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Windows Phone 8 Apollo will not support current-generation Windows Phone handsets [Rumor]
Android has typically been seen as a fragmented operating system due to the number of devices available but yet all of them running on different builds of Android, some with the latest update, but some with older versions. Microsoft has done a pretty good job so far in streamlining their devices and providing updates, but it looks like that might change with Windows Phone Apollo, also known as Windows Phone 8.
According to Eldar Murtazin, the Windows Phone 8 update will not be available to current Windows Phone devices. The Apollo update is expected to be a major one and supposedly will be unveiled come September later this year. The update is also supposed to allow handset manufacturers to begin producing “super phones” for the Windows Phone platform that will hopefully elevate the hardware and software to compete against iOS and Android.
If that is indeed the case, given that all Windows Phone devices at the moment currently employ single-core processors, as opposed to the dual and upcoming quad-core processors of Android smartphones, we guess the Apollo update will not be compatible with the current generation of Windows Phone handsets. Of course it should be noted that this is simply a rumor for now so we suggest you take this news with a grain of salt, at least until more information has been revealed.
It is quite a feeling to have a smartphone getting the latest operating system update up and running, that is for sure. After all, you can never quite tell just what kind of goodies that your handset would receive now, can you? Those who are rocking to a Windows Phone 8.1 device might be looking forward to spending Christmas with a Windows 10 Mobile update but it seems that such hopes will have to be shelved for the moment.
It seems that there will be no Windows 10 update arriving this month as originally speculated, and the time frame itself has been altered, being even more vague in nature – where it has been mentioned to be “early next year”, which could jolly well mean any time, even in April. Looks like patience needs to be had in boatloads here.
So, you are still rocking to the Xiaomi Mi 4 and are more than happy with the device, right? Well, how about enjoying an operating system upgrade when December 3rd rolls around? This is what will happen to the Xiaomi Mi 4, where it has been teased by Xiaomi’s Founder and President Lin Bin on Weibo, citing the December 3rd date. I suppose it is encouraging to take note that this bit arrives close to nine months after Microsoft and Xiaomi came to an agreement, where there would be support for the Windows 10 Technical Preview on the Mi 4 handset.
Just in case you were wondering, there is another device from Xiaomi which will rock to the Windows 10 OS, and that would be the recently announced Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 tablet, with that particular device arriving in a 64GB memory configuration alongside an asking price of $205 thereabouts.
Trivia lovers, here is something that might just pique your interest. After all, don’t you wish you had all sorts of information at your fingertips? Windows Phone lovers will be pleased to hear that there is a leak concerning information about the Windows Phone Store, and such information can be said to be ‘ancient”, as it dates back all the way to October 2011 with the introduction of Windows Phone 7.5.
So far, the most popular downloaded app happens to be Facebook with more than 112 million installations – no surprise there at all, I suppose. WhatsApp is behind Facebook considerably at 92 million downloads, while OneDrive has 62.5 million downloads. Located close to the bottom of the food chain would be PayPal that picked up a mere 1.6 million downloads all this while, and 2.5 million for Telegraph.
Third party apps as well as games have had their fair share of hits, too, like Tube HD that handles the playback of YouTube videos with more than 13 million downloads. Of course, these figures would pale in comparison to what Android and iOS platforms have garnered all this while.