Comments on: All current Windows Phones will/won’t get WP 8

By: RiveraJose

RiveraJose — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:33:54 +0000

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By: vrs

vrs — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:39:33 +0000

WP7.5 is pretty efficient when it comes to hardware. There is possibility that WP8 will have higher requirements.

Which would you rather see happening:
1. update that’s still called WP7.x that has all those updates possible to push to the device.
2. WP8 having two sets of HW requirements, one for new devices that would make it possible to run all the new stuff, and one for WP7.5 devices that’s a bit toned down version with same updates as in choise 1, but with WP8 name on it.

By: Andre Goulet

Andre Goulet — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:56:08 +0000

You should wait for Windows Phone 8 SP2 before you upgrade anyway, which puts you out to…. lemme see… according to history… 2015 or 2016 before you need to worry about this.

By: Aftoy

Aftoy — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:05:53 +0000

Windows Phone 7 – (1.0)
Windows Phone 7.5 – (2.0)
Windows Phone 8 – (3.0)

At least my 286 ran all 3 versions of Windows.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:31:22 +0000

I agree with you, Toma, and I think most WP owners would as well.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:30:42 +0000

Windows Phone 7 handsets first arrived in October of 2010. Just clarifying to your first point. ;)

By: gautamonline

gautamonline — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:15:21 +0000

Didn’t MS just introduce WP7. And now it ‘may not’ be possible to upgrade to WP8? Wow MS… smart move!

By: Toma

Toma — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:57:34 +0000

It’s very simple. If Microsoft wish to seriously compete then they have to meet expectations. As a Lumia 800 owner when I bought it I expected that being a flagship device it would be upgraded, especially considering that the OS is still not mature (unlike say gingerbread to ICS). If they do not upgrade the 800 and 900 to Apollo say goodbye to Windows phone. They can’t afford to piss off early adopters.

By: Mamoon

Mamoon — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:21:33 +0000

Windows Phone 8 will be very different than the current Windows Phone 7.5. Windows Phones will soon be getting high-end specifications similiar to some of the high-end Android OS smartphones which are available in the market these days. That is why it’s possible that all current Windows Phones won’t get the Windows Phone 8 software update.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:49:52 +0000

The big annoyance would be when apps written for Windows Phone 8 wouldn’t work on old versions. Just like Kinect for Windows won’t run on Windows XP, your old models are worthless.

Apple’s products seem to work the other way around, so you get OS upgrades on iPhones for around 4 years. People with iPhone 3GS can be running the same OS as someone with a 4S, the only difference is that the new phone might have some extra capabilities.