The movement to native ARM apps has resulted in a boost to the Windows on Lumia 950 XL project.
Their latest tech demo is installing the new native ARM64 Photoshop app on the handset, with a picture posted by lead hacker Sunshine biscuit.
The team has also been solving a number of other problems, including sorting out screen rotation.
This is something long due, but we finally fixed the screen rotation pic.twitter.com/cXXhuRZdGj
— Sunshine Biscuit at scale ? (@imbushuo) November 17, 2020
The five year old handset is also finally living up to the dream of being the one device that will be both your phone and your laptop, with the Lumia 950 XL driving a full desktop experience via the HP Laptop Dock.
Best way to use the HP Laptopdock: Lumia 950 XL with Windows 10 on ARM 😀 pic.twitter.com/0x6Wkfyd9J
— Tourniquet ? (@wenti_man) November 18, 2020
Given the success of the project, but also the age of the Lumia 950XL, do our readers agree that it is about time they leapfrog onto a more modern handset such as the Surface Duo? Let us know below.
Via DesktopModder, GizChina