Noticed anyone with a Windows Phone lately?

[johnblair7]

One of my brothers in Leeds has a Lumia 800, one of our friends we haven't seen for years but found us on Facebook has L800, her daughter a L900. Yet another friend we haven't seen for years but found us on Facebook has a L800. One of our branch managers rung me with a query and said he had turned to the darkside. He's now got a L920 after having Android. Last week just as I was leaving our King's Lynn branch people, one of the staff pulled out a pink L800, she said her partner had a L900.

In a chip shop in Spalding a girl in the queue pulled out a blue Lumia. Yesterday I took my wife to the Pilgrim hospital in Boston, I saw a woman speaking on a blue L800. A couple of weeks ago I saw a customer in one of our branches with a black L800.


All quite recent, I've had my black L800 for over a year and bought my son one in the middle of last year on a good deal with Tesco mobile.

Although until recently I'd not seen many or knew many people with them. I've had a lot of people in our branches asking me if my phone was one of those Lumias, so people certainly seem to be aware of them.

 

[Bartdog]

I know three other people who have a windows phone. I was playing tennis and heard the Nokia text message sound. I thought it was my phone but turned out one of the guys on the other team had a 900, too. The second is a student who goes to the same church I do. The third is another tennis guy. This one is a .net developer and is planning on creating an app. I keep telling him he needs to build an instagram client. He reads this board. Hey, Durga!

Incidentally, yesterday i whipped out my red.... L920 in the elevator and a woman from accounting recognized it said she loved it, had wanted to get one, but let her daughter talk her into a $.01 ip###e 4.

 

[HeyCori]

I've seen people locally with a WP but I don't personally know them.

 

[BIGPADDY]

Do you know anyone with a Windows Phone?

I know two people my brother and a colleague at work that about it :smile:

 

[eric12341]

My friend from school , she has a focus flash. I don't know if she swapped it for a WP8 device or not tho. Someone I talk to on Facebook also recently had her 900 swapped for a 920 after it's screen shattered. When I was in school I used to see several WPs in the wild, I also even saw 2 girls with them one loved how integrated everything is while the other complained about the lack of apps.

 

[Blu3V3nom07]

My brother's ****ty friend's brother has a WP7. And I saw a WP7 at the movies, and a WP8 at a local H-E-B. : )

 

[bbqrooster]

A former colleague moved from an Android phone to a HTC 8X. He emailed me and told me how happy he is now because his HTC 8X is head and shoulder above his previous Android phone.

 

[gedzum]

One of my cousins is the only person I know with a WP. He also got the Lumia 800 a couple of months after me after trying my one out.

 

[Angry_Mushroom]

A few with the new HTC 8x, one with a Nokia Lumia 900, and another with some WP7 HTC.

 

[JamesDax]

Yes.

 

[anon(5335899)]

In the team I work with there's a majority of Windows Phones actually. (3x WP7(800/710/Titan), 2xWP8(820), 2x GS3, 1x iPone, 1x Nokia e72)

 

[Abdul Rahman Noor]

I know *one* other guy at work who has one. I recognised it by the Nokia Dubstep tone, and I was right.

 

[German1513]

Besides my family I have introduced around 10 persons to windows phone. I have seen only a few people with WP on the street.

 

[jdriscoll636]

Do you know anyone outside of your immediate family who owns a Windows Phone? I have only seen one WP out in the wild and that person traded her Lumia 900 for an Android phone in like a month. Otherwise I have not seen a single person who owned a WP, but apparently there are a few million of them out there. It makes me wonder where these people are who own them. I assume more people here have a WP, so they must exist, right?

My friends sister and her husband both have L900s. That's one of the reasons I went to WP. Since they aren't the techiest of people and they loved it, it made me think twice about getting a WP.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

There's one person at work with her OG Samsung Focus. I did introduce a few folks to WP though, including a coworker to the 8X...she now likes telling stories of walking around with it and having people instantly recognize it.

In the wild, I see only 920s so far. On the NJ transit trains and MTA subways especially I see mostly iPhones, S3s and Note 2s. like having my 810 because people will ask about the UI. I know we all want the OS to be popular, but I like the feeling of not having the same stuff most people have...

 

[slap0rama]

So far I am the only one I know. My brother is still laughing at me for me jumping ship from Android to WP. One of my friends from high school that I haven't seen in forever actually has one. I noticed she posted on Facebook and saw it was from WP, I was all excited lol

 

[WavingReds]

I'm the only one, every where I go, everyone around me has either an iPhone, Android or a BB

 

[KHROMAsynthetik]

I know three people, though one of them is immediate family; my mum, after trying out my Omnia 7, decided to get an HTC Mozart (she wanted a smaller handset). After seeing my Lumia 920, she immediately wanted one, so she's since upgraded to one. A friend of mine bought an Omnia 7 because he liked mine, and is going to upgrade to a 920 next month. Another friend bought an HTC 8S as a second phone so he could earn extra achievements (he's mad for bloody achievements!).

I've not seen any out 'in the wild', but then I never really notice what other people are carrying.

 

[mrshamoozoo]

i got about 7 of my friends to switch lol including my 3 roommates. nokia and wp8 FTW!

 

[TheLuminis620]

I can confirm more than 5 of my friends are using a WP device and all of them are Nokia. Here in Malaysia, they're slowly getting some attention and even at the shopping malls, I can see some people using Lumias but never yet seeing anybody using the Samsung ATIV or HTC 8X/8S...

EDIT: My sister and her friends are switching over to Lumia anytime soon after they played around with my phone. Yeah, they were a serious BlackBerry user.