what's the battery condition like after however many years sitting unused ?

That was my immediate concern! I discussed that with them and they just said it's under their guarantee so if it's no good they will source me a new battery. So far it seems ok. but maybe these were still being manufactured for other countries a while after they were discontinued in the Uk I have no idea. this one certainly isn't from the Uk anyway.

But you wouldnt want a new genuine battery incase that has also been sat around doing diddly squat for god knows how long lol thats the problem

yup, all accessories are made while the phone is still selling and fairly new.

I got myself a ''new'' battery for my One M8 and it was worse than the one I'd had taken out. if a phone needs help while out and about I'll use a powerbank over an old new battery.

I took the motherboard out of my 950 and sold it separately after I smashed the glass. Someone snapped it up quickly.

The 950 is very easy to disassemble with lovely screws and only a couple of ribbon connectors to disengage.

I'll use its battery in one of my outside 'China' solar floodlights as they are often supplied with crappy ex laptop batteries.

Just wondering how long the Microsoft Store is going to support windows phones ?

You can pickup Microsoft Band-2's for 5 quid sealed on fleabay., but they've discontinued the app which you activate the band and set it up, etc. However, there's supposed to be a way around it by using some 'unlocker' app in your computer. I don't fancy any viruses in my.computers, so I'll pass.

No Microsoft warranty with those as they refunded lots of peoples purchases when they discontinued the devices.

According to that tech magazine I saw the other day the app store for Windows phone 8.1 and older has stopped. when I tried it on my Lumia 1020 two days ago it just wasn't loading the app lists and kept reporting an error although there was no notification stating the store was no longer available. not sure what the timescale is on windows 10 for phones though I have heard no word on that yet. It maybe a while considering the last firmware updates were only last year who knows.

The HTC One M8 was a gorgeous phone especially in sliver or gold I wish I could find one of those in new condition today lol

Good grief! That is a 6 year old phone now!! Wow time flies. Are you able to use any apps etc...? I see EOL for Windows 10 Mobile was early last year so most apps should be relatively fine. How is the Snapdragon 810 treating you? That was probably the most hated chip in the Qualcomm history in Androids but I never heard much complaint from the W10M community seems it ran Windows better.

Good luck finding apps when they shut everything off

Apparently the 810 in the 950XL is a second generation version which isn't so bad. I found that out entirely by accident. I've had no issues with any apps so far, although there is no BBC iPlayer app, but you can just use the browser to access that service, something that isn't possible on 8.1. the battery isn't brilliant though! so I plan to source a third party alternative. sorry I havnt logged in here for some time.

PS: you can only stream on iPlayer not download! but that was also the case even when the app was available, on older versions of this platform.