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no mention or picture of Windows Phone?!

There's a Windows Phone app. The Windows app is UWP and it looks like it runs on Windows Phone (from the screenshots provided in the Windows Store).

For whatever reason it's named Project Cheshire and not Microsoft To-Do in the store.

Windows version is UWP app and it works on Windows 10 Mobile (or how it's referred in the name of a recent update, "Windows 10 for arm-based Phone Devices") despite a circle jerk in other comments.

Windows Phone = Windows 10

I would be very surprised if even Microsoft was not supporting the Windows Phone. I am sure it will pop up.

Isn't Window Phone dead? Last December it's word wide market share was just 0.1% (the same as Blackberry), down from 1.3% twelve months before (Dec 2015). Also the most recent Win10PhoneOS release only runs on merly 12 supported devices.

Globally maybe. There are still some markets where it's fairly popular. That being said, I fear that those won't be enough to keep supporting it for MS. While they haven't exactly announced anything, they might very well end Windows 10 Mobile in the near future.

Can Microsoft afford to let the mobile market go? Building mobile for others means you're a sharecropper and not the landholder...Microsoft has been the biggest landholder for decades. Do they know how to compete without owning the playing field?

More on Windows phone app -> http://gunnarpeipman.com/2017/04/microsoft-to-do/

That ship has sailed, and they are playing the long game now.

I think there's one way for them to rise and completely dominate the market: have some intel CPU based type phone which can run normal Windows 10 and all Windows applications.

I feel like this is sort of like 10 years ago time... when we were just introduced of the idea of a tablet and no-one serious (besides small Indian startups) was doing it... and then the iPad came and suddenly this tablet thing was everywhere you looked. I wonder who will be the first (big company) to make a serious attempt of a usable phone-PC.

They actually have an x86/x64 emulation layer for ARM well underway, so most likely they'll release such a phone soon, and have it run PC apps via emulation.

The performance should be decent, considering most apps are no longer CPU intensive.

Nah, I disagree... my Windows 10 - 8 inch tablet is pretty terrible for proper applications. I can get by in a pinch, but much prefer a proper laptop. I also don't want to put anything larger than the S8+ in my pockets.

I am disappointed Windows Phone has not survived.

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