Take a look at this article, it say's 7.8 isn't to far off, and it has some good points. Neowin - Where unprofessional journalism looks better - Neowin
Unprofessinal Journalism? Don't even feel like clicking that link. But March 2013.
thats the reason i switched from android to wp , and cant stand an apple product(behavior)
New rumours say mid-November, but I think it's highly unlikely. They will follow the trend of Lumia 800, HTC Titan. So new phones with 7.8 first (not this holiday season surely!) and then unlocked Gen2 phones get an update and then all carrier phones get update - somewhere Feb-March when roll out completes.
Didn't Microsoft say at the first WP8 conference that 7.8 will bypass carries and be straight trough Zune though?
Your Lumia 900 running 7.5 and eventually 7.8 is still better than the guy's phone running Ice Cream Sandwich. You think they will get Jellybean quickly or at all? After they have rooted and soft bricked their phone trying to get another 45 minutes of talk time out of the battery and voided their warranty, you'll be sitting pretty with a device that does all of those things and all you had to do was hit 'update' in the Zune app on Windows.
If someone can verify that it would probably slow to a simmer the folks stewing over another 6-12 month wait for a software update to their phone. (If it ever gets one)
There has been no offical mention of an upgrade for Gen 2 WP7 devices, which were released THIS year. As far as which on is better, that's a personal opinion. I think they all pretty much do the same thing, but with a different approach.
If someone can verify that it would probably slow to a simmer the folks stewing over another 6-12 month wait for a software update to their phone. (If it ever gets one)
My old Galaxy S2 was upgraded to ICS and is planned to get jelly bean. If someone has a G1 expecting to get jelly bean, then they are stupid. So they received at least ONE for sure update and it's been posted that they will receive another.
There has been no offical mention of an upgrade for Gen 2 WP7 devices, which were released THIS year. As far as which on is better, that's a personal opinion. I think they all pretty much do the same thing, but with a different approach.
Here is the difference between Windows Phone and iOS comapred to Android:
The OS ecosystem isn't fractured.
But Windows Phone 7.8! Yeah, it isn't the greatest development in the world but it's a long-term solution to a short-term problem. The CE kernel was dated and in the end the move to NT is what was needed to further the OS. It's a shame that phones were still being produced to run on the old CE kernel and released as late as April 2012 but sometimes even the most well thought out plans fall apart. The fact that there are still going to be 7.8 devices produced tells me that there might be some plausbility to 7.8 being more than a new start screen and a way for companies to produce low cost handset alernatives to their bigger brother, WP8 counterparts.
I'm not going to suggest phones based on the NT kernel with WP8 are meant to last through WP12 as that would be a silly notion to think the current crop of features wouldn't be improved upon over the next several years. That being said, why do we need to have a new mobile OS every year? Because Apple or Google says so? If the ecosystem for WP8 can be sustained while other camps are focused on development for iOS 7, 8 and Android 5.1, 6.0 - wouldn't that in the end make hardware for WP8 cheaper to produce and less costly to develop for? I know that development plan doesn't translate into a new iShiny every 12 months but tough titties. Just because you need something new doesn't mean what you have is broken.
You may not have this problem personally, but a good number of the posts I read are from people upset they didn't get update Y when they bought their phone running version X of the OS. They fear that by the time Y comes along new phones will be running Z, making their phone pretty much a paperweight. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Here is the problem that I have with Android - unless you are getting that tall drink of water straight from the tap you are missing, or taking away, the best of Android in exchange for Samsung/HTC/Motorola's vision of the OS. Sense UI on the One X killed the experience for me. The locked bootloader, inability to root and load a ROM on it removed any hope I had for making it work. I wasn't aware of the multi-tasking issues with the device and for that it is my fault I didn't do enough research. I thought the RAM, processor and version of Android were enough to overcome most issues I've seen with Android with Sense UI skinned over it. Nope.
Windows Phone has one UI. That's it. No one "skins it" and makes it their own. To distinguish themselves HTC/Samsung/Nokia have to make compelling hardware and truly add to the experience rather than reinventing it. If Android devices all ran stock ICS or Jellybean from the beginning with no changes it would be a surprisingly better experience for everyone. Updates would come more regularly, and possibly without carrier input. Sure, HTC could have phones with an ImageSense processor and apps specific to their phones, but the CORE operating system is unaffected which keeps the updates coming. But, much like Linux in general, everyone has to have their own custom distro. SenseUI is Ubuntu/Mint, TouchWiz is Fedora and Blur is OpenSuse. AOSP for the record would be Debian - but you get the idea.
Oh, and Amazon with their Kindle is Ubuntu running xfce or something similar.
