Security updates only. They stopped fixing other things about 3 years ago (ex Lumia 950 user here), nevermind new features. I still miss some of their features on my Mi9, though.
Was an awesome device. Only thing that held the platform back in my eyes was the lack of app/game support...
Never even had the 920 in a cover either, was a durable phone that lasted for years, only upgraded to a Note 5 because the Lumia's screen started to discolor... And the Lumia 930 just didn't have what I want from a hardware point. (Plus I saw the writing on the wall)
And eventually upgraded to a Note 8 and just a few days ago... A Note 10+.
It's a shame, I thought the Windows Phone was gaining traction at one point as it was shifting 10+ million units sold a quarter, Microsoft probably wanted more than that.
I still use a Nokia 1020, but just ordered a new sim card for it's replacement a Razer 2 I got cheap (cheaper than these $800-$1000 phones at least) on a pre Black Friday sale. The Nokia 1020 is still rather snappy with the apps that still run on it. A lot of news aggregators/apps don't carry current feeds because their apps are so out of date, but many of the games run fine and I'll be turning it over to my son as a mobile game app device. :D
They never really supported it. Their Win 10 flash bricked my phone and I had no recourse. I was willing to pay to fix it and they said nopity nope. I will never buy a phone from them again.
Nice way to end the decade. What a shitshow this whole thing was. Ever since MS bought Nokia this has been a disaster move after another. IMO one of the worst ones was not updating Windows Phone 7.x users to 10. The one thing that could differentiate Windows Mobile from Android is providing a long-term, constantly updated platform. But they decided to screw their first customers, the only ones who could've recommended it to other people.
I'm glad though. I didn't want MS to make a significant dent in the mobile market. We had too much of you, MS. You're only saving graces are Win32 (not even the whole OS) and Office.
Even if they did they would have failed. They were always too little too late. Flagship Windows phones were usually lesser Android phones released 6 months earlier. They have never been first at anything since iPhoneOS and Android launched. Just like Blackberry, they watched and failed.
agreed, nokia/symbian/stephen elop/ms takeover/wm7+ will be future business case studies in how to take slowly dying but still profitable platforms (symbian and winCE based WM 6x) and pour gasoline on them to make them burn even brighter, wasting a lot of cash in the process.
I don't know. Did you ever try running Windows 10 Mobile on a Lumia 520? I did...It hurt. That's what it would have been like for those first WIndows Phone 7 devices had they migrated to Windows 10 Mobile....
I stayed on Windows 10 Mobile for a long time... often recommending it to friends. I bought a slew (6) of Lumia 920s and put WIn10 on them for poor friends in Mexico. Was a very good inexpensive solution (talking $25 a handset). Performed fairly well with just 1GB of Ram.
My wife and I owned many Lumia 920s, 1520s, 950XLs, Heck we even owned the ill fated Lumia 2520 tablets. Bought some dirt cheap 520s for folks too (talking $15 a phone).
Gave up on Windows Mobile about 18 months ago. I have a midrange Huawei w/ Oreo. Can't believe how much more reliable it is. I never have to restart it. Even replaced my mom's Lumia with the exact Huawei dual sim phone my wife and I use.
Windows 10 Mobile was a great phone if you were back and forth between two countries, with dual Sim Chips and Two Languages. Just seamless. I think Windows 10 Mobile did contact management (People), multiple languages and dual sim better than any other OS, but that's where it's superiority ended.
Our Midrange Android phones have been so much better than any Windows phone I owned in terms of reliability and consistency. Can't auto assign a contact to favor a particular Sim when dialing, but that's okay... Maybe someday Microsoft will bundle a version of it's own People contact manager from Windows 10 Mobil with it's Launcher for Android.
Yup, you can thank a combination of Steven Sinofsky and his OS design team inattempting to get Microsoft to catch up with the tablet and mobile fad on the PC side along with what is now only a slow creep away from those design decisions by current day Microsoft so as not to look like the company is admitting the awful UI decisions really were a detriment to usability or that the software store is anything but a costly also-ran attempt to duplicate Apple and Creeper Google's successes with their own software purchase model. Sadly Microsoft trails in the telemetry collection department as well because we need the world's most popular OS to gather everything and send it back to the mothership in Redmond by forcing you to make an account when the OS first boots...oh wait...huh.
When I first used Windows 8 as an Insider... and saw that Fish screen.... and then when it finished and I saw those limited colors and backgrounds.... and then I tried to figure out how to install my HP printer, using a combo of MetroTablet and Win32 Desktop interfaces.... I thought: "My God... fire the whole team... How did this get released?" Windows 10 has just been a slow painful recovery effort.
No worries... the full retreat back to Win32 is almost complete. Windows IoT Core will disappear next... Holo Lens will go away soon too.
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quiksilvr - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
...They were still supporting it?MrSpadge - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
Security updates only. They stopped fixing other things about 3 years ago (ex Lumia 950 user here), nevermind new features. I still miss some of their features on my Mi9, though.StevoLincolnite - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
I was a Nokia Lumia 920 owner back in the day.Was an awesome device.
Only thing that held the platform back in my eyes was the lack of app/game support...
Never even had the 920 in a cover either, was a durable phone that lasted for years, only upgraded to a Note 5 because the Lumia's screen started to discolor... And the Lumia 930 just didn't have what I want from a hardware point. (Plus I saw the writing on the wall)
And eventually upgraded to a Note 8 and just a few days ago... A Note 10+.
It's a shame, I thought the Windows Phone was gaining traction at one point as it was shifting 10+ million units sold a quarter, Microsoft probably wanted more than that.
Freeb!rd - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
I still use a Nokia 1020, but just ordered a new sim card for it's replacement a Razer 2 I got cheap (cheaper than these $800-$1000 phones at least) on a pre Black Friday sale. The Nokia 1020 is still rather snappy with the apps that still run on it. A lot of news aggregators/apps don't carry current feeds because their apps are so out of date, but many of the games run fine and I'll be turning it over to my son as a mobile game app device. :DHardwareDufus - Thursday, December 12, 2019 - link
Lumia 920 phone was a fantastic piece of hardware. I loved how heavy it was!!Manch - Thursday, December 12, 2019 - link
They never really supported it. Their Win 10 flash bricked my phone and I had no recourse. I was willing to pay to fix it and they said nopity nope. I will never buy a phone from them again.baka_toroi - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
Nice way to end the decade.What a shitshow this whole thing was. Ever since MS bought Nokia this has been a disaster move after another.
IMO one of the worst ones was not updating Windows Phone 7.x users to 10. The one thing that could differentiate Windows Mobile from Android is providing a long-term, constantly updated platform. But they decided to screw their first customers, the only ones who could've recommended it to other people.
I'm glad though. I didn't want MS to make a significant dent in the mobile market. We had too much of you, MS. You're only saving graces are Win32 (not even the whole OS) and Office.
fred666 - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
Even if they did they would have failed.They were always too little too late. Flagship Windows phones were usually lesser Android phones released 6 months earlier. They have never been first at anything since iPhoneOS and Android launched.
Just like Blackberry, they watched and failed.
drexnx - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
agreed, nokia/symbian/stephen elop/ms takeover/wm7+ will be future business case studies in how to take slowly dying but still profitable platforms (symbian and winCE based WM 6x) and pour gasoline on them to make them burn even brighter, wasting a lot of cash in the process.HardwareDufus - Thursday, December 12, 2019 - link
man you aren't kidding.HardwareDufus - Thursday, December 12, 2019 - link
I don't know. Did you ever try running Windows 10 Mobile on a Lumia 520? I did...It hurt. That's what it would have been like for those first WIndows Phone 7 devices had they migrated to Windows 10 Mobile....HardwareDufus - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
I stayed on Windows 10 Mobile for a long time... often recommending it to friends.I bought a slew (6) of Lumia 920s and put WIn10 on them for poor friends in Mexico. Was a very good inexpensive solution (talking $25 a handset). Performed fairly well with just 1GB of Ram.
My wife and I owned many Lumia 920s, 1520s, 950XLs, Heck we even owned the ill fated Lumia 2520 tablets. Bought some dirt cheap 520s for folks too (talking $15 a phone).
Gave up on Windows Mobile about 18 months ago. I have a midrange Huawei w/ Oreo. Can't believe how much more reliable it is. I never have to restart it. Even replaced my mom's Lumia with the exact Huawei dual sim phone my wife and I use.
Windows 10 Mobile was a great phone if you were back and forth between two countries, with dual Sim Chips and Two Languages. Just seamless. I think Windows 10 Mobile did contact management (People), multiple languages and dual sim better than any other OS, but that's where it's superiority ended.
Our Midrange Android phones have been so much better than any Windows phone I owned in terms of reliability and consistency. Can't auto assign a contact to favor a particular Sim when dialing, but that's okay... Maybe someday Microsoft will bundle a version of it's own People contact manager from Windows 10 Mobil with it's Launcher for Android.
magreen - Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - link
And yet the rest of us are stuck with Windows 10 for PC being a mobile-first operating system with "apps" and tiles.PeachNCream - Thursday, December 12, 2019 - link
Yup, you can thank a combination of Steven Sinofsky and his OS design team inattempting to get Microsoft to catch up with the tablet and mobile fad on the PC side along with what is now only a slow creep away from those design decisions by current day Microsoft so as not to look like the company is admitting the awful UI decisions really were a detriment to usability or that the software store is anything but a costly also-ran attempt to duplicate Apple and Creeper Google's successes with their own software purchase model. Sadly Microsoft trails in the telemetry collection department as well because we need the world's most popular OS to gather everything and send it back to the mothership in Redmond by forcing you to make an account when the OS first boots...oh wait...huh.HardwareDufus - Thursday, December 12, 2019 - link
When I first used Windows 8 as an Insider... and saw that Fish screen.... and then when it finished and I saw those limited colors and backgrounds.... and then I tried to figure out how to install my HP printer, using a combo of MetroTablet and Win32 Desktop interfaces.... I thought: "My God... fire the whole team... How did this get released?" Windows 10 has just been a slow painful recovery effort.No worries... the full retreat back to Win32 is almost complete.
Windows IoT Core will disappear next...
Holo Lens will go away soon too.
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It’s a piece of heartbreaking news but still a piece of information for all Windows mobile users. I am also using a Microsoft Windows mobile phone and it words perfect to me because I can do my stuff easily by this topic https://essayontime.com.au/law-assignment-help It will be hard for me to change the platform I was on for past 6 years. But everything happens to modify your stuff and be futuristic so I think it is not that bad and I can manage myself to step up.atifstatus - Wednesday, June 17, 2020 - link
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