usb c AND removeable battery is such a weird thing to see together on a modern consumer phone

20:15 All headphones work as an antenna. It's how radio walkmans work! And ipod nano radios.

This is how I imagined a Windows Phone. I hope that in the future we will get that experience with modern hardware.

Considering how far mobile SOCs have come since Snapdragon 808 in 2015, this might have actually been viable for Microsoft, to put a lite version of the full Windows NT OS, if only they didn't abandon Windows Phones. Especially if they used the Windows 10 base, which is a lot less bloated than Windows 11.

Ain’t that a frokfrdk vid to make my day

It just goes to show that with minimal optimisation and modern mobile hardware, they could make an epic win11 mobile that would blow the competition away, I mean, I love ios and android but id definitely buy a win11 phone.

It's worth noting that while Windows 11 21H2 and 22H2 work fine, starting with Insider build 25188 from August 2022 it is no longer possible to boot Windows on the 950. I believe this is due to these builds requiring Arm v8.1, whereas the 950 is 8.0

Just a quick correction, the headphones don't have an antenna in them, they *are* the antenna. An antenna is just some copper wire (sometimes cut into specific sizes/shapes) that picks up signals in the air. Can be headphone wires, electrical fences, even metal fillings if the radio waves are strong enough.

Too bad they gave up on Windows Phone. I still have an old 530 in it's original box that i got 8 or 9 years ago just to toy around with it and it was actually VERY responsive compared to the Galaxy S5 i had at the time and all that running on just 512MB of RAM. Imo WP was optimized way better than the Android versions that were out at the time but the lack of app support was the death of it

You should increase the display scaling in settings to something like 150-175%, it would feel more like a phone that way as the UI would be bigger. Also a centered taskbar would actually be better on a phone so the start menu would be centered (how it is on literally every phone...)

Great video I thought you had a lot more subs with the production and mic quality

I actually have one of these in good working order and also good condition in a drawer. I have had a hard time letting it go since it’s a damn modern phone for its time. Great camera, though a bit too saturated colors, usb-C and not face unlock but an IRIS scanner! Years ago. As you mentioned 64-bit arm chip already and replaceable battery and expandable storage! And a good size display. If you can get this done I can get this done!

I used to love the Lumia. It was weirdly compatible with my office's system back in 2013-14. I used it a lot.

It's genuinely impressive how well it runs. Wish some company like GPD made a phone with Windows instead of Android.

Finally someone trying this on a normal 950. I also have done this, and I have to say that after you use it for a few days it doesn't get as hot as before. I also opened it up and added thermal paste between the frame and mainboard. Didn't have a bitlocker issue, but there was a weird issue with it not wanting to flash and cryptic error codes. Also couldn't update or reset the phone. So I ended up wiping the old os and installing a fresh one. Only then I could do this. If there would be a even liter version of Win 11 arm this could maybe be actually usable. Btw, on the site they say that cameras don't work in windows. Probably cause it's advanced custom hardware. Anyway, love your vids and keep it up!

the FM radio doesn't need specific headphones, just any 3.5mm headphones will work.

The wireless charging had me dying. Lumia was the biggest player at the time to start the whole qi vs PMA. I wanted window phone to win so bad during the Apple, Android, Windows era. Microsoft had so much going on, but what killed them was they had little to no app ecosystem. The money for developers was in Apple and Android.

Amazing video you deserve more subscribers

Yooo I have exactly this! Edit:I just got this recommended and looking at your channel I'm so glad I was! Looks like I'm really going to enjoy your catalog of videos

Why didn't you connect to a monitor after installing win11 ?

My guess as to why bitlocker was turned on was when you updated the store it most likely turned it on. I used to have a windows phone as a daily driver and updating the store would randomly change settings as well like a small software update

Google finally understood that I regret my Lumia 950XL that I had to replace 6 month ago for a Pixel 6a, and recommended me that video. The only reason I switched was because everything broke more and more, and it became unbearable when the outdated Edge couldn't display new interactive things like cookies pop up anymore. Outside of that, integration of contacts (not from skype, but the contact app on W10) and Onedrive was such a strong point, as was lots of UI elements that feel still lightyears ahead of what my stock Android disappointingly gives me today. Like, I could just pause my music when I changed the volume! No need to freakin scroll the "head menu" for that! How genius it is! And the native GPS, while outdated, is still the best I ever experienced in term of information given both on screen and by audio. If I could have an updated Windows Maps device just for my car, I'd take it no question asked. I'm soooo salty MS abandoned the Windows Phones, while it was still a strong product, if unpopular. I get why, especially as Google tried everything to make it tank (from trying to remove every Google-centric app on the store to outright breaking Waze UI in their last update before leaving it die after they acquired it), while most people were using Google tools one way or another. But man I'll probably still resent MS until I kick the bucket.

