Win11 on a Lumia 950

File this under Pointless But Cool, someone got Win11 running on a Lumia 950XL. Apparently it works well on a Pi 4 too.

Conversation 11 comments

  • hrlngrv

    Premium Member
    02 July, 2021 - 4:51 pm

    <p>Curios: can one make voice calls or send SMS text messages? Or does such a phone become a dinky tablet?</p>

    • spacein_vader

      Premium Member
      03 July, 2021 - 3:52 am

      <p>According to the video it recognised the modem so calls work. No idea about SMS but don’t see why not. </p>

      • locust_infested_orchard_inc.

        04 July, 2021 - 4:01 am

        <p>From a conversation with Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft, on the day of Windows 11 announcement on CNBC, Yusuf stated Windows 11 has the inbuilt capability to send/receive SMS directly through Teams (without the need of a phone).</p>

    • locust_infested_orchard_inc.

      04 July, 2021 - 4:05 am

      <p>According to the master of all things Lumia/WoA, Gustave Monce (@gus33000), in relation to Lumia 950 XL running WoA 11, "<em>the component responsible for handling calls is not part of Windows 11. We lift it straight from Windows Phone with bridge components so it kinda works on here</em>".</p><p><br></p><p>So WoA 11 cannot do voice calls out-of-the-box.</p><p><br></p><p>If my memory serves me well, Microsoft removed the internals of the voice capability is some build during 2019. It would appear from @gus33000 that the voice component is absent in Windows 11.</p>

  • StevenLayton

    03 July, 2021 - 10:55 am

    <p>#WindowsPhoneLives</p><p>everyone raise their lighters in the air!</p><p><br></p>

  • innitrichie

    03 July, 2021 - 9:08 pm

    <p>Lumia 950 XL + Windows 11 = Ultimate Smartphone Experience.</p>

  • arnstarr

    03 July, 2021 - 9:47 pm

    <p>What’s dead will never die.</p>

  • angusmatheson

    04 July, 2021 - 11:09 am

    <p>What is interesting about Windows 11 performance on iOS things like limos 950 or low powered things like raspberry pi and in preview channel lots of old PC – is the 8th gen Intel requirement isn’t about windows 11 performance. Windows 10 was so brilliant running at old hardware even better than windows 7 did. Why this push to keep it of old machines if it isn’t about performance?</p>

    • Daishi

      Premium Member
      04 July, 2021 - 4:41 pm

      <p>Because it’s about security.</p>

  • igor engelen

    05 July, 2021 - 1:02 pm

    <p>smartphone with a Windows OS and Android apps. There must be a future for that :-)</p>

  • spacein_vader

    Premium Member
    08 July, 2021 - 7:43 am

    <p>It’ll even (sort of,) play Crysis https://youtu.be/8felYvgXfu8</p&gt;

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