Windows Mobile 10 powers 1% of the mobile devices on the market, so when Satya Nadella states that Microsoft missed the mobile phone he is not exaggerating. The $7.6 billion write off of Nokia earlier this year signals a change in focus for Microsoft and Nokia phones will run Android instead of waiting for a proper release of the new Windows Mobile or a reincarnated version of an older mobile OS. From what The Inquirer gathered from Satya's recent speech the new focus will be on something vague called the Ultimate Computer as well as their much more concrete HoloLens and the new VR market. Surface Phone and Surface Mini are likely to fall by the wayside as HoloLens becomes the focus, hopefully we will see some models for testing in the near future as Microsoft has hinted at something happening tomorrow.
"Speaking at the opening dinner of Wall Street Journal Live, Mr Nadella said, "We clearly missed the mobile phone, there's no question," adding. "Our goal now is to make sure we grow new categories."
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Windows Mobile 10 at 1%
Windows Mobile 10 at 1% market share? I would bet it’s more like 0.1% at this point.
More leading Zeros to the
More leading Zeros to the right of the decimal point and that 1 followed by %!
Oh, c’mon, Kevin is worth 1%,
Oh, c'mon, Kevin is worth 1%, right?
My wife and I and a few of my
My wife and I and a few of my friends still use windows mobile. The UI is super nice and my 950xl is incredibly fast. I’m not an “app person” (clearly) and all I need it to do is browse the internet, make calls, take pictures, play music, text, read email, and view and edit documents. It does all of these things superbly. I don’t recommend it to friends and family anymore though since most people can’t get past or deal with the app gap. I hope it lives on, I can’t stand android, and I want my phones to have headphone ports:(
You might be surprised by how
You might be surprised by how well Google has stolen Metro, er Modern, er Material Design.
I was a Touch Pro, Touch Pro II, HTC Radar, Lumia 925, and Lumia 640 user, now I’m rocking a Galaxy 6 Edge + and it’s very pleasant experience aside from every GD app wanting to pop a notification for mundane events in the top drawer.
Look up the Samsung insights program and get a free phone.
seeing that i work for Nokia
seeing that i work for Nokia the company is very diversified in the cellular backed and services. the corpse you see is the former nokia handset division.
Very true, however really
Very true, however really hard to fit in a headline.
just Ignore the corpse of
just Ignore the corpse of nokia in the corner