Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun
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@Dashrender said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
The adoption of LTE, which as I understand it use a universal set of frequencies, but I might be completely wrong, is what allows the phones to roam more freely today than in the past. But if you're in an area that doesn't have LTE, you might be stuck without service because of lack of frequency support.
Not really true there as plenty of LTE Bands and not all phones support all of them.
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@Kelly said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
@Dashrender said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
@Kelly said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
@stacksofplates said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
@Kelly said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
Windows 10 Mobile
Ah I didn't realize they actually pushed that out to some phones. I thought it was just a couple phones and then it died.
There haven't been a lot of new phones that have been released that come with it natively, but many of the later 8.1 Nokia handsets can, and do.
By the time I gave up my Lumia 650XL AT&T still hadn't pushed out the Windows 10 upgrade (June 2016).
I bypassed the carrier. With the Insider app you can get your updates directly from Microsoft.
Yeah I did that with my old 550, and it was great until Jan of 2016 update which made my phone all but useless. I flashed back to 8.1 and didn't look back.
By the time I was ready to give up on ATT (last June) and do what you did - Insider program - Instead I bought a Nexus 6P for my trip and haven't bothered going back.
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@Dashrender said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
@Kelly said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
@Dashrender said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
@Kelly said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
@stacksofplates said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
@Kelly said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
Windows 10 Mobile
Ah I didn't realize they actually pushed that out to some phones. I thought it was just a couple phones and then it died.
There haven't been a lot of new phones that have been released that come with it natively, but many of the later 8.1 Nokia handsets can, and do.
By the time I gave up my Lumia 650XL AT&T still hadn't pushed out the Windows 10 upgrade (June 2016).
I bypassed the carrier. With the Insider app you can get your updates directly from Microsoft.
Yeah I did that with my old 550, and it was great until Jan of 2016 update which made my phone all but useless. I flashed back to 8.1 and didn't look back.
By the time I was ready to give up on ATT (last June) and do what you did - Insider program - Instead I bought a Nexus 6P for my trip and haven't bothered going back.
My $40 Lumia 640 has a few quirks, but I can deal with them for the price/performance I get.
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Some of the WP10 updates broke things. There was one that left me unable to use any Hotmail contacts for about 7 weeks. They disappeared after one update, then a bit later came back wouldn't open and I couldn't use them to text/call/email people. Another seemed to lower battery life to less than a day.
Since late summer though there have been no problems I have noticed. -
@momurda said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
Some of the WP10 updates broke things. There was one that left me unable to use any Hotmail contacts for about 7 weeks. They disappeared after one update, then a bit later came back wouldn't open and I couldn't use them to text/call/email people. Another seemed to lower battery life to less than a day.
Since late summer though there have been no problems I have noticed.Oh it was generally pretty good all the way up to the January update - some hit some miss, but until then they were all usable. But my phone was little more than a brick once the January update came.
I rolled back to 8.1 and worked pretty good until I dumped it.
i'm sure if I tried it again now it would be fine. Sadly the SIM card for that phone is different than my Nexus 6P, so it's no so easy to swap phones to just try it out... not that it's worth the time... the platform is dead.
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@momurda said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
Some of the WP10 updates broke things. There was one that left me unable to use any Hotmail contacts for about 7 weeks. They disappeared after one update, then a bit later came back wouldn't open and I couldn't use them to text/call/email people. Another seemed to lower battery life to less than a day.
Since late summer though there have been no problems I have noticed.That doesn't instil faith in their abilities.
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@nadnerB said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
@momurda said in Windows Phone Apocalypse Has Begun:
Some of the WP10 updates broke things. There was one that left me unable to use any Hotmail contacts for about 7 weeks. They disappeared after one update, then a bit later came back wouldn't open and I couldn't use them to text/call/email people. Another seemed to lower battery life to less than a day.
Since late summer though there have been no problems I have noticed.That doesn't instil faith in their abilities.
He's talking about during the beta. I haven't heard of these issue since the RTM of Windows 10 Mobile.
