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A run through Windows Phone history by looking at prototypes. The smartphone beta test resumes now.

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Long Forgotten Codenames – Proto Beta Test
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November 27, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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Anyone knows anything about Pyxis Maintenance? Get in touch if you do!
November 18, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Lumia Emergency files are now available to download again from our website

https://protobetatest.com/download/lumia-emergency-files/
Lumia Emergency files
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November 18, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Today is the anniversary of both this prototype Lumia 920 and its Windows Phone build. This is a pre-release build of WP8 codenamed Apollo, and for that special occasion the team decided to make the default lockscreen an Apollo wallpaper.
November 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM
November 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Meet Microsoft Guilin, the short lived Lumia 730/735 successor https://protobetatest.com/2019/05/23/meet-microsoft-guilin/
November 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Here's some random tidbit: The lumia camera app for both the 1020 and the cancelled Lumia Icon (929) 34MP variant had a rather handy feature called focus light control. Here's how it looked:
November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Reminder that you can get genuine factory emergency payloads for almost all lumia devices even when Microsoft pulls everything down here:

https://protobetatest.com/download/lumia-emergency-files/
Lumia Emergency files
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November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Here's a look at one of the first Lumia Icon prototypes ever made. https://protobetatest.com/2019/02/21/the-first-lumia-icon/
November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
In 2014 3 Nokia tablets were reported cancelled.
In the end only Sirius was released to consumers. It's time to take a closer look at Nokia's Vega, a tablet made a full year before Sirius' (Lumia 2520) development began. https://protobetatest.com/2018/11/21/nokia-vega-rx-107
November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Hint: this is not an AMD GPU
November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Fair
November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
RDC Authentication required: I just got a prototype, what do I need to do now? https://protobetatest.com/2018/08/20/rdc-authentication-required-i-just-got-a-prototype-what-do-i-need-to-do-now/
November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Flashing with blood
November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Would you like us to make tutorials on how to recover bricked prototypes (or unlocked retail phones), how to backup them, etc?
November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
...cause we're releasing a new one, and more

Now with Audio, and more working on Hapanero, but not just hapanero

http://protobetatest.com/2018/05/21/windows-10-on-hapanero-arm64/
Windows 10 on Hapanero (and more) ARM64 – [UPDATED 07/09/2018]
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November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
sorry we're removing the hapanero desktop image....
November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Totally not flashing a phone 🤔
November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Some asked for it, here's how to get Windows 10 on Hapanero ARM64!
http://protobetatest.com/2018/05/21/windows-10-on-hapanero-arm64/
November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
November 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM