Lumia 950 and 950XL announced by Microsoft - $549 & $649, Available November - Polidicks

[QUOTE=UberMensch;48844136]I've got a Lumia 1020 which I've had since they came out. It's been a great phone and I'll most likely go for one of these when it's time to renew. I should also mention my 1020 seems to be built like a tank so I hope these are as sturdy.[/QUOTE] I had a Lumia 1020, but went to an iPhone 5S ~June last year so I could run a fitbit and other low-energy BT devices. The way MS are going, I am truly considering going back to their products.

I would love to snatch one of these up sometime soon! I wonder if Verizon will support them? My last phone was a Lumia 928 and it was great. Sadly, my daughter pulled it off my desk by the charger cable causing it it land face down on the tile floor. It was my first windows phone and I will definitely be going back once it's time to upgrade. For now I'm stuck with my old iPhone 4 -.-

I loved my Lumia 640 while I had it. Great budget device, it was the WP world's Moto G, excellent value for decent specs. Pretty fantastic camera too. I just missed being able to use a smartwatch (read: my Pebble and now my Moto 360) and having a decent Steam app. :v:

[QUOTE=vercas;48844129]Up to 2 TB of storage from one microSD(XC) card? Holy digglet... That's some future-proofing right there. The current largest microSDXC card is only 512 GB, and costs $1,000...[/QUOTE] SDXC has been around for a while and has a max theoretical of 2TB. We are getting there tho. It's easier with full sized sd cards tho.

I still have a fucking PS2 memory card sized SD Card that holds 8MB. Now they get 2TB on one the size of my pinky's finger nail. Fucking hell

[QUOTE=UberMensch;48849006]If you're developing apps, you'll probably pick the major ecosystems and stick with them. In this case, it's Android and iOS, I doubt Windows Phone even crosses the mind of the average mobile app developer. Hell even my bank (Nationwide) still won't write a mobile banking app for Windows Phone because it's not popular enough -_-[/QUOTE] One the of the banks around here (Danske Bank) is still updating their app, MobilePay, for Windows Phone 7 dot fucking 8. That's pretty amazing in my book, I'm probably one of the three people in Denmark still using it.

[QUOTE=Wii60;48844195]is it ok to use win phones yet like is the app ecosystem not shit yet[/QUOTE] Windows phone has a 3% market share and dropping last I heard. It simply isn't interesting enough to pull a lot of consumers away from Android and iOS and probably never will be unfortunately.

[QUOTE=Wii60;48844195]is it ok to use win phones yet like is the app ecosystem not shit yet[/QUOTE] Depends on what you're looking for. The situation is significantly better in Europe and parts of Asia though. Banks release their apps and the like. Though it makes sense since penetration is slowly moving to double digits. The situation in the US is a tad more dire from what I hear. [QUOTE=Morgen;48849793]Windows phone has a 3% market share and dropping last I heard. It simply isn't interesting enough to pull a lot of consumers away from Android and iOS and probably never will be unfortunately.[/QUOTE] Started growing again, particularly with the release of the 640s

It's great if you want access to none of your favorite apps and services! Windows phones may have great hardware but its a duel OS system now, either Android or ios

Couldn't they have gone with a Maxwell Atom and actually run the full version of Windows?

[QUOTE=Rika-chan;48850126]Couldn't they have gone with a Maxwell Atom and actually run the full version of Windows?[/QUOTE] x86-64 Windows 10 probably requires more space, and the practical number of programs you'd want to run wouldn't increase at all for most consumers. When Continuum becomes a bit stronger it might make sense to have a phone that could also run x86-64 programs.

[QUOTE=Sableye;48849909]It's great if you want access to none of your favorite apps and services! Windows phones may have great hardware but its a duel OS system now, either Android or ios[/QUOTE] This is the dumb stigma I am talking about 5 year old inaccurate stereotypes from people who are already entrenched into other ecosystems talking like they have an authoritative opinion on the platform This isn't true at all. Yes the app market is weaker vs the 2 dominant platforms but it honestly isn't that bad. Almost every single service/app most people use in their day to day life on android/ios has a presence on WP

[QUOTE=Sableye;48849909]It's great if you want access to none of your favorite apps and services! Windows phones may have great hardware but its a duel OS system now, either Android or ios[/QUOTE] What apps do people even use? I've got a good amount of games on my phone but I never use them. I use my phone for the alarm, calendar, and weather, all of which flip phones could do 10 years ago. Yeah it's neat I have fantasy football apps, Hearthstone, and Fallout Shelter on my phone should I want to use them but I haven't touched any of them in a month.

[QUOTE=Rika-chan;48850126]Couldn't they have gone with a Maxwell Atom and actually run the full version of Windows?[/QUOTE] No A theoretical phone that does just what you mentioned would probably much more sluggish, weaker, and worse on battery than WP10 Mobile running on ARM not to mention needing an assload more storage and the fact that because you can't rely on your market having a KB+M only touch-enabled windows store programs would work anyways (which is what the phone can run perfectly fine)