Microsoft failed twice doing the same mistake: they thought mobile devs would have the same tolerance with a horrible SDK and support as they do with Windows for PCs, they just forgot they didn't have enough users to justify going through so much bs.
I had lumia 920 when it just released. Honestly it was a spectacular phone back then. The lack of apps was a bit depressing, but also quite refreshing, because it basically had everything I needed and I didn't need to worry about the trendiest things on the app store. Very sleek UI, stylish and customizable. Great photos for that time. Battery lasted me for the entire day. A design so bold my relatives from USA didn't believe it was a phone. It served me well for 5 years untill it eventually became obsolete. I still miss my yellow brick of "I bet you haven't seen a phone like this!"
at that time. windws 7/8.1 has its own UI and store app, then was not injunction with widows 10 mobile UI and store apps. but technology has to go forward.
Not having every app under the sun was great at separating work from living. I'll use the computer If I need xyz when I'm ready and everyone will have to wait 👌
Id chose it over any smart phones any day if there were app support and continued support from Microsoft and Nokia. I love the windows phone os (specifically 8.1) so much because of its difference.
I hope Microsoft would make a phone like this in the future with all the app support. Size should be the same or at least the same as the iphone 12 or 13 mini. I would definitely leave apple/IOS. I miss Windows phone.
My sister had this phone and it was gorgeous. I got the Lumia 925 instead (slim, some aluminium, 8Mp camera) and it already wiped the floor with flagships of that time, I remember people with much more expensive phones would ask me how the hell I send them pictures that look so good. Also, the store wasn't that bad, but yes it was badly sabotaged by other companies who didn't want to put very popular apps in. I remember snapchat was one of them, youtube (google) removed their app, and also pokemon go never arrived, so people stayed away from WP. The OS was amazing, very fast no matter the time, use or even the specs. The UI was super efficient despite not being attractive for a lot of people, you would get to every app and option quickly and Microsoft was way better that its competition with the included apps. There's much to highlight!
I really love this phone simple design but powerful and sturdy. The image and video quality is still better than most of today's smartphone. The image's detail and color are realistic and gets even better when post processed. The dual flash can even trigger an external flash for dslr.
Kinda interesting to hear that Google was one of the companies who didn't support the rise of Windows Mobile by deliberately not making their official Google apps for Windows Phones. Add this with other devs not jumping on the bandwagon and Microsoft not able to pull more devs into the new ecosystem it literally killed this phone in less than a decade. Kinda sad seeing this could pioneer the ARM based windows machine more easily. Too bad Microsoft. It was a darn good phone killed by no support.
I remember that day that youtube app suddenly crashed and not working while using windows phone. I believe google sabotage windows phone because they scarw wp will get bigger than android, can u evem believe with less than 1gb ram windows phone doesnt even lag.
@@bepopxxxWell there was no OFFICIAL RU-vid app for windows , it was all ported apps .( As far as I remember) And the reason windows phone didn't lag is just like the iPhone because it has steal your freedom , it has less app support like IOS , ( at that time ) you can't modify any app and install it , no root privileges , modules etc . SDK platform was too bad to deal with it . .... You need to pay a lot to have your app on windows , that's terrible as always even in 2024 I never use Microsoft store it just sucks so bad , .. Apart from that 625 was my favourite not gonna lie , it brings Nostalgia..
My brother had the Lumia 520 and I loved the phone overall. The software really had a lot of potential if Microsoft had gone with the standalone approach instead of going with the let's translate windows metro UI to phone. I think if this phone had shipped with Android natively.. Nokia would still be around as a relevant player.
Used this phone for a bit last year and although it's not supposed so I couldn't really do anything with it besides making calls, I had the time of my life playing with the camera, it's amazing even today wayyy into the future
Still using lumia 532, idk why your phone did not load youtube, mine loads youtube perfectly and it loads facebook too. It used to load instagram and twitter few months ago but sadly it does not anymore. Soon it will stop loading yt and fb too I guess. I am going to use my lumia 532 as long as its battery is working. I really like designs of these phones. Minimalistic and really smooth OS till this day compared to todays 2GB RAM android devices.
