Titan, Lumia ,etc are Gen 1.5 devices. The version number only went up by half in between them so that's only a half generation rather than full. The way I see this is that MS just did what Apple did, say the Gen 1 devices such as the HD7 are the original iPhone and the Gen 1.5 devices are the iPhone 3G. The iPhone 3G did not get updated past iOS2 once the 3GS came out that changed. This is what MS is doing except that they're being nice enough to still offer some of what WP8 has to offer. But I guess that's a crime.
I can't believe what I'm reading... You cannot be serious...
Gen 1.5 cause WP7 only went up half a version? Actually Mango is 7.1 so they're Gen 1.1 devices!!! Yay.
You make absolutely no sense at all. Versioning has nothing to do with the phones. The phones are called Gen 2 devices because they were designed for Mango, unlike Gen 1/Launch devices. "Gen 2 devices" is not an official term for them. It's a term we the community invented to make discussing the different tiers of devices easier. Maybe we should drop that and just say "Mango Devices." That is more accurate as it accurately tells the story that they shipped with Mango and won't be getting a full Apollo, but instead a Tango which is comparable to NoDo + Some.
It's comparable to Android manufacturers who shipped FroYo devices, issued a Maintenance update and then forgot about it. It stinks. People have been through this before. Lots of people came to Microsoft specifically to avoid these types of support mishaps, and before release Microsoft actually sort of rode the hype we created about how support would be better on this platform.
Early adopters are usually the best evangelists for your platform/services. Pissing them off can really hurt, you know...
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