WINDOWS PHONE IS DEAD

Windows Phone was dead on arrival. They're fucking garbage and don't have shit for even the most basic apps. Cortana sucks rotten shitdicks.

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>>51448082
TAKE THE POO TO THE LOO

At least Nokia is finally coming back with the C1.

>>51448082
Yes Windows Phone is dead. Now it's Windows Mobile

>>51448294
>Windows Mobile
same shit, diff name. still dead.

DEAD
E
A
D

>>51448275
>Nokia is finally coming back
Nokia just licensed their name to some Chinese company.

>>51448294
You have it backwards.

It was Windows Mobile all those years, then it was Windows Phone, now they're just calling it Windows 10.

>>51448481
Windows 10 mobile

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>>51448275
>Nokia
>Running Android, possibly other Linux based systems like Ubuntu phone or Tizen

>>51448507
Yeah but macroshit always just says "Windows 10" although the official full name is Windows 10 Mobile

>>51448522
Evidently it's chinkshit

>>51448477
>Nokia just licensed their name to some Chinese company.

Nokia meme chinkphones threads when?

>>51448507
RETARD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile

RETARD!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone

>>51448477
>Nokia just licensed their name to some Chinese company.

BULLSHIT

>>51448109
Settle down matey

>>51448591
RETARD

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/18/us-nokia-tablet-idUSKCN0J215G20141118

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>>51448481
Ok fa.m
>>51448591
It's real and that news is fucking old

>>51448631
> "With the agreement with Microsoft, as is customary, we have this transition and we can't do smartphones ... We have a time limit. In 2016 we can again enter that business," Nystrom told Reuters.

Its just a retarded loophole to avoid lawsuits, they gon have game back soon nigga

>>51448695
RETARD, READ THE FUCKING THING!

>Asked about rumors that Nokia was looking to re-enter the handset market, Chief Executive Rajeev Suri said last week he was looking into ways to bring the brand back into the consumer market through licensing deals.
>through licensing deals.
>through licensing deals.

How fucking stupid are you? I think VERY. Your parents must be disappointed in you.

>>51448722
They themselves can't because they sold the phone business to microsoft but they will eventually

Want me to draw a picture for you idiotic retard?

>>51448752
>but they will eventually
yes, because the last time they did it, it worked out amazingly well!

you're a fucking idiot and a total retard.

NOKIA's done with phones. No one would buy their shit just like they didn't buy it before. Making a phone is SUPER-HARD and takes a lot of money. And profit margins on Android phones are razor thin. They stand ZERO CHANCE.

Their best bet is to license the name, collect some money upfront and let someone else work hard trying to make it back.

Everyone in phone business, with the exception of Apple and Samsung, is losing money one phones. EVERYONE!

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>>51448082

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>company only gives out WIndows Phones and Blackberries to employees
>everyone carries a second phone for private usage

>>51448789
Neat

>>51448779
Because they went for windows phone meme instead of android

Yeah I guess thats why there are so many phone makers out there selling, using a FREE mobile operating system instead of paying to use/develop one must fuck with their profits

>>51448805
BB's pretty functional compared to Win phones. Unless your admin lock it down.

>>51448805
Just get a priv

>>51448840
>using a FREE mobile operating system instead of paying to use/develop one must fuck with their profits
Microsoft give money to Nokia to make budget phones and lost money for these phones actually
>Because they went for windows phone meme instead of android
Sony, HTC and many brands follow the android meme and still dying

It's very depressing this phone failed, I was looking for a switch from android and I love the aesthetic.

>>51448840
it was harder to make money on android phone than WP phone. except for Samsung, everyone in Android handset world is losing money! EVERYONE.

>>51448805
they want a phone they can turn off

>>51449022
>it was harder to make money on android phone than WP phone. except for Samsung, everyone in Android handset world is losing money! EVERYONE.

Sources on that?

>>51448789
cute, would buy

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>>51449203
http://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-share-of-smartphone-industrys-profits-soars-to-92-1436727458

>>51449266

I also read other one on bloomberg

Still, Nokia is a bigger name on the phone industry than many others, I think they'll manage to at least compete with huawei or lg

Thinking of getting an Win 10 device. Which one should I get?
Planning to write apps for it and having the whole eco system thing

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>>51448082
It is a conspiracy by Apple and Google to pay off journalists to give Windows phone bad reviews.

