All 36,000 police officers in New York City now carry smartphones powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, which was discontinued in 2015.
The New York City Police Department recently finished equipping all of its officers with Lumia 830 and Lumia 640 XL handsets, CNET reports. The department began handing them out in April 2015. Before that, officers relied on radios and a system of shared voicemail boxes to communicate with each other and their superiors.
The NYPD explained that using a discontinued operating system is necessary because of the custom software it has developed in partnership with Microsoft. That software includes the ability for 911 dispatchers to route calls directly to officers in the field, and a unified database search that offers officers access to names, police records, license plates, and more.
Source:PCMag
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