But seriously - you have an ecosystem ranging from Eclair and Froyo to ICS and Jellybean. There are devices that run Honeycomb still while many are still on Gingerbread with no chance of being upgraded despite promises to the contrary. There are far fewer active Windows Phone variants in the marketplace compared to Android. For that matter, there are far fewer iOS variants compared to Android and Windows Phone combined.
Apple has a good strategy with its one device, one OS progression on the mobile phone front. Unfortunately, they compete directly with themself in this arena. Android is open and free to all that want it. The problem is people want to take that and put their own spin on it - running it on phones, tablets, watches and even computers. (Oh, and now cameras) A developer could potentially screw themselves if they support the wrong base of consumers. Simply going by which OS in that case is the most widely used doesn't tell you what will be relevant 6 months from now.
I love Android, and I think some of the more compelling devices out there have been released with a variant of the OS. Unfortunately, that innovation often comes too often and at the expense of reducing the life cycle of devices after they are released. The Lumia 900 is a bad example of how Windows Phone can change this, but it illustrates my point in the Android side of things.
Here is the difference between Windows Phone and iOS comapred to Android:
The OS ecosystem isn't fractured.
But Windows Phone 7.8! Yeah, it isn't the greatest development in the world but it's a long-term solution to a short-term problem. The CE kernel was dated and in the end the move to NT is what was needed to further the OS. It's a shame that phones were still being produced to run on the old CE kernel and released as late as April 2012 but sometimes even the most well thought out plans fall apart. The fact that there are still going to be 7.8 devices produced tells me that there might be some plausbility to 7.8 being more than a new start screen and a way for companies to produce low cost handset alernatives to their bigger brother, WP8 counterparts.
I'm not going to suggest phones based on the NT kernel with WP8 are meant to last through WP12 as that would be a silly notion to think the current crop of features wouldn't be improved upon over the next several years. That being said, why do we need to have a new mobile OS every year? Because Apple or Google says so? If the ecosystem for WP8 can be sustained while other camps are focused on development for iOS 7, 8 and Android 5.1, 6.0 - wouldn't that in the end make hardware for WP8 cheaper to produce and less costly to develop for? I know that development plan doesn't translate into a new iShiny every 12 months but tough titties. Just because you need something new doesn't mean what you have is broken.
You may not have this problem personally, but a good number of the posts I read are from people upset they didn't get update Y when they bought their phone running version X of the OS. They fear that by the time Y comes along new phones will be running Z, making their phone pretty much a paperweight. That couldn't be further from the truth.
Here is the problem that I have with Android - unless you are getting that tall drink of water straight from the tap you are missing, or taking away, the best of Android in exchange for Samsung/HTC/Motorola's vision of the OS. Sense UI on the One X killed the experience for me. The locked bootloader, inability to root and load a ROM on it removed any hope I had for making it work. I wasn't aware of the multi-tasking issues with the device and for that it is my fault I didn't do enough research. I thought the RAM, processor and version of Android were enough to overcome most issues I've seen with Android with Sense UI skinned over it. Nope.
Windows Phone has one UI. That's it. No one "skins it" and makes it their own. To distinguish themselves HTC/Samsung/Nokia have to make compelling hardware and truly add to the experience rather than reinventing it. If Android devices all ran stock ICS or Jellybean from the beginning with no changes it would be a surprisingly better experience for everyone. Updates would come more regularly, and possibly without carrier input. Sure, HTC could have phones with an ImageSense processor and apps specific to their phones, but the CORE operating system is unaffected which keeps the updates coming. But, much like Linux in general, everyone has to have their own custom distro. SenseUI is Ubuntu/Mint, TouchWiz is Fedora and Blur is OpenSuse. AOSP for the record would be Debian - but you get the idea.
Oh, and Amazon with their Kindle is Ubuntu running xfce or something similar.
But seriously - you have an ecosystem ranging from Eclair and Froyo to ICS and Jellybean. There are devices that run Honeycomb still while many are still on Gingerbread with no chance of being upgraded despite promises to the contrary. There are far fewer active Windows Phone variants in the marketplace compared to Android. For that matter, there are far fewer iOS variants compared to Android and Windows Phone combined.
Apple has a good strategy with its one device, one OS progression on the mobile phone front. Unfortunately, they compete directly with themself in this arena. Android is open and free to all that want it. The problem is people want to take that and put their own spin on it - running it on phones, tablets, watches and even computers. (Oh, and now cameras) A developer could potentially screw themselves if they support the wrong base of consumers. Simply going by which OS in that case is the most widely used doesn't tell you what will be relevant 6 months from now.
I love Android, and I think some of the more compelling devices out there have been released with a variant of the OS. Unfortunately, that innovation often comes too often and at the expense of reducing the life cycle of devices after they are released. The Lumia 900 is a bad example of how Windows Phone can change this, but it illustrates my point in the Android side of things.