MS already makes Android devices, it looks like all they're doing is putting the Lumia name on them now. I don't understand why you guys are getting all uptight about this. I certainly don't believe any of you are going to abandon Windows Phone when this happens, this is all just a bunch of fluff.
Could they use Lumia for Android Devices and Surface for WP devices?
This will only upset the windows phone users. And the new comers who just spent money on WP rather than on an android.I guess this was the thing or gift to WP which would upset the world as previously said by MS engineer...i guess we will have to join IOS at last... Loyalty offers nothing
I bought my wife a Nokia X, just because it was cheap and the last Nokia phone, at that time probably the last of its kind (Microsoft releasing another Android phone? Never, they'll kill the X line as soon as they have control over Nokia!)
I must say, I really like the X interface. Fastlane is very useful and more in line with the first iterations of Windows Phone than anything Microsoft added in the recent months. I would love to see it coming to WP9.
With the X?, they address my biggest problems with the X, the speed. If they now bring an high end Nokia Lumia X by Microsoft with Canon PureView I really don't see a use for Windows Phone anymore. At some point you have to ask yourself, are we truly doing something better or are we just doing something different for the sake of being different? Microsoft answers this question with an Lumia X in a way I wouldn't had expected three months ago.
If it happens, the only question remains: Is a Lumia worth the hassle or should I simply get a real Android device? With bother with an 2nd class app store if all MS apps are also available in the 1st class app store.
I would probably only miss Cortana, but since real Lumia sales would be the absolute minority, I'm pretty sure they will bring it to Lumia X very fast.
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I have a feeling it's Nadella who's pulling the plug
If it is true,i will never purchase a 'Microsoft' phone in the future.
Well, I can understand your frustration (I've passed this point, I don't care much anymore, maybe it's just my mood today, I don't know) but imagine the frustration of people working passionately on Windows Phone for years and how they feel when they get such things dictated and then read these threads on the forums (what they certainly do).
Well, I guess it comes with the job.
If this is true, Nokia should have opted for Android and potentially survived, rather than throw their weight behind Microsoft and Windows Phone and go under.
Who said anything about pulling the plug on anything? Jesus!
I can't believe that even Microsoft gave up on Windows Phone...