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This. I'm looking for a decent Windows Phone for about a year now. Something similar to HTC One X or Galaxy S III. Instead, they decided to make even cheaper de
by cabirum 14y ago
This. I'm looking for a decent Windows Phone for about a year now. Something similar to HTC One X or Galaxy S III. Instead, they decided to make even cheaper devices.
- vetinari 14y agoRight now, they can't make WP7 device on par with One X or GS3. Not because nobody is willing, but due to compromises MS has chosen, when they developed WP7. Do you remember, that the big selling point of WP was that you do not have problem with system upgrade? That you do not have to wait for system updates from vendors, because MS can push them directly? Well, it turns out, that they can do it because they support only one design - one SoC (Qualcomm Snapdragon), two screen resolutions ("big" 800x480 and "small" 320x480), etc. So basically, all phones are the same, just in different cases, with different logos. One one hand, it gets you direct system updates. On the other hand, it loses the competition in hardware, that pushes vendors to bring new products to the market. What's in it for NVidia, Samsung, TI, when they cannot use Tegra, Exynos, OMAP in WP7 devices? They will use android, where they can try to better up the competitors. That's why we have One X and GS3, but WP7 is stuck in MSM8xxx land.