get to your notes from devices on other platforms. If you would still prefer to use Evernote, it's available for Windows Phone too. Update: There is a OneNote app for Android, albeit only for handsets running version 2.

While it's nice that Evernote is on Windows Phone, business users need several apps, so what else is out there for Microsoft's smartphone platform? Some important apps are available: Yammer's there for corporate IM. I first gave up on Windows Phone back in December It took Microsoft a few years to finally admit Windows Phone is dead , and the company is no longer planning to release any new hardware running its mobile OS or update it with any features.

Google recently shut down the dream of that happening outside of the Pixel 2. They enabled apps to show information on the home screen, similar to the widgets found on Android and iOS. You could almost pin anything useful to the home screen, and Live Tiles animated beautifully to flip over and provide tiny nuggets of information that made your phone feel far more personal and alive.

Outside of the design features, there was plenty more that showed how Microsoft was truly innovative with Windows Phone. The software keyboard is still far better than the defaults on iOS and Android, and Microsoft even added a tracing option that let you swipe to write words like many Android keyboards do now.

The Windows Phone keyboard always felt accurate, at a time when Apple was struggling with its iOS autocorrect. One of the big reasons I still miss Windows Phone is because it pushed both Apple and Google to do better. Back when it launched, Microsoft had a good shot at creating a third mobile platform and unnerved the competition.

Google refused to build Windows Phone apps, and a public feud over a YouTube app and the blocking of services on Windows Phone devices made it clear Google would do anything to stop Windows Phone. Windows Phone has arguably changed Android and iOS, though. Microsoft aggressively pursued modern design principles at the time to launch Windows Phone with its Metro design , and Apple responded with iOS 7 and a flatter user interface. Google went one step further, with its Material Design that included bright colors, playful transitions, and a much flatter and simplified interface.

Beyond design, Windows Phone also had some fundamental principles and features that can now be found on both iOS and Android. Windows Phone focused on deep data sharing between apps, to prevent you from having to switch in and out of apps.