So my Samsung Galaxy S3 decided to stop working properly. Keeps freezing, screen goes weird (like some kind of interference) and Vodacom can fix, but it will leave me 21 days without a phone and everything deleted.

So any suggestions. Haven't done any research on cellphones recently. Just no iPhone or Blackberry. I've always been a fan of HTC and Windows Phone has always been in the back of my head. So to try to narrow it down, can anybody give feedback on some of these phones and the points? I'm quite open to the different brands as long as they are running on Android or Windows. I'll do some technical research myself like comparing the specs, but this is more to get a personal input and experiences with these phones.

  • Nokia Lumia - Windows Phone - Are the most important services like Whatsapp, etc. available on Windows Store yet?
  • Nokia Lumia - Two years ago when I was looking at this, there were quite a lot of problems with it. Any idea if that has been sorted out?
  • Sony Xperia - How is the camera quality? I've heard some bad things but I don't know the source


Any feedback and recommendations you can provide will be appreciated.