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[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 22 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I actually do kind of miss my windows phone LOL

[–] jaygray91@piefed.zip 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Nokia with Windows Phone is great. It is still the best interface just right before MS made it worse with WP10 IMO. It is still amazing to me that when I gave one to my mom back when she was changing from a normal non touch screen phone, she immediately gets it and I don't have to coach.

And I personally also like the design philosophy behind WP 7 up until 8.1. I just can't get behind WP10 and later.

[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 1 points 15 hours ago

I had windows mobile 5.0 😆

[–] AmyAye@nord.pub 3 points 1 day ago

Me too. I didn't even have famcy ones. I had the cheap $20 Nokia 520

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My nokia windows phone was the best. Stylish, great battery, great camera.

Windows phone with the tiles remains the best phone interface by far. Since then i've had to make my own custom interface because i can't go back to ugly ass icons.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 day ago

I love the concept of that launcher, so much I've tried it numerous times.

In the end, a launcher just doesn't work for me. But that tiled UI is definitely the best approach I've seen.

[–] tomatoely@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Nokia Lumias were really interesting

[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i wish they'd bring those back, i totally missed that era

[–] diablicja@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My Lumia is still the best phone I've ever had. It still works, to an extent, despite having fallen out of my pocket at biking speed multiple times. Unfortunately everyone and their dog uses WhatsApp now so when WhatsApp decided to stop supporting my model, it became nearly useless. I'm still angry about it.

[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 3 points 1 day ago

One of the few benefits of being American, no one is using whatsapp

[–] Technoworcester@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same. It was SHIT but the battery was epic and i used to spend time on it playing shite games on long train journeys.

[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Omg you know what, when I had one it was still called Windows Mobile, not Windows Phone yet. Games weren't really big yet!

[–] Technoworcester@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Haha. It was backgammon, don't think I had the option for anything more high end.

Seemed so bizarre at the time, but the changeups it had made for a fun experience