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.
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.
The article says it all.
Mobile WinDoze is comatose...
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.
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.
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 have the 950XL. I use it more than my Surface, mostly because it’s faster and has more memory. Plus the interface to the OneDrive is seamless. I wish I could go up there and slap these people around. The problem isn’t with Win10 mobile, it’s with them.