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The Future of Windows on phones

  • 08-12-2016 4:46pm
    #1
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,670 ✭✭✭✭


    Well, I predicted that eventually Windows on PCs and on phones would eventually converge into a single OS able to run every app, but I had it backwards - I originally thought we'd get a Surface 'phone' running an Intel chip. But it seems we're going to be getting the opposite:

    http://www.windowscentral.com/surface-phone-windows-10-arm

    Very, very interesting!


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  • #2
    theothernt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 875 ✭✭✭theothernt


    It's very early to tell where this is going. What we say was a tech. demo - I'm waiting until actual devices are announced.

    Also, if a phone or tablet comes out that can run the older apps, as well as the new - what does that change?


  • #3
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,670 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    theothernt wrote: »
    It's very early to tell where this is going. What we say was a tech. demo - I'm waiting until actual devices are announced.

    Also, if a phone or tablet comes out that can run the older apps, as well as the new - what does that change?

    Well look, here's full Windows 10 running on a Snapdragon 820:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaSmZzo3Y_c

    At the end there you can see it firing up Photoshop and running pretty well. Now an S820 is fairly common processor, but by next year we'll have the 835 in market, which should be even higher performance.

    So we will very likely be able to buy a Windows 10 mobile device, possibly even a Surface Mini, that'll run as a Windows 10 phone normally, but be able to connect via Continuum to a monitor and become a full fledged PC. Continuum is already pretty handy, but being able to run every single Windows 10 program and app? That's amazing. That'll be a huge deal for enterprise.

    What it won't change is the phone app situation directly, because it's not like people are creating x86 apps that are suitable for phone usage.

    I'm not going to say that this development is going to 'save' Windows phones.

    I believe this instead has the potential to create the next paradigm of devices, a completely converged phone-tablet-laptop-PC (that could even run Xbox games) all in one device.

    At the very least, this is going to mean we'll be able to buy small form factor tablets with superb battery life and cheap prices that can double up as full-on PCs.

    In some sort of magical world, we'd get a Surface phone using this technology, Microsoft would buy Bluestacks, and we'd have native Android app emulation.


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