Who is currently still using a Windows phone and why?

Who is currently still using a Windows phone and why?

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Not me

Not me.

I'm still using a 930 because it does everything I need it to do.

I do, because i cannot afford a smartphone

i do, because it just works
t. since 2013

Reverted my Lumia back to Windows 8.1 and damn, it runs really nicely. Might swap back to it as my daily driver honestly. Everything Just Works™

right here.
Bought a Lumia 950XL as my first smart phone.
At the time it had the best features out of any phone. The only trick was that it didn't have any apps--which I never cared about and still don't.

Fast forward two years later, I can afford to buy literally any phone on the market upfront with cash, and... nothing.

Smartphone cameras are joke-tier compared to the 950XL and 1020.
No flagship phones support MicroSD.
Phones are increasingly dropping support for 3.5mm jacks, and the only reason this is tolerable is because USB-C provides an analog signal for audio.

Phones are increasingly gearing towards nickel and diming you so that you're forced to use cloud services or else suffer never getting updates--because fuck you, you didn't buy first party.

best porn device if you go faplet size

not me

as a hardcore linux user in my personal opinion you should install gentoo w/ xfce on the phone. you may have to modify the bios to make it run but i'm sure with enough effort you can do it. you'll probably have to make your own script to allow touchscreen functionality (and you may have problems with touching the right button on xfce as it's not tailored for touchscreen) and there will be virtually 0 programs you can install but you can just make your own, it's the best way to be honest.

this

I had the Lumia 640, I believe. It ran quick as fuck without any problem and the battery life was wonderful. Of course the camera wasn't the best since it was a low end windows phone but it worked. I didn't have any problems app wise except that whatsapp wouldn't receive messages when the phone was locked.

Now I have an iPhone 7 that my wife bought me as a gift.

sorry to tell you, but your wife hates you and graves the BBC

I am because in the price range that I can afford all android phones are pure trash

lumia 800 here. it just won't die.

>not literal android botnet
>not apple botnet
>windows botnet but no one cares

Nokia Lumia 1520

>bought in 2014
>6" display
>1080p
>SD expandable memory
>new battery cost $14.99

I'm still looking for a reason to upgrade

Owned Windows Phone from 2010-2015.
The fuckers never died, never slowed down. The battery lasted god damn forever.

I still use my 2012 HTC 8x as a backup, since I only charge it about 1-2 times a week.
Since then I've owned two LG G4's that both bootlooped on me, and a Note 7 that was recalled.

I miss the reliability and lightweight nature of WP, but I can't pass up the customization and apps supported by Android.
WP had the potential to be an amazing OS if the app store ever caught up, but Windows just abandoned the platform, and boated it down with the WP10 update.

WP interface was godtier

I fucking miss them

microsoft killed W10 Mobile too ironically

My Mom does, she likes the interface with the tiles, idk, she needs a new phone soon

Windows phone just wasn't usable enough for me and I got fed up with it. It's a mystery why they couldn't even get their own internet browser app to work correctly.

I'm on a WP7 phone. I got it free. I use a phone as a phone, so it is adequate to my needs and includes a lot of extras. I've only need to use it to browse the web twice since the years I got it.

It's needing a bit of maintenance nowadays so I thought about getting a later model, but they all come with WP10 nowadays, and I heard that that thing is buggy and shit.

Still, I'm sure it would still be better than the clusterfuck that is Android, and I don't want to sell my liver yet so I can't get an iPhone.

I suppose as long as the phone and mp3 player parts work the same, I'd have no problems with it, as long as it is stable. Only reason I'd need one is in case my old phone dies anyway (and perhaps to make use of the better browser, once or twice a year).

I still have my Lumia 640.

I loved WP. Went from a Lumia 520 to a 635 to a 640. Phones were CHEAP, decent cameras, lots of cases always available. WP OS worked really well and had some unique features. I miss you WP. ;_;

I moved to Android since some of my banking and shopping apps weren't made for WP. Biggest thing I miss about the Lumias was the audio--they were loud as fuck. Like, I could drive down the highway with the top down on my car and could still have a conversation over the speakerphone. I have yet to use an Android that even has adequate call volume for a noisy room.

nope they are still popular in japan, some freetel models are windows 10 mobile

I use a lumia 532 on w10m. Don't really want to spend money on something I use only for music and calling anyways and this thing does the job

user, microsoft canned it, they'll try to get back to mobile again with the surface phone or whatever bullshit they're trying now
w10m will lose all support after 2018

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>Convertible
>Shopping apps
My condolences to your father.

Could look up some Windows Phone 8 devices and see if they're still being sold on Amazon or eBay.
Looks like my old HTC 8x is on Amazon for $80 still.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Windows_Phone_8_devices

no user they exist windowscentral.com/freetel-continues-japans-support-windows-10-mobile-katana

Also why is windows 10 losing support explain

Why? My dad says I'm the best daughter he's ever had.

I used a Lumia 920 for a while, I loved the camera and build quality.

I'm using a iPhone 6 now, however how's the Nokia 8? My main concern is a reliable, non-laggy OS

>Not driving a sports car

And for shopping I mean like Newegg and B&H. Sometimes you need mobile apps to qualify for discounts.

Did anyone actually develop shit for windows phone here?

It’s so much easier than on Android or iPhone

I've never tried. How's android tough? Xcode/Swift is meh

freetel? They ditched all the windows phone ( katana series)

I poked around with it a little, but never built anything nontrivial.

