It has a 4. Like all Lumias, it runs Microsoft's friendly, easy-to-use Windows Phone software. Wireless charging and a screen you can use even with gloves on are fun bonuses. A quick note on Nokia's naming scheme: the higher the number, the more expensive the phone.
The "20" part means it's the most recent range last year's mostly ended in "10," such as the , except the original and Got that? Let's move on. Nokia's Lumia is slightly smaller than the , with a 4. You can still charge it wirelessly, but only by using a compatible battery cover. The Lumia is U.
While a lot has changed aesthetically, the internals are very similar to that of the standard Its bulky design leaves much to be desired, although it does come at an affordable price.
The same can be said for T-Mobile's variant, the Lumia Just announced this week at Mobile World Congress, the Lumia is Nokia's idea of a budget fashion phone. Limiting it to 3G means it'll be mainly sold in Europe, at a price of euros. Previously Nokia's cheapest Lumia, the has now been undercut by the Low end devices like the and honestly are painful to use on Windows Phone 8.
The other fact of the matter is that Microsoft while Microsoft may have implied that they were going to upgrade all Windows Phone 8. In the end, the first list became the final list, so not much was changed. While devices like the HTC One M8 and Samsung Ativ SE should be able to handle Windows 10, the truth is Samsung and HTC just genuinely do not care about Windows phones at the moment, and even if they release a token one here or there, it will be unsupported beyond the bare minimum. The Windows Server name made its debut with the release of Windows Server and continues with the current release, Windows Server Home Server allowed users to share files such as digital photos and media files, and also automatically backed up home networked computers.
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Now many users have a love hate relationship with Zune, currently being praised as one of the best creations of Microsoft, it was hated upon its inception as an iTunes-esque piece of software which handled everything sync related like media files and the like as well as OS updates. Next, one of the most advertised staples of the Windows Phone experience was the Office Hub. The Office hub was an advertised feature for business users, boasting collaborative features via SharePoint, note taking via OneNote and document editing with Microsoft Word with Excel and PowerPoint along for the ride.
While it was better than nothing, and offered basic functionality, that was all it offered. Fundamental to an office app as well, there was no copy and paste functionality as well. In addition, the ability to access password protected docs was absent as well, limiting its enterprise usefulness. PowerPoint lacked the ability to create. It was an excellent viewer of slideshows, which is far more useful on a mobile device.
OneNote was also present, but lacked pen and ink support and was really more of a simple editor with the ability to add pictures, audio and other attachments. To enable syncing, you could activate your Windows Live OneDrive account, which allowed the user to start working on one machine and carry of over to the next machine, like what Apple advertises continuity and handoff to be.
The final two hubs were the games and pictures hubs, they were pretty simple and straightforward but played well with the integrated philosophy of Windows Phone. The Pictures hub managed photos, and not just locally stored photos, but those which were stored on the cloud and social networking websites.
Windows Phone users who began using the platform with 8. It had a live tile which cycled through all your photos or a select few, depending on how you configure it. Last but not least, the Xbox hub managed all your games and gaming apps. It was a typical hub app with one pane listing all apps it managed, another pane for your Xbox live avatar and so on. Microsoft and developers more on that below. For the hub to be useful, there had to be more than a few Xbox live games present on the platform, unfortunately, Windows phone did not have too many games which made use of the feature at launch, crippling it.
Today, the program is on life support with only a few Xbox live enabled games coming through. Apart from the hubs feature, the rest of the OS was standard.
There was the Windows Phone marketplace, which was a one stop shop for apps, music and videos. There was also a standard dialler, a maps application powered by Bing Maps, a basic camera and email app and other staples of a modern OS. Nokia was not yet a partner of Microsoft.
Now with a huge number of devices, a well-received OS and the backing of a huge company like Microsoft, one would expect Windows Phone to have caught on quite quickly. Several certainly did think it would displace Android and iOS, what held Windows Phone back was a combination of two things, mentioned above. Microsoft and developers. Microsoft had developed a very locked down platform with only a bit of wriggle room for devs and users. Like Apple, Microsoft had shipped a smartphone platform that as fast, fluid and functional but limited in its functionality.
