“One annoying thing I’ve noticed that ticked me off was I usually call my friends and family from the my Recent Call list. I can’t believe when I press a contact to call from my Recent Call list, it did not call immediately and it just showed me the contact like how I would see it on the Phonebook. If I call a contact from my Recent Call list I expect the phone to call and not to show me and give options on what to do. Just totally annoyed with that.”

You make some VERY VALID points about BT and NFC but these are secondary problems (which I see getting fixed in WP8) but first you have to get the user to not return the phone in the first day or two.

BTW Nokia pretty much can do what ever they want to their Windows Phones as long as they don’t “fragment the Eco-system.”  According to Elop himself (at Nokia World) he stated that the only way he would consider the Eco-system fragmented is if developers would have write different apps for Nokia Windows Phones.  

Changing the UI to from Metro to say Nokia Pure would not fragment the eco system, nor would a double tap to unlock. Even the rebirth of Nokia Bubbles to unlock would not break the  eco-system and all of that is well within Nokia’s right to change.

Also I lot of Nokia fans are really Symbian/MeeGo fans they like the build quality of Nokia Phones but covet the openness and customization of OS’s Nokia has used up to this point.  Do you really expect that the same people that poked fun at iSheep for the past 5 years for using a “walled garden” OS are suddenly be ok with using a walled garden system themselves?

If you are going to take away their open OS from them you gotta give them something and control over how their phone looks is a step in the right direction.

So a smartphone for you is to show off?
Funny for me a smartphone is a tool to improve my live and work irrespective of the OS used.

Eh? You DON’T buy a phone to support a brand! You buy a phone because YOU NEED a phone! You decide which features you require, which software/OS’s addresses these requirements and then you buy the device suited to your needs!

All these ppl who buy a phone ‘to support’ a brand are idiots.

In a former post I explained some of my requirements! If a device doesn’t adhere to these requirements then I don’t buy it. No matter what OS it runs.

Now it’s not because an OS is supposedly ‘obsolete’ that your device will stop working. My dad is still using my old Samsung Omnia 1 (an supposedly ancient Windows Mobile 6.1 device). A device that can fully multitask, has lots of themes and UI-enhancements (remember SPB Mobile Shell), full bluetooth transfer/syncing, has lots of buttons (even an miniature optical trackpad)… in fact it address most (if not all) o/t complaints mentioned here. Yet, it’s considered a bad, outdated device by various “knowledgable” ppl.

So please stop swallowing all that propaganda that tries to sell crippled phones with limited (onboard) features. They’re being sold to increase the sale of dataplans (why do you think that MMS was removed in favour of an email-client in iPhone) or why do these modern phones have less advanced bluetooth transfers. Indeed so you need to use clouds to send pictures to another phone even when that phone is a few feet away from you, and to use clouds you need… right… to fork out money for a dataplan. 

You really ought to look at the bigger picture. Think before buying.

ONLY Microsoft can add or remove features, Nokia HAS NOTHING to say in it! Why can’t some ppl understand this! The only thing Nokia CAN DO to diversify itself from HTC, Samsung, LG or any other WP7-OEM is to add it’s own typical Nokia Apps (e.g. Nokia Maps) just like HTC adds his own Sense-Hub-app.

Now some of your Nokiafyings.

- Unlocking the Phone:
Can you swipe any direction on iPhone or Android? Want an unlock button (or NO unlock button) then either get a Symbian Nokia or a Meego Nokia (which you already have). Microsoft chooses his own way of unlocking the device. You either like it or hate it.

- Buttons, Buttons, Buttons: 
You wrote “Nokia only has themselves to blame on this one for getting me use to not using buttons. ” Again I must remind you that you can’t blame this on Nokia since they DON’T make the OS. Contact Microsoft for complains (or don’t buy these phones)

- Themes! We need themes!
The whole point of this OS is to LIMIT personalization (similar to iOS)! To create a coherent experience for every WP7.x-user no matter what brand of phone they buy. This is supposed to ease the upgrade cycle. If you’d investigate Windows Phone OS then you knew that before buying a Windows Phone device, so don’t complain afterwards. I this case you either love tiles and stick with them or don’t. Both Android or Symbian devices have excellent customization-options. I remember that the N9 is also quite limited in this respect.

- Real Multitasking:
Again a Microsoft “feature”. Nokia HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!!! Don’t like it? Then DON’T buy a WP-phone as this issue is a problem for all “WP7.x-partners” not just Nokia.

You also wrote: “it will infuriate the loyal Nokia base and push time toward and Android phone” Actually, true loyal Nokia users will use phones with true Nokia OS’s (either Symbian or Meego). Because there are still a host of other Nokia unique features that aren’t available in Windows phone (or even iOS and Android) plus a host of bugs (e.g. its inability to log-onto hidden SSID’s).

Let me you help you a bit!

- FULL Bluetooth transfers and syncing. I see that you didn’t mention WP7.x’s crippled bluetooth handling which means that you haven’t thoroughly used WP7, I guess.

- NFC (since normal bluetooth doesn’t even work properly…)

- Full 2 way call recording (in Symbian this feature is used manually with the voicerecorder app or automatically with numerous 3rd party apps). This particular item is an absolute MUST-HAVE for me, personally. As long as iOS, Android nor WP7.x has it, these platforms are completely useless for me. No matter how many add-campaigns Nokia launches to push Windows Phone.

- Simple USB or BT syncing with outlook. Some ppl (including me) are prohibited to send valuable client-data into the cloud. Symbian can do this through Nokia Suite. For Android there’s some 3rd-party tools that can do this (e.g. Phone explorer). On iOS iTunes can link to outlook. But both WP7.x and Meego too for that matter, lack simple USB-syncing (with your local PIM)

Sorry, but I thought you where the Nokia Geek. From what I read here you’re no Geek at all, let alone a Nokia Geek. As you keep barking up the wrong tree especially in the case of WP7.x-problems/features.

It can be as integrated as it wants to be but if It’s unusable to Nokia fans NO ONE will ever know about.

If this is not your 1st Nokia phone doesn’t the fact that there is a bunch of things are wrong that you should be able to change but you can’t. If it is your 1st Nokia phone you really wouldn’t understand the whole point of the post than.

Nokia has already carved out a market for itself with the hardware quality. I say step that part up, upgrade the batterylife so that a single charge lasts 3 days, not one, a traditional Nokia trademark. HDMI or extra storage are on the way with Windows Phone 8, so Nokia will use their experience in this department. 
Then integrate like  hell with the OS by expanding the location based services like Maps, Drive, Music and what else they have in the pipeline. Now they’re just single loose apps, but imagine the effect of a coherent experience!

That’s hardware, battery and adding a nice slick integrated software experience. Me thinks these things are exactly what every smartpphone user expects from a Nokia phone…

An example of this is the Nokia Lumia 800 and 710, as Tango (Video app) supports a front facing camera which these devices do not have. This case is ratified somewhat by the ability to use the rear camera for partial video chat (Only one person can see the other at any one time).

Another example is “Tools for Phone 7″, which if navigated to via a Nokia Lumia 800/710 on the Marketplace displays the “This application uses features your phone doesn’t have.” as these devices do not have a gyroscope.