Tag: upgrade

Is the only true upgrade to Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 7?

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I want to trust Windows Phone implicitly. Right now I can’t do that. Looking around the current choices of smartphone, there are handsets and operating systems that I trust at various levels, but I’ve yet to feel the same connected way as I did with Nokia’s Symbian-powered N95 8GB. Along with millions of others, I’m still happy to use Windows Phone, but I find it a fragile relationship that could easily be undermined by another platform. As Windows Phone approaches the critical point in the two year contract cycles and people are looking to renew, it’s this trust that will

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

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…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’,