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I wish they’d make them again we need more than just Android & IOS they should add the play store it would be amazingly FUN Phone

Always loved Windows Phone, and I still regret their dissapearance to this day. Thank you very much for that throwback 🤗🤗

It'd be cool to see a windows phone comeback, especially with how ARM processors are becoming more prominent, and most "apps" have a webapp version (snapchat, instagram, etc. all work in browsers now) so there's really no barriers when it can essentially be windows 11 repackaged to work as a phone.

I got my windows phone in 2013, the Nokia Lumia 820, absolutely beautiful phone, wireless charging, removable battery. And ten years later it's still working fine. Always loved UI as it was smooth and looked far better than rows and pages of icons. I really wished that developers had supported it more and brought out the equivalent windows apps.

I had the Lumia 640 LTE and it was a really good phone. The Windows OS for mobiles was so clean but with the disadvantage of lacking lots of apps

Those phones had unique UI design and worked smoothly even on cheap models. The latter is something that Android phones don’t have even to this day. It’s very unfortunate that WP failed.

Actually the Nokia Lumia (before Microsoft bought Nokia) were the first 820 and 920 to wireless charging. Windows Phone basically had better features from always on display, dark mode etc just the lack of apps killed the platform, but third party were always better options back than as a former Windows Phone user myself.

Had the Lumia 630 as my first smartphone in 2015 (was using a Nokia 2690 prior to that), and the performance was the one thing that really got me impressed, back then low and mid tier android phones were pretty horrible performance wise, the only android experience I had back then was through friends and family phones, seeing how the Lumia performed always brought a smile to my face. It's sad that MS decided to drop the Windows mobile, but recently satya nadella said that he regrets that decision, so maybe there's still hope. Perhaps with the Windows Subsystem for Android we might see Windows phone come back to life with some sort of an android app enabled echo system implemented.

I really miss the Windows experience. I was hooked to it since the early days of Windows mobile 5 and the PDAs all the way up to Lumia 950 and the Windows Insider. It was truly an adventure to receive a new update every week. Most of the time there were bugs that reappeared months after they were apparently fixed. Windows phones were really ahead of their time. They were the real driver of innovation and all other OSes were heavily copying.

I had a lumia 630 as my first and only free windows phone with cricket. It really was the best phone I had at the time. I think everything ran smoother the camera wasn't great especially with no flash but overall the experience was great including Cortana. The phone was durable and the cheap plastic meant a range of colors. Although the support and app store wasn't there

Awesome video, brings back memories! Had this exact phone back in 2016 because I dropped my 640 XL. Got my 950 for around 300 euros which was a pretty good deal for the specs back then. The stability of it was disappointing compared to WP8.1 and even WM10 on the 640 XL I remember. Also wondered if the 950's Snapdragon had an actual dragon inside because it ran HOT. Software updates eventually made it workable as long as you weren't using it while charging though. Still liked the OS, and mostly used the browser for many things which worked okay. Loved the Continuum feature for browsing the web and writing quick school documents in Word while listening to music in Audiocloud (third party Soundcloud app), or emulating games/watching KZfaq in the MyTube app. Used it for around year and a half and got myself a Note 9 in 2018, which I'm still using. Installed LineageOS without Google Services, and funnily enough using it in the same way I used Windows Phone with the browser haha.

I used to have a windows phone. It was quite a chore to use though due to absence of apps but the launcherr was amazing AF. I loved it so much I've installed one on my android phone

I have Lumia 920 as my secondary device, I use it for Calling, Navigation and as an MP3 Player... Most of the applications don't really work or have been discontinued on 8.1/10. Skype is a prime example. I had even installed windows 10 mobile too but It was not well optimised and didn't really give a smooth experience so I switched back to Windows 8.1.

I’m mad at Google to this day, because they don’t even made basic apps like KZfaq, Gmail or just Google for Windows Phone. Let’s be honest, Windows Phone was ahead of its times, and Microsoft made it better with every update. Maybe someday they will bring it back with better App Store 🤞🏻

I loved the hardware of the Lumia series, and the style of the OS was perfectly matched with the phone design. It's a shame that they failed.

I remember being 16 and my brother gave me his hand me down Lumia 520. It was the coolest phone I ever had. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Microsoft Lumia 650 was my absolute favourite, worked like a charm with a great battery life. I was extremely sad when they killed this concept off.

Windows Phone had a lot of potential. I loved HTC's spin on Windows phone, although modern for the time, a pale comparison of what HTC did prior with Microsoft. Really loved the Sense widget. That always gave me hope HTC would launch an exclusive Sense software version on the hardware. Thank you for the content.

