discussion Windows 8 Phone Rides Again!

[Marzipan]

Windows Phone 8 lives on through the fans with a new community-driven marketplace for our favorite old phones

Community projects like 8Marketplace and patched apps are breathing new life into Windows Phone, though limitations and risks still make it a niche experience.

www.windowscentral.com

smh

 

[moocow]

WHY?! The phone is old enough that you can't even connect to the network anymore. 2G died. 3G died. They don't support VoLTE so you can't even connect to Roger's network.

 

[Marzipan]

WHY?! The phone is old enough that you can't even connect to the network anymore. 2G died. 3G died. They don't support VoLTE so you can't even connect to Roger's network.

you'd have to join one of the communities that are part of its extended life and find out. LoL!

 

[JD]

I'm surprised MS hasn't tried it again with Windows 10/11 kernel that has far better ARM support than Windows 8 ever did.

It could be easily sold as a M365 Copilot Phone to businesses lol

 

[Izerous]

Windows phone was a disaster when it was new. Had a couple in the office even against black berry old android and ios I would have ranked it last

 

[Marzipan]

@Cptn Vortex loved his.

 

[rcmpc_outreach]

I still remember people saying the UI felt way ahead of its time compared to other phones back then.

 

[moocow]

IIRC, the Win 8 Phone Tile system worked better on the phone's resolution than the PC. I had a Nokia Win 8 phone, it's not bad but the total lack of apps killed it for me.