socialcarpet
Banned
However....I know down the line (couple of months) that what is enough FOR ME WILL be here (supposedly); why buy into a contract now and have to figure out a way to get THAT DEVICE when it releases? Like I said, I was just seeing who feels the same as me. Apparently, not too many people at all (which is fine...I was just throwing my thoughts out there)....
Dual-cores and higher than 800x480 resolution aren't possible under the current OS.
It's also a safe bet I think that Apollo/Windows Phone 8 devices are not going to be shipping in "a couple of months". I could be wrong, but I suspect the earliest we are going to see a product like the on the shelf will be closer to the end of 2012, beginning of 2013. Microsoft doesn't seem to be in a hurry to push half-baked software out the door (at least when it comes to Windows Phone anyway) so I think they'll take their time with this. It's more important to get it right the first time and make sure all the support is there.
I'm sure your Lumia 710 will serve you well for a much time as it takes for Win 8/dual core phones to show up on store shelves though and I definitely understand where you are coming from here. The contract I just signed for my L900 is the first phone contract I have signed in 3 years, I was on a month-to-month with a crap Android because I didn't want a contract.
I seriously considered a 710 for many of the same reasons as you, but ultimately the 900 won me over. I decided the only way for me to really give WP7 a fair try was to get the best device I could (a lot of my Android loving friends blamed my bad experience on the choice of a cheaper phone, I wasn't going to repeat that mistake again)