The Microsoft Store was completely out of stock of Windows 10 Mobile phones for a time last week, but they have been replenished this week. There are two models remaining.
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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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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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If it's one of opportunity, then there better be hope for the Alcatel Idol 4 Pro running Windows 10 Mobile. Turns out, we only have one-and-a-half delays.
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According to a public relations firm, the Windows 10 Mobile phone will arrive in Deutschland the month after it was first announced to be available.
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Microsoft has sent out build 15204 out to fast ring Insiders. It only successfully brought up 12 of them, with some of one model getting stuck.
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Alcatel France originally had to address one of its fans with some regrettable news: there were no plans to bring the Idol 4s with Windows 10 outside of T-Mobile USA and into Europe.
But things have indeed changed for the highly popular Windows 10 Mobile phone… well, relatively speaking.
Alcatel France has told its Twitter followers that France and other European countries will see the device after all. We’ll have to #staytuned to see when this device comes into the continent.
Vous avez été nombreux à nous interroger sur l’IDOL 4S Windows 10. Good news : quelques pays en Europe (France
) vont l’avoir ! #staytuned
— alcatel mobile FR (@alcatelmobileFR) December 13, 2016
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If you see people using a Windows phone these days, it’s likely that phone will be a Lumia 640 or Lumia 635.
So the data says from AdDuplex which has tracked movement on the Windows mobile scene. It continues to be mostly dominated by budget entries including the Nokia Lumia 635 and the Microsoft Lumia 640.
The data is taken from device entries into about 5,000 Windows phone apps running AdDuplex’s SDK on November 21.
Here are the top ten devices in circulation:
| No. | Device | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Lumia 640 | 26.2% |
| 2 | Nokia Lumia 635 | 22.0% |
| 3 | Microsoft Lumia 640 XL | 3.9% |
| 4 | Microsoft Lumia 950 | 3.8% |
| 5 | Nokia Lumia 521 | 3.5% |
| 6 | HTC One M8 for Windows | 3.4% |
| 7 | Nokia Lumia 920 | 2.8% |
| 8 | Nokia Lumia 735 | 2.8% |
| 9 | Microsoft Lumia 650 | 2.7% |
| 10 | Nokia Lumia 630 | 2.6% |
| N/A | Other | 26.4% |
Once we whittle the population down to devices running Windows 10 Mobile software, we do see a little more high-end representation.
| No. | Device | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Lumia 640 | 20.2% |
| 2 | Microsoft Lumia 950 | 19.3% |
| 3 | Microsoft Lumia 650 | 18.5% |
| 4 | Microsoft Lumia 950 XL | 6.1% |
| 5 | Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL | 5.6% |
| 6 | Nokia Lumia 1520 | 4.7% |
| 7 | Nokia Lumia 735 | 4.0% |
| 8 | Microsoft Lumia 640XL | 3.5% |
| 9 | HTC One M8 for Windows | 3.4% |
| 10 | Nokia Lumia 635 | 3.3% |
| * | Other | 11.3% |
One oddity to note is that while the months-old HP Elite x3 is stuck at #19 on the above list, the days-old Alcatel Idol 4s for Windows 10 has struck #16.
Windows Phone 8.1 remains the most popular version in use at a straight 80 percent with Windows 10 Mobile garnering 15 percent. In terms of manufacturer distribution of Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft takes the top spot, having made nine out of ten phones out in the market right now. Alcatel is second with 6.2 percent while HTC (the last effort it put out was that One M8) holds onto a surprisingly large 3.4 percent. BLU and other OEMs are tied at 0.5 percent.
Microsoft is aggressively sending updates out to its Windows 10 Mobile users and those packages have been installed. Build #1607 has reached 77.7 percent saturation in the US and 83.8 percent worldwide. #1511 has 9.9 percent of US users and 8.2 percent of users globally. A healthy proportion seems interested in the Insider builds, taking up 12.4 percent of the US space and 8.1 percent internationally.
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It’s nighttime in America and it’s Friday to boot. We should be out on the streets painting the town red. But instead, we’re sitting down, cracking a few cans open and talking with our best mates about a new Mate.
As Huawei takes over the scene for the week with a couple of luminescent phones, Evan Blass and Alcatel remind us that Windows can be a fun platform if it tried. Will it try? We may come up with an answer or we may just pass onto the unrelenting carrier wars, flip phones for modernity, Kickstarters, Indiegogos and a kick in the pants for us to go go GO!
It’s the weekend and this is episode 225 of the Pocketnow Weekly.
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Following on from the Huawei P9, the Mate 9 makes its debut in Munich, Germany. Our Juan Carlos Bagnell was there to handle the Leica-endorsed, dual-camera goods — particularly with that fancy schmancy €1,400 Porsche Design version — while Jaime Rivera and Adam Z. Lein put some light onto the Huawei Fit tracker.
26:26 | This Windows phone is more than just a concept
32:09 | The Alcatel Idol 4s with Windows 10: where it’s at and where it won’t be
35:37 | Where’s Microsoft at with Windows 10 Mobile?
42:44 | Lenovo Phab 2 Pro finally makes it to the dance floor
51:52 | ZTE flips a phone here, Samsung flips a phone there
57:59 | Apple dongles dangle for a discount as a jungle protests
1:05:37 | Blood on the water between T-Mo and Verizon
1:14:39 | We completely speculate that Foxconn and Sharp are moving to the US
1:19:07 | Maybe Xiaomi is coming here, too?
1:23:08 | Crowdfunding Corner: 360° video-recording glasses and an eye-tracking VR headset
1:33:35 | Mobile beats desktop internet usage for first time ever
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The Alcatel Idol 4s with Windows 10 might not be a T-Mobile worldwide exclusive, but it may end up that Europe will be excluded from any sales activities for the phone.
It’s a development not sitting well with Windows 10 Mobile fans in the continent, especially considering that the Idol 4s represents a more financially-accessible yet high-end smartphone for the platform when compared to the enterprise-focused HP Elite x3. It came out of a response to a question from theWindose.fr on Twitter.
@Mxiden @TheWinDose Bonjour. Ce modèle n’est pas prévu pour l’Europe. Bien à vous !
— alcatel mobile FR (@alcatelmobileFR) November 3, 2016
The response translates in part to “this model is not destined for Europe.”
With high-resolution cameras, fingerprint sensors, a bundled-in VR headset and a Snapdragon 820, the phone is expected to retail for $470 at the Un-carrier in the US. Further global availability may not come until way down the line, if at all.
Would the phone be worth a buy at that point? We’ll have to see.
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It’s about time that the HP Elite x3 stopped hogging the spotlight. If you’re not looking for all of the intense features and a high price tag for a Windows 10 Mobile phone in 2016, you may be able to get it with the Alcatel Idol 4s with Windows 10 soon. How soon? ...
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Well, in Windows 10 Mobile news… the dormant mobile platform has been slowly chugging on a decline in its user base.And with smaller manufacturers continuing to dabble in what they may see as a fairly accessible platform that’s different enough from iOS or Android, there’s Alcatel. All year long, we’ve been hearing of a Windows 10 Mobile device in the form of ...
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