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By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 6 October 2017 15:03 IST

Highlights

HP won't be making any more Windows Phone handsets
The company says Microsoft isn't focused on Windows mobile anymore
The Elite X3 smartphone will reach end of in 2019

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Elite x3 handset will reach the end of in 2019. 5b55n

Nick Lazaridis, president of the EMEA regions at HP, Windows 10 Mobile, Lazaridis was quoted as saying.

In a rather surprise move last year, HP unveiled the Elite x3, a high-end Windows Phone handset. The phone packed enough muscle power that it could also serve as a laptop or desktop using a dock. HP was going after the business market with Elite x3 handset, and had planned to expand the Elite Windows Phone lineup.

A company representative told The Verge that HP might in the future re-evaluate its strategy and decide to make more of Windows Phone handsets if Microsoft shares "additional roap details" with it. With HP losing faith in Windows Phone, the future of Microsoft's mobile operating system looks very bleak.

In July, Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1, which according to estimates runs on more than 80 percent of Windows Phone handsets, hinting that the company doesn't really see much value in ing its devices for a long time.

Under Microsoft Edge Web browser to Android and iOS as well. The company also rebranded Arrow Launcher as Microsoft Launcher and added its Continuum feature to it.

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