What's next for Windows Phone?

What's next for Windows Phone?

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0.1% market share

Nothing, unless MS manages to get x86 emulation working.

Death

full x86 hardware or bust

Sadly this.
They were too pure for this world.

Age of Extinction. Some brands and their symbols are just elegant. Microsoft is not, it reminds you of obscure nerds and devices. The color black is too common, white and silver is the hallmark of Apple marketing.

Microshit needs a new sub-brand with a new name that people can identify with. It is never going to be able to compete with its long history of fuck ups and Windows association.

Wait for the Dell Stack

Next up is
>Windows NEON design language
>Rumor Surface phone in 2018 on ARM base with x86 emulation in continuum mode, said phone is said to come in two variants, one of it with 6GB RAM
>Pretty is soon continuum allows apps to be windowed

Kek

Surface phone is now semi announced, ARM base but with x86 emulation in continuum mode, but you'll be able to install x86 on the go in "phone mode"
I'm pretty sure the guys at xda will find a workaround to make x86 apps run in phone mode

Unless Microsoft can get developers working for it, there's not much hope they have left.

If things really go south, Microsoft already makes many Android apps, an Android launcher (Arrow Launcher) and even a lockscreen (Next Lock Screen). They could ship phones with a modified version of Android that includes their apps instead of Gapps (but still including the Play Store), like Office, OneDrive, Groove, Skype and Bing.

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The trash

Straight into the trash

Android that has a layer that makes UWP apps playable, and a custom home screen that supports tiles for UWP apps.

top kek

It won't die since its now Windows 10 (universal). Honestly this is the best phone OS I've ever used, its just smooth, simple and not bloated. The only negative aspect is the lack of applications and consideration. I run into bugs that will never be fixed in some applications.
Tough OS for tough phones, I have a Lumia worth 70 euros that I bought a year ago, it can fall, take hits, water, not even blinking. Best phones of the market for sure

Anyone of you uses Windows Phone, then what's you opinion?

I am running Lumia 735 and it's quite OK. I really ike how the OS looks, especially the live tiles.

Switched from Android, because Smasung promised Android 2.2 for my previous phone but never delivered. At least with Lumia I got some level of support.

I love Winphones.

Painful death

Winphones are great for who needs basic functionality but for them to work good.
Sure, it doesn't have all the thing an android has, but internet, mail, messaging, calling, maps... all works great.
Also I like the interface much more than android, but that's subjective.

Also they are the beast cheap terminals.
I really want to see a 70€ android that can compete with my 550.
Hell, even the 200€ android my gf has feels much more sluggish, and had to be repaired twice.

I just want a Windows phone just because they seem so rare.

640 seems discontinued now though but still $60 or more.

My 640 has a nasty habit of random and sudden reboots, but I really like the UI. If not for the lack of good first-party apps, I wouldn't mind getting another Windows device.
If continuum gets really good, they may have a fair chance in the business-segment.

Lumia 520 here, works great.
I don't use much smarthphone functionality though.

I've got a Lumia Icon at the moment and once Christmas comes, I'm upgrading to the 950 xl.
Eventually I'll get the Surface Phone once it comes out, but for now, I'm happy with what I've got to work with. Just need Microsoft to let Android apps convert over to the Windows Store.

My dad uses a windows phone with 512 megabytes of RAM and it's snappy as f***.
Impressed desu

If Surface Phone comes out, I'm going full Windows botnet. Right now I'm half-Google, half-Windows, and it's annoying.

>What's next for Windows Phone?
a proper burial.

Windows Phones is stillborn

I don't have anything against the phones themselves or the OS but it just has nobody using it.

Sure, you could make that argument against linux which I use but Linux has the whole open source thing going for it and is used extensively in some industries like servers for example.

Windows phone has no niche, no users, no apps and because so little people use it or buy the devices it doesn't even seem like ironing out flaws in the devices is worth spending the money on from microsofts perspective.

I don't get it. What's a Microsoft app / service that you have on WP that you don't have on Android / iOS?

There's no crazy hardware that they could release that would be enticing.

Windows OS also needs more accessories and things to make the switch more enjoyable for people. Or at least make it more encouraging for third parties to join the fold.
I think that's the main reason why its been a dead OS. Great software, good customization, good features, but next to no good apps and peripherals.

Dammit, I've been jazzed about these phones since WP7 came out. I'm now jumping ship until they officially announce that the OS is as dead as Zune.

>I've been jazzed about these phones since WP7 came out
I think a ton of people were initially. A lot of people on Sup Forums, myself included gave it a chance and got burned from MS in the process

I didn't get burned by MS over the years, it was mainly Verizon that I felt were shitting on the phones. They stopped carrying them nearly completely. All they do is shill hard for Iphone and Galaxy and it really sucks that I've got to jump over to AT&T just for my new phone once my contract runs out.

I just don't like being in 2 different botnets. I can manage, but they don't sync perfectly.

And I'm thinking of it the other way around. Which is more important, my computer experience or my phone experience? As cool as smartphones are, my desktop computer experience is way more important. And Windows is king. I'm not using Chrome babby OS, nor do I want my entire desktop computing experience taking place inside the container of Chrome fucking browser, with proprietary 'apps' inside my app.

I want to use Windows properly, 10 and these UWP apps are really growing on me, and I would like to be able to use them to their full potential by being seamlessly switching between computer and phone.

The questions for me are, would I be sacrificing much by switching my Android for a Surface Phone, and would it be worth it? I barely use any special apps these days that I wouldn't find an equivalent of on WP, so yes I think the tradeoff would definitely be worth it for a more cohesive digital life.

Plus Google behaved in a very questionable way this past election, while Microsoft did not. It gave me the 'get-away-from-Google' bug al over again.

>They stopped carrying them nearly completely.
do you blame them though? They weren't selling at all. Every carrier that I know at least gave them a chance.

I get it from a business standpoint. But from a carrier, it's pretty shitty that they neglect even a portion of their customers simply because the phones don't sell as well as Android and Apple. The Windows 10 update didn't come out for verizon for MONTHS after it did for AT&T and others. I can't remember when exactly it did, or if it ever even did, I installed it using the insider program.

>The Windows 10 update didn't come out for verizon for MONTHS after it did for AT&T and others.
Wasn't it Microsoft that promised that their updates would be carrier agnostic?

>Google behaved in a very questionable way this past election
...how? I've heard this statement from pro-Hillary and pro-Trump people but I have yet to see anything concrete

From what I looked at before I did the insider update, Microsoft basically put the update out and the carriers had to push it through to the phones. All the carriers did it quickly and Verizon got it, and did nothing with it, and didn't even give any updates on when the OS update would come out.
They basically told customers "You'll get it when you get it"

The Lumia 750 is the worst fucking phone I've ever used.

For one thing, manipulated auto-search results. So that when you typed in Hillary and whatever beginning letters of a scandal strongly associated with her (that even Bernie fans would agree with), whether guilty or not or whether it mattered or not, it didn't show up as a search suggestion. Only positive things showed up. Doing the same searches on Bing and Yahoo gave the appropriate autosuggestions. Clear censorship on Google's part. Sure it's mild atm, but what's to stop the next escalation?

I'm not being biased. For example, as a Trump supporter, obviously I don't think the tapes where he said "grab em by the pussy" were relevant at all. But I recoginize that it was a trending topic, it was indeed a 'scandal' associated with him, so Google at that time should indeed have auto suggested it when typing in "Donald Trump pu-" or "Donald Trump gra-". The fact that they tried to lead you off relevant Hillary searches (Iraq, Libya, Syria, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Haiti, Parkinsons, illness etc) is clear bias.

Why would Google risk its multi billion dollar business to manipulate something as minor as auto complete? It's a single election and Trump is honestly more pro big business (Google etc) than Hillary is.

It doesn't add up

If this was anything more than a conspiracy theory, where's the investigation into it?

I tested it and saw it with my own eyes, comparing Google to Bing and Yahoo. Fresh IP address, clean browser in private mode. The difference was stark. So I'm giving you first hand information, not second hand recycled information, for what it's worth.

As for why, well obviously I'm not a fly on the wall, I can't give you facts, I can only conjecture. But as you say, considering the facts you stated (Why risk? and Republicans are for lower business taxes and regulations), it doesn't make sense that they should favour one candidate, especially the Democrat. So I can confidently infer that the issues are more complex than that. Look at the pic in my first post, that's a fact. I think at some point you can be so rich that 1) a little here and there doesn't matter, and 2) worse rules on paper + loopholes and friends in high places are preferable to better rules on paper but no way to get survival concessions.

As for how could they risk being seen to do this...I reckon it was a confident gamble that it wouldn't stick, that they could get away with it temporarily. The average person is busy and/or dumb as fuck anyway, very few are noticing things like this live. And then in retrospect when someone like me talks about this it's easy to dismiss them as a conspiracy theorist.

I meant 'special concessions', not 'survival concessions' lel.

Some Core-M/Y x86 phablet monstrosity which nobody buys like all the other Windows Phones.

Have used, it sucks. If literally all you do is call or text it's fine, but all the apps are total trash

I got a lumia 830 and i love the design of the phone. It's mainly why i got it. I had 2 920's before it.
But i think im leaving winphone for good next purchase. I'll hate to go back to android but whatever.