Using a Windows Phone, 5 years later

Windows Phone. That was a thing. Today let's explore what it's like to use a Windows Phone all these years later, especially now as updates are ending next month- could it actually be any good?

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[Tech]

Was Bill Gates right? Could Windows Phone have beat Android if things went their way? Probably not, but you never know.

It's still cool though, and I wish it had been more successful. Did you ever have a Windows phone? Are any of you still somehow using one? Let me know if you are, there has to be somebody out there

[Dashz]

Windows Phone was awesome it was faster, stable and way more optimized than Android.. the only problem was it's lack of apps.

[JDNGAMER]

Honestly, Microsoft needs to retry on making a windows phone. I loved my windows phone.

[LightTheUnicorn]

Windows Phone has honestly my favorite mobile UI. It's slick, fluid and exceptionally easy on eyes with the native high-contrast and bold fonts (especially WP7/8/8.1). It looks and works absolutely great. I figure it was some bad decisions on the manufacturer guidelines and very poor 3rd party support that really killed it. It's a shame, it was nice to have something different!

[AugustinetheGreat]

I'm I the only person who enjoyed windows phone? I felt as though it was cool.

[pinstripe]

Damn. Type C in '15? I didn't even know it existed until '17 at least!

[lenintrejoguerrero]

Why do I bother to see this over and over again? It will never come back, it was so cool and fluid :c

[gluedtogames]

I'm still sad about Windows phone being dead :(

[simongarcia]

No android keyboard has ever came close to how good the windows mobile keyboard was

[marrox]

I actually loved Windows Phone, I'm sad it's dead

[haroldoduarte]

I miss my old Lumia so badly. Android battery drain drives me nuts. Never had this issue with the Lumia. Lasted for 4 years working like new.

[avintoussaint]

To me, all windows phone needed was actually good apps

[JT-koib]

13:53 Still reason to use Windows phones. Can use it as a wi-fi hotspot, calls and texts as mentioned here, can take photos, use as removable storage. You can buy them cheap second hand now and replace the battery easily if needs be.

[neontyler]

Windows phone was advanced on its time..
Even now i think.
The only problem is lack of apps...

I really miss my old windows phone

[BAN]

I miss WIndows Phone a lot and I'm still salty they decided to discontinued it. It was a great OS and I really loved it.

[bence.gabor.slezak]

I just stopped using my 950 as main phone last weekend. It'll probably be a navigation only from now. I still love windows mobile, because of all the little things. The nav bar, double tap on it to lock, double tap on screen to wake, no need to reach the power button and never woke up in my pocket. Why? Because it uses the proximity sensor and turns the screen completely off when something covers the top of the phone. The quick actions, you can customize them and you can see what it is, not just a few icon with a sometimes dumb symbol. Glance screen is great, especially with the wallpaper on it. Keyboard is the best of all keyboards. With dark mode on every app switched to dark mode too. You can set themes (just basic colour themes though) without making another account (samsung). I love the design since windows 8. Removeable battery. Plastic back cover makes it cheap? With glass on both sides something will break when it's dropped, and sooner or later every phone gets dropped. The retina scan worked quite well for me. Yes there were pretty much no third party apps. but the browser was there, it worked, until now. It is not supported by many websites anymore. All microsoft had to do to keep it useable is to keep the browser up to date, until they have a new phone on the market, but no. Now I have a samsung s8 with android 9 on it. The first couple of days were pretty bad with it, now I guess it'll do. It doesn't connect to outlook account, had to download contacts from the website then import manually. The iris scan is a joke. Hard press to unlock is not bad, but had a few unwanted unlocks already. Sure the screen is bigger, but the extra part at the bottom is taken up by the buttons and videos are still in 16:9, so I just can't see the point. Speaker on the bottom, when I turn the phone horizontal I cover it with my hand. The fingerprint sensor on the back is really far to reach, but works alright. I have all microsoft apps on it, but groove music doesn't work, their android keyboard is far from the windows mobile keyboard, big shame. Microsoft really shot themselves in the head. Pushed everybody to android or ios, but even there took some things away.

[freegeekdude]

i almost want to cry when i realize windows phone OS will never come back...

[ajaay]

This phone was low key ahead of its time in 2015. USB-C, wireless charging, dark mode, always on display.

[mapman]

I really do miss windows phone 8, my brother had an HTC 8x, I still remember the notification sounds and other sounds that it made.

[sahil]

Lol windows phone in 2019

-sent from blackberry