Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand

HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• afk_strats@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I literally gasped. iPAQ510, my beloved

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• Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I would vomit if I had to look at the Windows logo every time I pulled out my phone. Google is not perfect and they’ve made mistakes with Android, but at least it’s Open Source. Microsoft has a much worse record of opposing Open Source initiatives…

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  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This was nearly 20 years ago, Microsoft was annoying but fairly benign at the time. This phone with Windows Mobile 6 was released alongside the first release of android and the first iPhone

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You’re right, they haven’t been this overt since the 2000’s. But their flagship OS is still closed-source and forces ads and unpopular privacy violating features like Recall to this day…

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  • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Windows phone had a lot of potential

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