Sometimes you have to get a phone with a different OS from the one you have known and loved for years, especially if your Windows phone has worn out and your provider no longer carries Windows phones and you are of the opinion that you refuse to pay money for a phone if you are eligible for a "free" upgrade. However, changing from a phone you know to a phone you don't may include whining, of varying intensities and frequencies, as you get to know your new OS. Here are some steps I took to ensure I had a new non-Windows phone that I loved.
1. Walk into the cell phone store and announce you need a new phone, but you want to see only their "zero dollar" phones.
2. Look at the two identical-looking phones they show you and ask what the difference is, after you read the boxes and see nothing glaringly different.
3. Take the one the person behind the counter tells you has a bigger screen.
4. Get home with your Android phone and start joyfully loading all the apps that you couldn't use with a Windows phone.
5. Do this for ten minutes before your phone tells you you have no space, because you have gotten an EIGHT GIG phone for your zero dollars.
6. Ignore your friend and your husband when they tell you to take the phone back right this minute while you still can.
7. Negotiate all the many learning curves, like getting your calendar to show up, and your contacts, and all the other things you cannot live without, complaining bitterly that all you had to do to accomplish this with a Windows phone was TURN IT ON and ENTER YOUR ACCOUNT number.
8. Use the phone for six months. Mutter at it on a daily, sometimes hourly, basis.
9. The 197th time you have to move an app BACK to the SD card after the Android phone helpfully moved it back to the largely full internal storage in order to update it, announce you have Had Enough.
10. Go back to the cell phone store and after a few weeks of talking (it may have only been an hour), choose a phone that lets you make no changes to your smoking good deal legacy plan if you pay $$$ for a stronger better faster phone.
It took me about an hour to set up, because all I had to do was go look at my old new phone and copy stuff. And it is so fast. So very fast. It is likely much slower than yours, because it's still only 32 GB with 3 GB of RAM but it is so much faster than the phone I clung to on the moral high ground.
