Chime in: Are you still using a Windows phone?

Windows phones and Windows ten Mobile is effectively expressionless, no longer receiving support from Microsoft in terms of features or apps. Information technology's set to receive security tweaks and minor bug fixes, for the time being, buoyed past the occasional UWP app update and a smattering of progressive web apps (PWA) striking the store. For the most part, sadly, information technology's a goner. Just that doesn't mean it's unusable.

Although practically all Windows Key staff have moved over to Android, at least one of us is even so rocking his Windows phone, and we'd like to hear if (and why) y'all are besides.

Jason Ward
07-12-2018 12:42 PM

Why Windows phone? I've always loved the idea of having a PC in my pocket, and the evolution of Windows on phone, from Windows Mobile, to Windows Telephone to Windows 10 Mobile has embodied that for me to varying degrees over the years. Outset in 2006 with the Cingular 2125 running Windows Mobile v.0 (my outset smartphone), my Windows phone journey has ridden the spectacular crests and...
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Personally, information technology was a combination of my Lumia 950 XL's bombardment going flat, my HP Elite x3's camera being godawful, and Twitter existence completely unstable that forced me off Windows x Mobile. I since moved to a BlackBerry KEYone, and now BlackBerry KEY2, and haven't looked back. Despite being messy and Google-y, Android provides a far better mobile feel than Windows 10 Mobile always did, for me, thanks to its offering of well-supported apps, more than annihilation.

Microsoft's services also function actually well on Android, which allows you to change all the default systems over to Microsoft's own, finer making it a Windows phone in all but proper name. That said I do miss real live tiles, system-wide color customization and dark theming, and some of the UWP apps that were actually better than the real thing, such as MyTube and Readit. Maybe Surface Andromeda will save us all. Maybe non.

In whatsoever case, if you're still rocking Windows x Mobile (or even if y'all're not), drop in the forum thread above and let u.s.a. know why.

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