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Anatomy of a Lumia photo 'special': Brady Nielsen

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AAWP reader Brady Nielsen contributes material to the Anatomy of a Lumia photo series here, with no less than nine photos, with comments. Though he bent the rules slightly, as I once did, by using photos from a HP Elite x3! All good snaps and hopefully we can all learn from his comments below.

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Anatomy of a Lumia photo #15: The Falls

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After a gap of more than a year, I thought I'd bring this feature back, starting with a shot taken with a Lumia 950 XL on a pleasantly sunny winter walk here in the UK. As with a few other snaps in this series, a lot is to do with positioning and imagination...  

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Days of Future Past - part 1

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Guest writer By Michael 'Mivas_Greece' (surname withheld by request) brings us the first part of a tale of prototypes (one of which he has access to) and what might have been, featuring some of the various uses of Nokia's 'Pre-Touch' technology. A Lumia 1030 anyone? Part two of this feature will be published in due course.

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24 hours with Windows Phone 8.1 and the Lumia 1020... in 2019!

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This is an experiment I come back to roughly once a year here on AAWP, but the placement of Windows Phone 8.1 in the context of modern Internet services changes every time, usually for the worse, which is why the experiment bears repetition. As ever, my trusty Lumia 1020 from 2013 will be my steed, since I still adore the way imaging was handled (zoom, reframing, etc.) on this unique smartphone. But how much of the modern world is now off limits to the venerable OS, for which support ended in mid-2017, almost two years ago?

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Phone as a desktop: Continuum vs Samsung DeX

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Continuum was something introduced with the Lumia 950, back in 2015, so it's been around for over three years now. The idea that you can just plug your phone into a TV or monitor and it's automatically used as a secondary and much larger display, with applications scaling up and letting you do a lot more... Of course, things aren't quite that easy in real life, and we've now had Samsung have a couple of bites at a very similar cherry, with its DeX system. Does that fare any better? I take my Alcatel IDOL 4 Pro and Galaxy Note 9 and investigate...

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Tourist snaps: Lumia 1520 and Galaxy Note 8 - the normob's view

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Guest writer Ow Kah Leong brings us a little smartphone-centric travelogue...(!) He's comparing camera snaps from his 2014 Lumia 1520 with those from his 2017 Samsung Galaxy Note 8, all from the perspective of a normal mobile user - a 'normob'. Summary? The more modern phone gets some shots the Lumia wouldn't, but the Lumia still competes for sheer quality and creativity.

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Some perspective on Windows 10 Mobile beyond 2019...

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Something of a fuss seems to have been made in the tech media in the last day or two after a Microsoft FAQ and a prominent tweet - they do like a good 'Windows Phone is dead' story, as we know, and I wanted to put the FAQ and tweet into perspective. In short, if you're an enthusiast still using Windows 10 Mobile right now, early 2019, then there's every reason you can do so in 2020, with only a couple of caveats heading into 2021.

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Cold outside? Enable Glove mode on your Lumia 950!

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Guest writer Arpolend Sevostyanov is back with a little hack, adding 'Glove mode' back to the Lumia 950 and 950 XL. It's a geeky hack, so only proceed if you're feeling confident, but it does add something which has previously only been seen on 950 prototypes.

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