"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
09/10/2015 at 10:16 • Filed to: None
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"mkbruin, Atlas VP" (mkbruin)
09/10/2015 at 10:16 • Filed to: None | 1
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As some of you may know, I love Windows phone. I think 8 and 8.1 are a fantastic phone OS, and IMO better than iOS or Android. So how does Windows 10 mobile compare? I spent the last two weeks using the latest tech preview as my daily driver, and my impression is: Wtf. No UI changes. Worse performance across the board. No observable innovation....yet. I say yet, because universal apps and continuum are promising, but still in development. Which brings me to my last and most important point. This OS is 30 days from public release, and its nowhere remotely close to RTM based on the previews. I don’t have high hopes for release, which is a shame as I have cash set aside for a 950xl.
mazda616
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
09/10/2015 at 10:21 |
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I haven’t used Windows Phone since 2012-2013 when I worked at an AT&T store, but even then, I felt it was really promising. It’s just hard to break into today’s market, with the two monopolies on board. I remember really liking the keyboard on a Windows Phone. It was very user friendly.
ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
09/10/2015 at 10:26 |
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I hope the 950/XL are better looking than the leaked renders. I was not impressed with what I saw. I am also worried about W10M. I haven’t been using it, but it does not sound like it is ready for prime-time at all.
Sadly it would seem that MS cannot figure out how to make Mobile work, and they are clearly very busy getting W10 up and running. They really cannot afford to wait any longer for W10M to be released, but it maybe should be so that it works and doesn’t further hurt their reputation.
I’m seriously considering getting an 830 and leaving it on 8.1 for a while. Hopefully MS does make a “Surface” phone sometime soon. I want my W10M flagship to actually look like one.
spanfucker retire bitch
> mkbruin, Atlas VP
09/10/2015 at 10:35 |
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Has the RTM date actually been confirmed? I thought it was just still “the fall” as the rough estimate.
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spanfucker retire bitch
> mazda616
09/10/2015 at 10:36 |
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Oh my god, the keyboard has to be one of, if not the best thing about Windows Phone. Microsoft fucking nailed it, no iPhone or Android phone I’ve ever tried out or used has anywhere near as good of a keyboard as Windows Phone.
It’s god damn sublime.
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ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> spanfucker retire bitch
09/10/2015 at 11:11 |
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And the included swipe-typing on 8.1 is just magical. And you don’t even have to ‘install’ another keyboard to use it, unlike the others.