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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.
It really is a decent OS, but I wouldn't say better than the alternatives. They really wanted world dominance or nothing, without any patience for getting there. And they had to be delusional to think everyone would jump ship from established ecosystems.
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.
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.