Mayank Parmar On January 22, 2019, 1:50 am

Another video shows off Windows 10 ARM on Lumia 950 XL

Microsoft has discontinued Windows Phones and the company has planned to pull support for Windows 10 Mobile in December 2019. But user community is still working on multiple projects that would help devices to live on for a little longer. Recently, a user tried installing Windows 10 ARM on Lumia 950 and the results were rather interesting.

Last week a Windows Phone enthusiast installed Windows 10 ARM on their Lumia 950 XL to play the full version of Fallout. Now another developer has installed Windows 10 ARM on Lumia 950 XL to highlight the OS level changes and the operating system appears to be running flawlessly.

The video by ADeltaX shows off the Lumia 950 XL with Windows 10 ARM opening various apps and navigating across the OS components. Not only that the operating system appears to be running smoothly on the device, but the Lumia 950 XL is also able to run the core apps such as a calculator with ease.

It’s quite impressive to see that years old Lumia 950 XL is still able to handle a full-fledged desktop operating system. The Lumia 950 XL uses Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor and it comes with 3GB of RAM, but it is still able to run Windows 10 on ARM with minor glitches.

With the new technical demonstration, the video has also shown off the versatility of the new version of Windows by successfully running it on Lumia 950 XL.

Microsoft is no longer developing new features or major updates for Windows 10, but the software maker is said to be working on the highly-anticipated Andromeda project which would be a hybrid dual-screen device.

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Mayank Parmar: Mayank Parmar is an entrepreneur who founded Windows Latest. He is the Editor-in-Chief and has written on various topics in his seven years of career, but he is mostly known for his well-researched work on Microsoft's Windows. His articles and research works have been referred to by CNN, Business Insiders, Forbes, Fortune, CBS Interactive, Microsoft and many others over the years.

View Comments (18)

javajolt says:

January 22, 2019 at 2:07 am

Not sure how this is relevant today. No matter how well it works this phone is still 4 years old.
- Farhan Ahmad Tajuddin says:
  
  January 22, 2019 at 8:34 am
  
  Just because of its age, doesn't mean it's not relevant. The camera itself can still make a minced meat against today's flagship.
  - Chris Bartlett says:
    
    February 4, 2019 at 7:24 pm
    
    So true, I'm yet to find a camera on any device that can clearly beat it.
  - DrScope says:
    
    February 21, 2019 at 3:46 pm
    
    That is not true, if you play games or load heavy apps like work apps from BlackBerry you just need more power and memory and today's new phones with over 6GB ram and much faster CPUs really make a difference.
    - Farhan Ahmad Tajuddin says:
      
      February 26, 2019 at 4:08 pm
      
      Fair point if it's Android, lots of background task that cannot be turned off unless if you root it or use custom ROM.