Opinion: The solution for Windows Phone problems

[Amro Shalaby]

first step
Microsoft have to change lumia 950 XL design (remove the bezels) & cancel the 950 (or change 950 design too by remove the bezels and copy xl back) then make the price of 950 XL lower than any flagship in markets

second step
in the next event that it must be as near as possible beside announce the new device ,Microsoft should also announce that the next update of W10M will contain all the missed features(i collect some here) and give us a list ,demo and its exact release date

third step
Microsoft should not represent 950 XL as the first flagship device but the final lumia device and the next flagship to be surface mobile that released with W10.5M

 

[Nabkawe5]

I totally agree with the pricing point, in fact I wrote a whole article about it, I would say the rest of the suggestions are good but it would mean more than 12 other months in redesign

 

[Rasetech]

So you are advising to stop the Lumia brand, the only relevant brand in the Windows Phone world? Awesome, maybe you have another good receipt like this? Maybe for world peace?

 

[Tien-Lin Chang]

I think MSFT should

1)Rethink their price strategy - having a good platform and some nice camera feature should be an attract point to the potential customer rather than a charging point. Make some down-to-earth product instead of using dated hardware and specs for entry product nor waste your brand-value just to overprice some product.(Yes I mean the "pureview" tag on 830, how you can waste this logo on a 1/3.4" sensor and 10mp device? There's no room for supersampling and the small sensor is just backwards against the trend, only OIS is there and software enhancement to the image) You have to let people have your phone on their hand before they can feel how good it can be, setting your price almost twice compare to simiar comfiguration droid phones is not sexy nor attrcting to buying it as spare phone.

2)A really speedup pace for OS evolution - people are saying nokia phones are being well-taken cared of, receiving updates after three-years. But the pace of this platform evolves is just about half the pace comparing to the others, so there's actually not much to be proud of. However, the cost to maintain the RD team is there and I feel this is the reason MSFT have their pricing strategy. By normalize the pace of development they can set a proper profit margin for each product to feed their RD team for a reasonable time period, result in a sweeter product price and faster OS evolution pace then the whole business model will become healthier.

 

[Paolo Ferrazza]

I like all these wannabe market analysts

 

[Paolo Ferrazza]

I totally agree with the pricing point, in fact I wrote a whole article about it, I would say the rest of the suggestions are good but it would mean more than 12 other months in redesign

Link to this article please?

 

[Amro Shalaby]

So you are advising to stop the Lumia brand, the only relevant brand in the Windows Phone world? Awesome, maybe you have another good receipt like this? Maybe for world peace?

no i mean to cancel 950 device only and release enhanced design for xl

 

[Jason De Castro]

This OP needs glasses. The bezels are smaller on the leaked 950 renders than the Lumia 930 which I'm currently using to type this. Seriously it's getting annoying now.

 

[trivishal]

no i mean to cancel 950 device only and release enhanced design for xl

No, Microsoft should release Lumia 950 with revamped Lumia 925 design and all features, and release Lumia 950XL with Snapdragon 820 in early 2016. No Snapdragon 810 device, but that's my view because this chip is not stellarly good, and most of the people just want regular phones, not XL versions.

 

[Amro Shalaby]

I totally agree with the pricing point, in fact I wrote a whole article about it, I would say the rest of the suggestions are good but it would mean more than 12 other months in redesign

why ?

 

[Nabkawe5]

Link to this article please?

http://forums.windowscentral.com/ge...s-believe-its-ecosystem-already-new-post.html

 

[theefman]

Pro tip: Microsoft will do NONE of this (most of which is delusional wishful thinking anyway). Carry on.

 

[gwinegarden]

no i mean to cancel 950 device only and release enhanced design for xl

Do you have the slightest concept of how long it would take to, suddenly, redesign a phone?

 

[gwinegarden]

why ?

It takes Apple a year to make small modifications of their current phones and they are supposed to the kings of this stuff.

People like you remind me of an old boss, I had. He used to say "if I can think of it, you can do it". Sorry, but no.

 

[Paolo Ferrazza]

http://forums.windowscentral.com/ge...s-believe-its-ecosystem-already-new-post.html

Ah ok, a forum post.

