[Nokia Lumia 900] dhafiz:
Oye - what is going on with peeps on this forum? Usually people here are so logical and forward thinking! <-- No sarcasm intended, I mean it.

Calm your selves down. Everyone wants MSFT and Windows Phone to succeed here; and yes, sure, it's disappointing that my Lumia 900 won't get WP8, but it's the right thing to do.

I used a Titan 1, then iPhone 4, then a Galaxy Note, then a 4S, and now a Lumia 900 so far this year - NOTHING beats the overall user experience of the Lumia so far. Sure the 4S is pretty slick, but you put a case on it and use it for 2 weeks, and it's the same ****e as the original iPhone from years back (fat, old and slow). The iPhone 4 was slow on iOS5 and didn't have SIRI - so, I didn't get the full OS experience there either. Forget about the G'Note - had it for 3 weeks, hated Android/TouchWiz on day 2 once I got over the size-shock.

The only huge win that iPhone/G'Note had was the camera - much better than Lumia. Again, that's hardware limited by software (vs. iOS where Apple manufactures the camera to exact specs & Android where Samsung has 100% access to all camera API's).

Which leads me to my point: my Lumia will run awesome with 7.8 (I'll take user experience over updates for the sake of updates any day), look great with the new start-screen, and use the new apps that Nokia will keep pushing out - starting this week. Read the posts by Nokia again - the new apps will run on Mango and 7.8, does not need WP8. Also expecting Tango in the next couple of months. That's a lot of "new" to keep me going.

And really, on an industry level, the lifecycle of a mobile phone is like 6 months at this point - maybe 12 at the most. Blame the carriers for using a 10 year old business model and lock you in for 24 months - they are the ones making money off of it, not MSFT. MSFT would love for everyone to have a trade-in or subsidy path to WP8 phones.

Every OS has limitations as far as providing OS updates; take a look at Android over the years, and iOS as well. Forget about RIM (BB10 anyone?). MSFT has had to make some hard business decisions to provide the best software and user-experience possible - WP8 is the best shot they have produced so far to win, far more than Mango, and they have some good momentum. Of course it sucks that there's no upgrade path from 7.5, and they know that, that is why 7.8 exists (even though it's not ideal), but they are going from WinCE core (crippled/limited) to WinRT (much more scaled, secure, familiar for devs, shares cores with W8) - this is a MUST HAVE and NEEDED for the platform to win.

I would ask everyone on these forums to stop the criticism; stop blowing wind that won't change the course of what's happening. All you're doing is helping to destroy WP8 and Windows Phone in general, as well as the momentum they have.

I sympathize that you bought a new phone 2 months ago that's not going to be upgraded to WP8... I did too! But if this was a deal breaker for you, you should have waited. However this is the risk with technology and innovation - if you only want the best/newest, you're going to be waiting forever and ever.

Just enjoy what you have now, enjoy the best user experience in the market, enjoy the fact that you have an unique and amazing device that is going to be supported at least for the next 12 months, if not more, by MSFT (Tango, 7.8) and Nokia (Apps).

Cheers.