Unofficial Windows 11 mobile is possible even on select budget phones with a free utility

Back in December 2019, Microsoftfinally killed off Windows 10 Phoneas it announced the end of support. The company's grand plans with Lumia and Windows Phones sadly never became the success it needed to be in order to be able to compete with the likes of Android or iOS.

Thus Windows 11 Phone never became a real official thingoutside of concepts. However, there is a free unofficial way that makes it possible, albeit the experience may not totally be free from flaws. Dubbed Project Renegade, the mod enables users to try Windows 11 on Qualcomm Snapdragon phones, among other devices.

Sayan Sen at Neowin

Windows Phone 7 and 8 were amazing, and probably my favourite mobile platform of all time. I'm still sad that the duopoly made it impssible even for Microsoft to gain a foothold, because their efforts definitely deserved it. They didn't just blindly copy Android or iOS, but came up with a truly original, unique, and in my view, superior mobile operating system, and in a fair market, they would've been rewarded for it, and Windows Phone would have a perhaps small, but profitable segment of the market.

In the vein of Bernie can still win, I still have this faint belief that Microsoft hasn't completely given up on the smartphone market. Now that they're serious about Windows on ARM, they might use it as sneaky way to get application developers on board, so that their applications are ready for the big Surface Phone a few years from now, complete with Windows Phone-inspired features and UI. I know this won't happen, but let me enjoy my non-existent future, please.

I don't want to rely on big tech anymore, but I might make an exception for an up-to-date Windows Phone. I'm only human.