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I really liked my Windows Phone and wish they were still being made. The OS was stable and fast, and you could resize the squares to make them easier to hit wit

by chiph 9y ago

I really liked my Windows Phone and wish they were still being made. The OS was stable and fast, and you could resize the squares to make them easier to hit with your thumb. Battery life was good. I think if they'd gone with premium hardware they'd make sales to people who appreciate a good looking phone and one that didn't make them wait for pointless animations to finish. Now that Microsoft has talented hardware people working on really nice products like Surface, they could probably do an in-house design on a new phone. Borrow a page from Motorola/Google's Moto X Pure Edition and put a wooden back on it - it's grippier than plastic or glass, and looks classier too.

KGIII 9y ago
Acer, HP, and Alcatel still make them. Microsoft doesn't make any and Windows Phone 8 is dead, I think.
- ocdtrekkie 9y ago
  In fact, it sounds like a Verizon model of the HP Elite x3 is launch-imminent. I'm hearing mid-October.
  - KGIII 9y ago
    Yeah, I may end up switching to Verizon, though I'm not sure how happy they will be. US Cellular owns the towers near me and Verizon has an agreement to share towers with them. However, Verizon recently cut about 12,500 people off because they were using non-Verizon towers too often. (This made some news sites and the municipalities are less than impressed.) US Cellular doesn't like to activate non-branded phones, though I guess they have started doing some. They share the same tech so I don't know of any technical limitations that would prevent it. I will need to replace mine. It is running 8 (.1 maybe?) and I guess it can be upgraded but I'd rather not risk it and it is getting long in the tooth. I should add that I'm in an unusual position where I don't even carry my cell phone very often. I often even forget to bring it with me. I don't depend on it, am not chained to it, and it frequently goes without attention for days or weeks at a time. I don't actually install anything on it. The stock apps do everything I want to do, and more. Right now, I think it's in the cab of the tractor, though it might be in the car.
ThrowawayR2 9y ago
> I really liked my Windows Phone and wish they were still being made. They are. The HP Elite x3 is the current flagship Windows Phone 10 device, although it's primarily aimed at business users. You can get a package that includes a Continuum dock for about $700 online.
WorldMaker 9y ago
I like following rumors about possible "Surface Phones", because now that Windows 10 on mobile is a lot more stable than it was at launch it seems a shame there isn't a crazy new hardware device to get excited about. I particularly love the latest rumor (which fascinates me so much) that Alex Kipman of HoloLens/Kinect team could surprise everyone with a true AR handheld "HoloPhone" relative to the HoloLens. That could be a lot of fun if true, and left-field enough that it could generate a lot of fresh Windows handheld computer interest.

by chiph 9y ago

KGIII 9y ago

Acer, HP, and Alcatel still make them. Microsoft doesn't make any and Windows Phone 8 is dead, I think.

ocdtrekkie 9y ago
In fact, it sounds like a Verizon model of the HP Elite x3 is launch-imminent. I'm hearing mid-October.
- KGIII 9y ago
  Yeah, I may end up switching to Verizon, though I'm not sure how happy they will be. US Cellular owns the towers near me and Verizon has an agreement to share towers with them. However, Verizon recently cut about 12,500 people off because they were using non-Verizon towers too often. (This made some news sites and the municipalities are less than impressed.) US Cellular doesn't like to activate non-branded phones, though I guess they have started doing some. They share the same tech so I don't know of any technical limitations that would prevent it. I will need to replace mine. It is running 8 (.1 maybe?) and I guess it can be upgraded but I'd rather not risk it and it is getting long in the tooth. I should add that I'm in an unusual position where I don't even carry my cell phone very often. I often even forget to bring it with me. I don't depend on it, am not chained to it, and it frequently goes without attention for days or weeks at a time. I don't actually install anything on it. The stock apps do everything I want to do, and more. Right now, I think it's in the cab of the tractor, though it might be in the car.

ThrowawayR2 9y ago

> I really liked my Windows Phone and wish they were still being made. They are. The HP Elite x3 is the current flagship Windows Phone 10 device, although it's primarily aimed at business users. You can get a package that includes a Continuum dock for about $700 online.

WorldMaker 9y ago

I like following rumors about possible "Surface Phones", because now that Windows 10 on mobile is a lot more stable than it was at launch it seems a shame there isn't a crazy new hardware device to get excited about. I particularly love the latest rumor (which fascinates me so much) that Alex Kipman of HoloLens/Kinect team could surprise everyone with a true AR handheld "HoloPhone" relative to the HoloLens. That could be a lot of fun if true, and left-field enough that it could generate a lot of fresh Windows handheld computer interest.