It's pretty obvious how lousy NA carriers are. I'm personally done with contracts and the big carriers as of may.
Hey, any reason is a good enough reason for me! The wireless market in the US is some horrible trinopoly collusive cartel kind of thing, so do what you have to do. I went from ATT to Straight Talk which is ATT. But I'm still saving $30 a month for the same service, so that's got to hurt them at least a tiny bit. Or so I hope.Merely to "show them"?
Fair enough (I think?) but still, I don't want to hold back anyone who is willing to stick it to the carriers!but some of the handsets are not attached to any carriers (country varient), its the Microsoft which is holding those updates!
Microsoft aren't holding up the updates as such. They're having to test each one of the 2500+ variants as well as the carriers do. It takes time to get through the test phase, especially since there's more handsets/carriers for Denim than there were for Cyan and Black.
That's actually a big deal, Europe has forty times more variants than NA. Craziness.I added the total number of models below the table, copied below with today's data. Still, Europe seems to be making good progress despite having the largest number of models.This is a really great overall view of what's going on. Obviously the percentages are slanted somewhat as some regions have more handsets/carriers than others....
Africa | Asia | Europe | Latin America | Middle East | North America | |
Denim | 54 | 174 | 722 | 107 | 91 | 4 |
Models | 194 | 311 | 1072 | 433 | 186 | 26 |
Done % | 28% | 56% | 67% | 25% | 49% | 15% |
Maybe, although for the HK 1520 it's the reverse: it shows as available on the page, but the phone doesn't show an update.Also note that homepage is updated later than the updates are actually released.
For example, it is the third day I am on Denim with my Lumia 820 Latvia CV, yet the site still shows Cyan.
So the percentage is actually even higher.
Lots of movement today again. Especially Europe made a big jump. 75% done now. USA also added one model... Still, it doesn't look likely that they'll get this done before March. I'd be impressed if they finish this by April tbh.
Thanks for doing this work. It's interesting.
I have a 1520.3 (RM-938), Italy?, purchased on the web in the USA. Patience is a virtue.