If Microsoft paid devs to develop apps for windows phone,and advertise it more,we would have a 3rd os in the market

I wonder if Microsoft will ever realease a mobile os again. I miss the days when operating systems for phones were more diverse, like blackberry, windows phone, symbian, meego etc. Not just a duopoly made by ios and android.

I bought a windows phone for my dad back in the days because it was simple for him and was very fluid, damn if that was fluid, it was very very good for the price

I've used the Square Launcher on Android for years. The windows interface, on Android is highly functional. I love the live tiles.

I used different Windows Phones from 2012 to 2020 -- Loved it! I was forced to use Blackberry, Android, and iOS as a company phone at work though.

I like Android and iOS, but Windows is what I use everyday, and it would be a blessing to have everything I use integrated into ONE service. Please, Microsoft, bring this back!

Did you know, that the Lumia 950 had built-in FM Radio 📻??!!! I had the Lumia 950 & it was by far my ALL TIME FAVE phone/OS! The metro UI is pure chef's kiss, it somehow just clicked with me so well that neither Android nor iPhone offered the same feeling. The phone runs very smooth, battery is removable, SD card slot, amazing camera, AND... the FM radio!!! All packed in at a very reasonable price... the apps didn't affect me coz all the apps I personally use were actually available in Windows store at the time. It was a super sad day for me when they announced game over... But I still have the phone today, using it as a glorified alarm clock, reminding me of its golden days back in 2016, RIP😥

3:28 The Weather App stopped working for a while but now is working again haha I know that cause I still using this phone as a clock and also like a camera. Its camera still pretty good to this day, is one of its best features.

since they stopped supporting / producing windows phones & when i made a jump to Android, i was very please to find a Metro-style launcher. I have been using the same launcher for almost 5 years now. i do miss the WP UI. i think they were also the first to implement the SWYPE keyboard too (correct me if i'm wrong).

I still uses a Lumia as my backup phone. Its good that you can easily replace the battery and the phone is good to go.

The Glance screen on my Lumia 928 was amazing. I could walk by the phone, wave my hand over it and the display would momentarily come on. I could see - at a glance! - the time, how many texts, emails, voicemails I had. I could just take the phone out of my pocket and the display would come on. Again, showing the same things. When I finally had to get an Android (and an iPhone for work), I couldn't believe how terrible they were. To this day, neither offer that same experience. Likewise, the real button for the camera was excellent. So much more intuitive, steady and quick. And, of the course, the OLED display was gorgeous - ahead of Retina.

I have this phone. I loved it so much when I was younger.

I had a 500 series lumia phone as secondary phone, don't remember the exact model I had it in a bag where I put a bottle of water which I did not close well and it got submerged in the water and when I tried to open it to repair, I broke it unfortunately. I agree that especially lower end windows phones were snappier and more responsive than cheap android phones at the time and that windows phones got updates faster as well.

This was fun to watch. I still really miss my Windows phone. Even today, nothing even comes close to being as usable or reliable as my old Windows phone. So sad it never took off.

I used to love these phones. I had Lumia 710, 640 XL e Lumia 950. They were amazing. I used to be heard by Microsoft as an active insider. My suggestions were all contemplated that time. They gifted me with a Lumia 950. I am so sorry that this project didn't make it. Those were amazing phones!!

Windows was such fun the live tiles were the best. My Nokia Lumia 930 was a beast 😍

I am still very nostalgisch about Windows Phones. Come back!!!!

Had 2 Lumia mobiles. Great tech for its time.

I loved these phones. Had Lumia 520, and Microsoft 610. Beautiful phones, great haptics, pretty fast for their time. It felt like you had a small computer in your hand. Sad story.

In short, it's dead.

I had an English professor who used it, and he said he got it to be different from everyone.

I still missed my Nokia Lumia 730. I wish they'd make another Lumia phone.

I was a huge fan of windows phones. I had 920, 1020, incredible phones and i still love them. I hope someday they will make a new windows. We really need them.

Cool 🆒 thanks I had a Lumia 925 An idea 💡: try the Nokia N9

I remember back then we have variety of phone running in different os, they should be back, Symbian, BlackBerry, Meego Mohattan , Window which I know some. 😢😢😢 miss those years

My first smartphone was Lumia 540 It was really great especially for a first time user. Lumia is an Emotion.

Man the nostalgia hit.. 😢 I used to have a Lumia 950XL back in the day.. windows phone should be back ..

