That's really lame to be honest. Here I was ready to jump to WP8 thanks to the changes in GDR3. But seems Lumia Black isn't coming until early 2014, which probably means GDR3 is coming around the same timeframe.
A real let down...
Many of the new features and imaging innovations found in the Nokia Lumia 1520 and Nokia Lumia 1320 will be coming to existing Nokia Lumia smartphones running on Windows Phone 8 aligned with the next software update called ?Lumia Black?. The update, including the latest Windows Phone update from Microsoft, is expected to begin rolling out in early 2014.
On the software front, the Lumia 1520 and 1320 will come with a bunch of great new apps and features?many of which will be rolling out to existing phones in the form of a new update Nokia is calling Lumia Black. The update, which includes the latest version of the Windows Phone 8 operating system, is expected begin rolling out to Nokia Lumia smartphones running Windows Phone 8 in early 2014, the company said.
I read it on a blogging site, so it must be true!
I saw it on TV, so it must be true!
I hate to throw the delay blame back to Nokia, but it appears as though Nokia's "Black" firmware update is the holdup as GDR3 was just officially released for the HTC 8XT on Spint. Don't get me wrong, I love the extras you get with a Nokia phone, but they need to be a little more on the ball with updates as every month that passes, it give the carriers another reason to say "Meh, this device is old news. Lets discontinue support.".
Sprint HTC 8XT got an official GDR3 update yesterday
Didn't Elop say in the podcast that GDR3 and Bittersweet shimmer were being rolled out as a single updated called 'Black'?
I own an EE phone so I probably be lucky to get it before xmas anyway.
It's clear that who doesn't understand that the gdr3 preview it's a preview build and the rtm build has still to be built, is not a developer.
Let them think this is the final one... we don't want to ruin their favorite toy, do we?
That's really lame to be honest. Here I was ready to jump to WP8 thanks to the changes in GDR3. But seems Lumia Black isn't coming until early 2014, which probably means GDR3 is coming around the same timeframe.
A real let down...