Microsoft Android Phone?

[Alen Alex]

Do you think Microsoft will release an Android phone?

 

[jkelek]

do you think google will release a device running windows? c'mon! on with the real questions

 

[rollindice]

Talk about makes if that happens, you don't see other companies doing such

 

[DRDiver]

Dan tried to argue that you could effectively turn an Android phone into a Windows phone. This just angers me every time I see someone make this claim. You simply can't get there. NONE of the true integration is possible on Android. EVERY aspect of a Windows phone you try to implement requires a collection of separate apps, etc., and rarely do they actually work as advertised. Even Microsoft's own Launcher is a joke. Cortana is just as bad. It is impossible to get the same Cortana experience--something we depend on in our household--on an Android device. None of the Tile launchers out there are anything more than a façade---they don't actually transform the device. Everything within Android is designed to take you OUT of a Windows phone experience, and is at least as disruptive as being taken out of VR when you have to do things like type on a keyboard. I agree with Dan that Microsoft will not likely create their own Android phone and that it wouldn't make sense for them to do so. It would take a dramatic conversion in order for them to integrate Cortana and other features on a level that even comes close to Windows phone. And that's something they won't do.

 

[DRDiver]

do you think google will release a device running windows? c'mon! on with the real questions

It wouldn't be running Windows. That was the POINT of the question. It would be running Android. The assumption is that it would be skinned to mimic some aspects of Windows and have more integrated aspects much like the Galaxy does (like Bixby).

 

[SvenJ]

Oh, hell no. MS is a software company. They didn't build any phones, they built an OS to run on phones that others built. When that wasn't working out that well, they bought a phone company. See how that worked out. Why would they build a phone to run some other company's OS? To run their own apps, skins, launchers? Plenty of options for that out there already, without MS sinking more $$ into a hardware money pit. P.S. I miss Windows Phone, but it existed for the OS, not the hardware. Without the OS the hardware side is pointless.

 

[tsax6010]

There was another thread that was highlighted with basically the same question a month or so ago...

Same answer.

Frak, no

 

[Richard Toft]

Absolutely, every tech press writer states about Microsoft's lack of presence in the mobile market, MS cannot rely on Android continuing to allow Microsoft apps in the store, by forking a windows android/device they solve both these issues even if its a short term solution.
If MS made a device free from the google services, I would definitely be interested.

 

[Glen Barrington]

I've never used a Windows phone, so I have no nostalgia for it. Android (& before, Palm) is all I've ever known. But I've really started to like Win 10, and how it interacts with OneDrive, and as a result, I've found myself exploring the Microsoft Android apps and have discovered that I like them very much and am using them pretty much exclusively except for Cortana. Cortana is fine on my desktop as a driver for Bing search. But as an assistant, it can't hold a candle to Google.

What would the point be for a Microsoft Windows phone? What would it offer Microsoft that me loading all those MS apps on my Motorola doesn't provide them? I just can't see what MS would get out of such a move.

 

[donhackman]

Do you think Microsoft will release an Android phone?

Yes. I thought that before windows mobile. There was not room for a third OS.

 

[editguy]

No, because it's pointless. The Android phone market is already overcrowded. If they thought sales of Windows Phones were too low, sales of an Android phone would make Windows phone sales look massive in comparison.

 

[Nayden]

Hell no, it makes no sense to do it, and frankly Microsoft has lost all tracks regarding mobile platforms.

 

[enduserbestpractice]

I'm a 100% yes. I want to take photos and send them to my one drive automatically and Cortana be fully integrated to work properly

 

[pkcable]

Why does this SO remind me of BlackBerry 10 threads at CB, a bit ago? lol

 

[Sathees kumar]

Do you think Microsoft will release an Android phone?

If it happens then it could like Microsoft going to bend it's knees to Google. I hope it shouldn't happen.

 

[beman39]

Do you think Microsoft will release an Android phone?

sorry I'm not trying to be rude, but this has got to be THE dumbest question... like... think about your question... would apple do it? would google put windows? I mean C'MOOON

also I can't believe you guys are answering his question let alone entertaining ideas on stuff

ps I can't believe theres no rolley eyes emoticon... I think you need to remove some and put a rolley eyes

 

[Aden Rossinni]

Oh God I hope not. Android is a terrible OS.

 

[BanditoTR]

Hell no. Why should they? What is going to be so different from any other Android phone available? It'll be easier and cheaper to just pay phone manufacturers to pre install their apps as default on their phones.

 

[BanditoTR]

For the Play Store. Is not like Microsoft is going to release a UWP store on Android lmao.

 

[BanditoTR]

So basically they should release a Samsung Galaxy but with MS logo plastered on it? Makes sense.

 

[BanditoTR]

They did. It was called Windows Phone. And it failed.