Microsoft let ambiguity exist about whether the current generations of smartphones whether or not to update to Windows Phone 8. As a result, consumers are not, or a unit that they purchase now still a update.
According to the Portuguese Nuno Silva, developer evangelist at Microsoft, appears Windows Phone 8 is the Apollo update, for future Windows Phone devices, but also for the current first and second generation. That he told in an interview with the Portuguese technologiewebsite Zwame. That interview is now unreachable, but website WMPoweruser has a part of the interview with the statement, re-upload.
Other sources, such as from techsite The Verge and the American version of ZDNet, reporting the opposite, namely that there is absolutely no upgrade path for current devices to Windows Phone 8. Microsoft still has no clear response is provided, outside the note that all applications in the Marketplace on Windows Phone 8 will run.
There are still some other possibilities, like the possibility that only the devices that came out in 2011 and 2012 update get. A fourth possibility is that the current devices with an update can include the functionality of Windows Phone 8, which is being developed under the code name Apollo. The new operating system itself, with the new kernel, would not be on the current devices. Windows Phone 8 would run on the kernel of Windows 8, while Windows Phone 7.5 in a Windows CE kernel. Also would a lot of other elements of the operating system are modified.
The lack of clarity could hurt the sales of current devices. Nokia will start soon with the sale of his top-class device Lumia 900. That went into the United States a few weeks ago in the sale. However, now is not clear whether this top-class device this autumn of the new version of Windows Phone can be provided.