![]() High touch sensitivity for operating phones with glovesĪnd probably a lot more. Features which people take for granted, or which companies make a big deal about today, were already present in windows phones: -Ħ. Windows phones were in some ways way ahead of time. Now we're left with overpriced, conformist garbage from Apple or privacy-invasive, intrusive ad-serving malware from Google. A real shame.Īs others have opined, having a duopoly is not a good thing for consumers. They just lost interest in Windows Mobile and had to frantically catch up after the iPhone. I owned a tonne of Windows Phones and I'm always a little peeved that Microsoft messed up Windows Phone. When services started getting canned and I had to get a new phone, I had to go with an Android in 2017. Windows Mobile 10 was even worse but bearable. The reliability improved with updates but it was no WP 7.8. It was near perfect.Īnd then Windows Phone 8 came out and it was crashy, unreliable and it starting losing the integrated hubs. Zune Music was an excellent companion subscription we got late in Australia. The UI on Windows Phone 7 was absolutely unique and I liked the hub feature. When I got me HTC HD 7, I was amazed at how smooth it was compared to my older HTC HD 2 which ran Windows Mobile 6.5 Windows Phone 7 was an absolute champ in terms of reliability. But instead, Facebook/Meta is getting the apps and Microsoft will realize in a few years that they have the same apps issue in their hands as they had with Windows Phone. It wouldn't be so hard to do an All-in-One, Snapdragon-based, immersive Windows Mixed Reality headset, and that would get early adopters interested, and start populating the Microsoft Store with apps for when the consumer market is ready. ![]() They were planning to leapfrog the mobile phones to AR glasses and get back in the mobile game when the market shifts from small screen in their pocket to volumetric computing, but we haven't seen much improvements in Windows Mixed Reality since years, and now Facebook/Meta, and soon Apple, are claiming the market. I'm honestly more concerned about Microsoft's AR stance. Just let us use one device for everything, enable telephony in all SIM-enabled devices, treat it like any other communication app, let user decide how they want to communicate. We don't need a phone, we need a mobile device that can do legacy telephony during the time we're moving to AR. I miss Windows Phone, but a Surface Neo with telephony using Surface Earbuds would be even better.
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