[rayiner]

My Lumia 920 is going back as soon as I find the charger it came with. It's a well-built phone with a great screen, but it's not polished enough to be the game-changer that Nokia/Microsoft need it to be. It's huge (60% heavier than an iPhone), and the battery life is very questionable (despite a battery 40% larger than the iPhone 5). If I leave it on standby for two hours, I can never tell whether it will have blown through 2% or 20% of the battery in the meantime.

WP8 is slick in some ways, but it's not polished enough for prime time. Take for example the text messages app. Who decided that the chrome should take up so much space that you could only see 1 message in portrait mode (or zero in landscape) with the keyboard open? On a 4.5" screen?! There is no good app for Google Talk; the few that do have it on the Microsoft Store have weird issues (flashing while redisplaying content, logging out/in every time you switch to another app). There are no apps to access OWA accounts (if your Exchange server has ActiveSync off, tough luck). Integrating the "back" feature on your apps and on your browser is an idea that wears poorly. The "people" app is kind of cute, but jumbling Facebook/Linked-In/etc together with your contacts is an idea that sucks more the more you use it. I'd much rather be able to see peoples' timelines than be able to post the same message on Facebook and Linked-In at the same time... The UI is slick but lacks landmarks to help you figure out what's going on on-screen. There are weird and questionable choices throughout the UI. Who decided "+" was the right icon for a new e-mail? Etc.

[glavata]

Weighs as much as an iPhone 4 with a case :) Not a deal breaker. The iPhone 5 feels way too plastic to me.

As I always point out to my friends iOS and Android needed ~3 years to become competitive. It's getting there. The App argument is also kind of flaky... Other than Mint app, everything I use is there.

[CamperBob2]

The iPhone 5 feels way too plastic to me.

?! Are you sure you didn't buy it from some guy in a trench coat behind a dim-sum dive in Shenzhen?

My iPhone 5 is the most solid, monolithic piece of consumer electronics I've ever seen.

[FredFredrickson]

The app argument used to be more of a "thing", but they've made great strides over the years to get competitive there, and as a WP7 user, it's just about at the point where I can feel comfortable recommending it to people without feeling any regrets.

The OS itself has always been pretty great though, in my opinion - they took a lot of lessons from what Apple and Google did and used those to build a platform that does a lot of stuff right out of the box.

I think your comment about the iPhone 4 + case is funny. I see people carrying around these ridiculous brightly colored foamy brick-ish things that are iPhones in cases, and I wonder why they would put up with that. It doesn't matter how beautiful and lightweight the device inside the case is if it can never come out!

[rayiner]

The 920 may be brick like, but physics being what it is, it'll land harder on the ground than an iPhone 5. I don't use the 920 with a case but never used the 4 with a case either. Most people at my office don't have cases on their work-issue 5's from what I've seen.