Other stuff is not necessary.
Thanks for help...
I've got a Lumia 925 running Windows Phone 8.1, and a 640 running Windows 10 Mobile. Coming from iOS it'll take some getting used to. I'll try and be as unbiased as possible here:
PROS:
- fast, intuitive UI
- email, whatsapp, spotify all available
- no slowdown over time
CONS:
- lots of big apps missing
- No official Google apps (you can use gmail, but only through the stock email app. Youtube is basically just a shortcut to the site)
- Sometimes - no often - you get a 3rd rate app experience, as companies put less effort into the apps for the shrinking market. for instance, slack is a packaged web app on WP, but I'm pretty sure its a native app on both iOS and Android.
- limited hardware choice.
- no third party keyboards (but the stock one is, IMHO, one of the best mobile keyboards I've ever used)
- speech recognition is inferior to Android / iOS
- tied to MS services (OneDrive, Bing etc)
I miss trying out the latest apps. When some new todo list app is announced on HN, it's never available for me. I feel left out at times.
The flipside of this is that I don't get sucked into playing Pokemon Go, or Minecraft, or browsing Pinterest. I switch to android for a few months after my last lumia broke, and I wasted so much time with my head buried in apps I would have never used on WP. I recognised this and switched back.
If a Windows phone is a viable consideration, the Lumia 950 has a pretty good camera in keeping with its Nokia heritage. Shoots RAW as DNG, full manual controls, and the LumiaSuite image editor is pretty good.
Spotify and Whatsapp both have apps in the Windows Store (don't know how good they are). Email app is reasonably good.
In terms of security, I'd bet on Microsoft or Apple or Android in focus. In terms of research and disclosure, I would bet on Microsoft over Apple. All that is premised on the idea that I am not doing something that is illegal in the place where I live and am not a person of interest to state level actors.
Personally, I prefer the Windows interface to Android and iOS and OLED screens are nice. Generally, Windows 10 Mobile has kept improving every month or so since I bought my phone.
Probably the worst element of Windows 10 Mobile is maps. The text is not readable without my reading glasses which is kind of not practical. Battery life is mediocre.
Good luck.
Good luck.