With around fifty different models to choose from (depending on how you count), let's pick the five that most impressed, the five that are worthy to be counted as classics and retained even today, and used with pleasure.īut wait. yet in between there were (literally) dozens of Nokias and then Microsoft-branded Lumias. The first Windows Phones were produced in 2010, made by HTC, LG and Samsung - and we finish 2016, six years on, with HP and Alcatel being the ones making the new hardware. But they're outside the scope of AAWP, so. * I guess I should acknowledge the original 'Windows Mobile' smartphones as well, which were around, with a totally different underlying OS and interface, from the early 2000s to around 2008.