Windows Mobile end of life

[RobM]

Microsoft have officially announced that support for windows mobile will end December 2019.
It is a shame because it was a good alternative to Android and iOS.

Read more at MS support pages
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4485197/windows-10-mobile-end-of-support-faq

So now I have a perfectly good phone that will need to be replaced years end.

 

[grec]

Some Windows phones, like the Lumia models, could have Android forced onto them, if you wanted to keep it alive for longer. Custom ROMs have to remove all the Google specific/centric stuff so if that's your main issue with the platform you can just not reinstall Gapps and have a light neutral system.

 

[g0ggles1994]

Some Windows phones, like the Lumia models, could have Android forced onto them, if you wanted to keep it alive for longer. Custom ROMs have to remove all the Google specific/centric stuff so if that's your main issue with the platform you can just not reinstall Gapps and have a light neutral system.

While that's a great point, the main problem is that other than a handful of experimental ROM's, I highly doubt any of them will recieve any official support from the likes of LineageOS or anything specific since there's no user base for it.

Honestly, Windows Phone had great potential; only if Microsoft took it by both hands and went full force with it. Best option they've got in future -if they ever want to develop their own phone- is to base it on Android so they can bake all their Windows integrations in but still give users the oppurtunity to use Android apps

 

[grec]

Apparently you can also sideload Android apps on some Windows phones, BlackBerry10 OS (Before they switched to Android variants) had official android sideloading support too. It'd definitely be entirely possible for MS to have added Android app support to Windows phone 10 while keeping the OS the same(Though battery life & speed may have been sub-optimal compared to on an Android system), but then literally *all* the incentive MS had for releasing Windows Phone is gone (IE making the money back through app sales on the Windows Store & use of other MS services/apps, the only way they can).

 

[RobM]

I went with windows phone because I was unwilling to get locked into apples echo-system and I don't really like the android system. Lets be honest here, the only people likely to have gone windows route were people like me.
AFAIK most of the available ROMs have little/no sim support.

 

[looz]

I went with windows phone because I was unwilling to get locked into apples echo-system and I don't really like the android system. Lets be honest here, the only people likely to have gone windows route were people like me.
AFAIK most of the available ROMs have little/no sim support.

Nah mate, I had Windows Phone since I wanted Nokia hardware.

 

[Pr3d4t0r]

microsoft tried to buy their way into mobile market through nokia, failed horribly, tried to fix it and went okay, but no one cared at that point.

It wasn't good, if you say it was its because you didn't have to manage 600 of them and replace every 3rd because wifi chip was doa or developed issues in first week.

I welcome Nokia back with their new lineup, let micro die.