They know what it is capable of, the only OS that can support an x86 based phone in the future and provides full capabilities of a desktop OS including Office 365 and gaming.

Never trust anything posted on /g/ or on clickbait websites. Go out and test the phone for yourself before you fall for dank memes.

Thank god. Kill it already Microshit.

>>51449512
Seconding this. Used a win phone before and it isn't that bad. The only things bugging me was the little internal memory space and the small app library

>>51448082
>2gen's behind iPhone and a gen behind Android devices

op and the reviewers think the iPhone is a gen ahead of android. fucking kek.

>>51449540
Surface and Windows phone will become the gold standard for enterprise and working people. Apple may have good design but their iPad is a gimmick with no useful software. Other tablets are a joke and simply an enlarged Android phone.

In the end, with continuum you should be able to carry your work seamlessly across desktop, laptop, tablet, phone since Windows 10 is running universally across all platforms.

That level of integration is worth waiting for and I will be needing such devices for my job.

I thought the phone looked pretty good. Not good enough to make me switch from android, but still good.

Those reviews sound pretty biased though. 2 gens behind apple but only one behind Android? Apple is still playing catchup to Android, so shouldn't WP be closer to apple devices than Android.

>>51449563
This is exactly what I am talking about. I recommend my customers and friends who have work to do, that they get one to have their stuff on everything and safe.

>>51448216
iStrawman

I work in the UK and the only people in the office who own an iPhone are a woman, a closet faggot, an old guy, one faggot manager, one other old guy has a wp, everyone else is on android

Samefagging winshill

>>51449604
Apple has gripped journalists by their balls. They can get blacklisted from WWDC and Apple Keynotes if they ever give negative reviews towards Apple.

Likewise, they need to promote whatever FUD Apple is spreading to receive free shit and remain on the good side of Tim C.u.c.k.

>>51449623
>muh anecdotal evidence
everyone I know that owns a WP is an utter weenie

>>51448082
>Windows Phone is dead
2012 called and wants their headlines back. Shitty OS.

>>51449722
How mad are you over an OS? So edgy.

>>51449651
Apple and Microsoft are in each other's beds in the Tech industry. If anything, Google are the ones conspiring against Windows Phone, any positive Windows review will get lower ranks than critical reviews.

>>51449729
Not mad. Just awful ecosystem which has no support, never had and has been lacking in basic features compared to competition since its launch. I've used Windows Phone devices since WP7, mostly for work, and they really are shit and almost completely because of the OS. Some cameras were nice and the Here maps is good.

>>51448082
>OS without apps
so it's like one of the OSes from the feature-phones, like Series40?

>>51448082
Bill gates is so rich that he made phones with a shitty OS just to shit up the mobile industry. He doesn't care if no one buys it. Everyone who bought it got memed.

>>51448894
>Sony
>Dying
I don't think that's going to happen any time soon.

>>51448082
>no fingerprint sensor

it's like MS doesn't even care about staying relevant

>>51448789
Would buy/10

But Windows Phone as a platform is a bit shit right now.
With WP8/8.1 you atleast had a feeling that things were going on.
Updates were frequent and apps were still comming out. Along with promises of great things with W10, it was a good buy at the time.

I still love my 520, but the future isn't looking too good for the platform.

4charm update also, never.

according to /g/ windows phone and windows 10 for desktop are both irrelevant, unusable, bloated, botnet.

real life experience: I have win 10 rolling on both my desktop and laptop flawlessly, I also have three different lumias, two of which have windows phone on them and one is running windows 10 mobile, and it runs great

maybe lagdroids should stop trying to bait the single digit market share.

after using 950 at shop i got feeling that ms just gave up

>>51450235
I have Windows 10 on my desktop and laptop and they are both working without any issues and they obviously have massive support for all kinds of things. No big complaints and the best desktop OS for the purposes I use it. Windows Phone is something else though. It's a terrible mobile OS compared to competition. Falls short in every area. Nothing to do with hating Windows or MS. It's just worse than what iOS and Android offers.

>>51450502
Got vaguely interested when specs were revealed. Dropped all interested when I got my hands on it in an event about a month ago.

all that hype for nothing

>>51448082
The only thing going for it is the godlike camera image processing, and perfect smoothness of the UI.

