Windows Phone was too ahead of its time. 😢 41mp camera, live widgets, swipe keyboard, dark mode, etc etc. All things that no other phone had back then!
I miss that phone. My dad had one. The camera was great. The tiles and the UI were my favorite part. So simple to use. The keyboard was the best keyboard I’ve ever typed on on a smart phone.
Even amongst the non high end variants in the Windows Phone line up, each were special and unique in their own way. Ever since Windows Phone was axed out of the game, things have remained bland with boring iOS / Android.
@@snoopyalien24 ye I know, but I'm wondering why that happened. Everyone I knew who had WP loved it, I've always been an Android user because I've always liked customisation and tinkering with stuff, but now that I grew up I just picked Niagara launcher which is much more similar to WP than stock Android now that I think about it
These windows phones had soo much potential, but it was just ruined by compatibility issues, not being proper apps on the marketplace. I miss my 1520 😭😭
Meh, their mistake was to release it with an unwanted OS instead of going with Android which is much more popular but still on the rise at the time. Doesn't matter if the specs are top of the line, if the phone itself aren't even comfortable to use i.e. complicated in Nokia Windows phone case, people will not gonna buy it.
@A nut I don't know. I mean, I did use a Nokia lumia phone (not this one, though), and personally, I liked the Windows OS. It was new and completely different, which I agree, but once I got used to it, it was nice in its own way. (Of course, this is a subjective opinion)
Back then I had my iPad video and the iTunes updated and bricked the fckn thing so when I got this I was blown away by the performance and it stayed fast -I did have numerous warranty repairs but I still miss it so obviously they were too inconvenient
My Father gifted my Mom a Nokia N8 in 2010, goddamn what a phone it was, a 12 mp Zeiss camera in 2010, great call quality, great sound quality, it costed 26000 rupees at that time in India about 320$, really miss that Phone.
I have a Lumia 1020 and it has a much, much better camera than my Huawei Honor 9 from 2017. Even my sister with a Galaxy Note10 Lite is jealous of the Lumia 1020 camera
@@M4V35 even android had many apps back then only windows wanted a kind of locked app store like apple but missed the mark big time therefore a lot of young users let go after their first onz and having no app
@@antoinedenis9922 not in the beginning of the iPhone, Android catches with the s2 in 2011 with the overall stability and usability of the os, but for the store we have to wait another 3/4 years so in 2015 we have more or less the same store for Android and iOS, but even today the iOS app are generally more refined than the Android version. For wp instead the problem it's not to lock up the store it's something so far from reality that is ridiculous, but instead Microsoft makes a try to catch some developer when it's to late and so you have only one answer and it is the death of wp
@@M4V35 He never said the beginning lol 2013 at the time of windows phone, The google play platform was at peak and both Apple and google were the dominant forces. But thanks for that little Apple is best rant you just went on 😂
Nostalgic. I was in college at the time Nokia peaked with their Lumia phone series. This phone, Lumia 1020, is the one I dream having because of the insane camera. But it's so expensive so I can only dream 😅 But I bought Nokia Lumia 830 and I loved it! Had it not bricked, I would still use it as my primary phone.
i wish they still made the,, i remember loving them so much. I'd take a windows phone over android or apple any day. Wish they didn't have to discontinue it.
lumia had some of the best post processing back in the day. My dad had a 950 and took a photo of me on a cloudy day and he was visible in my eye reflection. My 925 took better night photos without the flash, then most phones of my friends with it. Those things were on another level
Yes the camera functionality and editing options available was very impressive for the time. It really seemed like they made a camera that you could use to send emails,make phone calls and play the odd game. 😂😂😂
It also had continuum. Used the dock on mine when road-tripping. It's only now that Windows ARM is good enough where Windows Continuum would have been great.
@@stangadoboaradreaptaomoara9567 Historically "meatriders" are exactly craple users who got it as a gift for "meatriding". Also Android is "too complicated" for such individuals.😉
I used to have a lime green Lumia 1520 back in the day. It was a monster of a phone at the time. I loved all the little animations that would show up on the home screen. Simplistic, at a glance you can see all the information you needed.
@@roteschwert same bro! I was tired of the same ol grid layout that iPhone and Android STILL have. The live tiles, especially in WP9 were so dynamic. If only they had the app support they prolly could’ve grown their user base and stayed around.
The whole Lumia range had fantastic cameras. The 4k video was brilliant iv taken pictures from the 4k video that are crystal clear and unfortunately not found a phone as good since
We have a Nokia N95 at home which has an AMOLED display, always on display and autorotate feature too! It is a small Symbian phone which also has built in FM Transmitter function! It is from 16 years ago, and surprisingly it still holds battery for about 30 minutes. And I almost forgot, it has WiFi too. Edit: Sorry guys, as Tamàs Pàl said, I just checked it to find out it is a Nokia N85, not 95.
