This is a fantastic phone. Fantastic screen, great battery life and windows 10 mobile is very nice.
Apps aren't everything.

Just goes to show the mentality of android users.
The unwashed masses playing repetitive mindless "games" that are designed only to drain your money, you are the fabled "whale" that devs love.

I remember calling you out over a year ago slating windows on phones... You said Win 8 was dead then, you were wrong, and now you are having another go.
We know you , and some others don't like it, and that's fine. That's what choice is about.
Yes, there is a small app gap, and I do mean small. Most users will find a few apps they want won't be there, but for most, they won't notice, and where there IS an app gap, most of the time, they can use the far better browser offered in Win10 to use the web page.
That said, there is always someone who is going to miss a specific app that they need. For me, there is only one. A youview app. That's it.

I also honestly DO think Win10 Universal apps will fix many of the app gap issues, we've already seen that with some high profile adoptions that were not present before hand.
And let's not forget Win10 is a brand new OS too. Unfortunately , it was released unfinished, hence why it hasn't rolled out to other devices yet, but to say MS will abandon it is simply FUD, they have repeatedly stated their continued support, and the surface phone proves that.
I believe many said the same thing about the surface tablets, and yet here we are, on the fourth iteration, and they keep getting better, and more people are buying them...

BTW, rant over, hot price :wink: But I want a dual sim...

How can I buy from Portugal at that price? :smile:

I've been 100% Windows phone the past 3/4 years, never missed one app.

wow high end phone and no clash of clans . no thanks microsoft i like my apps to much .

This is a fantastic phone. Fantastic screen, great battery life and windows 10 mobile is very nice.
Apps aren't everything.

apps are everyhing for a SMART phone thats the whole point or u might as well dig out a nokia 3310. There are plenty of other phones with fantastic screen great battery life and a OS that has apps and cost less that half the price . Windows Phone’s market share was 1.6% in Q3 2015 . so how many developers are going to bother to cover that market share .

I have this phone and its superb, much better than my last 3 devices, an iPhone 6s, motorola x and a lumia 640.

its like a fanboy faceoff LOL

bottom line is the 950/950xl show all the signs of products pushed out of the door after most of the dev boys & girls have been canned - you only need to read the latest update Microsoft "patch" details to realise its really just a beta device + OS at flagship prices.


http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/flow/item/21153_The_mystery_of_MDG_and_the_new.php

IMHO Windows Phone was a quantum leap ahead of Android/IOS in usability but ignored and now chucked in the trashcan by the Cloud Cuckoo boys n girls in Redmond

.. not ensuring decent WinPhone key apps are in the app store is dire enough - not ensuring your key own apps (office, onedrive etc) are at least as good as those you make for IOS/Android is just downright insulting

So bye Bye Cloud Cuckoos in Redmond sadly (after a life of Windows Mobile/Windows Phone) its Android for me (until Iphone's get good enough cameras)

Both CarphoneWareouse and Amazon.de have ceased selling these units for now due to issues (which should eventually be fixed by MS.

The price is good but the software doesn't seem to be there yet.

Windows 10 and £300 too much.

Maybe get off your soapbox, it's free-to-play and many people have never paid a penny to play it.

But there are some important apps missing and it's not until you try and go 100% Windows Mobile that you actually notice and miss them.