>No big complaints and the best desktop OS for the purposes I use it
Good job anon! Hope the purpose is not for writing anything legible
Go send the money you earned for shilling win 10 to India you fucktard.

Pre-ordered 2 of these puppies, you mad?

Android is riddled with adware, malware and fraudware. No one cares if you can ssh into your mum's basement.

Apple is for idiots with more money than sense whose self image is determined by 20 cents worth of polished aluminium running an OS with Vaseline levels of guassian blur sold at 50,000% markup so they can spend all day downloading apps they'll never use and browsing facebook in the toilet.

Windows phone is for refined gentlemen like myself who only need the basics done right without pointless distractions, and recognize that the only tech company actually innovating these days is Microsoft.

>>51450856
25 cent has been sent to your account, Rajeev.

>>51448082
>2 gens behind iPhone and a gen behind Android
subtle b8

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>>51450877
I make much more money than you, Prajeet.

>>51449512
>the only OS that can support an x86 based phone in the future and provides full capabilities of a desktop OS including Office 365 and gaming.

x86 on mobile is a meme. How do you profit if your desktop applications are not available on mobile and why do you think it would make sense to embed Win32 into Windows Phone so you can have unusable desktop apps on 5"?

Not joking right now
The only person I know who is using a WP is some guy at my uni who is already like 30 years old with very long hair who is wearing a fedora

He's using an extremely old thinkpad in every lecture instead of writing down the stuff the math prof is doing on the blackboard

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>>51450856
>Windows phone is for refined gentlemen like myself who only need the basics done right without pointless distractions, and recognize that the only tech company actually innovating these days is Microsoft.
I know its been overused, but holy shit.

>>51450142
iris scanner

>>51449563
>iPad is a gimmick with no useful software
Not true. We all work on iPads. Many only have iPads and no desktop PC. Productivity has gone up immensely and we no issues finding the software we need. We run SAP ERP, Google cloud for office stuff and other apps to fill in the gaps. People are quite happy with this.

>>51451537
>it's him again
>making opinions

lol

>>51451555
If he can make claims, so can I.

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Oh wow look another Windows Phone is dead thread!

>inb4 41mp anus destroyer that leaves my 6 Plus BTFO

>>51451400
no fingerprint sensor

>>51451537
This. What fucking neckbeard hipster do you have to be to use desktop PC.

>>51451045
>>51449512
The Zenfone 2 runs Android on an Intel Atom

>>51449266
That's actually depressing

>>51451645
>implying that a mobile OS can replace a desktop OS
Some people do more than playing candy crush

>>51451878
>MAH PC GAMES
Grow up child.

>>51451999
>believing the PC games meme

>>51451999
>having fun means you're a child
You sound like someone in their late teens or early 20 trying to act all grown up

>>51448082
>Many say it's 2gen's behind iPhone and a gen behind Android devices
>implying that iPhone hardware isn't gens behind a G4
Stopped reading here

>>51449722
>shitty OS
>vs lagdroid
>the kernel that degrades and degrades and degrades over time
>so shit they had to remove the astoria subsystem from W10 mobile
>the only good thing about it is "muh customizability" and the amount of bullshit you have to go through to have it customizable might as well not even be a point for the shitty operating system

>>51450587
>it's a terrible mobile OS

weird, I think it's exactly the opposite! I love the ui, I love the tiles, the smoothness
It's a matter of tastes, but win 10 mobile and wp are objectively a fluid experience, even on low hardware, an experience I don't recall having on almost all of my android devices, except my lg G2, which only started to have a few hiccups on lollipop
The app meme is not a meme, the facebook client is shit, no snapchat, many lacks here and there, but as a platform even for developers, if it had a bigger market share, it would be awesome.
The new lumias 950 and 950xl thoung, are too ugly, how much money does a company need to develop a good looking phone? They look like an ironed 550

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>>51448789
>5.7"
>a fucking type cover

>>51452068
adults have better ways to entertain themselves than playing pee see videogames

>>51448805
dumb frogposter

>>51448789
this looks sweet, confirmed?

