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Microsoft Starts Selling Lumia Windows Phones Again (theverge.com)
After removing its Lumia devices back in June, Microsoft has started selling them again at the company's online retail store. According to Windows Latest, Microsoft U.S. Store is selling the Lumia 950 for $399, Lumia 950 XL for $499, Lumia 550 and Lumia 650 for $139 and $199 respectively. From the report: A Microsoft Store sales agent confirmed to us that Lumia phones are back in the store on February 4 after a long gap. "They are recently back this early February. Specifically, on February 4th 2018," Microsoft sales team told us. Rumor had it that Microsoft wanted to sell as many Lumias as possible until stores ran out of stock, but it looks like the plans have changed or the company is selling the remaining stock which they recently discovered.
Windows Phone 10 is still alive and well. It's still a better phone OS than the other two.
Posted via a Windows Phone 10 Alcatel Idol 4S.
I don't respond to AC's.
Seriously, with all the dickery MS has pulled over the years with their phones, just how much of a glutton for punishment would you have to be to sign up for this? And how stupid would you have to be to expect anything but the worse?
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Android vendors? Android is open source and manged by Google... But if you are talking about a particular phone ISP( Internet Service Provider ) who is generally the one which works with the hardware vendor to put a customized version of Androind on the phone... Well then you shouldn't be clumping them all as "Android vendors".
That's like saying Windows vendors have too many virus's and their patches break the computer all the time.
But I really don't get how you can complain about updates and then roll over and say you just need a phone to do basic tasks. Do the Android based phones stop working and doing these basic tasks and the phone ISP won't update it and get those working again?
Or are you one of the many hired tolls getting paid to post about the idea of trying Microsoft again.
AOSP is open and free. Android is not. The Android running on popular phones is Android + Google Services + Play Store + Google Apps. The coveted "stock" Android the fanboys rave about is Android + Google Services + Play Store + Google Apps + Google Theme/Launcher + Latest Generation Pixel Time-Exclusive Apps + Latest Generation Pixel Time-Exclusive Services.
If you want the latest Android stuff from Google, you'll need to buy a Pixel every year. Not only did Google give a big FUCK YOU to the latest Nexus owners at the time of the Pixel launch, they doubled down when they did the same to Pixel owners during the Pixel 2 launch.
Someone probably came across a couple pallets worth in the back of a warehouse that had been forgotten about, so they're trying to sell at least some of them rather than write them off completely.
And I agree with the others. Windows Phone was surprisingly good. If it had a more robust app ecosystem, it could have given Apple and Google a run for their money. Android, now matter how much Google improves it, always has this "not quite finished" feel to it, and iOS is generally very polished, but is also very "look but don't touch." Windows Phone inhabited a kind of happy middle ground. More flexibility than iOS, and more polish than Android. It wasn't perfect by any stretch, but it had a UI that was designed around specifically for a touch interface, instead of trying to shoehorn desktop "mouse & keyboard" concepts onto a phone. The catch, of course, was generally second rate apps, when you could even find one.
What are you talking about? My 3 year old Win 10 Nokia still gets regular patches from Microsoft. I paid $300 for it unlocked and it still works, original battery and all.
How long would you have to keep your IPhone or Galaxy to get to this low yearly cost?
I'm actually tempted to try a windows phone
Just keep in mind that security patches are scheduled to be discontinued on December 10th, 2019, per Microsoft's website.
https://support.microsoft.com/...;
On that date, the final nail will be hammered on the windows phone coffin, unless you're a windows 10 mobile enterprise customer, (do any exist?) then you get patches until some time in 2021.
And it was good.
It all started when my wife one one those. Because of her friend has one. Any way it was simple, speedy and tough very tough.
And I was very late for smarphone and still uses old nokia 1110 anyway. When I need a navgation I was give up old nokia and buy new one a 1320 and still using it. It cost me around $300 maybe less.
After four years it still takes beat. Battery stil good and good enough for reading ebooks, navigations etc. Still same windows problems need reboots maybe one per month.
I'm not fond of social app, mobile browsing etc.
Vell it was good phone, maybe lack of apps.
History repeat himself.
It was not how good you are, it was who found first.
[My english is better than most other people's Turkish, so please point out mistakes politely. Thank you.]
Dropped it? You do know these are the easiest phon a to work on right? Parts are extremely cheap , you can replace a screen in less than 10 mins, the back covers snap off and many colours are available. I really hate that MS abandoned the platform, for business , there was nothing better, having Office on a phone was pretty nice, too bad it's all dead and just hasn't fallen over yet.......