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Re:Windows 10 a failure by Microsoft's own metric by Alterlife on Monday July 18, 2016 @09:48AM (#12114985)
Unfortunately, Lumia's are not durable. The screen of my Lumia 620 broke after just a few months of use.

Nokia's legendary durability died with the feature phone.

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Re:Windows 10 a failure by Microsoft's own metric by NobleSir on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:04AM (#12115064)
Well, I haven't used the 620, but my anecdotal experience has been the opposite.

List of recent devices I own that are unbroken:

lumia 521, 950, and Kyocera Rise.

broken:

nexus 7 (screen after 2 months), asus fonepad note 6 (screen after ~1 year), galaxy s4 (won't connect to tower, probably my fault for installing roms incorrectly)

In particular the 950 has been dropped in the river in breckenridge, and the 521 in a natural hotspring / taken on many rainy hikes / dropped more times than I can count.

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Re:Windows 10 a failure by Microsoft's own metric by dspillett on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:05AM (#12115069)
My 820 took one hell of a beating over the time between purchase and replacement. Its replacement seems pretty hardy too. Though I get the impression the build quality and sturdiness were far more variable between models than found around the 3110/3210/3310 era.
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