>>51452380
Like tasting wane or some shit?
Dude you're the one who needs to grow up, I know plenty of successful adults who still play video games

>>51451590
>he fell for the fingerprint meme

If windows phone dies. So does windows. And it's a shame because it's only because debs don't give a shit about it anymore. not because the OS is bad

>>51452553
>he fell for the meme meme

fingerprint scanners are objectively good for quick unlocking.

>hurr you can hack them

your gf, coworker or random nigger can't.

>>51452695
>your gf, coworker or random nigger can't.
>what is cutting your finger off

>>51452459
No well-adjusted adult plays games you fucking manchild.

>>51452711
you could torture them by threatening to cut their finger off and they would tell you their pin/password anyway

>>51452726
You seem to have some deep set issues.

Even my neuro anatomy prof, a God damn brain surgeon, still plays PC games, and he's better off than like 99% of /g/

>>51449203
I seriously doubt Huawei is losing money.

>>51452726
in general this is absolutely true. though nearly everyone will continue playing stuff like solitaire. Men might continue playing EA sports games on their consoles too. super casual stuff. I spent the last 5 years thinking i still should enjoy games. but it's not not humanly possible to enjoy them if you are an adult

>>51452794
>my anecdote is absolute truth

>>51452794
actually an exception to this is old people who never grew up with video games. I get my dad playing the Wii every now and then and he gets hhooked on stuff like you'd get hooked on a rubicks cube. Not stuff like Fallout or anything though. just Mario type stuff

>>51451590
I really don't know why you want one if there's an Iris scanner. Only reason I can find is you wear sunglasses everywhere all the time.
Right now anyone has pretty shitty fingenprint scanner implementation, some of them are better, i.e. Apple, some of them are worse, i.e. Samsung or Sony.
They often misread you finger, even if you put it perfectly, really like to bitch about scanning only a portion and require at least 4 fingers to be scanned in order to unlock your phone is all situations, like when you hold something in your right hand and want to check an e-mail.
Iris scanner just works, provided you can read text on screen. Sunglasses is the main problem. It works with transparent glasses..

>>51452459
>I know plenty of successful adults who still play video games
"successful adults"

what kind of failure hunches over his pc to clickety clack at buttons as entertainment

>>51452726
>>51452757
>>51452794
Video games as a medium is fine.
The problem is that 99% of games are targeted at 14 year old boys.
Which not only means that story etc. will be kinda childish, but it means content that works (for example CoD genre) gets repeated all the time, because every year there's a new generation of 14 year olds that haven't played it yet.

>>51452846
Doctors
>>51452757

>>51452852
We are at maximum capacity for how deep a game can be too, unless people come up with new business models or something that allows them to spend more time developing a single game. So if you think even something like Fallout is pretty much just rock/paper/sissors, then it's not going to change much in future. VR and different control methods will probably rejuvenate the appeal though

>>51452843
>I really don't know why you want one if there's an Iris scanner.

Because I don't want to point my eye at the fucking camera if I can just grab the phone and unlock it pretty much automatically and instantly.

>>51452882
But you're going to look at your phone anyway

>>51452794
oh man, some is trying really hard to show off. and failing spectacularly.

Almost all my friends and colleagues under the age of 40 really like to play games, given the choice they would gladly play them, but games take too much time, so they almost never touch them.
Successful adults rarely play video games because they have no time for them, not because "games are for children" or something.

inb4
>people you know.
People I'm talking about are well situated, have families and hold high ranking potions in big companies.

>>51452922
losers don't count

>>51452922
just because your friends never grew up doesn't mean rest of us didn't

>>51452918
I might look at it off angle from an arm length away, while it's on the table.
I doubt the camera will catch my eye well enough to unlock it.

Even if it did, fingerprint unlock is just faster and better.

>>51452882
If you look at the screen, camera can see your eyes and unlocks it. It uses front facing camera, not back facing one, and the whole point of an Iris scanner is that it's seamless.
Take phone out, look at the screen, it unlocks.

>>51452944
>growing up means you can't enjoy things you like
Oh wow. Is playing football with your friends also childish to you? Someone is trying really hard to pose as an "adult".

>>51452922
Sadly this

>>51453013
Sports are for real men. Games are for overgrown children.

>>51448789
>running Intel HouseFire chip

Into the trash.

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>>51448082
>SD Card
>Removable Battery
>1440p Screen
>Great Camera
>Snapdragon 810 with watercooling to avoid housefires

What is it missing hardware wise?