C# + XAML was pretty comfy though.

Spotted to poorfag.

I am.

I'd really like to see Surface phone show up LOL
I enjoy the interface and the keyboard a whole lot (W9.1 keyboard was GOATEST OF ALL TIME).

I'm pretty bummed they killed it, but I'm probably gonna buy an unlocked 950 before I go abroad.
It just werks well for my use case.

I wanted to get one but got an Samsung S7 as an gift.

Oh man, I've experimented with tons of keyboards on Android, but I've never found one that just felt so solid, snappy and accurate as the Windows Phone's keyboard, even on such a small screen.
Didn't have features like swipe, but for a basic keyboard it smashed Google's, shockingly.

It's really fucking good.
It's pretty much why I've never switched to another mobile OS. Physical keyboards don't seem to exist either.

Now that I have adblock working on edge, I don't plan to switch from my 950 until it dies.

android is the best mobile porn os.
why is WP special?

How?
I have all my pron on a separate Windows Phone, it IS my porn OS

Have to interop unlock the phone, there's a guide on XDA. It's definitely a bit more involved than rooting android phones, but wasn't too hard.

>why is WP special?
Extremely fast and responsive (up until WP10, anyway), has better security, centralized update system, a mobile UI that is actually well thought out and not just a carbon copy of Palm OS, and it doesn't allow 18 apps to run in the background simultaneously.

Android uses Java. Which explains a lot.

Father had an 820 since 2012, last year it died, I replaced it with a refub, but it was pretty shit.
Got him an iPhone 6s on friday

I don't get this board.

We shit on Windows/Microsoft in general because of their shitty history and closed software, yet Windows Phone more often than not tend to catch a break from you guys. Why is this?

Because competition is what spurs innovation. Competition exists in the desktop world with Windows, MacOS, and Linux. But in the mobile world, it's Android and Apple.

If you know and work hard enough to get Windows 10 data centre files onto your phone with mingw you can basically run linux shell and exgirlfriend server on top of windows then get whatever android apps natively adapted to windows phone. DELET THIS

Probably because Sup Forums loves underdogs.
There are certain features Windows Phones had that Android and iOS don't have, but ultimately it's a dead platform with no app developers.

Also worth noting that everyone here praising WP are specifically talking about WP7-8. The WP10 update introduced a lot of bugs, and bloated down the OS, which is when Sup Forums lost its love for the platform.

WP7 was missing tons of basic features that WP8 added. (Who the fuck doesn't add copy-paste into an OS until a later update?)
But WP8 was still lightweight, minimalistic with little bloatware, surprisingly stable, and could still be customized more than iOS, especially compared to iOS 2010-2014.

These days Sup Forums mostly remembers WP with nostalgia, or think of it as dead on arrival, aside from the rare few still using it to this day.

Lumia 920.
I'm still using it because it has yet to break. It's a solid brick.
I also don't use my phone for much, only calls and music. My laptop is for everything else.

Same, i dropped it several times the only thing that break is my toe, even the original charger still work.

WP was good.

Why should I not get a 950 for like $150 gbp?

>there are people who actually bought one

It was pretty obvious that it would fail when WP7 was announced and all old windows mobile developers moved to android (muh xda)

BlackBerry 10 OS is the best dead platform. Prove me wrong.

iPhone X? Nice

Still using 640, too bad they dropped support for it recently, didnt get falls creator update, but whatever. Hope to hold on to this till a new iteration of wp comes out...

>give me a job please

Yup, I still have the original charger also. This phone refuses to die.

>a new iteration of wp comes out...
Oh no

My father still has a Lumia 925 because
>it just works

I am. A Lumia 640.

It's because I don't yet lnow what to replace it yet. iPhone 8?I don't know if the screen is good enough.
iPhone X? I don't know what to think about the notch, also the price is outrageous.
Galaxy S8? Samsung Bloat.
Google Pixel? Shitty LG panel, Google Spyware, ugly glass back, no headphone jack...
Chinkphone? Guaranteed spying, shitty retard UIs...

Jesus Christ this is difficult. My phone also sucks, trust me, but I wouldn't want to spend 900€ on something that's also shit.

Then consider flagships from 1-2 years ago.
Either way you seem to think every smartphone on the market is shit, so good luck to you.

The hell are you even looking for in a phone, anyway?
Ubuntu Touch OS, AMOLED panel with a headphone jack?

>The hell are you even looking for in a phone, anyway?
>Ubuntu Touch OS, AMOLED panel with a headphone jack?

A great screen, the fastest chipset, non-retard UI. Those are important. And no retarded gimmicks that make the device worse.

it does everything I want - calls, texts, alarm, camera

If you're coming from a Windows Phone, you're probably not gaming on the device.
Any specific reason for the absolute fastest CPU you can buy? Most people would be more than fine with 4-6 GB RAM and any CPU from a mid-high end phone from the last 2-4 years.

I mean, the Razer phone has 8 GB RAM, an 835 CPU, awesome speakers, notably larger than average battery, and a 120 Hz screen, relatively stock Android.
No headphone jack, and remains to be seen if it has any major issues at launch though.
Also,
>Razer

Any point in buying an used Windows phone to use as a low power computing unit? What I could install on it or could I install an android or linux in case there'd be no interesting Windows programs?

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because they suck