The best Windows Phone : Nokia Icon

InfoWorld writes about the only 5 smartphones that matter and includes the following:

• Apple iPhone 6 and 6+
• Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge
• Samsung Galaxy Note 4 (it's a Phablet)
• LG G4 (Android)
• Microsoft Lumia 830

However there is hardly a mention of Nokia Icon. This Verizon specific phone (Nokia Icon) is probably not sold anymore as Verizon has a new Windows Phone.

The bottom line: Nokia Icon is better than Lumia 830

 I will stay with Nokia Icon. The only worry is what happens if the battery goes bad.
AT & T appears to be carrier for Nokia 830.

Although most Tablets, PCs, Laptops  will be updated to Windows 10 OS, not Windows Phone. It may come much, much later.

Nokia Lumia 735 is out, do you want it?

Verizon recently gave its Windows Phone users the option to swap their Nokia Lumia Icon to Nokia Lumia 735. It does not look like an upgrade to me at all. I went out to Microsoft Store in Ala Moana take a look at it. I was fairly disappointed and one of the store staff told me Nokia Icon is a much better smart phone than the 735.

The other piece of information (I do not know it is true or not) he gave me was it was a Verizon specific phone. If this is tru I would avoid it as Verizon does not provide proper support, like asnweering customer's questions. It took almost a year after talking to Verizon to ge the Windows Phone OS to upgrade to 8.1. Probably the upgrade of 735 from Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows 10 is less stressful.

I am not sure what features are important for you but there are 41 reasons why Nokia Icon is better than Nokia Lumia 735 but only 13 reasons why Nokia 735 is better than Nokia Icon.

Looks like the capability to replace battery and be able to use an external memory appears good reasons, but with cloud service available to store this capability is not compelling.
On the whole, I would rather stay with the Nokia Icon as it takes great pictures and videos with a view area much larger than the 735.