The algorithm recommended me your channel and I'm already watching all of your videos while repeating the channel name because it sounds funny. Great video, had the Lumia a little bit more processing power and W11 would probably run smooth enough to use it as a daily phone for light activities.

Remembering when Windows 10 beta mobile comes for my Lumia 535. Those old days. 😢

to be honest. while it would require huge effort from Microsoft to get ecosystem going for it, and then get users into it. i could see something like this Lumia but with something beefy like SD 8 gen 2 or even modern midrange 700 series based version with windows 11 be a interesting thing.

Honestly a really good phone that was just a flop. Reminds me a ton of the HP touchpad. Compared to similar hardware that thing was incredible ! Got one on the fire sale and used it a lot for web browsing for a couple years. I kind of hope Microsoft gives windows phone one more go once they’ve ironed out windows on arm. And in the process find good ways to make it better for tablet form factors.

If Microsoft actually created something like this with a more phone friendly UI (similar to how Windows 10 had tablet mode) instead , WIndows Phone might've actually found a market - a pocket Windows PC with phone features.

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Like everyone already said, it's impressive how well Windows works on this old phone, and I also think Microsoft could give the smartphone market another try at this point. I mean, it succeeded in getting people to use its new browser and even Bing, despite how much of a meme IE and the old Bing were. People would totally buy a Windows phone in the 2020s. The highlight of this video was definitely you talking with the Bing AI about yourself, tho lol

Some features like high resolution playback and gaming may be awful to use, I heard that most of Lumia phones are missing a GPU driver.

Very cool and well made video!

I loved this phone. Great piece of hardware. I had it still in desk and it's working.

I remember my Lumia 520 It only had 512mb ram But better than 2gb ram Android phones that time Multi tasking, gaming, animations everything was smoother. App developers didn't supported windows phones as they did for ios and Android, its killed windows phones I remember playing asphalt 8 on my 520 and in my friends Android phones. They all wanted to play in my phone because its smooth and don't have any lag Nostalgic 😢

Used to have a Lumia 850. Really nice phone and i really miss it, it's a shame that they discontinued windows phones.

Clicked the video as soon as I saw the discord notification, looks like it’s going to be good!

Im glad you did this

Oh man, the phone getting bricked temporarily brought back memories of the time I tried to install Android on a Lumia 535 when I was 15 and bricked it completely lol. Wonder if I had the same issue!

can it run cyrsis?

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Also in Adelaide, algorithm working via location now. Good video!

I genuinely enjoyed using the Lumia phones all the way back then, I had a 640 XL i updated to win 10 that I enjoyed for it's sheer size and an older Nokia lumia that used 8.1. A shame windows killed the product for no reason as per usual

So sad to see them give up on WP. it truly was an OS that was ahead of its time and made so much sense, despite the fact that they were so late getting it into the market thanks to their leader's hubris and expensive licensing. By then it didn't matter how good the phonea and OS was. Because by then the app ecosystem made it impossible to catch up by then as most app developers did not have the resources to support it. And Google not letting native apps and api killed it for good. 😭 Maybe there's a timeline out there where instead of a duopoly, we have a triopoly. And WP eventually was able to run android apps natively

Bonkers! I had a 950 for over a year and other than some weird bugs and lack of apps I loved it.

You earned my sub 😊

Question: how is the battery life? Poor I guess. And can you still connect an external monitor and peripherals? Bluetooth mouse and keyboard should work fine

Microsoft has actually made a dark theme for the paint app, but it's still not on the stable release of Windows 11. I have the dark theme on my Insider build on the beta channel and it looks great.

so much fun, very cool video from france :)

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a few things i'd try on this: 1. use oc software to either oc or undervolt to see if it works. 2. Try to allocate virtual ram from storage to os to use mostly instead of dedicated one(maybe regedit to add more vram from storage) 3. use external hardware on the lumia 11 xl cpu gpu etc

I wonder if this can be done on the HP Elite X3. It would be a better experience having 4GB of ram and a Snapdragon 820 vs the 808 in the Lumia 950.

