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Re: Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone

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Post by pdimitar »

VikingCoder wrote: post #26
pdimitar wrote: post #24

Not buying unless it runs [fixed and improved] Windows 10 mobile. I'm still dreaming of a Lumia 950 XL with a good app store...

Then you're not buying. "It runs Android and will release holiday 2020" Literally the first line in the article.

Sure. Just expressing opinion.

IMO it was a mistake to give up on the Windows 10 mobile OS but it's also true that MS has made too many mistakes for it to ever take off at the point where Android and iOS have been developed for at least 7 years already.

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sequence7 wrote: post #28
bhauer wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed they did, but this is a device still in development, to be released late 2020. I would not be surprised if the Windows 10 X team is working to make it at least possible to run 10 X on the smaller device. I'd much prefer 10 X with an Android subsystem. But like I said, I'll pick one up regardless.

I'm sure it could run 10 X easily enough, the problem is the same problem that killed the Windows Phone ecosystem. No one's developing mobile/touch apps for anything other than Android and iOS. Windows has been fully touch enabled for years now but still there are almost no apps that take advantage of that, there isn't even a decent kindle app in the microsoft store. I wish this wasn't true but the truth is mobile be…

Which is why I'd like an Android subsystem. I want the basic UI experience and default apps to be Windows 10 X. For 90% of my phone usage, I'm using the stock apps (launcher, email, browser, calendar, etc.), and I'd prefer that to be the 10 X experience rather than Android. I want Android to feel like an app safety net, not the primary experience.

But like I said before, even without that, it's still the right device for me.

Re: Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone

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nemothekid wrote: post #33

1. Is Windows Mobile Dead? 2. Does anyone remember the name of a similar Microsoft notebook that was teased 5-10 years ago? It was a foldable notebook and notetaking device kind of like Remarkable. I wonder if this is the spiritual child of that.

1. Yes.

2. You're probably thinking about the Courier. You'll see more about that in the thread about Surface Neo, which is the modern take on Courier.

Re: Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone

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Post by FreakyT »

nemothekid wrote: post #33

1. Is Windows Mobile Dead? 2. Does anyone remember the name of a similar Microsoft notebook that was teased 5-10 years ago? It was a foldable notebook and notetaking device kind of like Remarkable. I wonder if this is the spiritual child of that.

As for 2, you're thinking of the Courier concept, which got killed in favor of Windows 8: https://www.cnet.com/news/the-inside-story-of-how-microsoft-...
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