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RIP Windows Phone - Market share slips bellow 1%
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GasProblem
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I got a Lumia 640 for cheap and I like it. Barely any apps though.
RoyalLaFlame
Banned
Yeah, I'm jumping ship when I get the chance.
HighResTomato
Member
Microsoft does everything half-hearted.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I don't think I've ever met someone with a Windows Phone, honestly. My first smartphone in 2009 was a Windows Mobile phone. But I switched over to an Android from 2011 onwards.
sixteen-bit
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windows pwned
Likewise.
Nikodemos
Member
Win10 Phone development hit a bunch of snags (not least because of a change in leadership and company direction) and they didn't put out any phones for nearly the entirety of last year. The 550 and 950 only became available in December, while the 650 came out this year.
Worse still, the 550 and 650 are poor value. They use crappy-ass ultra-low-end SD210 series SoCs, have weak specs and generally feel like entry-level phones from two years prior. 950 is good but too expensive for something like 80% of the potential public.
And Win10 Phone being in a prepetual state of "we'll fix it next build" didn't do them any favours either.
EDIT: Had a massive brain fart and completely forgot about the 640. Shows how much weight MS/WP carries with me.
But my point still sort of stands, since they were basically Win8 holdouts. And they too had pretty bad hardware, though they were at least cheap.
Worse still, the 550 and 650 are poor value. They use crappy-ass ultra-low-end SD210 series SoCs, have weak specs and generally feel like entry-level phones from two years prior. 950 is good but too expensive for something like 80% of the potential public.
And Win10 Phone being in a prepetual state of "we'll fix it next build" didn't do them any favours either.
EDIT: Had a massive brain fart and completely forgot about the 640. Shows how much weight MS/WP carries with me.
But my point still sort of stands, since they were basically Win8 holdouts. And they too had pretty bad hardware, though they were at least cheap.
EdwardTivrusky
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Yeah, i really like my Lumia 920/930? The lack of apps was the only thing that let it down for me but i have a tablet for any apps i really care about that aren't on WP so even that wasn't a big deal. I can see how single device owners might have been up a creek for some things.
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Lord Virgin
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So now I'm not even part of the 1%?
Screw you people!
Screw you people!
wish Sony continued with their Xperia Z line
RoyalLaFlame
Banned
What bothers me the most is this. Lack of apps doesn't really bother me but the lack of commitment and how they treat Android/iOS better than WP.
Yes it bothers me, shows me how confident they are in WP.
X Line looks better
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
Have a 735. I love the OS, I love the device. I hate the app support.
I can't even use the local bike rental service, Tinder or other nifty apps. Spoitfy and other important apps cancel their support too. It's time for me to switch.
Can't decide whether I'll switch to Android or iOS, though..
I can't even use the local bike rental service, Tinder or other nifty apps. Spoitfy and other important apps cancel their support too. It's time for me to switch.
Can't decide whether I'll switch to Android or iOS, though..
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JeremyEtcetera
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WP OS was always super fast/responsive for me while I had one. It's unfortunate that their app situation(not having the most popular apps) wasn't resolved earlier when they were marketing the phone really hard. It's like the Wii/Wii U and third party software. There's a ton of apps that are crap or fake versions of what you want, but what you actually want that's 3rd party is on other systems.
If they ever decide to come back to the idea of Windows Phones with full support and easier crossover between apps I'd jump back on board.
Nikodemos
Member
Unfortunately, save for the top-end X Performance, they've got shitty specs and high prices.X Line looks better
I went to IOS then Android. iOS is the superior OS, but I think MS apps work better on Android. Esp if you have a Band 2.
They just need to release wordflow keyboard already.
the better twin
Member
Funny. We already had this article from the verge way back in January. Theyve been shitting on WP ever since it launched and whilst MS have certainly dropped the ball in recent years, for a while it was the nicest looking, most responsive OS until Android caught up.
ClosingADoor
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Love my Lumia 930. Great phone. Just too bad the apps and support aren't there. Don't know if they'll ever upgrade it to Windows 10. Doubt it by now.
Really too bad, but they have themselves to blame. First dropping Windows Phone 7. Now 8 again.
If I switch to a new phone it'll probably be iPhone and not Windows again.
Really too bad, but they have themselves to blame. First dropping Windows Phone 7. Now 8 again.
If I switch to a new phone it'll probably be iPhone and not Windows again.
Europe is the market that they did best in and focuses on least. Everything was USA centric. Any monkey could have realised that focusing where you're doing well and have a chance was a smart move.
10 is out for the 930
They do? Outside of my backup phone, I've never seen one in the wild.
I could live without apps (apart from streaming/media), but the fact that IE performed so poorly was inexcusable. Even now, with Windows 10, Edge delivers web browsing performance literally multiple orders of magnitude worse than iOS -- the iPhone 5S is 10x+ faster than the Lumia 950 in real world testing. Even on benchmarks the Lumia 950 is closer to 2011 tech than 2015/2016 tech. It is utterly embarrassing how badly MS dropped the ball.
I did love the Live Tile UI. Hopefully Microsoft will reskin Android with something like it (and tied to Outlook/Skype/WordFlow).
Their Arrow Launcher for Android is fantastic.
Nokia wasn't going to survive anyway. I mean come on. At least Nokia got 7B.
Japanmanx3
Member
Holding out for that HTC megaphone. My 1520 has a ghost touching issue so I copped a Nexus 5X. Really miss the OS.
MaybeBurger
Banned
worst phone I have ever owned. The app ecosystem is dead as a do do
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
I'm still mad at this. Elop must be on one of Finland's hit lists.
Nokia ruined themselves long before Elop.
DeaconKnowledge
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I have a Windows phone as a second/work phone. The phone itself, it's e-mail and text app is great. Simple, easy to get in and out of, perfect for quick business calls.
Everything else about the phone is garbage. The browser particularly. It's so underpowered that casual browsing crashes it repeatedly. Lord help you if you want to watch a youtube video.
It's a 620 so it's an entry level phone, but that should be no excuse for how utterly incapable it is of doing any job that isn't talking or texting/e-mail.
Everything else about the phone is garbage. The browser particularly. It's so underpowered that casual browsing crashes it repeatedly. Lord help you if you want to watch a youtube video.
It's a 620 so it's an entry level phone, but that should be no excuse for how utterly incapable it is of doing any job that isn't talking or texting/e-mail.
nephilimdj
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3 million windows phones
3 million blackberries
crazy month of low numbers
3 million blackberries
crazy month of low numbers
ClosingADoor
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Well, I'll be damned. Apparently you need to download a separate installer for it. I figured it would just give me an update alert.
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