I have a Nokia Lumia 920, and although it has all those annoying features you talked about it's actually nice to use. It also integrates facebook chat with texting, which can be really helpful but also the most frustrating thing on the planet. 
  
Nokia moved away from the whole 'cram as many useless features as you can into one tiny phone so it's impossible to use' craze, and developed a really nice OS which is customizable so you can have the important apps bigger, and the less important ones smaller. I had a HTC Desire HD before which was so over-powered by features I would never use, that it was just frustrating. Instead of making the fundamentals of the phone good, such as texting. They decided to make everything worse and try to put a billion features on it which were all not very good. I could also hold my breath for longer than the battery could hold electricity.   
  
I do sort of wish that I had a phone that I could leave in my bag like a Nokia 3410, that I could just put my SIM into when I went riding or something so if someone calls me I can talk to them. But if someone replies to one of my tweets, there's no chance of it interrupting me to let me know.