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Windows 10 Mobile support ending: Microsoft says go to iOS or Android
Are you among the few people left still using a Windows 10 Mobile phone? Even Microsoft has been suggesting that your time to embrace an iPhone or Android handset is long overdue.
This is the final year Microsoft will provide "support" for Windows 10 Mobile, and the company has published a page where you can learn more about nursing your device toward its final days.
Yes, the handset should continue to work after Dec. 10, 2019, the last official day for product and security updates. After that, though, the phone is likely on borrowed time, though Microsoft says automatic or manual creation of new device backups for settings and some applications will continue for three more months, ending March 10, 2020. For that matter, some services including photo uploads and restoring a device from an existing device backup may continue to work for up to a year more.
Still, for most of you, you'll want to start the long goodbye now. And for some versions of Windows Mobile the end of the line comes as soon as June, so consult that online support page for details.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday January 22 2019, @02:23PM (1 child)
If you want a semi serious answer, I use my old android phones as wifi-only streamers when doing "dangerous" work. If I drop my old phone in the water while fishing or sweat from yard work ruins the phone's innards, oh well at least I didn't ruin my "real" phone.
Battery life begins to be an issue when I can't even grill dinner before the charred grease covered phone's battery dies. No, I'm not grilling food over a flaming lithium battery, but the phone sitting next to the grill streaming music does get trashed pretty well.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday January 22 2019, @06:35PM
There's always the fun of messing about with hardware and software trying to make stuff work of course, but in this case no bluetooth, wifi or headphone jack, so no streaming music.
No phone calls either.
Gotta start somewhere though.