{"id":53207,"date":"2012-06-21T16:04:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=53207"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T10:32:10","slug":"microsoft-schnaaied-nokia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/53207-microsoft-schnaaied-nokia.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft schnaaied Nokia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just two months after the US launch of Nokia\u2019s<\/a> flagship Windows<\/a> Phone 7 device, Microsoft announced that the next version of its mobile operating system (OS) would not run on devices available right now.<\/p>\n

In South Africa the situation is even worse for Nokia with the Lumia 900 getting a launch date the day before Microsoft confirmed what had been feared: Windows Phone 8 was for new hardware only.<\/p>\n

Windows Phone 8 is set for release \u201cthis fall\u201d (which is American for somewhere from September to November 2012) and will be launching on HTC<\/a>, Huawei<\/a>, Nokia<\/a>, and Samsung<\/a> devices across 180 countries.<\/p>\n

For those who have been paying attention, you may have already picked up where Nokia, or at least its customers, were schnaaied:<\/p>\n

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  1. January 2012<\/strong>: Nokia Lumia 900 announced at CES where it won Cnet\u2019s Best of Show award<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. January-March 2012<\/strong>: Speculation abounds on Lumia 900 launch dates.<\/li>\n
  3. April 2012<\/strong>: Nokia Lumia 900 launches in the US, Vodacom tells MyBroadband they won\u2019t be bringing in the device.<\/li>\n
  4. 19 June 2012<\/strong>: Microsoft SA, MTN<\/a>, and Nokia SA announce with big fanfare that the Lumia 900 will be launching locally on 28 June 2012.<\/li>\n
  5. 20 June 2012:<\/strong> Microsoft announces that Windows Phone 7 won\u2019t be upgradable to Windows Phone 8.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    It should be pointed out that Windows Phone devices aren\u2019t the only ones being left behind as the version number increments.<\/p>\n

    BlackBerry<\/a> OS 6 devices such as the BlackBerry Torch 9800 weren\u2019t upgradeable to version 7 of the OS. The devices were announced globally and released in SA about a year apart<\/a>, but it still stung if you were stuck on a contract and unable to upgrade.<\/p>\n

    Some devices using Google\u2019s Android<\/a> mobile OS have similar issues with upgradability, though this is typically up to manufacturers and not Google.<\/p>\n

    One prominent example was HTC announcing that its Desire handset would not be getting an upgrade to Android 2.3 \u201cGingerbread\u201d. The HTC Desire had been out for 8 months when Google released Gingerbread.<\/p>\n

    \"Windows

    Windows Phone 8<\/p><\/div>\n

    What are Windows Phone 7 users missing out on?<\/h3>\n

    Part of the problem with Microsoft\u2019s recent announcement around Windows Phone 8, however, is that it isn\u2019t clear what exactly Windows Phone 7 users will be missing out on.<\/p>\n

    Making official what was already an open secret<\/a>, Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7.8 as the upgrade path to existing \u201cMango\u201d users.<\/p>\n

    The upgrade is set to be available around the same time as Windows Phone 8 is launched and will bring the new start screen and other \u201ccore customer experiences\u201d to WP7.<\/p>\n

    Does this mean that features such as Skype will finally work properly? Will Samsung users get the benefit of integrated Nokia Maps? Why were Microsoft unwilling to commit to what they will and will not include in Windows Phone 7.8?<\/p>\n

    This uncertainty, similar to that surrounding the BlackBerry 10 platform, casts a shadow over the whole ecosystem.<\/p>\n

    Related articles<\/h3>\n

    Nokia Lumia 900 not coming to Vodacom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    Nokia Lumia 900 launched in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    Nokia Lumia 710, 610, and 808 SA launch dates and pricing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    Nokia Lumia 800 review<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    R59 flat-rated Nokia data bundles: all the details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Betting the farm on Windows Phone may leave Nokia with a barn full of bleating customers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":53217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[35,123,653,1333,12699],"class_list":["post-53207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-headline","tag-microsoft","tag-nokia","tag-windows-phone","tag-windows-phone-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53215,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53207\/revisions\/53215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}