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My Lumia 925 is still the best phone I’ve ever owned. But MS killed itnfor themselves. Windows Phones were kinda big in Asia. Used to see lots of people in Sin
by philliphaydon 9y ago
My Lumia 925 is still the best phone I’ve ever owned. But MS killed itnfor themselves.
Windows Phones were kinda big in Asia. Used to see lots of people in Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, with them all the time. But the high end phones never came to these markets. People I worked with wanted all the new phones but MS didn’t release them in Singapore for over 12 months. People gave up and went android and iOS.
I went Android then iOS. There’s a lot I miss about windows phone. And Poki is still hands down the best pocket reader app.
- detaro 9y agoI thought here in Germany they also were making respectable inroads (although that might be distorted since the brightly-colored Lumnias were so noticable), but then they let it languish at a point where they would have needed to double down on having up-to-date and interesting devices around. Most people aren't buying new phones every year, so getting market share will mean sticking around for at least a few cycles. Apparently MS didn't think that'd work out in enough markets?
- pjmlp 9y agoThey were, at a given point it was quite common to see them while commuting. A few of our customers also had them as official device for their regular employees.
- keithpeter 9y agoUK: 'jack the lads' used to have lumina phones - the ones that you could get for £100 or that came with contracts. I used to see those a lot outside the local football ground. The central messaging queue seemed popular and video watching &c. Then they disappeared to be replaced by huge Samsungs.
- rmsaksida 9y agoThe Lumia 520 was a very popular phone in emerging markets for a while. It was cheap compared to Android phones, had good battery life, decent build quality, decent specs. I think Microsoft just wasn't interested in markets outside the US.