What! The Old Windows Phone Smartphone Can not be Upgrade to Windows Phone 8

Friday, June 22, 20120 comments


Windows Phone 8 officially introduced by Microsoft. And, of course, the old Windows Phone smartphone users expect that the phone can be updated to that version.

But, it seems that hope has vanished, when Microsoft officially informed that Windows Phone 8 will not be present on some WP smartphone available today. Via Engadget, it was reported that the limitations of the hardware into the barrier. In fact, another speculation emerged, in which Microsoft was rumored to have done it so the old WP smartphone users have to upgrade the device.

Though the news makes the old WP smartphone owners sadly, at least there is something encouraging. Some neat features that will be present in Windows Phone 8 mentioned will appear in the update Windows Phone 7.8. So, Windows Phone 7.5 Tango users can update OS devices with WP 7.8.

On Windows Phone 7.8 display menu will be present in the three-column menu icons, which is one of them comes with a smaller box size (half of the standard). It seems not only that, but details are still not informed, as well as update release schedule of WP 7.8.

Just an additional, previously known that the applications in Windows Phone 7.x will be able to run on Windows Phone 8. However, for applications which was originally devoted to WP 8 will not be compatible with the Windows Phone 7.x.
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