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Microsoft’s Windows Phone roadmap gets leaked, shows us their plans for the future
Microsoft’s Windows Phone is at its Mango staged at the moment, which is basically Windows Phone 7.5, and thanks to an apparent leaked roadmap, we now know what we should be able to expect from Microsoft come 2012. As pictured above, the roadmap reveals Microsoft’s plans to launch the Tango update come Q2 of 2012, which just like the previous rumors had suggested, would be a minor update that is targeted towards lower-end devices, which may be a good thing for those looking to hop aboard the smartphone bandwagon without having to spend too much money on a phone.
Q4 2012 however will be slightly more interesting with Apollo, which some are speculating will most probably be known as Windows Phone 8. Based on its description, it seems that Microsoft anticipates by the time Apollo hits, the volume of Windows Phone devices being pushed out into the market will be significantly higher, which is when they will start introducing “superphones” that will also target the enterprise user.
Microsoft did express their plans to introduce Windows Phone devices with 4G LTE connectivity and dual-core processors (which might seem a little irrelevant come Q4 2012 with possible quad-core devices), so perhaps Apollo might be addressing those needs then. However since we can’t really verify the roadmap for ourselves, we suggest you take this with a grain of salt for now.
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.