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LG Not Working On Windows Phone 8 Devices

Posted by Soulskill on from the admiring-from-afar dept.

helix2301 sends this quote from CNET: "LG's reluctance to embrace Windows Phone 8 underscores the difficulties that the platform faces with both consumers and vendor partners. LG was one of the early partners that signed on with Microsoft, releasing the LG Quantum in the first wave of Windows Phone devices. Microsoft's has a great relationship with Nokia, which is considered in the industry first among equals when it comes to Microsoft partners, has some vendors reassessing their own support for the operating system. Over the past year or so, LG has been focusing on Android and has started building phones running on Mozilla's Firefox mobile OS."

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  1. Re:I like Windows Phone by masternerdguy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You're using the metro interface on the intended device, of course it works. Most people's issues with Windows 8 have nothing to do with the mobile market, it's the desktop.

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  2. Re:nobody wants Microsofts solution by recoiledsnake · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How does that matter to end users? The OEMs/Carriers install shitty skins, apps and services that destroy battery life and slow down the phone by taking up RAM.

    This does not happen with Windows Phone or iOS.

    http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/two-year-old-phone-receives-15-month-old-software-update/

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  3. Re:Still on my first $10 by mystikkman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's cheap because Google subsidizes it with their monopoly search profits and tries to make it back on ads and spying on users.

    There is no way that another OEM or standalone company can make a profit on it at that cost.

    A Firefox OS or Ubuntu phone is much more open, unless they allow the carriers to mess them up.