My stupid Windows Phone

[SpokeyDokey]

My Windows phone is brilliant - but then I only use it to talk and text.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Microsoft make more money off android sales than they do their own phones so their laughing all the way to the bank either way.

http://www.howtogeek.com/183766/why-microsoft-makes-5-to-15-from-every-android-device-sold/

 

[midlife]

I've got a Windows phone and it's been running on Win10 since before xmas and it's superb imo.
However I've no interest in starva or sodding pokemons.. I see the lack of those apps as a plus

I think Pokemon are quite happy that you don't intend sodding any of them

Shaun

 

[Drago]

My long suffering dumb phone was retired as my Missus bought me a Windows phone for fathers day. I love it - I switched off all the data and GPS rubbish and it's now like a nice dumb phone, albeit a black and shiny one.

 

[jefmcg]

I see the lack of those apps as a plus

They are not compulsory to install, you know.

My Windows phone is brilliant - but then I only use it to talk and text.

We need a new word to describe these things; pocket computers, perhaps? Because that's what they are. Messaging and voice are just two apps. If that's really all you use, you'd be better off with Nokia Candy bar which was much better for voice and ok for text.

 

[classic33]

We need a new word to describe these things; pocket computers, perhaps? Because that's what they are. Messaging and voice are just two apps. If that's really all you use, you'd be better off with Nokia Candy bar which was much better for voice and ok for text.

They don't want you just to use it for that though, which is why you'll seldom see one for sale

 

[r04DiE]

There is one simple answer to all mobile phone woes

BuyAFeckiniPhone!!!!

iPhones are fine if you are a drone. They're great if you want to ask Apple before you do anything. Want a film on your phone? Ask Apple. Want to go for poo? Ask Apple. Need to tie your shoelaces? Ask Apple.

Or, you could use Android and just drag and drop all that without asking Apple.

 

[classic33]

iPhones are fine if you are a drone. They're great if you want to ask Apple before you do anything. Want a film on your phone? Ask Apple. Want to go for poo? Ask Apple. Need to tie your shoelaces? Ask Apple.

Or, you could use Android and just drag and drop all that without asking Apple.

I'd like one, a handset, that I can use outdoors, without modifcation, for extended periods in a wet winter.

Edit
SIM free from the outset.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

After a decade or so of buying dumb phones (odd, since I'm a software engineer), I gave in a few months ago, and bought a Samsung Galaxy S5, complete in all its Androidy goodness (I think Buffy-speak has rubbed off on me). It's quite a nice phone. Even looking at it with the critical eye of someone in my profession, I can't find much wrong with it.

So far I've resisted the urge to write an Android app, just because I can...

 

[perplexed]

They are not compulsory to install, you know.



We need a new word to describe these things; pocket computers, perhaps? Because that's what they are. Messaging and voice are just two apps. If that's really all you use, you'd be better off with Nokia Candy bar which was much better for voice and ok for text.

Don't think I've heard 'pocket computer' since Blondie mentioned them!

 

[wheresthetorch]

We need a new word to describe these things; pocket computers, perhaps?

I know - how about 'smart phone'?

 

[SteveF]

I have one and quite like it, just upgraded it to windows 10 and pleased with that too

 

[Chris S]

you'd be better off with Nokia Candy bar which was much better for voice and ok for text.

'Dumb' phones are back in fashion, I never got rid of mine. Gullible yuppies are now paying £200+ for them.
http://www.selfridges.com/GB/en/cat...vc:c|adp:1o2&gclid=CPXoyJHuhs4CFceVGwodOucJyw

 

[classic33]

'Dumb' phones are back in fashion, I never got rid of mine. Gullible yuppies are now paying £200+ for them.
http://www.selfridges.com/GB/en/cat...vc:c|adp:1o2&gclid=CPXoyJHuhs4CFceVGwodOucJyw

I could be sat on a fortune!!

 

[Electric_Andy]

I used to rave about my lumia 925; fantastic camera, very quick phone processing wise, and very robust. I got rid of it because the apps were so frustratingly bad. Ebay wouldn't allow saved searches. Youtube was rubbish and kept crashing. I've now got a Samsung Galaxy S7. The only thing I hate about Android is the free* apps bombard you with ads, sometimes lasting 60 seconds. That's the price you pay for a good operating system though. The ads on the windows phone were minimal, presumably because the target audience was so small.

*if anyone anywhere is benefiting from you using something, then it's not free!