Surprise, surprise: the NYPD is replacing 36,000 Windows Phones with iPhones
 

Surprise, surprise: the NYPD is replacing 36,000 Windows Phones with iPhones
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The slow death of Windows Phone continues.

In what seems like the most predictable outcome of its plan to equip every officer with a Windows-powered smartphone, the NYPD reportedly plans to dump all 36,000 of its Windows Phones and replace them with iPhones.

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The news, first reported by The New York Post, comes less than a year after it finished handing out the devices to all its officers.

Besides the fact that the phones themselves were two or three years old, the move was all but inevitable considering Microsoft effectively killed what was left of Windows Phone earlier this year when it announced it would stop supporting Windows Phone 8.1. Read more...

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