Who else used to have a Windows phone? I was a huge fan of the Xbox integration back in the day

Trevor's phone from GTA 5

The one thing I could appreciate is the animation windows when shifting windows and scrolling. Felt so smooth and was a nice aesthetic.

I think Windows phone could genuinely have a chance at revival if they brought over WSA to run android apps like how you can on Windows 11. Personally, that would be amazing for me.

I bought windows phone just so I could earn Xbox achievements on it. There was its own version of Minecraft. Plus a bunch of spin off games like hit man, assassins creed etc. it was pretty fun. I ended up completing like 20 windows phones games 100% achievements that still appear on my Xbox profile even though windows phone is shut down. You can’t earn achievements on them anymore

It’s seriously amazing just how smooth this OS operated for 2012 as well as how clean this OS still looks. I know a majority of Android phones of the same budget ran far worse than Windows Phone. Super cool seeing the retro Xbox 360 dashboard style natively on that phone app. I always wanted a Windows Phone back in the day to differ myself from the crowd but it unfortunately left the market before I had the opportunity to give it a shot.

I had one around 2015. What really killed it was the lack of apps. No KZfaq was a dealbreaker.

I had a Lumia 521 as my first phone, I stuck with windows phone till it died as Windows 10 mobile, but by then I had a Lumia 950, it was a unique experience for sure.

I loved my windows phone, I used a lumia 1020 through the end of highschool and into college from 2013-2015 and it is still my favorite phone I've ever used. The only reason why I switched is because as I grew older I started to need access to banking/school apps that weren't available on windows phone. It was a great conversation starter, a lot of people didn't even know about windows phones at the time and assumed I was using some weird yellow android. It was extremely common for a friend to recommend an app/game only for me to find out I couldn't get it on my windows phone, luckily it was mostly social media apps that I didn't use anyways or obscure indie games that hadn't been ported yet, all the essential stuff like instagram, whatsapp, popular games, and even Vine were available. The cameras on Nokia Lumia phones were insane for the time, especially my Lumia 1020 with its 48 megapixel shooter. It sounds like nothing today compared to the 200+ megapixel sensors in modern Samsung phones, but the 1020 was released at a time when Samsung was bragging about how big the 13 megapixel camera in its newest Galaxy Note was. I feel like Microsoft was really onto something back then with their phones, and if they weren't so late to the smartphone game they would still be producing phones in 2024.

daily driving one myself, has discord and reddit apps working so that's all i really need lol

I got a Nokia lumia 1020, when I was 14, it has always been my favorite phone.

came to this video because i randomly had memories of this phone. wanted to be different from everyone else as well lol. but i always thought the layout was really cool

I used to have a nokia windows phone that I got for my birthday in 2015. It was fine as my first phone but the lack of apps like snapchat was really annoying as a 13 year old kid. It unfortunately got stolen in 2016 from my shorts that was laying on a chair next to a swimming pool, while I was swimming. This was in the middle of the day on Crete or Rhodes I believe. I then "upgraded" to a sony xperia m5 which had all the apps I could want with android 6, but software sucked and I wasn't able to update it at all at some point due to errors. It constantly froze and was a piece of junk in comparison to the nokia.

i remember making my xbox 360 avatar on my windows phone lol

Back in 2014 I got myself a Nokia 1520 windows phone. It felt weird at the beginning not having genuine Google apps but as I got used to it by finding workarounds and I've started to really appreciate it. My previous phone was an LG 4x which was a nightmare with all the lag it carried, ont the other side the WP interface was as smooth as it could be with it's nice animations and slide ui's, I never felt lag or delay. Also developers in my country were trying to help this operating system by creating apps mostly of the media streaming type. In 2016 the motherboard got burned and by that time windows phone was dead. I really miss that phone to be honest and wish they made it work.

I still have a Lumia 550 (Windows 10 Mobile) lying around which I got in 2016 just to try it out. I was pleasantly surprised. It was something different compared to Android and iOS. Sad that MS didn't stick with it and pulled the plug. My main driver though was a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.

Always wanted one of these Windows Phones lol, loved how they were basically a pocket Windows PC you could carry around

I wonder if you fix the time if it will work better. I know on windows a bunch of certificates go out of wack with the wrong date and time set.

I still have my Nokia Lumia 520 with Windows. and it still works and no battery problems, I never had a problem with the OS or the phone

The beats audio turns on as soon as you plug any headphones it's badass

This was my favourite phone back In The day live and still do it feel so good

You can actualy still use the store, u just have to wait for it to reach your router because the os has processes constantly loading and working in the background as soon as the wifi connects, so when it said waiting, its in a queue, this happens on every android and some ios devices to, u can see this on windows computers also. Hope this helps

I've got a Lumia 920 that I use as a pocket video camera every now and then. Solid device still.

Windows Phone with a dark theme in 2010-2012 was WAYYYY ahead of its time, SubhanAllah!

The windows phone is probably my most nostalgic smartphone. It was my first smartphone I got in 2015 and it was the Nokia Lumia 630. I love that main screen with the customizable windows and custom background.

