On my 4th WinPhone. Love the OS and hardware - hate the apps ecosystem and support. I'm on my way out in the next 2-3 months to an android.

I'm on my 2nd windows phone... After Dropping 650$ on the Lumia 950 xl I still want to get my money's worth from it... But the constant small bugs is starting to get me. still use my 1020 often

Sorry to hear about your troubles with the 950. I bought a BLU Win HD LTE about the same time as the Lumia 950 series came out. It was $139.00 CDN at the time and has treated me very well since.

I will be moving to Android if my phone dies anytime soon, If it's up to me I'll hold out until BLU releases a well-equipped android 7 phone under $200.00 CDN. If Microsoft learns from this experiment and has better success with Surface Phone or whatever their next crack at the phone market turns out to be I would certainly take another look. W10 Mobile has been enjoyable.

At least they don't explode.

If there's one thing you can trust in this world, it's the integrity of Microsoft products.

just not the integrity of the company

Android user here, on a Nexus 5. I like it cause developer mode is easily accessible, which makes it so I can customize it a bit without fully rooting it.

EDIT: It's also interesting to see the iOS market share is only close to competitive with Android in English-speaking countries and Japan.

Also on Windows Phone and quite satisfied, comparing it to my partner's Samsung android, I don't find it really inferior. The interface is crisp and fast, GPS navigation is great, especially when roaming. Don't have any problems with bugs.

But there is one very big problem - lack of support of app developers, so tons of apps are missing. Often you can find something possibly inferior that does the job, but given the WP sales stats I can imagine it can only go downhill ...

I too have a Windows Phone. Only problem is some of the apps a I really want are not on Windows.

I use one. My main choices were that it was cheaper than the others, and it had a free mapnav that downloaded maps instead of constant bandwidth so I can use it in the boonies even if I have no signal. (Is it true that most don't do that or cost money?) Having just come from a flip-phone when I got it I said "when am I ever going to need apps? It's just a bunch of junk." Of course now that I have one I see a bunch of little useful QOL apps that aren't on Windows.

That's an excellent question. Can someone confirm whether or not Google Maps allows you to download maps and use them offline with only GPS contact? As I said elsewhere I am probably going to Android on my next phone, but offline maps is definitely a feature I'd miss if Google Maps doesn't have it.

I can confirm that yes, Google maps does currently allow downloading maps for offline use, though you can only download specified regions or routes. If I need a whole state or country I use 'Here WeGo' (developed I believe by Nokia), freely available for use on Android.
Best thing about Android is that even if stock apps don't fill your needs there's no shortage of free 3rd party apps that will.

Google does allow you to download regions, but I've always found it to be kind of clunky.

There are actually many free offline GPS apps for Android these days which I would recommend instead. You just have to pick them based on what sort of features you want.

For normal city use, I use maps.me.

Thanks, to both you and Sanepride. I don't use it enough to pay for the service (usually I have enough spatial awareness that looking at a map before I leave is fine even in unfamiliar areas), but every once in a while it's been incredibly valuable. And even when I'm not in low-coverage areas, I like to keep the stuff that uses bandwidth to a minimum, streaming can suck up a lot of data without realizing it.

I am on my 4th Windows phone by now. Sturdy as heck and with good cameras. (The last two have been the Lumia 1020 and the Lumia 950). I will probably brave the next generation as well, especialy once we can run ordinary windows programs on it.