Your specific phone with some tweaks actually can run full Windows 10 (or 11) for ARM in it And you can even run some desktop apps with compatibility . However the display of course will be the usual desktop so unless you use tablet mode on win10 or adjust resolution on win11 you may have difficulty to use it

My aunt used to praise the windows phones until she had to replace it and we convinced her to switch to android. Now when asked her opinion she thinks the windows phones were lacking so many features she wonders how she was able to live with that phone at all. Also very unrelated: kinda funny how you set navigation so close to where I live

Windows Phone I loved it.. what a shame this OS isnt around anymore.. I had the Lumia 950 it was a flagship.. i think I used it until 2020 or so

i think a phone like this running full Windows 10 (i guess it would be Windows 11 now) that you are able to hook up to a monitor with a mouse and keyboard and use it as a full PC and then detach it and use it as a phone again would be an awesome thing. maybe it could have easily connected to a dock like the Nintendo Switch. shame it didn't work out.

My good old Nokia lumia Icon... Loved that phone to death.. Refused to leave the WP ecosystem. But alas I'm on Android (s23 ultra) but with my launcher is still a dedicated windows phone launcher.

i wish these phones made a come back i used to love the way the system looked and it was so smooth and it will link to my laptop with no problems at all

I want the windows phone back as it was. It was my first phone.

I actually bought a Windows phone for a temporary replacement because my Android screen was cracked. I actually ended up keeping it for a little over a year. Worked fine for me.

I have used a Microsoft Lumia 640 LTE for several years and I can say that, I miss this operating system.

I use my Lumia 1020 running WP 8.1 and an iPhone 3GS beside my iPhone 15 Pro Max 'cause I just love them

Microsoft were planning to roll out an android emulator feature to let users install apk files and then they killed it.

Yeah it was a good time in my life. Had windows phone and Xbox one. I miss that user interface so much. After seeing it as an option I really hated going back to android and apple.

I still have Lumia 950. It is used by my smaller daughter as a player and camera. I had to buy new battery 2 times for it. But so far so good. It does work and Groove is a nice app and camera is a bit slow, but the lens is crisp and large, therefore the photos made by the camera are of a good quality.

Good old days 🥰

Microsoft biggest mistake, pulling the plug on windows phone was way too bad. Just find a way of bringing apps to the store that's all.

I still love Windows phones. I have a few of them, they were part of my contract. I use Android, but Windows, suits me and I think the devices are gorgeous.

I'm a windows pc user. Currently most pc in market are run by windows. A big reason an iphone user gets a mac is due to ecosystem & mac is slowly increasing market share. If microsoft is able to incorporate apps properly, can offer a seamless experience with phone & pc, especially with office apps, i will get an windows phone without hesitation.

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What made Windows Phone so dangerous imo was the ability to TRULY add more internal storage via Micro SD card and I could also remove carrier bloatware.

Had been using lumia 720 till 2016. very fluid and smooth os experience. I am missing that clean ui in other OS

It's really a shame that Microsoft didn't try harder to get developers to make apps for their phones. I really liked the simple yet elegant UI and would love to have a reasonable third option aside from just iOS and Android.

My 2nd phone was a purple win8 phone and I really loved it and even got compliments.I was never much of an app kind of guy so lack of apps didn’t bother me much

Nostalgia. Microsoft was on to something here but never incentivized developers for support

Thanks for video, I did face outlook mail issue after July 23 but somehow resolved after mid October 23. Able to use all my mail, calendar, except gmail. Windows maps and navigation works fine, OneDrive files and photos, office is functional too. Please MS, keep these things working, happy to use 950 as my secondary number device.

Still using my 950 as mp3 Player and as Main camera Phone.

They need to bring them back with the Microsoft Teams app.

i would love to have a windows 10 or 11 on my phone!

Best phones ever. I wish they still were available

I never had a windows phone but i think something like this has a lot of potential, to be able to use the phone and computer on the same system and even connecting the phone and using it as a computer as you showed in the video, i didnt even know that that was an option. It is of course extremely hard to take a market share in an already pretty mature market so it was almost bound to fail unless they had put unreasonably much money into it.

The most thing I love about my WP7 Lumia 800 was a camera, it was fantastic even when i look at Lumia 800 photos/videos in 2024. The most thing I hated was lack of screen horizontal/vertical lock, it was actually the only thing why I sold it and went for Android.

My mom had a Lumia, I really enjoyed the tile layout and color customization, it looked real nice. The biggest problem as this video states was the app support. It was absolutely annoying having to watch KZfaq videos on browser

Still daily driving mine, bought android, tried apple, just waiting for the 950 to die. It still has the best UI and just works.

