[Intro]
Hello everyone!
Do you remember when, in addition to Android and iOS, there were smartphones on the Windows Phone platform?
Bright, stand out among the rest, unusual devices that had an even more interesting and, in my opinion, promising platform.
For the first time I saw smartphones on Windows Phone back in 2012, when I was still a schoolboy, but I saw it only in pictures.
I just found out that in addition to Android and iOS, there is also such a Windows Phone system and... that's it.
At the time, I was walking around with a Samsung C3300i :D
I saw Windows Phone live on the phone of a school friend from a parallel class in 2015.
He had a Nokia Lumia, just like the one in the video, but only in blue and on Windows Phone 8.1
It's worth starting with how Windows Phone came into being.
For those who do not know or have not watched my past videos, I will kindly refresh your memory.
It was presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in 2010.
Before Windows Phone, there was Windows Mobile, which was based on the Windows CE kernel.
Yes, this is how the carousel turns out.
The new Windows Phone was incompatible with previous versions of systems, which caused a lot of questions among users from the very beginning.
Something like “hey, what the...”
A little later, already in 2012, Windows Phone with the release of the 8th version switched to the Windows NT kernel.
However, the story does not end there: users began to complain that ...
...that in order to upgrade to the new version, it was necessary to buy a new smartphone.
Yes, Windows Phone 7 could not be upgraded to the WP8
The same situation happened with Android 3.0, but its outcome was much worse.
That's just to dampen the ardor of consumers, Microsoft released Windows Phone 7.8, which was still based on Windows CE, but included the functions of the eight.
From the very beginning of its development, despite the addition of interesting features and the appearance of various games and applications like official clients, ...
... and no exclusive content, against the background of Android and iOS, this system occupied the world market share very slowly, practically not even.
Microsoft still tried to develop and promote this system, and on November 20, 2015, Windows 10 Mobile comes out, replacing Windows Phone 8.1.
With Windows 10 Mobile, the Home screen gets background image support, a redesigned Settings app, ...
...new File Explorer and Cortana voice assistant apps, USB Type-C and OTG support, a new Windows Store and Windows Hello.
In total, several updates were released: Anniversary Update in July 2016, Creators Update in March 2017 and Fall Creators Update in September of the same year.
And in October 2017, Joe Belfiore announced the cessation of active development of the mobile version of Windows.
According to StatCounter data for 2018, Windows 10 Mobile was used (!) by about ⅓ of 1% of users of mobile systems from around the world.
In January 2019, Microsoft set an End of Support date for Windows 10 Mobile on December 10, 2019, after which there will be no more updates, ...
...and existing services will begin to phase out.
However, at the last minute, the End of Support date was abruptly moved to January 14, 2020, which is the day Windows 7 support ended.
As I understand it, they just decided to end support for a number of products at once, which is quite convenient.
Years later, everyone already knows very well what happened to Windows Phone, and to mobile Windows in general.
Spoiler: the system died due to its unpopularity among users and other pitfalls in the form of difficulties with the interface and continuous updates.
And it was simply unprofitable for developers to create applications for Windows Phone, in every sense - because of the same unpopularity.
The history of the mobile version of Windows ends on January 14, 2020, with the end of support for Windows 10 Mobile, the last mobile version of this platform.
And I became very curious, many years have passed since the release of the latest version of Windows 10 Mobile (I remind you that the latest version is 1709), ...
...and still I wonder how life is on this platform now, despite its official, so say death.
Yes, something like survival on Windows 10 Mobile in the modern world.
But before we look at the system and tinker with apps, we need to find a device that runs Windows 10 Mobile.
And this device will be Nokia Lumia 730.
This smartphone was released in September 2014 and initially worked on Windows Phone 8.1.
The processor in this smartphone is Snapdragon 400 with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz.
In terms of memory, there is 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of permanent storage, plus it is possible to expand the memory using MicroSD cards up to 128 GB.
The smartphone can be upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile, and on it it works quite tolerably.
Any review of the system on a real device begins with turning on this device itself and going through its initial setup.
And the OOBE always starts with what?
That's right - from the choice of the language in which we communicate and communicate with society in everyday life.
I personally speak Russian all my life, but I also understand English, so I prefer it more.
Next, we will be asked to indicate the region in which we live.
In Windows 10 Mobile, it affects some system apps (in terms of updating news feeds, finance, and other information from MSN), the Windows Store, the date/time format, and the availability of local content.
For example: let's say there is some game that is available only in one region, and in another - it seems that it does not exist in the store, that is, it is officially unavailable.
We are immediately offered to choose a Russian region, but again he did not guess correctly - I always put United States.
Going further, after selecting a region, we are asked to restart our device to apply regional settings...
...and fully use the interface language - here you can smell the jokes from the Windows 98 era.
After the reboot, we are joyfully greeted and asked to continue the configuration, to which we naturally give agreement.
Next, we have a SIM card detection in the device, and of course it will give an error, since I did not insert a SIM card - obviously.
Later, there is a reading of the terms of the license agreement, and now admit it seriously, you have never read it seriously.
And I read, but only the rules of VK, and that was 12 years ago :D
Of course we have to accept this agreement, because if we refuse, we will simply be told that we have no right to use this device and we will be turned back to the agreement.
After reading the agreement, here are the classic steps that can be found literally everywhere - setting the date, time and connecting to a Wi-Fi network.
When connecting to a Wi-Fi network, we need to set some privacy settings and settings for some functions.
