Oh look, Verizon is just about to pick up the Windows Phone 8.1 updating pace at last. Of course, for Big Red to “pick up the pace,” they’d need to have a tempo to begin with, which they don’t.
Thus far, although WP 8.1 is nearly two months old in general availability form, the largest wireless service provider stateside has sat idly by while rival AT&T did a tremendous job bringingvarious Nokia Lumias up to date.
And for the irony to be complete, Verizon is yet to announce timelines for a single Lumia-headed Windows Phone 8.1 goodie pack. Sorry, 928, sorry, Lumia Icon, but your time will come… eventually.
For now, the much older, far less popular and, we’re presuming, much laggier HTC Windows Phone 8X has an 8.1 deadline. A vague one, granted, but it’s clearly better than nothing. Impressively, once the 8X moves to WP 8.1 in “late October”, the 4.3-incher is going to be officially supported for two full years.
November 2012 saw the thing roll out, with pre-loaded WP 8, a 720p screen, dual-core 1.5 GHz CPU and 1 GB RAM, so manufacturers of Android-running hardware should probably take note. HTC included.
Remember the One X+? It basically launched simultaneously with the 8X and considerably raised the performance ante, yet the chances of it ever going beyond Jelly Bean are zero. Ergo, don’t be surprised if Android fans start migrating en masse to Microsoft’s camp before long. I know I’m tempted.
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