for smartphones makes it clear to me that maybe some marketing error was made by Microsoft! 😥 All My Password – see my post -, MyDlink Lite, ING Direct and recently even Instagram, Facebook, Whatspp and Messenger are going to be dismissed or at least no more supported!) and sometimes they even were then removed from the Store! Some days ago even WhatsApp showed the following alert message of the end of support for “ Windows Phone” … and even that message that refers to the first “old” name of the Microsoft O.S. for webcam, camera, home devices) was bearable even if it annoyed, so the performance of some app (compared with the more updated version available for other O.S.): some apps were no more updated, so they did not properly work anymore (e.g. In the last years, the lack of specific apps (e.g. Now that Microsoft announced that Windows 10 Mobile will stop being supported in December 2019, one can’t stand more watching … fingerprint unlock, microprocessor speed, low battery consumption). updates (mainly security ones), any new Android device that costs more than 200- 300€ have performance and features that there were not imaginable so many years ago (e.g. After nearly 4 years, even though my Lumia 950 XL is still working properly and it still receives some O.S. However, from the end user point of view, this means to have most of the user interface very close to the Windows 10 Mobile one, possibly even better, … and this on a newly built device, probably with a much more powerful hardware than any Windows 10 Mobile device, even the best one, being now too dated. security, deep integration with Windows 10 like the Continuum feature and other SW components) because the device will remain an Android one, with all its strengths and weaknesses. I know, as a programmer, that this is not the same to have a real Windows device, so the features owned by that O.S. In fact, what really I will talk about in this post and a next one, it is how to let your Android phone “ looks like” a Windows 10 Mobile device, so having a similar user interface.

( visualizza la versione tradotta in italiano)įirst I thought to title this post “ A Windows smartphone better than Windows 10 Mobile Lumia 950 XL“: perhaps it should be more impressive, but surely not true.

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