I found you thru youtubes recommendations. I really like youtuber like you who do videos on old retro tech. If you could, i request for a video where you upgrade a old samsung phone from android version to android version till 11 or 12. XDA did a video like that and i loved it, but theirs was wayy too short. Anyways, love your vids!

"will it taste good"💀

Why Microsoft isn't releasing a phone with a full desktop os is beyond me. This works so well it's scary. If only they'd release a surface duo like device with full windows 11.

This phone was just too ahead of other technologies available for mobile devices at that time. It would have ran faster and smoother if it had better storage type like UFS (similar to windows lags on almost anything when running from a harddrive, but instantly speedup on SSD)

I used to love these lumia phones man!!! I had a 640 XL but I lost it in 2019 and I miss it.

Good job bro! What about the camera can it work?

increase scaling to 150% or 200% in display settings it should make the keyboard scale properly

if that lumia 950 can run full fledged windows 11 it would be awesome to see Android 12 run on that

I'm guessing the reason why apps keep closing is because of low memory protections inside windows 11. it shuts down applications not critical or having any unsaved work if memory is unavailable and the OS is eating into the already quite limited page file.

I like your efforts ❤

Probably should have sprung for the XL 950 since windows 11 already runs slow on the non-XL (SD 808 on the non-XL vs SD 810 the XL). The 810 also has the better GPU

Only if we could install mac os on ipads😀

The 950 used to be my dream phone back in 2015

Finally a new video!

Can it run Android tho?

i would love to see tiny11 on the red magic 3 not originally a windows phone, but as far as i know was the first gaming centric phone to have an internal cooling fan, released back in 2019 it has a snapdragon 855 and a 90hz screen, minimum 6GB ram up to 12GB apparently so it might actually be a much better experience

I love your channel you need more subs

I was in love with my lumia 730 and came to think about it, it was my personal fav phone i ever used, I'm a tech geek so i used a lotta phones now using s23u

imagine Windows on a z fold

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you know it’s a good tech channel when it’s from Australia

The windows Lumia series were one of the powerful phones, the 1020 had one of the most powerful camera ever put on a mobile, they had amoled screens and amazing hardware design yet

Oh damm saw you on the LTT discord. Didn't expect you to be in my recommended now

Nice video man, and this terraria music in the background ❤

Well presented great video

bless you frokdrk! you're doing the lord's work!

I still have Windows 10 ARM on my Lumia 950. I used it as a Minecraft server for a while! It is fantastic running full Windows!

Bro i love your vids

Did it a couple of years ago on a 950xl, win11 prerelease, loved it, sadly got stolen :( after i worked 2 weeks on it to get the RIL working on it

Nice video bro

nice video :D

this video is very fun, haha, thank you

to the window people, if you combine the old tile system and this window 11 ui inside with some gesture with support of Android apps it might me a huge hit . since some people are looking for alternatives at this time.

Are there any display settings? You can change scaling option so things will be bigger

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I am very surprised that this actually works so well! :O

i still have windows 10 on my lumia 950. it works! super cool.

Don’t forget continuum the fore runner of Samsungs DEX. You could use this phone with a dock like a computer with Ethernet, mouse and a keyboard!

I guess this is one way to prove that Windows 11 is really taking us back in time all the way to 2015

20:30 No you don't need anything fancy. Normal headphones act as antennas, literally. That's how radio works. A long metal wire starting from the point of contact of the jack.

20:25 you can connect any cheap headset that has a cable with the length of a typical FM antenna. Those are never shielded.

I had this phone back in the day. I remember installing windows 10 in it

I think it's pretty impressive it does this at all cause Windows phones were spec hungry like Apple and Android, so to be running Windows 11 is just great.

You should do video showing your edge setup because I know I would enjoy that.

I had a lumia , can’t remember model number, but it had offline gps. Oh my god, that map from 2014 was way more cool than google map. Really miss that offline map

I'm a big fan!

I love the Nokia Lumias and I owned a few I also owned a Microsoft Lumia at some point, I kinda want to get one of these now for this lol!

I am a new subscriber 🙋‍♂️

oh that's actually pretty cool

honestly i'd love this these days if it was actually supported, i already love windows 11 a lot more than 10, would be fantastic for me