Still one of the best phones at its time, I had the lumia 950xl and before it I had the lumia 1520 and both cameras was 4 years ahead of other phones, not to mention the battery life, you will never feel any lag in the system and feel how smooth it is, but unfortunately there was no support to it, otherwise it was such a success specially since it doesn’t recognize any viruses
It was a decade ahead of its competition as they offer windows capabilities to the phone .i wonder what went wrong that the concept could not capitalized.
And what's funny, back then we all preferred thinner phones and thought that camera bump looked stupid af. Now, all phones have huge camera bumps, most even larger that this one on the nokia... It truly was ahead of its time. Even a little too much.
I had this phone last time . the software was so simple & user friendly just like iPhone nowadays . and also very smooth, it was truly ahead of its time when it came out .
If we want to talk about which Nokia phone that was ahead of time, it should be in this order. Nokia N9 - full gesture OS Nokia 808 - high megapixel count, lossless digital zoom & pixel binning Nokia Lumia 920 - OIS, night photography
this phone has the prime design but a few fixes to the body (tall and slimer), bezels (thinner and symmetrical). the camera bump doesnt need to actually change
i started with L. (Lumia) 430 then L535 also L1020 and finally L640XL. Those last 2 had W10 mobile and GOD.. W10 was so good, all the phones itself were well made and the OS was good too (in any device) its a shame the developers didnt involved too much in windows to make apps (or maybe im missing something) but taking pics in 1020 and watch videos in 640XL were a truly great experience, my 430 was too good to listen songs on spotify and chat in whatsapp in the street. Man i wish Windows try to comeback to make mobile OS in a world conquered by android and ios.
Damn, i remember being shocked by the pixel count of this phone, still high for todays standards but its hard to imagine we now use up to 200mp cameras in phones (a bit of a gimmick but still)
Yes that's pretty insane! But like you say, megapixels don't say everything and its a gimmick sometimes. A 12mp sony a7siii will take much better images than a 200mp phone but the sony is of course much more expensive.
This phone feels like a FujiFilm camera in all its glory, in my opinion newer phones take the soul out of the photos, this doesn’t. “Drama in your photos, the sensor adds a lot of character, the bokeh has character and drama, the reflections show how the pure view optics are built showing their imperfections, it’s just pure hardware without software”
The reason why Windows Phone's failed was because developers failed to to re-write the code to put them on the window's app because of not strong enough data to persuade them to support the OS.
I remember playing newly released asphalt 8 in 2014 with nokia lumia phone I was silky buttery smooth i wish some os could be as smooth as windows phone. It was definitely ahead of its time. We couldn't see it's full potential. It saddens me
I remember when lumia was a cool phone and whenever I saw someone who has it I was always impressed by how different it was, unfortunately Microsoft gave up on it
Exactly! It was unbelievable how much they where ahead! They had iris scan years bevore samsung, poverfull cam's great software desing, good hardware... only the apps killed them. If they "just" got apks working on ther phones i think they could have enough potential to stay on long enough to get more apps in there store. Sadly it could not happen.
i sold my yellow 1020 recently for $9 😐 the battery is in bad condition, the audio (video) is also in bad condition, Call & Text still functional, the Camera is working perfectly still can take really good Photos.
seriusly this phone is ahead of its time, even android stole its idea of tile icon. Its minimalist, i dont spend on phone as much as android, only spend time on task and make me smart
still one of the best phone cameras in the technical side in my opinion. had the chance to try it out once and took a picture from the front of the store to the back, zoomed in and it was as sharp as it can be. no phones to date can rival the detail levels of this phone but of course they would destroy this phone in terms of post processing :')
I ❤loved❤ my Windows smartphone and have never loved my Android as much. I'm actually getting another Lumia now and turning it into a dumb phone so I can stay off my smartphone so much. I'm excited that the apps don't work because that's exactly what I want - only calls and texting. So the reason it failed yesterday is the reason it is succeeding with me today! 😂
