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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All NYPD officers now use old Windows phones for work, and the plan is to upgrade to W10M
Essentially every comprehensive smartphone market report this year has estimated Windows global usage share at well below 1 percent, down from 2 or 3 in the recent past. And Kantar claims Microsoft’s nearly abandoned mobile OS accounted for 2.3 percent of US sales between June and August 2016, 4.1 percent in the EU5 region, and 0.1, yes, 0.1 percent in China.The Redmond-based tech giant in charge of ...
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AT&T Lumia 830 gets its Windows 10 Mobile update
It was the maligned “Mid-Range Flagship” on AT&T that was going to get its Windows 10 Mobile update someday. Long after everyone else has left the station, — and the device left Microsoft’s support — Big Blue has ...
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No less than six WP8.1-powered Lumias will get Windows 10 soon, at least in Germany
Could Redmond’s Windows 10 Mobile woes be finally over? Probably not all of them, and likely not for good, but the Lumia 950 and 950 XL are once again shipping in most parts of the old continent, which suggests rampant demand was indeed behind recent shortages rather than software ...
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Windows 10 Mobile bug allows Lumia to run Android, at least briefly
Windows 10 Mobile is not just a new version of Windows Phone for new and existing devices, but also a minor paradigm shift in the way Microsoft does things. In the past the struggle to find developers for the platform was clear, but now Microsoft’s approach has shifted to allowing Android apps to run on its new mobile OS. If that statement gave you a brief smile while imagining a Lumia running Android, well there seems to be proof to that, at least briefly.A recent video was published ...
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Windows 10 Mobile bug allows Lumia to run Android, at least briefly
Windows 10 Mobile is not just a new version of Windows Phone for new and existing devices, but also a minor paradigm shift in the way Microsoft does things. In the past the struggle to find developers for the platform was clear, but now Microsoft’s approach has shifted to allowing Android apps to run on its new mobile OS. If that statement gave you a brief smile while imagining a Lumia running Android, well there seems to be proof to that, at least briefly.A recent video was published ...
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AT&T Lumia 830 soon to get Denim camera update
Wow, we’ve lapsed a good length of time since our last coverage of anything to do with the Lumia 830 and the Denim update. We haven’t see much progress on the special flavor of Windows Phone we saw Nokia-turned-
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Microsoft posts very short list of Windows 10 ‘ready’ phones, but don’t panic
There’s already a whole lot of confusion as to what may or may not qualify for a Windows 10 Mobile upgrade once the platform’s new release will be ready for primetime, and Microsoft is sure not helping clear things up by filing a limited number of Lumia handhelds under “Windows 10 Ready” in its British e-store, and “Windows 10 Eligible” ...
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Microsoft leak reveals plans to retire Lumia 830 as phone hits end-of-life status
Microsoft’s got new Lumia hardware on the way – and to hear the latest rumors, we could be less than a month away from the debut of some new flagship-level handsets. And while Microsoft’s certainly not forgetting about its Windows Phone 8.1 lineup as the first pure Windows 10 phones emerge, with plans to release software upgrades that will bring those older models the company’s new mobile platform, the company still has to make important decisions about which phones it wants to highlight ...
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AT&T comes clean about Lumia 830 Denim update (or lack thereof)
Every new smartphone stops getting updates eventually; maybe hardware requirements have gone up, or the user base has moved on to new handsets, but at some point it just stops making sense to allocate resource towards updating old phones. But even when it’s not explicitly stated, many of us assume there’s some level of grace period baked-in there – that we can expect a steady flow of updates for at least a year (and two if we’re lucky). Sadly, that’s just not the case in reality, and we’re finally getting formal confirmation of one smartphone that’s ...
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Lumia 830 vs Lumia 1020: a matter of pixels (Video)
When the Lumia 830 broke cover at IFA 2014, we were struck by its resemblance to the earlier Lumia 1020 – a device which, thanks to its huge 41MP camera, stands alone as the only true super-shooter in the Windows Phone lineup. Microsoft touted the 830 as a kind of affordable successor, a so-called ...
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Nokia Lumia 830 review: midrange yes, flagship no (Video)
The Lumia 830’s model number might be a full hundred digits below Windows Phone’s true flagship, but the step down in prestige also brings a step down in size: at 8.5mm and 150g, the Lumia 830 is a very palm-friendly, very pocketable little Windows Phone. The sides are cool aluminum and the back is a polycarbonate panel available in several colors and adorned with the old NOKIA logo – one of the last uses of the legacy branding ...
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Guess which smartphone took these photos (Vol. 7) (Update: answer within!)
(Update 1/29/2015: the answer now lies at the bottom of this post, so be careful when scrolling if this is your first time seeing this edition of the smartphone guessing game! Also, our apologies for the late update, folks; our lead smartphone reviewer came down with a wicked-bad case of the coughs in this year’s Boston Blizzard, so he’s been out of commission.)When it comes to analyzing the quality of a smartphone’s camera, there are two main approaches. There’s the guided style:“We had a gander at the new [Smartphone] from the fine folks at [Smartphone ...
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Lumia 930 vs Lumia 830: Great photos are just part of the story
Before Microsoft took over Nokia’s mobile division, we spent a good amount of time praising the the once cellphone giant for its efforts with the Lumia smartphone lineup. The Lumia designs were both bold and futuristic, but what really stood these smartphones apart from the competition is the enhanced camera experience that we began to test with devices like the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820 a few years ago.The successors to these smartphones have been in the market for a ...
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Microsoft goes gold with special edition Lumia 830 and Lumia 930
CES 2015 is already starting to wind down, and though we’ve been able to check out a nice assortment of new products, there hasn’t been much to share from the world of Windows Phone. Sure, we got those platform-agnostic Alcatel Onetouch Pixi 3 models, but nothing really high-end; anything like new Lumias will have to wait. Almost as if in a conciliatory gesture, Microsoft has decided to give us something to tide us over until its ...
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