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Personally, I'm really interested in WP8 and I've held off renewing my contract for a year just to see what will come out. We've had many Android phones in our
by vyrotek 14y ago
Personally, I'm really interested in WP8 and I've held off renewing my contract for a year just to see what will come out. We've had many Android phones in our home and I'm kind of done with them. I would like to avoid the updates nightmare between the carriers and google.
- untog 14y agoIf the experience of WP7 is anything to go by, you're going to be exchanging a nightmare between the carriers and Google with a nightmare between the carriers and Microsoft. AT&T flat out refused to release an update for my phone, I had to do the WP equivalent of rooting it and manually patching myself.
- freehunter 14y agoMicrosoft has said they will allow you to download updates OTA even if your carrier hasn't approved the updates yet. This is similar to how major upgrades to WP7 (NoDo and Mango) worked.
- vyrotek 14y agoAh, that's rough. I was pretty upset that Sprint didn't release more WP7 phones but now I see why they held off. Unfortunately, it seems WP7 was a transition/beta device. But, I think it will be different this time with the huge bet they're making with Windows 8 across lots of different devices now.
- EwanToo 14y agoWP7 was the beta/transition, then it was WP7.5 that was the transition, now it'll be WP8. I don't see a lot changing - I've used a couple of WP7.5 devices, they nice, but they're not significantly better, or cheaper than an iPhone, Galaxy S3, HTC One, etc, so they're going to struggle. Microsoft's best chance of marketshare seems to be the implosion of RIM, but that's limited to what, 10% of the market?