And if you are too lazy to poke a bunch of checkmarks, then you can just poke on the “Express” button, but who knows what will be marked under this button...
Now it's the turn of voluntary login to your Microsoft account.
Whether you want to come in or don't. I personally for the sake of fun will enter.
Spoiler: I logged into my account, but I got a login error at the end, but I was logged into my account in the Microsoft Store.
After the Microsoft account, the system looks for backups in your SD card in case you want to restore all applications and desktop settings to the state they were before the reset.
Finally, the final stage of setup is the final configuration of the system applications.
This will take some time and while waiting, you can go do other things, or go for a walk.
So the initial setup has already been completed and we get to the main screen, ...
...but we won’t have time to briefly review anything, as the system will suddenly ask for a reboot
After all the settings are finally completed, all reboots have been completed, and the missing applications are installed, ...
...we smoothly move on to broadcasting the screen and viewing the entire system.
Naturally, you can start from the main screen - here we see pinned applications in the form of tiles of different sizes.
Calls and messages for the first SIM card; calls and messages for the second SIM card, it is very unusual to see it all as separate programs; ...
... some kind of empty place, something has managed to be updated; mail program; the calendar; settings; ...
...Cortana, which is difficult to shut up; Windows Store and various small applications like Explorer, players, MSN services and the basic office suite
We'll talk more about standard applications later, but now we'll move on to the interface.
If you swipe to the right, then a search bar appears in front of us and a complete list of all applications installed in the system is shown.
Here, in addition to the standard applications, you can see both sponsors like Yandex, VK, LitRes and Gameloft...
...and apps supplied by the manufacturer itself - Lumia Camera, Lumia Creative Studio, Lumia Storyteller, HERE maps, and so on
And now we can talk in detail about how the standard apps work: they don't work at all, really.
Since the version of the stock apps is old and different from the latest, the app will refuse to run and will ask for an update.
But that's okay, you can always update the application, but the Windows Store does not work - it also asks for an update, and can not download it trivially.
Initially I thought it was some kind of trick with the region and tried to update via VPN, but then it turned out that the system just needed time :/
After the MS Store was updated, I updated all the other system apps and... some still don't work... ok.
And now we can move on to the Windows Store, or rather what's left of it now.
And as you can easily guess: the Windows Store is practically empty.
No, it still works, but apart from the standard applications, a couple of abandoned games and VLC with Total Commander, there is nothing to download.
But you can install applications not only from the Windows Store, but also from regular .appx packages
This is simple. Go to Settings, section "Update and Security", "For Developers".
In the first section, you check the "Developer mode" checkbox to allow you to install applications on the system bypassing the Windows Store.
Later we turn on Device Discovery, Device Portal and log in with the IP address from our PC.
Connect the device and our PC by entering the six-digit code on the login page and voila - we have de facto access to our device.
Here we can see CPU, RAM and video chip load graphs; see connected devices in the system; see network adapters and Wi-Fi networks;
View running applications on the system and finally install applications bypassing the official store.
The last one is done in the Apps section.
The interface here is simple and clear, so I don’t need to explain exactly how to install application packages.
And probably at this point, you can move on to applications for different purposes: browsers and players, file managers and utilities, clients of social networks and messengers.
Let's start with the browsers: there's not much to go on.
The usual Firefox and Google Chrome were not here in the first place, so of the standard ones here is Microsoft Edge, which is still made on the EdgeHTML engine.
And of the third-party and quite adequate ones there is BlueSky Browser and something tells me that it runs on the same EdgeHTML.
Well, you can surf the Internet, the sites open and somehow scroll.
Music and Video. The standard music player here is "Groove Music" and "Movies & TV".
Basically, it's just like the desktop Windows 10 of those years.
But from third parties, you can use VLC - in fact, a universal application: listen to music, watch a video, and even open some RTMP stream using a link.
But among third-party applications you can use VLC, which is essentially a universal application: you can listen to music, watch videos, or even open an RTMP stream via a link.
What about social networking apps and clients?
After all, communication is very cool and I need to interact with my acquaintances somehow, too.
Suddenly I will be far away from the PC and some event will happen in front of my eyes that I want to discuss with my acquaintances.
The original VK here is very old, Telegram here is also old and has not been updated for several years.
Therefore, you can use LunaVK for the VK client - at the time the video was shot, it is the only and still actively updating client for Windows 10 Mobile.
As a replacement for the original Telegram, you can use Unigram, but it will not install here because of the old version of Windows 10 Mobile.
But the official Telegram client no longer really works here: it shows messages and channels, ...
...but will not show correspondence with a user whose ID is greater than the 32-bit limit (which, let me remind you, is the number 2 147 483 647), ...
...and no calls will work here at all.
And don't even think about voice chats and channel comments. Bruh.
No Discord or Matrix clients, other social networks and messengers will be here at all.
It seems that all aspects have been dealt with and I haven't forgotten anything...
Then now is the time to start making a final conclusion.
What can I say in the end?
No matter how hard the community tries, no matter how beautiful the platform is, I can still say one thing: the platform is dead.
Modern applications can not download, the store is empty and probably in the future it may cease to work, but still some applications can be downloaded.
Yes, the phone uses the Windows 10 Mobile build 1607, but if I update to a newer one, will anything change?
I hardly think so...
That's all.
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[We see we have the function "Flashlight"]
[Turn on]
[and where]
[We turned on, "Flashlight"]
[What the ..., ... Why is it not turning on?]
[fl.., .... , flashlight]
*laughter*