I used to work in the telecommunications field for several years, as a sales rep, and was lucky (up for interpretation in some cases) enough to get models from all the major smart phone manufacturers free from work to use.

I'm an Apple guy myself, I've mainly used an Apple phone since 2012 when I got the iPhone 5, and currently I'm using the SE model. The new, bigger models are way too clunky for me, but me and my SE are good friends.

I was able to find positives about Android phones, too. Not my cup of tea, but they have their upsides. I wouldn't blame you for going with Android. Be it Samsung, Huawei, Sony, LG, or whatever.

A phone model I never, ever, not once, ever, not for a second, evvver was able to figure out positives about was Nokia's Lumia line.

Now, being in Finland, of course the goddamn Lumia was what a lot of people were interested in buying once it came out. Also, my employer had a good deal going with Nokia, so pushing Lumia was something we were pressured to do, instead of, say, Apple. It was understandable, Nokia is a much better company to do business with. You can ask anyone who's had experience with it, and they'll say that Apple is a absolutely infuriating company to work with. You'll do things the Apple way, or they'll give you the middle finger, and they won't negotiate, about anything. Samsung and Sony were somewhere in between.

Aaanyway, what became an extremely easy way to trigger me at work was when a customer would ask me to sell them on a Lumia. And I don't mean sell them a Lumia, hey it's their loss, but to sell them *on* a Lumia.

I'm a pretty good salesman. Honestly.

In my field, I was recognized a few times as being among the top of the country in what I did.

So, it's safe to say I'm no slouch.

*But*.

I stayed awake at night coming up with good sales arguments for the fucking terrifying abominations that were the Nokia Lumia phones. I just couldn't!

Sure, the hardware is good on the top of the line models. Especially the Lumias that were mostly built in Finland, the hardware was very good.

However, the OS. The Windows Phone OS.

There's *nothing* you can do with that piece of shit that is not a fucking chore.

Want to send a text message? Good luck! You'll finish writing all the works of Shakespeare and coming up with a cure for cancer in the offtime after that, during the time it will take to finish a text message saying "Yeah true lol" with a Lumia.

Everything is clunky, it's hard to hit anything on the keyboard, things require multiple clicks, everything is unorganized, it's hell.

If it's true that hell does exist, and we all have our own personalized hell, I know for a fact that after I day I'm stuck searching for stuff on the Lumia's built in Bing search engine *FOR ETERNITY*.

And when I say eternity, I'm only searching for a single cheese cake recipe, *but that's how long it will take*!

So, yeah not a fan.

Today was the day, though! If I'm ever going to return to my previous field, I now have an argument for the use of Nokia Lumia!

![](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQb63V3NuskvdpnfRYeJPMGM516UDQfsQYQTET4QJMVDN/image.png)

It's unfortunate that this revelation came only after the fact that the Lumia line has been discontinued, and I no longer even work at my old job, but still!

Achievement unlocked.

It's fucking good for something, it really is. They should have told us this at the sales seminars.

Making the Nokia Lumia useful. #lifehack of the day.