I don’t want my phone updated to Windows Phone 8

…because Windows Phone 7 on my Lumia 800 is more than good enough and in some cases still out-performs Windows Phone 8.

If Microsoft had sat down with a tiger team and shoehorned Windows Phone 8 into handsets like the Lumia 800, I fear it would have resulted in the same mish-mash of new features and diminished user experience as the iPhone 3G running iOS 4. There would be no doubt that the hordes of online writers demanding a 7.x to 8.x patch would say that this is the least that Microsoft could do with those who ‘supported the platform’, but in the real world those who were using the Windows Phone 7 handsets would be left with an experience that would be worse than they had before the ‘upgrade’. They would not be running with dual core processors, they would not have the extra memory, they would not have the same capability to run the applications smoothly… in short it would turn a competent handset into a slow, frustrating nightmare.

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