Windows phone 9.0. who's excited?

[princeegli]

Im looking forward to both windows and WP 9

 

[rafal soboczynski]

I am 100% sure, Windows Phone 8, 8.1 OS Devices will not be upgraded or updated to Windows Phone 9 OS.

windows phone 7 couldn't be updated to 8 because they completely changed the kernal. Windows phone 8 uses the same type of kernal as full windows did since windows me I believe. I think it is a high probability that most of current phones will be upgradeable (I doubt about phones such as Lumia 520 because of the storage issue with OTA updates, unless Microsoft creates a software which we can use to update phones with computer)

 

[Genesis Coupe]

hmm interesting

 

[Squachy]

Tell me how they screwed up with 8.1?

They screwed up WP8 by forcing a touch based UI onto everything and requiring people to learn it (a lot of people are dumb as bricks), and simplifying a lot of things to the point where they actually took away some advanced functionality that they should have kept on. Like settings got way oversimplified and SOME form of fiddling would have helped solve any kind of problems. I don't think lots of people still realize there is a desktop mode where it functions exactly the same as any other windows in the past (I think they're entrenched in 'mouse and keyboard' usage in the Metro UI which isn't the most mouse/keyboard friendly interface there.

They fixed a lot of what was wrong with win8 with win8.1 but they still needed the '***** proof' mode for the moron who cant wrap their heads around anything newer than what they're used to. Hopefully win9 combines the best aspects of both.

 

[iamakii]

Looking foward to interactive live tiles, btter and more functional action center and more UI improvement, good times ahead!

 

[herbertsnow]

I'm so excited, all my nude photos leaked.

 

[DavidinCT]

Nah, not too excited at this point, I would like them to FIX the problems with 8.1 before moving on to the next version.....Even though a ton of phones don't even have 8.1 officially available to them.

 

[Bong Yih]

It probably is, iPhone has become a name. I'm pretty sure more people would know of an iPhone than any Android, Windows Phone, Symbian, WebOS or Blackberry device.

And iPhone 4 got a decent amount of support despite being a single core device, whereas Windows abandoned all single core devices when Windows Phone 8 came out. Sad.

Sigh...Did you even read the facts that the team posted? They couldn't upgrade the single cores to Windows 8 because Windows 8 was an overhaul from the previous format. They decided to make it more like a computer (in that sense the closest to a SMARTPHONE) rather than just a normal feature abundant phone (duh). If Apple were to do an overhaul like that, then you would see a lot of iphones users getting left in the dust (mind you, iphones are nowhere near cheap).

And IT companies have to feed their employees too. How do they do that? By selling phones to consumers like us. Every mobile company is after your green, so you better share the same amount of frustration for other OSes too.

Windows Phone 9, hopefully, can bring some much needed rudimentary functions like sharing via bluetooth in the video hub, mass sharing via bluetooth in the music hub and reinstatement of the xbox hub as the centre for games (where you could actually find and uninstall your games). STOP FOLLOWING APPLE AND ANDROID. BE THE MASTER, NOT THE SLAVE MICROSOFT!!!

 

[toraji]

I really wanna get a 1525 soon, and I can't wait to put WP9 on it. E3 hype train.

 

[toraji]

thanks for showing how your little mind works

Microsoft is not going to kill what they build the past few years.. They are in it to win it. To late but finally catching up...... No way they let us down. It will be the end of Windows phone, we know it... They know it!!!

And... Don't be so nasty to people that actually care. Ok?!!!

 

[toraji]

Wow. THIS thread lost it's way in a hurry. Instead of talking about if we are excited for WP 9 or not, we are discussing if we can depend on MS to upgrade our phones to it or not. All of this is funny, of course, because nothing in this even close to official. But, what the heck: I will play along. Slow news day anyways.

-First of all, the announcement in September is for Windows 9. Or Threshold. Or Windows XP2. Or Modern Tile 01. Or whatever they settle on calling it. Overall, it is the new computer OS. And it is the important one, as Windows 8 di not exactly blow the doors off of sales. It is vital to get people excited for this and that all support for it be immediate. Enterprise companies will need to start moving off of Windows 7 devices in the next couple of years and whatever MS pushes out in Sept has to be business ready as soon as they reveal it. Fair or not, Win8 has a bad rep. This will show what direction MS is rolling and if they will keep their bread and butter multi-billion dollar consumers happy.

-Windows Phone 9 will not be out or even hinted at until 2015. March? April? No matter. Windows 8.1 came along about November last year, WP 8.1 really came out for the general masses this past month (August. I am not counting the developer preview). Expect the same time frame.

-As far as upgrading our devices, I totally understand those that do not think WP 8 devices will get the next OS. MS deserves this abuse and any doubts coming their way, as they have left Windows Mobile and WP7 users high and dry in the past. However, I am a optimist long after most are or even long past it being sane to be, so I will make this prediction:

Look at your handsome looking WP. Oh, those sexy tiles!! Now, is it a quad-core, heavy on the RAM if you please device like the L1520, Icon, L930, or Samsung ATIV SE, or the new HTC ONE-style? Then yes, I believe MS will make available to you the next version of WP. Do you have a trusty but basically older device like the L920, L925, L928, L820, Samsung ATIV S or NEO, or the HTC 8X? Then my guess is that you may want to enjoy the WP 8.1 update. I feel that those devices and the budget line of WPs may not be getting it.

The first two tidbits are true, the last is my opinion.

Flagship devices are the few sold in this ecosystem, of course the lower end will disappear slowly but they will be able to run w9 when it arrives. You can bet your a** on that, you grow from the roots you know

 

[toraji]

I have long lost my excitement. The level of disappointments is so high and the wait so long that they should make a miracle to make me happy again. What's more irritating is that the platform is so nice that it feels really annoying that they keep delivering miscarriages.

 

[princeegli]

Mmmeeeeee