I got a Lumia 800 as a replacement for Mozart last week. The kicker will be
to see how much difference there is between 7.8 & 8. If it's mostly
hardware driven (eg: core speeds & resolution) then there's not really any
point worrying about jumping it at the wrong time.
Also, it's not out yet. We've still got a few months of having 'current'
gear.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Bill McCarthy <
[email protected]> wrote:

> It sucks. Was finally seeing Windows Phone front page of Telstra catalogues
> etc. Now what happens to sales ?  Do they say oh if you buy this now it's
> obsolete in 3 to 6 months time ?  Stupid.
>
>
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet-
> |[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Price
> |Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 12:13 PM
> |To: ozDotNet
> |Subject: Re: Windows Phone 8 announced
> |
> |Your technology is out of date before you bought it.
> |
> |I'm more stunned that Scott likes it than the announcements themselves. :p
> |
> |On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Bill McCarthy
> <[email protected]>
> |wrote:
> |> Now I'm really grumpy...  My lumia 800 isn't that old, but now
> |> apparently it is :(
> |>
> |>
> |> |-----Original Message-----
> |> |From: [email protected] [mailto:ozdotnet-
> |> |[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Burela
> |> |Sent: Thursday, 21 June 2012 4:52 AM
> |> |To: ozDotNet
> |> |Subject: Windows Phone 8 announced
> |> |
> |> |For anyone interested, I put my rough notes online of the Windows
> |> |Phone 8 announcement.
> |> |
> |> |http://bit.ly/MrWEze
> |> |Some highlights:
> |> |
> |> |*      Shared core between Windows 8 & Windows Phone 8.
> |> |*      New user definable tile sizes (like Windows 8). Can now have
> |> |1/4
> |> sized
> |> |mini tiles to give it more flavour.
> |> |*      A new "company hub" that corporate IT can display apps and
> |> |deploy
> |> from
> |> |their internal servers.
> |> |*      Support for new high resolution screens (720p)
> |> |*      Existing device aren't upgradeable to 8.0, but existing
> |> |devices will
> |> get a
> |> |7.8 update that will give some of the features, such as the new tiles.
> |> |
> |> |http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/my-notes-from-the-windows
> |> |-
> |> |phone-8-announcement/
> |> |
> |> |-David Burela
> |> |Regional Technical Evangelist
> |> |Infragistics
> |>
>
>

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