Windows Phone Lives Again?

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  • justme

    Premium Member
    19 February, 2020 - 9:57 am

    <p>Hardly – unless they have a way to make ARM do telephony. You'd need a skype/viber type of subscription to make this work.</p>

    • JimP

      19 February, 2020 - 10:00 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#521741">In reply to JustMe:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Good point.</p>

    • wright_is

      Premium Member
      19 February, 2020 - 10:05 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#521741">In reply to JustMe:</a></em></blockquote><p>Or a VoLTE driver/app or a SIP app and a cloud SIP provider.</p>

    • Piyer

      19 February, 2020 - 10:44 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#521741">In reply to JustMe:</a></em></blockquote><p>The only impediment today are the carriers. Now the carrier owns the sim card, which is associated with the phone number. They already use VoLTE for voice. With 5G, voice will be fully digital, so the number association to sim is merely technical.</p><p>If the sim id can be decoupled from the carrier, the phone as we use it today could change a lot.</p>

      • evox81

        Premium Member
        19 February, 2020 - 4:55 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#521768">In reply to Piyer:</a></em></blockquote><p>What does this even mean? <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Phone numbers are already basically irrelevant if you want them to be. </span>Carriers, despite their best efforts to the contrary, are just dumb pipes supplying a data connection to a device. Whatever you're trying to imply about "decoupling the SIM ID from the carrier" is pretty much meaningless.</p>

  • wunderbar

    Premium Member
    19 February, 2020 - 1:07 pm

    <p>No. Windows Phone does not live again.</p><p><br></p><p>It's dead.</p><p><br></p><p>Let it be dead.</p>

    • txag

      19 February, 2020 - 6:47 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#521799">In reply to wunderbar:</a></em></blockquote><p>It has ceased to be. It has joined the choir invisible. It is not pining for the fiords.</p>

  • Paul Thurrott

    Premium Member
    19 February, 2020 - 1:08 pm

    <p>Fake news.</p>

    • Tim Speciale

      Premium Member
      24 February, 2020 - 5:00 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#521800">In reply to paul-thurrott:</a></em></blockquote><p>For Microsoft's sake, I hope so.</p>

  • Chris_Kez

    Premium Member
    19 February, 2020 - 1:19 pm

    <p>For me, Windows Phone died in 2014 with the end of Nokia's device stewardship. The Lumia 930 in particular was the high-water mark for me. Windows 10 Mobile and the neglected 950 were essentially abandon-ware. Even Panos could not whip up much enthusiasm for those devices, moving past them as quickly as he could during the launch event to focus on other stuff.</p>

    • coeus89

      19 February, 2020 - 3:39 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#521804">In reply to Chris_Kez:</a></em></blockquote><p>I agree. The 930 was the last real try. I started switching my family off it after that. For me it's been dead for about 6 years. We should move on to bigger and better things.</p>

    • illuminated

      25 February, 2020 - 2:35 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#521804">In reply to Chris_Kez:</a></em></blockquote><p>950 had a few fantastic features. Replaceable battery for one. Fantastic camera and dedicated camera button. It may have looked not to the standards of the flagships of the day but it was a great phone.</p>

  • innitrichie

    19 February, 2020 - 1:21 pm

    <p>Imagine a precision-engineered foldable smartphone with rich Office integration baked right into the OS.</p><p>Imagine deep integration with Microsoft's rich online services offerings such as Outlook, Skype, Teams and Onedrive.</p><p>Imagine Microsoft unveiling their take on a vibrant new UI for our modern smartphone era.</p><p>Imagine how thrilled and overjoyed consumers will be when they begin discovering these new experiences.</p><p>Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Surface Phone.</p><p><br></p>

    • bnyklue

      19 February, 2020 - 2:06 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#521805">In reply to innitrichie:</a></em></blockquote><p>Imagine being delusional enough to actually believe this. </p>

      • Paul Thurrott

        Premium Member
        20 February, 2020 - 8:10 am

        I hear there are entire websites devoted to this line of thinking. 🙂

  • ben55124

    Premium Member
    19 February, 2020 - 5:34 pm

    <p>Stop sniffing the live tile lubricant</p>

  • Dan1986ist

    Premium Member
    19 February, 2020 - 9:00 pm

    <p>As McCoy would say, "It's dead, Jim."</p>

  • samereo072

    20 February, 2020 - 9:58 am

    <p>Why not? They have a quite good gadgets, i think. I have bought Microsoft Lumia 950 recently and it is a good (you can read my review here <a href="https://www.bestadvisers.co.uk/windows-phones&quot; target="_blank">https://www.bestadvisers.co.uk/windows-phones</a&gt;). iOS and Android are displace Windows phones, but Microsoft is taking another try to stay on the market.</p>

    • illuminated

      25 February, 2020 - 2:33 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#522014">In reply to samereo072:</a></em></blockquote><p>I just had to look how old your comment was. In 2020 it just does not make any sense. I loved my 950 but that titanic already sailed.</p>

  • jimchamplin

    Premium Member
    20 February, 2020 - 1:17 pm

    <p>Is this real in our timeline or do I need Dr. Who to pick me up one of these phones from the other universe where John Belushi is still alive?</p>

    • youwerewarned

      25 February, 2020 - 12:36 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#522068">In reply to jimchamplin:</a></em></blockquote><p>I can provide all sorts of Windows Phones to those still interested. You'll have to visit the other universe, however, for the apps.</p>

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