Nokia’s current lineup of Lumia devices – Lumia 900, 800 and 710 – will not be upgradeable to the next major version of Windows Phone mobile platform, codenamed Apollo, the Verge claims citing a source close to Microsoft.
Officially, Microsoft only promises that “all apps in the Marketplace today will run on the next version of Windows Phone,” without clarifying whether the current Lumias will get Apollo down the road.
If true, this is bad news for Lumia owners. For comparison, most Android devices are usually launched with a promise to be upgradeable to at least the next iteration of Android software.
It may be good news in the sense that the next version of Windows Phone platform might bring some radical improvements, but that’s not very comforting to users who already purchased a Lumia phone.
An unconfirmed list of features in Apollo includes support for multi-core CPUs, different resolutions and NFC, as well as deep Xbox and Skydrive integration.
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