{"id":7364,"date":"2013-02-23T16:22:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T16:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=7364"},"modified":"2013-02-23T16:23:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T16:23:44","slug":"is-the-only-true-upgrade-to-windows-phone-8-windows-phone-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/is-the-only-true-upgrade-to-windows-phone-8-windows-phone-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the only true upgrade to Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 7?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I want to trust Windows Phone implicitly. Right now I can&#8217;t do that. Looking around the current choices of smartphone, there are handsets and operating systems that I trust at various levels, but I&#8217;ve yet to feel the same connected way as I did with Nokia&#8217;s Symbian-powered N95 8GB. Along with millions of others, I&#8217;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&#8217;s this trust that will see help renew with the platform for another two years &#8211; or move on to something else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More thoughts on this by myself over on All About Windows Phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to trust Windows Phone implicitly. Right now I can&#8217;t do that. Looking around the current choices of smartphone, there are handsets and operating systems that I trust at various levels, but I&#8217;ve yet to feel the same connected way as I did with Nokia&#8217;s Symbian-powered N95 8GB. Along with millions of others, I&#8217;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&#8217;s this trust that will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[13,2245],"tags":[3344,3064,4228,4227,77,2246],"class_list":["post-7364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-my-articles","category-windows-phone","tag-aawp","tag-errors","tag-reliability","tag-trust","tag-upgrade","tag-windows-phone-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1UM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}