The few legacy Windows Phone devices that have been promised an update to Windows 10 Mobile are, in many cases, still waiting. AT&T’s got the Lumia 640 still kicking around with 8.1, but customers are starting to see a change.The support forums have been buzzing that the latest OTA for the Lumia 640 bumps ...
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Microsoft has officially changed the goalpost in overtime.The previous minimum memory requirements for Windows 10 Mobile have been annulled and replaced on Microsoft’s Hardware Dev Center. Instead of 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage, phones will need at least 1GB of RAM and 8GB of RAM.The move was made after several Windows Phone 8.1 devices that were promised an upgrade didn’t get ...
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It’s been a really long time coming (almost three years), and finally, the 2013-released Lumia 520 falls out of first place in AdDuplex’s Windows Phone popularity charts.Unfortunately for those of you who perhaps hoped the global crown would be passed on to a contemporary mid-ranger or the Windows 10 Mobile-powered Lumia 950 flagship, it’s the 535 that moves in the top spot.Essentially, a crappy (by ...
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Just how seriously do you take your communication security? The data connection to your email server may be protected by encryption, but what happens once the message gets there? Are you cool with Gmail having to those unencrypted conversations? Or do you place a higher value on your privacy, insisting on end-to-end encryption such that not even the companies controlling the servers over which your message travels are capable of reading it? Last month we told you about some ...
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Windows 10 Mobile is far and away the most immature of the major operating systems on the market so far. The many and the proud devices that were able to make the jump from Windows Phone 8.1 to W10M have been made familiar with its quirks. And its ...
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The Windows 10 Mobile upgrade for existing Windows Phone 8.1 devices has started to show up. Most people probably have the automatic updates option turned on which will probably notify you when an update is ready to install and allow you to proceed. There’s a few things you might want to be wary of when that Windows 10 Mobile upgrade comes along though.Do you even want the upgrade?Many people think the newer version of an operating system is going to be better than the current version. That is how things should normally go, but that’s not often the case with Windows Mobile. In ...
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Yesterday, Windows smartphones users got what they’d been looking forward to for months, as Microsoft started making available Windows 10 Mobile updates for their existing Windows Phone 8.1 models. It was good news … at first, but then we started asking questions about the phones we didn’t yet see updates for, and the more we asked, the less we liked the answers. We just told you about how Microsoft ...
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Yesterday, Microsoft started making good on an old promise as it began distributing public updates for old Windows Phone 8.1 handsets that would bring them into the world of Windows 10 Mobile. It was a big deal to see this day finally arrive, sure, but not everyone was so happy. After all, while a bunch of popular WP8.1 phones made the list of phones receiving the update, there were plenty missing – including models that had previously been included as part of Microsoft’s Insider Preview ...
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All week long, we’ve been talking about Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile updates for the company’s fleet of existing Windows Phone 8.1 handsets, as rumors suggested that the day when the first of these updates would start heading out to the public was nearly upon us. And while early confirmation never came, the rumors continued their reprise: Windows 10 Mobile updates would land this Friday. Now the day’s finally upon us, and we can finally put all those rumors to rest as ...
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Is it really, truly happening? Windows Phone users were burned in the past when Microsoft release a major platform update without bringing the new code to older phones, but this time was supposed to be different: existing Windows Phone 8.1 handsets would be getting updates that brought them into the world of Windows 10 Mobile. We know that Insider testers have been working with in-development builds for months (hell, over a year by this point), but when would a public release be ready? After ...
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Spotify users on Windows 10 Mobile are left banded together, wondering if they’ll be hearing the same ‘ol tune from the music streaming service like they have for many other app makers.The situation began with disappointment yesterday as it notified at least one user that it wouldn’t be updating its
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We’re well into the third month of the new year already; snow’s melting, spring’s just over the horizon … so where the heck are Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile updates for existing Windows Phone Lumia handsets, already? Microsoft hasn’t reassigned itself a hard-and-fast due date since missing its initial December target, but come on already – we’ve seen indications from mobile carriers and
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What’s it take for us to pull up a year-old phone and start looking at it in a new light? A software update? Sure – but it had better be a major one. A newly discounted price? Again, possibly, but you’d have to be practically giving the handset away for us to spend much time on an aging model. But what about new hardware functionality? The idea of a smartphone picking up some new hardware tricks months after it launches is a pretty tantalizing one, maybe most because it just so rarely ...
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Windows 10 Mobile beta testers, aka Insiders or Technical Previewers, have another cumulative update waiting for them in the Fast ring, focused as usual on quashing a good deal of bugs, including a few that may have been behind recent delays of major software renovations for devices stuck on Windows Phone 8.1.These should allow “many fitness applications” to correctly access movement data once upgraded from version 8.1 to 10, and also improve the migration of data profiles and messaging settings in the same ...
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The upcoming Microsoft Lumia 650 isn’t shaping up to be a major upgrade over the 640, with the same exact display likely in tow, a Snapdragon 210 processor replacing the old but respectable 400, considerably improved 5MP front-facing camera and, believe it or not, a smaller battery.Still, an overall design and build quality amelioration is probably in the works, so discounting
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