It makes me really sad that Microsoft gave up on the windows phone as it had the best user interface and the performance was great. It was an easy to use third option to Android and IOS. Although not open source.
2 more years and Postmarket OS will be just as old as the windows phone was when it shutdown.
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I really wanted Windows phone to succeed. Still bummed about it.
I worked for ATT back in the heyday. My bright yellow Nokia Windows phone was better than anything else, both at that time, and now, hardware and OS. If only they had had a better answer to the app store.
i had one, nokia 920? it got real hot, had minimal apps, and like no games.
Still miss my 950XL. Best smartphone UI ever.
I still have my Nokia 1020 with the crazy good camera. Once in a while I switch it on. Wish I’d upgraded software to the one which could run android apps.
I loved that phone. I kept it as my daily driver despite the lack of apps until the shutter broke
I took a photo from a box at a basketball game and you can zoom in to see the faces of people in the boxes across from us. I was in the same box (friend’s dad gets season tickets) last year and neither my Pixel nor my friend’s iPhone could do the same.
While I was more into Blackberry, the Windows Phone had the advantage of working well on slower hardware, which made them both cheaper and they maintained their battery charge longer.
Sadly both Apple and Google both dominated their app stores, leaving windows phone without many apps that people wanted.
Windows phone 8 UI was amazing. It’s shameful that Microsoft has dumped so many great products.
SquareHome is available if you like the tiles, active widgets and vertical scrolling. I have used Apple phones and tried many different UI launchers on Androids, but still rocking the WP UI thru SquareHome, it really is the best.
I know it is an unpopular opinion, but IOS is by far the worst UI. They finally started improving in 13 and 14, and I’ll probably try an iPhone again someday now that they went usb c, but last I tried ios was horribly frustrating to use.
I hated Windows phone, I’m glad it’s dead. Horrid Windows 8 looking UI with uneccesary bloatware infesting your homescreen. After trashing all the bloatware, you could find 0 apps you want to use in Windows’ tiny tiny app store.
Never had a Windows Phone myself, nor would I have taken one, so can’t speak from daily driver experience. But from what I saw from my ex and my dad having WP work phones that I had to help them with… My god those were terrible menu hells if you had to change anything. Even worse than Nokia’s Symbian.
Also never forgiven Microsoft for their mole killing Nokia by going all in on Windows Phone.
This is why I hate it. They killed the awesome meego for this crap. Fuck em.
