Paul has a totally valid point. The HD2 is physically the BEST phone available anywhere, yet it is crippled with the WORST smartphone OS available anywhere.
If the HD2 is destined to get 7series, then a lot of people would surely buy the phone now and put up with WiMo for a few months. If that's not going to happen because MS is too stubborn, then they need to own up and admit it so people can go shopping for something else.
People had no idea that they wouldn't be able to upgrade their OS. The HD2 is a superphone, and the only thing holding it back was software. Its hardware could easily do WinPho7. But, there are a few things that keep it from qualifying. The most obvious being that it has more than three physical buttons.
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What a stupid, whiney article. Buy the phone for what it is. If you want a W7 phone wait and buy one.
@mike71
That's not even the point...
@mike71
Paul has a totally valid point. The HD2 is physically the BEST phone available anywhere, yet it is crippled with the WORST smartphone OS available anywhere.
If the HD2 is destined to get 7series, then a lot of people would surely buy the phone now and put up with WiMo for a few months. If that's not going to happen because MS is too stubborn, then they need to own up and admit it so people can go shopping for something else.
@Chip
Right now it is the best phone. What is to say there won't be a better phone out by the time W7 is released?
This is how technology works and why you always buy for what a product CAN do and not what it MIGHT be able to do.
@mike71
People had no idea that they wouldn't be able to upgrade their OS. The HD2 is a superphone, and the only thing holding it back was software. Its hardware could easily do WinPho7. But, there are a few things that keep it from qualifying. The most obvious being that it has more than three physical buttons.