>/g/ - I'm not underage, you're underage

>>51452380
Like breaking Arch?

>>51451045
Imagine tablets and phones powered by DX12 and able to run 10-bit videos and do the same kind of processing as your desktop but fit in your pocket. That is the kind of phone that I want where I can install software instead of shitty awareness apps from Google.

>>51454085
Fingerprint scanner.

Flagship without one is a joke nowadays.

Do people in general still give a shit about Windows mobile? Shills in /g/ don't count.

>>51454768
iris scanner?

>The Lumia 950 does do some interesting things, however. It supports biometric authentication using iris recognition. On the front of the phone is an infrared illuminator and sensor, and these can recognize your eyes and use them to unlock the phone. This feature is still described as "beta" quality, and that isn't the half of it. To set it up, you first have to configure a PIN, and then you register your eyes by looking at the phone for a few seconds. Once it has locked onto your irises, a progress bar starts filling with green. After the initial training you can add more eye data by redoing the registration process a few times.

>You might ask yourself "sure, OK, but what happens if you wear glasses?" and that's a very good question. My experience is that the entire feature is useless if you do. The software tells you that for the initial registration you should take your glasses off. It was clearly designed by someone who doesn't need to wear glasses, because when I take my glasses off I cannot read the on-screen prompts telling me what to do. Through squinting and straining, I could eventually follow the on-screen instructions and get registered. Unlocking worked with decent reliability even in poor light... but only with my glasses off.

Holy shit, this is comedy gold.

>>51455651
Weird, some reviewers says it works with glasses on

>>51455651
I don't understand why Microsoft wouldn't use fingerprint scanner like everyone else does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkgh-GMoraY

Android can't do this

>>51455699
It would probably depend on the glasses.

>>51455873
It absolutely can.

>>51455873
Microsoft invented OTG

amazing
9/11
why has it taken so long?!

>>51455995
Because 99% of people don't use it

I've used USB OTG once in my life on my Android

>>51455873
https://youtu.be/wkgh-GMoraY?t=3m10s

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>51456026
Shit, 4chan X masks the link, it's the same link as above with the timestamp to 3m 10s

>>51456023
I used it to watch movies on my Galaxy Nexus


because it only had 16GB storage with no SD card

>>51448082
the screen is apparently amazing, for starters. the camera is god-tier, as usual. the processor is liquid-cooled, giving it an advantage over most android phones of 2015. it has sd expansion and removable battery. the build quality is likely very good. It runs windows, so its also likely to be the fastest phone currently avaliable. I mean, what do you want more? continuum sounds like a huge gimmick sure, but for what it is, its a great effort from Microsoft.

>>51456183
for it to run stable
see >>51456026

>>51456183
No apps.

>>51456220
it only missing murica bank apps and snapchat

>>51456200
oh wow, a phone crashing. see that never happens with android, now does it?

>>51456267
Never happened to me

Signed
Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4 and Nexus 5 owner

>>51449623
if you are texting girls and they dont see that blue bubble get used to having blue balls. :^)

>>51456282
No Nexus 6, Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P? Dabas

Sincere,
Sundar

>>51456357
I'm a poorfag, so I'm always a generation behind (2 this year)

Got my GNex a month before the N4 launched
Got my N4 a month after the N5 launcher
Got my N5 a month ago

>>51456244
Missing few Swedish banks as well

>>51448695
they have sold know how, factories to MS. All that they have left is name and patents, so it is highly unlikely they will make phone them self. But they can licence there name to foxconn,..... or let foxconn make the phone for them.

>>51448082

Also WP is not then as long as MS has $$$, worst it can be is irrelevant,...

>>51448082
It would be better with apps

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>>51448275
>Implying you can't buy the best phone ever made and pinnacle of mongol RIGHT NOW
Nokia N9

>>51449266
Maybe they'd make money if they could do some good products?

>>51448082

Windows 10 is adware, malware, spyware and a botnet rolled into one
Xbox department is getting staff cuts and loosing ground to PS4
bing is barely profitable and only gained some traction after billions of investment and backdoor deals
surface is a joke
enterprises aren`t upgrading their office machines or their infrastracture for another decade

MS is going to get shafted unless they get their shit together and drop all the bullshit side projects in the consumer electronics space.