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Technology Stocks : Nokia Corp. (NOK) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pyslent who wrote (7530)	6/23/2012 11:19:01 AM
From: zax	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9255

>> I personally prefer the current Start Screen to the cluttered WP7.8 version. Considering that you can set the tile sizes to double or quad in the new screen, the density of tiles is your choice in WP >= 7.8. W.R.T software, IMO developers will generally target their software to reach the most users and the software is forward compatible. So I don't see any great software divide in the near future. Undoubtedly, after it comes out in the fourth quarter, WP8 will start getting titles specific to it eventually; after all WP8 allows native code. Kind of inside baseball to most cell phone purchasers though... I'm not sure the average buyer is especially aware or concerned that in 6 months, Microsoft will release a native code compiler for Windows phone, and that 6 months after that, you may not be able to get the latest first-person shooter that requires a 12-axis accelerometer a four core Snapdragon processor that wasn't in your original phone. Yes, this would matter to me. Which sucks, because I didn't win the Nokia phone last night (I did get a $25 coupon for WP central), and I'd kill to have one of those drool-worthy Nokia Lumia 900s in cyan or white.