Posted on 04/25/2017 9:12:38 PM PDT by dayglored
With so few features, for so few phones, one wonders what the point is.
Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update rides the coattails of the desktop OS, heavily leaning on improvements in Cortana and Edge to nudge Microsoft’s nearly comatose mobile platform further ahead.
As the free upgrade rolls out Tuesday, our review of the Creators Update can't help but conclude that it's even less of an improvement than the Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update. We can tell you that Windows’ new ability to buy and read ebooks within Edge represents its most potent addition. You can turn off a screen while using Continuum, a tweak that better approximates the PC experience. Cortana’s slightly smarter, as she is on the desktop. You can also pause updates, view the Glance screen while charging and enjoy a limited but refreshingly simple 3D content creation app, 3D Builder.
In the end, though, you have to wonder whether it matters. Windows 10 Mobile is in limbo, struggling for relevance even within the most devoted Windows communities. Microsoft’s most recent mobile hardware announcement involved an Android phone, of all things. Recent Insider builds have been moved off of the development track used by the PC, into their own “feature2” track. Microsoft still says it’s committed to Windows Mobile. But without any evidence to justify the claim, most users basically wrote off Windows 10 Mobile long ago.
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What say you, Windows Phone users? I'm sure there must be a number of you out there. Chime in proudly!
Cortana, Edge and Bing aren’t that good.
Sorry Msft.
I got a windows phone, it’s alright, but I mostly use it to make phone calls, read FR, and take pictures.
Not much else.
My gosh, dayglored, there are more than crickets out there!
My own position has always been that WinPhone was a good stab at it, and the Win8/10 UI actually worked well on a phone/tablet device. (IMO it sucked on a desktop or laptop without touchscreen, though.)
It just couldn't compete successfully with the iPhone, and then the Android steamrollered everybody's sales figures -- although Apple kept all the profits. :-)
And we can all have a laugh at this fellow's expense, as Steve Ballmer Laughs At The iPhone.
I’ve got a buddy at work who has a Windows Phone, and it’s about the same story — basic phone operations, camera, a little internet. Unfortunately, the WinPhone app ecosystem never seemed to get to critical mass to take off.
I loved Windows as an IT’er and had several Windows phones, ver 5 and whatever the Nokia version was in 2011 or so. Those phones had potential but they sucked all the same. Still have them; one was used in Hong Kong and S.America but cost more than a high end laptop at the time. Windows is rapidly becoming a subscription service and nobody with a business phones needs Windows beyond Outlook. Most agencies in 2010 utilized Blackberry servers for official email communications rather than rely on MS.
Yeah, I’m not sure what it is, the phone really doesn’t compel me to explore it.
However, it probably is just me. I like to use my desktop pc a lot.
But when I leave it, I like to be away from my pc. When I am outside, I like to do outside things.
When I use my phone to read FR, I am usually either at the doctor’s office or waiting for takeout food.
The article says it all.
Mobile WinDoze is comatose...
Microsoft focus groups are something else entirely. How they come up with their stuff, I'll never know.
I remember having a Windows smart phone in 2003 and I loved it. I had to go to Wikipedia and check dates and there I saw that Apple didn’t introduce the I-Phone until 5 years after MS had their phone OS on the market (Windows Mobile 2002).
I used a Windows phone for quite a while and was happy with it. I don’t need a million apps and found the visibility and simplicity of the phone refreshing. Unfortunately, the two apps that I really need, MightyText and Android Auto, are only available on Android phones so my Windows Phone now sits in my desk drawer. I do believe MS is fighting a losing battle with this.
That was the iPod killer!
Imagine you're in an emergency situation.
Someone's going to die unless you can make a call.
Seconds count...
You pickup your Win10 Phone...
And AUTO-UPDATE LAUNCHES!
Our company went from Blackberry to Win-8 phones. The first batch we got were problematic - many of them would freeze up, requiring one to pull the battery to restart. Mine didn’t but they upgraded me to an HTC which was a POS. No battery to pull to soft reset, so you have to do a hard reset and lose whatever you have on the device.
Then they migrated the whole company to iphones. I despise them. Now they’re telling us they’re contemplating moving to Android phones.
Actually the creators update let’s the phone notify you in advance and you can delay it.
I still love my windows phone, the ui is so much better then android or iPhone that it’s a shame.
I hope to be able to keep it until the surface phone kicks out.
I have a Nokia Lumia Icon and love it. I’ve never had trouble finding an app I actually needed. I’m on Verizon so my next windows phone is non-existent. I hoped to get the 950 with a docking station but Verizon doesn’t support it. My next hope is the Surface phone. Verizon will probably not support that either. I’m dreading the day I will be forced to go Android or Apple. I don’t like the UI in either.
I love my Lumia Windows Phone on Verizon and also hoping for Surface Phone. I’ve noticed over the past few years that PC World articles are anti-PC and anti-Microsoft.
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