![]() Admittedly, the space bar was too small and the keyboard ultiimately too fiddly, but who wouldn't give their eye-tooth for something similar with 6" screen and modern internals in Spring 2017? In fact, you could make it all in aluminum and put it into the Surface line? (Wishful thinking, but hey.)īut on with the real top 5 Windows phones - and yes, note the small 'p', since this covers the Windows 10 Mobile era too, so we're not just looking at 'Windows Phone' per se. So your email and Office activities, for example, were a perfect match for the form factor. Especially since (the Start screen apart) an awful lot of Windows Phone (even in 2011) ran quite happily in landscape mode. Get past that the screen is tiny by 2016 standards, get past the use of Windows Phone 7.8 (hey, it was 7.5 when it launched!), and the slide-out keyboard with sprung flip-up 'laptop' mode still excites. So, at number six in my top five (if you will), it's the extremely rare (though I have one - ha!) HTC 7 Pro: (Think the Lumia 950 range but six years earlier!) Yet it had a unique selling point at the time and, in today's homogenous fondle-slab world, that USP is even more remarkable now. lest I get too carried away with current viability as a mental filter, I wanted to give a honorable mention to a smartphone which had almost zero sales when it came out in January 2011, because it wasn't marketed or pushed or distributed in any way. With around fifty different models to choose from (depending on how you count), let's pick the five that most impressed, the five that are worthy to be counted as classics and retained even today, and used with pleasure.īut wait. yet in between there were (literally) dozens of Nokias and then Microsoft-branded Lumias. The first Windows Phones were produced in 2010, made by HTC, LG and Samsung - and we finish 2016, six years on, with HP and Alcatel being the ones making the new hardware. But they're outside the scope of AAWP, so. ![]() * I guess I should acknowledge the original 'Windows Mobile' smartphones as well, which were around, with a totally different underlying OS and interface, from the early 2000s to around 2008.
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