Windows Phone 7 Series Won’t Work on Existing Devices?
How sad. This is just Windows Vista all over again. In efforts to make us buy new hardware, Windows Phone 7 will not work on devices slower than 1ghz and with more than 3 buttons?
Despite the HD2 meeting many of the criteria laid down in Microsoft’s ‘Chassis 1’ spec – including a 1GHz Qualcomm processor, high-res capacitive touch display, 5 megapixel camera and 3.5mm headphone jack – the phone will be ruled out for the simple reason that it has five buttons instead of the three mandated for all Windows Phone 7 devices.
That means the shiny new HTC HD2 you broke the bank for is now worthless. That also means any new apps developed for the narrow minded 7 series won’t work on your 6.x phone. Way to go M$FT, bring us into 2010 with a stupendous fumble. I feel like an idiot buying the Touch pro 2 now. After upgrading it to 6.5 it has now hit it’s ceiling and I can’t test 7 on it. I can test Android on it, I can emulated Windows 95 on it but I can’t upgrade it to the newly proposed 7 series…Wow.
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