Anyway good effort!

 

[jmshub]

Step one relates directly to the design of the 950 and 950 XL, which I must point out, are still rumors and leaks. Few have seen the upcoming devices in person, and as pointed out in this post From the Editor's Desk: Is the Windows Phone community imploding? | Windows Central , the phones may very well present much better in person than pictures. Besides, Microsoft desperately needs to get a flagship phone in the market as soon as possible. Pulling the 950 to redesign it would delay for many months at this point.

Step two is basically saying that Microsoft should prioritize software functions that you personally want to see added to W10m. Respectfully, looking at your post, most of your requests are vague (more personalization), unnecessary (a menu to power off or restart phone...there is a hardware button that already does that), or your personal preference (return the old People tile).

Step three is just further complaining about the look of handsets. Surface phones have been a pipe dream since WP8.0, when Microsoft and Nokia were still separate companies. There are two possibilities here, one is the discussion that what if the Surface is the x86 powered smartphone? That would be interesting, but especially for the non-Continuum devices, there is little benefit to not using ARM chipsets, so getting rid of the Lumia line would be folly.

The other possibility is that Surface would just adopt the Surface design language, as opposed to the polycarbonate bodied Lumia handsets we've been used to. The Surface tablets do look nice, but their design isn't so good that people are rushing out and lining up to buy Surfaces instead of Android or Apple tablets. Plus, the metal body would cut from the thin profits on lower end phones.

 

[ArtificiallyYours]

I like that the standard 950 render reminds me of the Zune HD, just with added details. I loved the Zune HD too. Don't judge me.

Other than that putting so much weight on the renders which don't imply any real dimensions whatsoever is a fools gambit.

 

[Amro Shalaby]

Step two is basically saying that Microsoft should prioritize software functions that you personally want to see added to W10m. Respectfully, looking at your post, most of your requests are vague (more personalization), unnecessary (a menu to power off or restart phone...there is a hardware button that already does that), or your personal preference (return the old People tile).

not all this missed features is a must ,the other post is for collecting all missed feature regardless its importance

 

[tangledW]

Oh my god! You solved it!

Go home, your drunk.

 

[Keith Wallace]

first step
Microsoft have to change lumia 950 XL design (remove the bezels) & cancel the 950 (or change its design too by remove the bezels and copy xl back) then make the price of 950 XL lower than any flagship in markets

second step
in the next event that it must be as near as possible beside announce the new device ,Microsoft should also announce that the next update of W10M will contain all the missed features(i collect some here) and give us a list ,demo and its exact release date

third step
Microsoft should not represent 950 XL as the first flagship device but the final lumia device and the next flagship to be surface mobile that released with W10.5M

These "suggestions" are insane. This was already brought up in this week's "Ask Dan," you can't just change a phone's design last-minute. If they listened to you, they'd have to toss out probably hundreds of thousands of dollars of already-made phones, design new phones, delay W10M by several months (maybe a full year), and THEN you want them to make the phones super-cheap, making that design scrapping a move towards not turning a profit on the replacement? That's not how you run a business.

The second thing just reeks of ignorance. You can't just "make more software." It requires loads of planning, programming, testing, and repeating that process until problems are minimized in quantity and severity. You're really just missing the concept of designing an OS. They can't just press a button and have the OS support multiple applications at once.

Nope, that's insane. So they buy Nokia for billions of dollars, take on their branding, name recognition, and all of that, then throw it out the window in 2 years? Also, the next MAJOR iteration of W10 is probably a Fall 2016 offering, and the mobile stuff clearly lags behind. So, you might be talking not releasing another device until 2017. Oh, and you're saying to just ignore the emerging markets Microsoft's at least had SOME success in?

The content of this is nothing related to the titled. These are self-serving complaints that just ignore basic logic for "I WANT IT." If Microsoft did what you suggested, they'd throw away billions of dollars, delay their OS, restart their hardware production cycle, anger the small number of Windows Phone people still interested in the next generation of devices, and spurn the customer base that keeps them SOMEWHAT afloat. Your title should be, "To Microsoft: The Death of Windows Phones."