Hands On with Windows 10 Mobile build 10572

I see this feature as gimmicky when i think about it more, kind of like its cool, but not actually useful in the real world. If you are going to put a monitor , keyboard and mouse on a desk, you may as well just but the desktop unit as well.

Don't you want the Ubuntu phone? ARM but it doesn't matter as it's Linux and everything comes through the package installer anyway.

Re: Why doesn't someone bring a phone form factor X86 netbook onto the market

There have been a couple of x86 phones released - Lenovo K900 was one, I think.

I doubt it'd be easy to install anything but the supplied OS mind.

Edit:

Apparently the Asus Zenfone 6 is x86 as well, and that's much more recent.

> bean-counters rejoice

And to some extent, admins. MDM tools are pretty mature for Windows.

Re: If they get it right the laptop and deskphone disappear and bean-counters rejoice.

I'd be very happy with this IF and it's an enormous IF I could run regular win32 programs on it, but I can't so it's no good.

What I do see here is the first step on a road that gets us where we want to be in a few years time once Intel has it's power consumption down to a level where regular Windows 10 can run on a mobile device with an Atom cpu in it.

Should that day come, this whole venture will look a lot less like a bad idea than it does right now, but for the meantime I agree with the article. A bit too niche.

Re: Apps are the Issue

I'm not sure they're as much of an issue as people often make them out to be.

I've never installed an app other than some fairly specific IT worker type stuff (SSH client, RDP client) on any phone I've ever owned. I've never needed or wanted them.

I'm pretty sure there's enough people out there who would be perfectly happy as long as the email, calendar, address book, media-player, and web browser all work well and play nicely together. You know - kinda how they did in Phone 7 :/

Re: Abandonment issues

I think that's a slightly misleading sentence in the article. It sounds as if Continuum works, but the display issue is slightly compromised (ie, doesn't power two displays at two resolutions on existing phones). I think the writer's view that you need to abandon your phone is overstated - especially since it seems that WM10 works on most recent bits of hardware.

Re: Also today...

> There's loads pouring out of MSFT's fast ring!

Food poisoning is the usual cause of those symptoms, I believe.