Official: Lumia smartphones will not be upgraded to Windows Phone 8

The news that many had feared, unfortunately, was confirmed following the official launch of Windows Phone 8. The new release of the system operating Microsoft can not be used by the terminals Windows Phone up to now marketed and, consequently, also the terminals Nokia Lumia can not be updated. The news was somewhat anticipated by the various rumors that have followed over the past few weeks and recently confirmed by the statements of unofficial T-Mobile . The lack of support for Windows Phone 8 by the end Lumia spares no model, including the recent Lumia 900 , the current flagship of the Finnish manufacturer. Lumia smartphones will only receive the version 7.8 of Windows Phone that will introduce changes to the user interface. This is a story that, in no uncertain terms, you can define very negative for the Finnish company and that may have a serious impact on sales of the device Lumia.

 

At the Nokia Lumia foreclose the possibility of receiving the update to Windows Phone 8 include seemingly technical reasons. Many upgrades and improvements introduced by Windows Phone 8 would be linked to new hardware platforms that utilize the next release of the OS of Microsoft native. We refer, for example, the dual-core processors and new screens with resolutions even higher than at present. The reason, in principle, does not exclude the possibility of supporting hardware terminals with a less accurate, but, according to initial information revealed during the launch of Windows Phone 8, this would not happen.

Let's clear once again that the failure to release of the update to Windows Phone 8 is not limited to Lumia, but it is a destiny that smartphones Windows Phone Finnish manufacturer of terminals share with WP competitors. Nokia, however, that the company will undergo the biggest inability to update the current device to Windows Phone 8, given the considerable investment made in marketing the device Lumia representing the pivot on which it runs its business strategy in the 2012 segment smartphone. A cold shower for the many users in recent months have begun to appreciate the Lumia Windows Phone. by