Definitely the best mobile OS, I had a few of these back in the day

You still can side load some modded apps , there's a small community keeping it alive !!!

If ever they will release a Windows Phone again, i will not hesitate to get another one.

4:16 It is like if it known it's best so it won't drop that low.

Used Lumia 640 and W10M was the most secure, smooth, stable, rich features, and clean OS. Proud that I ever use.

I remember back in the day, everyone used to say windows phones were only for work, thus there were no games or many apps available, I realized later on that saying that is what killed them

That tiles are stil looks modern to this day / I miss my Lumia 640 DS

I want Windows phones back, please make it again Microsoft, and thank you for making this video

Thank you for your video ! I had a lumia 930 - It was a very good device specialy for photography. I was fan of windowsphone system...Really fan of the design and ergonomics of the system and the device. Sad about the program being discontinued by Microsoft

I loved Windows Phone and how it could run amazingly even on the lowest end of the hardware spectrum, i owned several Lumia Phones, the 920, 830, 525 and 535, and all never disappointed except on the app front. I think this day and age would be the perfect time to bring Windows Phone back especially as ARM processors have gotten stupid powerful and AI as well as Compatibility layers could easily turn Microsoft Continuum in what it was meant to be.

It's mindblowing that these apps still works!

I adore that ui

Great video. I used to love my Lumia. I still believe the home screen and keyboard with kind of trackpoint are the best in all smartphones. I wonder if Google didn't stop provide some of crucial apps such as maps, Windows phones would have survived

Man, I used my wp for a very short time, it was already at the end of service, but I loved it more then any phone I got after it. I don't know, there was just something so special and unique to them

I loved my win phone and the tiles

Windows OS for mobile was one the most stable phone I have used. I was a fan of that. I had Lumia 800, 625… Don’t know why MS is not capitalising its market share to win the Windows in mobile devices.

The reasoning of WP failure was not a lack of apps or lack of users, it was an inappropriate concept and terrible execution. The sort of trying to sit all the chairs at once. Also there was a huge lack of consistency. You can easily separate all the stages which they turned when previous failed and there was no way given to drag users from one stage to another without buying the new hardware, and users are not happy when they left with failed software and a promise that the new one will be better, but you should buy one more phone to try it. Stage one was WP 7 - 7.5, this stage is known for the following mistakes: 1) despite not making hardware, create the one and only hardware option for the partners to produce 2) despite this one hardware option, OS update still is not possible flawlessly without partners to make their own firmware build 3) very strict limitation for what the apps can and can't do, almost no possibility to utilize any type of hardware available for the non-system apps 4) No fresh hardware was introduced during this stage, making any newest flagship with WP 7.5 already outdated on day 1. Stage two was WP 8 era. One and a half important things here: 1) WP8 did not support any 7.5 hardware 1.5) Nokia was a chosen one with others partners left in the shadow. The 1st thing actually made users angry and I assume no user of HTC, Samsung or any other WP device decided to go for an upgrade for the yet another WP device. WP 8 was so different that it automatically made all 7 series outdated. So, you could either upgrade or be within outdated apps and no new stuff at all, even if you just bought your new Nokia flagship a few months before. Speaking of Nokia - it was the only brand left with some userbase. But it was not enough for the ecosystem to work. I think, made they 7.5 - 8.0 upgrade possible, it would save WP program. Without it, they actually dropped people who were willing to use half backed 7 version and had some trust. All the other milestones were just nothing anymore. Trying to engage small manufactures to preset their device did not work, due to people buying those to be part of a big ecosystem for small money, there was no big ecosystem with WP. Computer in a pocket did not work either, because it was lacking the capability of real pocket PC, looking more like a gimmick. There still was a huge lack of major apps and services. So, basically, WP was dead after 8 launch.

so how was the battery life on the last most recent models before they stopped making them - nice that they were interchangeable batteries, but how long did each last on average ?

so much potential with this system, extremly love the easy navigation and smooth, its so sad that it died, having a third competitor on actual phone wars,

Navigation you can still use maps, it's still works perfectly for alternative on dumbphones.

I also had a Windows Phone back in the day. It would've been nice if they continued. Technically it was miles ahead of Andriod of iOS at the time. The apps were a bit annoying, but I actually had every app I needed, including all the banking apps, socials, media, an pretty much everything else. Mobile games were lacking despite the XBox affiliation I think, but I don't game on my phone. Activity specific apps might also have been lacking, but I didn't really supplement my activitities with my phone at the time.

Loved the Nokia Lucia and Microsoft version, it was great with windows 8 but windows 10 upgrade was a nightmare