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I miss Windows Phone. Used to have a Lumia 920. Sleek, rock solid phone that rarely crashed and always gave the impression that it will be there when I need it. Apps weren't great but still I was quite happy with a few. And I started to like the Tiles UI.

Then the Microsoft-Nokia joke happened.

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If Nokia wasn't gone use Android, using its own much, much better MeGoo OS would have been much better. That's what the later Lumina hardware was initially designed for.

And MeGoo was better then Windows Phone as well.

> Then the Microsoft-Nokia joke happened.

The real joke and borderline criminal act was for Nokia to adopt Windows when they had a much better open OS already.

A different generation of windows phones but I used HP Ipaq 514 back in the day and oh was it terrible to use.

I think that was Windows Mobile which is different than Windows Phone.

I used to like the Windows Phone UX too, I had it on a few phones over a period of time back in the day.

But, all of the phones I had used to crash pretty regularly, rock solid it was not! Still, I miss it!

Weird, I had one of these too and it crashed constantly- I would reach into my pocket and if the phone felt hot I'd know without looking that it had crashed and had already drained the battery

i miss the Zune and its UI. was the Windows Phone's UI similar?

A little bit, yes. The scrolling menus were in the style of Zune, and the home screen was like that of Windows 8. It was fast and lag-free, no loading of UI elements, and all that on a dual core ARMv7 (I used the Samsung Ativ S).

Never used Zune. WinPhone's UI was similar to Windows 8 at the time (I think the term is Metro design language).

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