[ROCKLOBSTER]

Bullfeathers! It’s the taxpayer’s money.

Why don’t they just order $20 tracfones?

They may not play America’s funniest youtube, but the cops are supposed to be working, communicating, not playing videogames.

[TChad]

If the NYPD is just going to use the Windows phones for basic communications and basic smartphone stuff, then those inexpensive Windows phones should work perfectly well until they wear out. Nokia phones are not junk. And yes, Windows phones will play YouTube videos perfectly well.

If the NYPD plans to spend a lot of money creating new apps, which will later have to be rewritten for Apple's iOS, then in may be cheaper in the long run for the NYPD to dump the Windows phones.