Nokia Lumia 900 SA launch date announced

I'd like to try one for a few days, just to see what it's like.
 
diegoa said:
Well just announcend no upgrade path for the new Nokia Lumia 900 to WP8 Apollo, nice way to screw your customers. What the point of buying this "legacy" phone now.
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I cannot understand how people that lead major companies can made decisions like this that will just cause more market loss.
 
The Lumia 900 won't be getting Windows Phone 8, so it's already dead in the water before it even launched in South Africa.

Anyone buying this is gonna cry his/her lungs out when Windows Phone 8 launches with true multitasking, support for HD displays, support for micro SD cards, integrated Skype, Nokia Maps + Navigation - the list goes on and on. :)

Expect the Lumia 900's price to be at least half after a month of the official launch.
 
kingrob said:
The Lumia 900 won't be getting Windows Phone 8, so it's already dead in the water before it even launched in South Africa.

Anyone buying this is gonna cry his/her lungs out when Windows Phone 8 launches with true multitasking, support for HD displays, support for micro SD cards, integrated Skype, Nokia Maps + Navigation - the list goes on and on. :)

Expect the Lumia 900's price to be at least half after a month of the official launch.
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Really bad time to buy a MS phone, but I would've loved one.
 
diegoa said:
Well just announcend no upgrade path for the new Nokia Lumia 900 to WP8 Apollo, nice way to screw your customers. What the point of buying this "legacy" phone now.
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To be fair, it is not all that different from the Android situation and to some extent like the iOS situation. With the iPhone, the latest version supports at most 2 models back i.e. 2 years old phones.

Android:
Google comes out with a version every year... very true.
Each version more powerful than the one before... also true.
How many manufacturers pass down the changes to us?... not many.
how many do so in time... even fewer... LG is still rolling out gingebread to some phones right now while ICS is 8 months old

The saving grace for Android is the open source community around it. Still how many regular users will go that root (pun intended)... not a significant percentage.

So for all intents and purposes, upgrades only matter over a 2 year period for most users. because in 2 years they tend to upgrade. the exceptions either jump ship or don't upgrade or whatever. By the industry average, 2 years signifies 1 major update between buying phones.

This update, microsoft has brought through to an extent. I am not a microsoft fanboy trust me, but as much as no WP8 is not nice, I wouldn't pan them entirely about it. Since they're not entirely the worst case here. Android manufacturers have absolutely no excuse to not pass upgrades in a timely manner. They can initiate a community effort and then with a little factory testing the update can be rolled out. but no they dont.

Now, Lumia 900 got here very late, and the timing plain sucks. In 4 months we'll have WP8 phones.
 
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