{"id":69742,"date":"2014-07-23T23:34:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T21:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=69742"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:35:08","slug":"uber-returns-to-windows-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/uber-returns-to-windows-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber ridesharing app launches on Windows Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Phone users can finally hail an Uber ride again. The app is now back in the Windows Store, but with a <strong>few missing features<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You can hail a cab to your location and pay, all within the app. What you can&#8217;t do is <strong>split fares<\/strong>, get a ride quote, or sharing your route.<\/p>\n<p>Uber promises to bring the missing features to the app soon, bringing it up to parity with its <a title=\"Uber for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/uber.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> and <a title=\"Uber for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/uber.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>For more about <strong>ridesharing<\/strong>, check out our story about why <a title=\"Why Lyft isn't a glorified taxi service\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/why-lyft-isnt-a-glorified-taxi-service\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lyft isn&#8217;t a glorified taxi service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Uber for Windows Phone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsphone.com\/en-us\/store\/app\/uber\/b905a877-bd55-4ce7-a7aa-467cdc3a21f4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Uber for Windows Phone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Uber blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.uber.com\/windows-phone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uber<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"Microsoft to create one Windows version from three operating systems\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-one-windows-version\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft to create one Windows version from three operating systems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Use IM+ as an alternative to Facebook's Messenger app\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/use-im-as-an-alternative-to-facebooks-messenger-app\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Use IM+ as an alternative to Facebook&#8217;s Messenger app<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kindle Unlimited offers unlimited ebooks and audiobooks\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/kindle-unlimited-offers-all-you-can-read-for-9-99-per-month\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kindle Unlimited offers unlimited ebooks and audiobooks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nokia ditches Android to focus on Windows Phone\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/microsoft-abandons-android-on-its-nokia-devices\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nokia ditches Android to focus on Windows Phone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Google now warns mobile users of incompatible pages\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/google-searches-now-warn-mobile-users-of-flash-content\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google now warns mobile users of incompatible pages<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter: <a title=\"Lewis Leong Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Phone users can finally hail an Uber ride again. The app is now back in the Windows Store, but with a few missing features. You can hail a cab to your location and pay, all within the app. What you can&#8217;t do is split fares, get a ride quote, or sharing your route. Uber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/uber-returns-to-windows-phone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uber ridesharing app launches on Windows Phone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":69745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2542],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-69742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionuber"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330467,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69742\/revisions\/330467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69742"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=69742"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=69742"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=69742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}