Not a few users sigh for the return of a Windows Mobile that would provide the necessary competition to Google and Apple in operating systems for mobile devices. If Microsoft decided to return, it has a good base to draw inspiration from, as you can see in this Windows 11 Mobile imagined as a proof of concept.
Microsoft announced the goodbye to Windows Mobile in October 2017 and two years later the system received the latest update for the devices that still used it. It was the end of a failed adventure for the serious strategic errors committed. The purchase of Nokia was a real fiasco, it came at the height of the decline of the Finnish giant due to its inability to compete with Apple’s iPhones, and caused the departure of the rest of the partners who understood Microsoft as a competitor.
From there, Microsoft opted for Android as “its” system for mobility; produced a pitcher of its own; created high-profile mobile apps; signed agreements with giants like Samsung to include their software and services in their terminals; launched its own Surface Duo smartphone and has been improving the connection (transparent and synchronized) between mobile phones and PCs. But it still doesn’t have its own mobile operating system Many of us find this situation incredible considering the potential of Microsoft and the massive presence of Windows in other environments, such as the computer desktop.
Windows 11 Mobile: cool
In the absence of something official, developers and designers have been publishing different solutions and projects such as DuoWOA allow Windows 11 to be installed on mobile devices. But it’s still the desktop version running on a small screen.
What the AR 4789 designer brings us is different, since it contemplates a user interface specially optimized for smartphonesmaintaining the appearance and main features of the system, and based on the Fluent Design language that Microsoft is completing for all its software.
It includes dynamic widgets (which on mobile look great); a pocket file explorer; adapted start menu; complete customization and configuration tool; apps of all kinds; a flawless dark theme; redesigned notification center and the rest of the main mobile components such as the lock screen, gesture or voice control.
all very accomplished as you will see in the video. But like other ‘concepts’, such as the one we offered last week for Windows 12 and which readers liked a lot, it is still a video. Maybe one day Microsoft will decide it’s time to come back.