Despite not having a touch screen and a brand new interface, it was better than the iPhone of its time in many regards : It was a 3G (maybe even 3G+) phone, it could take videos (1st iPhone couldn't) and had an overall better camera with a LED flash, had Bluetooth, and its OS featured vocal control and a vocal synthesiser !
@@piurtv Not to mention the built-in GPS with free maps and the music player with more options while the first iPhone could be used with its original headset only. The copy-paste option also worked with the pencil key on the N95 while it was introduced only in the iPhone 3GS
Had couple Lumias as well, great phones, the UI was super fast compared to android/iOS back in the day... Only sad thing was app development and that was the reason why they ditched it.
Loved my Nokia 735. I still have it sat in a drawer. Camera was amazing. Its only 6.7mp but Zeiss had a hand in the thing. Colours are so vivid, I have had it out recently and the pics are still impressive for 2014.
These phones were ahead of their era, but unfortunately they did not get the support they needed by their own manufacturer, Nokia... I enjoyed my solid Nokia Lumia 920!
Honestly, the main issue with these phones weren't the phones themselves; They were pretty damn sick and had lots of sweet features. Turns out that your phone can be the best phone ever, but in the end if it doesn't have proper app support, it's gonna crash and burn.
The main issue with Windows phone was how buggy and insecure the OS was. I used to work with Windows phones roughly a decade ago, and the amount of headaches we got debugging Bluetooth capabilities was astonishing.
My 920 was a tank. I remember dropping it from standing height, watching it bounce on concrete doing flips and the only damage was a slight dent on the corner. The sidewalk had more damage from the fall.
I had a Lumia 520 back when they came out, I loved it and still miss the dedicated 2 stage camera button, up until the phone bricked itself by forgetting where the OS was
I remember getting a Nokia Lumia WP back when they first came out. The OS was really good with its customisations and how quick you could get to everything. Plus, whenever you were installing apps it would literally tell you how far it was along unlike my current android. It was also very fun to play emulators on those phones.
Windows phones were one of my favorites. Best part about them when you drop them the scratch or knick the same color so it almost isn’t even bothersome.
My dad had this phone, I remember I always secretly use it to take picture of my drawings because how good the camera was. Now idk where he put that phone since he switch to android
@@youdonote8909 when android have 1 million app. Microsoft store just have 200.000-300.000 app if i not mistake. I have nokia lumia 930. Great device but lack important daily app
It wasn't just the MP count that was insane, it was the sensor size. Iirc, the sensor was bigger than most point and shoot cameras back in the day. It also had a physical shutter cover, xenon (not LED) flash, and (like many Lumias) a dedicated two-stage shutter button on the side. For non-camera people, that meant you could half press the shutter to focus and then full press to take the shot... Just like on a real camera.
@@Vortexcube I remember that accessory! It also had a bigger shutter button as well, to drive home that it was meant to be a camera. The weak point on the phone was the processor. It had barely enough grunt to process the pictures it took, but not without a little bit of delay after each shot.
I have the phone but not the accessory. Been meaning to buy one but it's hard to find nowadays. Admittedly I don't use the thing as much as I'd like. It's pretty much only useful for photos and it can be pretty sluggish.
I still have the 1020, saved it for as a back-up phone and photos. It was so easy to connect, transfer files to my Windows computer, unlike the Android OS. Some kind of app has to be downloaded to work I think!
People hated that tile setup but most of the hate rooted from the PC tile system...but as one of the few users it seemed, it fckn rocked on a phone setup . I remember having nothing but factory issues with the phone, sent it for repair so many tines at least 4 and one of them I picked it up at the store and accidently opened camera when holding it and it was already glitches out all blue . They kept warranty repairing it.. I lived it so much it was quite different at the time. It also was nice to hold
You should try lumia 950/ xl . It's got the best camera in a windows phone( software+ hardware) ... And the pro mode is very intuitive. And yes I love it's interface
I’m an iPhone guy who usually gets some other kind of phone as a second phone, for testing websites and just playing around, seeing how other companies do things, and this was easily my favorite second phone ever.
I still have my Lumia 925, used that thing forever. Camera was great, OS was smooooth and everything worked reliably when using the pre installed apps. Camera was great, even though it was 8MP, photos still turned out sharper then with the iPhone Xs I have now and the ZTE I had in between. It even fell into a well once and I thought that's it, but it still worked like nothing happened. Sometimes I turn it on and look at old Pictures, just for the nostalgic memories and wish they never dropped WP...