The most loving Mobile Operating System ❤️

the interface was amazing and simple. good times.

I had a windows phone, Back case broke and caused the antenna to snap every time I put it into my pocket. So many replacement antennas and about 5 charge port swaps later it actually died 6 years later

I always wanted to try a Windows phone back in the day . Never got one .

I got this phone in my hand, feels so much better with slim design and small form factor. Unfortunate ly the screen is shattered, i would fix it if could get my hands on spare which is hard

Abandoned hardware/software feels so weird to use. I pulled this old dvd player that featured Netflix and KZfaq on it, and I plugged it into a CRT TV from 1997. It worked, and it let me watch Netflix but it was the Netflix with no updates since about 2015. Really weird. Felt pretty cool watching Across the SpiderVerse on an old TV though.

You should include the link to the video in your community post, it will help you get views 👍

I had a Nokia Lumia 800 and I loved it! Windows OS worked brilliantly on mobile with so much customisation. The worse thing about it was the severe lack of apps that everyone else was happily playing and using.

how u able to install/upgrade apps if the store stopped working in 2019? i wanted to try using my old Nokia Lumia 820 with Windows Phone 8.1 but i don't know how to be able to use the store in 2024... can you help me please?

One of the best phones I've ever had was a Lumia 520. In 2020 it had only 512MB of RAM and yet it did absolutely everything I wanted the fastest. I loved the interface.Why?It's simple and fast. The games on there ran so well and looked so good for a 2012 phone. Edge too was still good at that time and yet again,the fastest answer was from the Nokia garbage phone. I remeber how it even had a KZfaq client.I absolutely fell in love with it and regret that I didn't jailbreak it. It died in the most horrific ways possible. Dad bent it in an argument. The killer thing for me was how it had a Word app and always ran well. Compare that to one of those Android phones which are utter landfill now because no other reason than Google Play Services. ..

You can still update it win 10 i updated my nokia Lumia 630 to win 10 recently and it works and store also works

My mom had one of these back in the day and I thought it was the coolest things, then like 6 months later no one cared

I’m not sure does Windows 11 have the browser but in windows 10 you can still launch into the Explorer even though the default browser that is recommended by Windows 10 is Microsoft edge even though you need to change some settings, but it is actually possible to launch the browser.

I loved these phones. I couldn't reply messages on Google Plus. But gps driving navigation was awesome. Network connection was always perfect. Music, videos, perfect. I wish these phones were compatible with today's app market?

Bro this phone was ancient even on 2015! You should 've showed a lumia 950 or an 930 at least. Best cameras and Cortana was way ahead of the competition. Also I preferred the windows maps (Nokia based) to the google ones. The best OS till then, together with the Blackberry OS If you displayed a similar android phone from the same date I doubt it would work that well

Microsoft were onto something with this especially considering how long it's held up.

If they still made it, I'd probably get one. On a smaller screen, it seems cluttered, but on a modern phone, it would be fine. I love the simplicity, the minimalistic approach.

I remember this 😢

Back in high school up to college, I was the only one who used a windows phone. My friends thought I was using a feature phone that had a touchscreen.

I LOVED my Nokia Lumia 928 I even wrote part of a high school paper on it and had an amazing camera too

i miss windows phone and the old pocket pc days with windows mobile 6 and 6.5

I really hate it how it happened with last Achievement to do on Fable game you need this windows phone as part of gameplay ( or smartphone is that called ?) :x

If they still made them I’d still have one. I loved my windows phone

Honestly pretty nostalgic, I had a windows phone but was too young/dumb to know it was a Windows phone just thought this is the latest android at the time. Didn't even own an xbox so i never appreciated any of the gaming features.

Once you were done filming you should of updated the phone to see what would of happened, it’s not like you can do much with it anymore I always considered getting a windows phone but never pulled the trigger

I had a Samsung Focus, Focus S, and a Nokia Lumia 920. Loved windows phone I just switched to Android because no one wanted to support it. I missed out on a lot of the vine era because of that.

Honestly these windows phone really had potential and I really wish I could see what they could have been today if they stuck around

my dad broke his

I’m pretty sure this phone or a newer model was advertised in the Xbox exclusive game Quantum Break

I bought one in about a year ago because I thought I could use it as a mini PC which was not possible but I found a really weird side on the Internet I think it was from India and from there I could get all kinds of games up and running Batman Rayman hitman and some other games but for now I’m using it as a night stand but it was really fun to mess around with😂 and it is such a shame that it is not here anymore due to the lack of apps support I hope it’s coming back some sunny day with a vengeance🤘😎

I had a HTC windows phone 8X and that honestly was one of the best cell phones I’ve ever had. I loved the UI it was so unique.

I wanted one of those and never was able to get one, whatever happened to it?

I had three, the OG Windows 7 version, then 8, then 10. I still have two of these phones to play with. I thought Windows phone outlook app was the best, but back then outlook on iphone sucked.

i remember this phone, my aunt had one and i used to play games on it, broo when i say that would get hot omg that could fire a campfire

I remember having that when everything used to work and i used to play classic subway surfers there all day long, i even had an Xbox 360 to do it with the phone 😢😢

Stil my fav all time mobile OS . Windows gave us a lot of inovations.It was very an OS very ahead of Android and iOS.

