gregoron
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I came from a Nokia E51i then a Windows Mobile Tmo Dash 3g. I had no expectations when I got my Lumia 710. I'm disappointed that MS is not updating my phone to W8, but I am content with 7.8. I am not whining is all I'm saying.
I came from a Nokia E51i then a Windows Mobile Tmo Dash 3g. I had no expectations when I got my Lumia 710. I'm disappointed that MS is not updating my phone to W8, but I am content with 7.8. I am not whining is all I'm saying.
Here is a jimski prediction: Within 10 days (or sooner) of the launch of the first WP8 device someone at XDA will have a WP8 ROM ready to go. HD7 wil be the first device to get it. Probably no love for most Lumias (Nokia did a good job of locking them down), but some Gen1 devices will have a new life. There will of course be bugs, but the phones will otherwise run fine.
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the generalization that all wp8 apps won't work for legacy devices is false
Here is a jimski prediction: Within 10 days (or sooner) of the launch of the first WP8 device someone at XDA will have a WP8 ROM ready to go. HD7 wil be the first device to get it. Probably no love for most Lumias (Nokia did a good job of locking them down), but some Gen1 devices will have a new life. There will of course be bugs, but the phones will otherwise run fine.
That is 100% accurate.
That is 100% accurate.
I'm sorry to crush your dreams, but this will not happen. You are talking about putting a new OS on a completely different hardware. This is not Android, we do not have the source code to modify it to make it work.
Or let me put it differently to you: Have you seen the WP7 OS ported to any other phones?* No, for exactly the same reason why you will not see WP8 on any legacy devices.
* The HD2 being the exception here, but that's because it runs on pretty much the same hardware as the WP7 devices.
The people that recently purchased a WP7 device come in two camps imho:
1) They walked in blind into a carrier store; saw a wp7 device, thought it was cool and got one.
2)Are tech savy, did their due diligence knowing that WP8 would not be available for their phone and went ahead anyway.
The first camp are interested in what their phone can do now and are oblivious or don't give a flip about future proofing.
The second camp realized their phone would not be supported by 8 in the future and came to the conclusion if they wanted 8, they'd have to get a new device.
I went into the Lumia 800 eyes wide open. If I want a WP8 phone I'll have to repurchase a device. Big deal. It's like buying an iPhone 4 two weeks before Siri and the 4S was released. Where are these poor folks' advocates? Big bad ol' Apple.
That is 100% accurate.
I'm sorry to crush your dreams, but this will not happen. You are talking about putting a new OS on a completely different hardware. This is not Android, we do not have the source code to modify it to make it work.
Or let me put it differently to you: Have you seen the WP7 OS ported to any other phones?* No, for exactly the same reason why you will not see WP8 on any legacy devices.
* The HD2 being the exception here, but that's because it runs on pretty much the same hardware as the WP7 devices.
They will still sync with W8 via the built in solutions similar to WMDC on W7 except more reliable.
Yabut. Siri was the app of the 4S. All advertisements centre around it. I don't know if there was anger from 4 users or not, but I do know that on release day, many people in line were ready to toss their 4 in the can to get ahold of all that siri goodness. The reason siri isn't supported on the 4 is because the 4 has a single core processor and the 4S has a dual core. That sounds familiar.Not the same. It is Siri, Apps, Features - everything.
Everyone wants to compare this to iPhone4 and iPhone4S but no one wants to consider the fact that all those 600,000 apps can run on both devices. Only Siri wasn't.
Same way I think half the camp will be happy to not have NFC based features and upgraded TellMe that buys us tissue rolls the minute before we finish our last one, but still runs all the 100,000 apps.
It is different. Accept it.
It isn't end of the world, I've accepted that.
Yabut. Siri was the app of the 4S. All advertisements centre around it. I don't know if there was anger from 4 users or not, but I do know that on release day, many people in line were ready to toss their 4 in the can to get ahold of all that siri goodness. The reason siri isn't supported on the 4 is because the 4 has a single core processor and the 4S has a dual core. That sounds familiar.
The only thing different about it is iPhone users think that Apple farts rainbows. And WP7 users are ready to burn Balmer in effigy.
iOS upgrades are more like updates - the core remains the same. If Apple ever decided to radically change their o/s, they'll be leaving users on the curb as well.
little off topic!
FYI:
HTC always gets first ROM cause XDA developers where mostly HTC fanboys and or worked for HTC/MS when they first created it. ( back int he WM dayz )
they started porting Android to WM ( on HTCs ) when android came out, then switch to Android ROMs when Android became the hackers Choise ( open source) and now we are starting to slowly see WP ( HTC ) gettign ROMS again!
HTC are like the FLAG Ships for custom ROMs at XDA devs, and HTCs where the first Real good SMARTPHONES before Iphone came allong , not that Nokia and samsung dont get love , just allot LESS!!!
+ they have a samsung dedicated ROM website as well. forgot what its called doh.
WP7 works on same kernal as WM6.5 and WM 6.5 ROMS can be found for allot of android phones , no reason why we cant Port WP7 to Android or Android to WP7 phones deppending on the securaty level you need to *break* to make proper changes. ( might not work on duel-core phones doh )
The people that recently purchased a WP7 device come in two camps imho:
1) They walked in blind into a carrier store; saw a wp7 device, thought it was cool and got one.
2)Are tech savy, did their due diligence knowing that WP8 would not be available for their phone and went ahead anyway.
The first camp are interested in what their phone can do now and are oblivious or don't give a flip about future proofing.
The second camp realized their phone would not be supported by 8 in the future and came to the conclusion if they wanted 8, they'd have to get a new device.
I went into the Lumia 800 eyes wide open. If I want a WP8 phone I'll have to repurchase a device. Big deal. It's like buying an iPhone 4 two weeks before Siri and the 4S was released. Where are these poor folks' advocates? Big bad ol' Apple.
That is 100% accurate.
I'm sorry to crush your dreams, but this will not happen. You are talking about putting a new OS on a completely different hardware. This is not Android, we do not have the source code to modify it to make it work.
Or let me put it differently to you: Have you seen the WP7 OS ported to any other phones?* No, for exactly the same reason why you will not see WP8 on any legacy devices.
* The HD2 being the exception here, but that's because it runs on pretty much the same hardware as the WP7 devices.