Re: FRAGMENTATION!!!

Fragmentation may be true for Android and Linux and iOS as well as for a bunch of programming platforms, but its generally being overrated by people with axes to grind.

But with Windphone 7, calling it fragmentation is misleading. Abortion would be the correct word.

Sticking to phones, you CAN generally upgrade iOS or Android phones, even if manufacturer's quit supporting it, as long as you bought a popular phone with support from Cyanogen and similar custom roms.

And even if you're still on iPhone 3 or good old Gingerbread, over 90% of current apps run just fine.

But here, its different: M$ is throwing out everything, you won't be able to run Windphone 8 apps on these.

Windphone 7s are as dead as can be, don't buy those clunkers, just cause they lowered the price a little to avoid getting stuck with the inventory :P

If you really want a windphone and you can't wait the short time for Win8 phones, its a pointless premature ejaculation, cause the new ones will also be discounted in hopes to actually get some market share.

And to the guy who wanted to buy one for his wife: you think she'll never use an app anyway, but just you wait, she'll eventually figure out that you knowingly bought her a clunker.

Re: Interesting

I thought your comment was quite interesting and worthwhile reading until you lost all credibility by saying a T8 Torx screwdriver was 'special'!

does anybody

care?

I didn't know there were people buying these, even before they became known to be a non-upgradeable and incompatible dead end...

Well, other than those who basically amount to a rounding error in phone market charts.