Unlike the iPhone, Microsoft had many competitors. They needed to get updates out and fast. The first update came in the second year of Windows Phone , codenamed NoDo, this update brought copy and paste to Windows Phone 7, improved the multitasking and fixed several bugs in the OS. It was a useful update, but began a worrying trend for Microsoft. While Android received major updates frequently and iOS received a major update every year with minor updates being issued in between, Microsoft was so far behind they needed to adopt the Android mentally rather than the iOS one in other to catch up.
It seemed that they knew this when rumours of another update, Mango as well as stirrings of Apollo began to hit the internet. As this rumour gained steam, another event created waves in the Windows phone world.
A year after Microsoft unveiled its original Windows Phone 7 project, the first major new update was released. Windows Phone 7. This update was the last Windows Phone 7 update for several users and added many staples of the Windows Phone experience. First of all, behind the scenes, Microsoft enabled support for new hardware and direct X Graphics.
This would require manpower that the firm was not willing to divert from its new project, Apollo, the next step for Windows Phone. Live tiles were resurrected in this update. Mango allowed apps to update more often as well as enabled deep linking. That is to say, one could pin multiple sections of an app to the start screen. Like OneNote notebooks, Evernote pages and others.
The start screen would become more alive than it was before in this update. Speaking of which, one of the complaints about the original Windows Phone software was about how difficult it was for you to get to your apps via the app list. Without pinning that specific app to the start screen, one would have to hunt and peck around the app list.
Microsoft listened to user feedback and provided a jumplist feature that activated when there were 45 or more apps installed. You could then tap on a letter and jumps to apps that you needed to access. Microsoft also enhanced the messaging functionality here.
Where the messaging app was just a simple text and SMS app, after Mango, it became a full-fledged messaging hub with access to both Facebook and Windows messenger. You could fire off a message on Facebook, go off-line and then switch to text seamlessly. It was a useful and powerful tool for communication, especially for a people focused OS like Windows Phone. Now with all these social networks, one might think the Windows Phone People hub would become cluttered with updates from here, there and everywhere.
The email app was similarly enhanced and refined, previously on Windows Phone managing multiple accounts required each account to have its own tile, which could lead to a cluttered start screen for some.
Mango enabled linked inbox functionality, allowing the user to link multiple inboxes into one email hub. It also added support for threaded emails, a shocking oversight for the company behind Outlook. Multitasking was also massively improved.
Windows Phone multitasking had been poor and temperamental with no way to quickly switch apps besides jumping to the start screen and selecting the app again. Mango fixed this by implementing two features. Fast App resume and a new multitasking view accessed by holding down the back button. Firstly, fast app resume changed the behaviour of apps which were updated to support it.
Previously when you swapped away from Windows store apps, you had to restart them from start. Now, the apps assumed a saved state and remained in memory for quite a while, allowing one to switch back through the new cards based multitasking view. For instance, if one was viewing a twitter app and switched apps or locked the screen, whereas the old WP 7.
This vastly improved the user experience and allowed apps to work almost as well as their Android and iOS versions. Speaking of apps, there was a huge elephant on the room there. When Windows Phone was a fledgling operating system, it was all well and good that it had few apps, yet a year later in the lifecycle of the OS and the number of apps in the store were still shockingly low with many apps being non-existent or poor caricatures of their Android and iOS selves.
In addition to this, while Microsoft had announced several new features for Windows Phone 7. From little conveniences like locking screen rotation, to issues like creating and editing music players as well as hardware limitations. These frustrations when added to the app gap issue slowly began to cut down the optimism that reviewers and enthusiasts initially had for Windows Phone. Windows Phone 7 would receive two more updates, Tango and 7. It would be rendered obsolete by the upcoming Windows Phone 8.
The first of the two updates was Tango, this update was mainly used to enable lower end devices with MHz processors and megabytes of RAM. Nokia quickly took advantage of this and released the Lumias , and
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