Our readers made them the biggest stories. What exactly were they? Pocketnow reviews the articles and topics that had people talking.
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Universal Windows Platform features, but no Spotify UWP yet
Spotify's Xbox application is UWP-compliant, but not its recently-released desktop app for Windows 10 which some say is just a reheating of its existing x86 app.
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The Alcatel IDOL 4s with Windows 10 is now just $169
This Windows 10 Mobile phone with a packaged-in VR headset debuted on T-Mobile at $470. It's been a year or so, though, and it's still around.
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Wileyfox Pro with Windows 10 pushed back two weeks
Cutting it a little too close to Christmas? Perhaps, but does the Wileyfox Pro need more time to get out to customers? It's the call from Amazon.
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Wileyfox Pro with Windows 10 Mobile goes up for pre-order in the UK ahead of December 4 release
Windows 10 Mobile is still alive... barely, although it would certainly help the losing cause if the Wileyfox Pro wasn't so wildly overpriced.
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Verizon HP Elite x3 available from the Microsoft Store for $599
An initial lot of this Big Red flavor made available online was priced at $500 and sold out pretty quick. It's now at $599, in-store only.
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RIP Windows 10 Mobile: No new features, no new hardware, just bug fixes going forward
The official announcement of Windows 10 Mobile's death has been a long time coming. Joe Belfiore just dropped the predictable yet sad news on Twitter.
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iPhone 8: the consumer vs the future | #PNWeekly 272 (LIVE at 3pm ET)
If things settle down the way people think they will about iPhone 8 and iPhone X sales, will we ever take consumers to the bleeding edge?
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Microsoft’s Nokia acquisition picked apart by Nadella in new book
It's only fair to share...
The company’s third and current CEO has something like a memoir out and in it, he expresses his disappointment with the Nokia acquisition.
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HP Elite x3 to remain on sale “through 2019”
Windows 10 Mobile still has a bastion smartphone to hang onto, at least commercially, for the next couple years and change.
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Microsoft could be involved in Wileyfox Pro, a Windows 10 Mobile phone
Don't be impressed, though. The specs are low-end and there's no way it could run Continuum. So, what's this phone for? Why is it at IFA 2017?
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Windows mixed reality headsets and Fall Creators Update will begin to roll out on October 17
Those long-awaited Windows mixed reality headsets from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo will begin their gradual global releases in mid-October.
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Microsoft Store cuts deeper with Alcatel Idol 4S now at $199
The Alcatel Idol 4S with Windows 10 is not long for this world, it seems. The Microsoft Store has posted its lowest price for the device yet.
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NYPD’s 36,000 Windows Phones to be replaced with iPhones
Sources say the police department's IT head was the sole decider in picking up Microsoft's dying mobile platform in the first place.
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TCL sells Alcatel Idol 4S with Windows 10 Mobile and VR goggles for crazy low $225 on Amazon
Windows 10 Mobile is pretty much dead, and there's no sequel for the Alcatel Idol 4S in sight, but the phone/VR headset remains a killer bargain.
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