I managed to Pick up the Windows Phone 950XL for £50 near me with the Dock thing i decided to pick it up just for the Memories/it might work idk if it doesn't its just a cool bit of History I guess

That’s rare. My htc 8x is on windows phone 8.1

I remember my friend having that phone, it was cool at the time ngl

I used to have this phone and i got a new phone and i went to see if the phone worked a few years l8r and it said this phone is locked for 776000 days smh

So the phone used in gta 5 is a Microsoft phone right the interface looks the exact same

Windows phone was a good flex for a while, then I realised half the apps on android weren't on windows phone and apps like Facebook and others were so many updates behind.

The windows interface wasn’t bad, it’s just nobody was supporting it and it. I still use a windows theme launcher in my Android

I had Windows Phone installed on the HD2 and I bullied Microsoft into giving me the license key so I could actually activate it and use it properly. I loved that system, it's been over 10 years and neither Android nor iOS ever felt right

I fell in love with the Windows Phone interface. The fun you get from playing with those squares though wears off quickly. After I had done my bit, I thought 'right - let's get some apps on this thing'. Ok, no Facebook, no Instagram, no KZfaq, no Chrome, no BBC News, no WhatsApp, no Google Maps... ahh, TripAdvisor, iMDB and Shazam... that's not too bad. Ok, none of my favourite games are on this thing. Let's connect it to my Windows PC... 'error'... ok, try again 'error'. Yep, this phone was terrible. Great interface though.

I still have my old Windows Phone and its in a good condition still

i still have my nokia 520 windows phone it was based on windows 8 ..... why i still have it ... i have no idea man

HTC Evo was my first smartphone and unless you count blackberry

I used to love the texting keyboard on windows.

Windows Phone was absolutely amazing back in the day, it was the first HD screen phone I ever had, it WASN'T slow like iOS after a few months of use or early android even after a year, had a great interface and great consistent connection to cell towers. Above all else: it had all of this and was INCREDIBLY cheap which was great for me. It also did the one thing software engineers at these phone companies could never pull off: UI consistency. I miss it dearly. The closest thing I have now is postmarketOS/Ubuntu Mobile and as much as I love it and its infinite possibilities, it just doesn't feel the same...

Man the user experience and smoothness still feels modern today 😮

My mom had one long ago, she bought it for the camera. It broke though.

It’s not edge btw it’s internet explorer Edge wasn’t a thing until windows 10

I remember owning a windows phone. It wasn't so i could be the cool person, no it was so i could get achievements. I worked at Pax in Seattle one year and was chatting up a Microsoft employee. When i pulled out my phone to show him my xbox account his eyes lit up.

This was my first actual phone. Mine was blue and I hated it.

The Phone OS was absolutely amazing on a Lumia phone, especially when they came out with Windows Phone 10. Unfortunately it still didn't have much support. The support and apps it DID have were pretty good but it couldn't compete with iOS/Android. Which sucks because honestly I felt the OS was better than both of them.

I'd definitely update the firmware if it is still possible! You never know how long those update servers are going to last.

How does the store works?

I got them when they first came out. I had like 5-6 different ones, I still have my Verizon 929 with Windows Mobile 10 on it. I loved having Xbox on phone, not needing an app for it. And BTW, I have over 112K gamer score :) Still today, I like Windows Mobile 10 better than Android, so I have a Loader on my S23 Ultra that makes my phone EXACTLY like Windows Phone 10 including live tiles and the app menu. You would swear it's a WM device.....

Still butter smooth... Non of other's can't offer that..

I still have my HTC HD-7. They killed Windows,both Apple and Google,they don't want another 3 operation system to come around dip into their pockets. Few yrs ago I saw Firefox phone on sale on Ebay. Samsung had their own os too for short while.

Man, seeing this now makes me kinda sad ngl. I loved my nokia lumia 500 something. If they just did everything right from the getgo! I don't think that we will see these kind of phones ever again.

still using my l930 as main phone

I used to find the tiles and interface frustrating to use

I have 2 windows lumias, I love them.

That was one of the most broken phones! The tiles would never work right!

I still have my Lumia 640 XL and it still works perfectly.

My mother used to have a Windows Phone. A Nokia Lumia with Windows OS or whatever the name of the OS was

8:17 Nano sim card. Smaller versions of micro sim card

Admit it or not, Windows phones with limited hardware gave buttery smooth Ui experience.

I loved windows phone. The live tiles were amazing, especially when facebook and twitter was natively integrated into the system. It just sucks that they needed the support of other companies and those companies cut that off (to clarify: it sucks for me as a happy WP user. I know microsoft was charging a high fee to manufacturers and app developers didnt see the point of developing)

I wish someone that is dedicated enough to reverse engineering or maybe make some kind of server for this Phone just so the phone works again without depending on microsoft server.. Maybe no one will do that but I could be possible.

It has to come back. 🔥

I used to have a windows phone. I am so mad right now that it failed.

I miss my Windows Phone everyday :(