I had bought the phone, to try something different & it’s money down the drain, totally, unfortunately. You CANNOT be free from the Micro$oft agenda, no matter what you do. The Store will NOT allow the installation of Adblock Plus, on Opera Mini – like it is possible to do on Android. Not only are the Window$ phone options /settings SO limited, the options to be free from them -often- aren’t even offered & when they are, they either don’t matter – or, aren’t -even- applied, heh.

Therein lies the problem… “No matter what settings you choose”. “8 Zip”, “8 Zip Lite”, instead of 7-Zip which we all know then, “Opener” & “Pocket Extractor” – and no WinZIP, no WinRAR, nothing.

For example, WinZIP that is used to compress files & had been built-into Windows (7), is not only NOT THERE – but, it’s replaced by 10 other programs with completely fake, made-up names (like a con, amazing, lolz!). This was so unbelievable to me, as it’s the first time that I -ever- see it. The applications, in the Store: they are all FAKE (lol). Yeah, it’s totally terrible and there’s more. However, besides it being almost completely useless & the source of daily frustrations, it’s not a bad phone… That is, forgetting the fact that they had used a cheap screen (TFT, instead of AMOLED or whatever), cheap cameras, speaker & cheap everything to build it.

^^ That is, if the phone doesn’t randomly restart – like it, just, has: while I’m typing this (happens, virtually, all of the time) & all of the functions get closed – and become unavailable to scroll-through by holding-down the back arrow. If I leave various components in the background, it’s possible to use the task manager to access them – after swiping down, to open All settings. $Īnywho, after updating, upgrading, installing (full) offline update – using teh Micro$oft desktop app(s), there remains a problem… Turning the screen back on, I am constantly greeted by a message which has got a random time of going-away which, just, stands on a black background – not letting me use the phone: “ Resuming…”īeen like that, from the very first day, when I bought it. 🙂 🙂īought the Lumia 550, about a month ago & all is well, after TWO HOURS of turning off all of the spyware (it’s still there, running only, it doesn’t display the info on the screen – when it’s “disabled”. Yeah, well… Turns out that you were (pretty much) right!.

Are they still updating fallout shelter