{"id":739989,"date":"2013-02-28T20:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=348935"},"modified":"2013-02-28T20:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T01:00:47","slug":"microsoft-confirms-windows-phone-8-devices-are-upgradeable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739989","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 8 devices are upgradeable"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/28\/windows-phone-8-upgrade-348935\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/bgr-htc-windows-phone-8x-12.jpg?w=650&#038;h=580&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C580\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Windows Phone 8 Upgrade\" title=\"Windows Phone 8\" \/><\/a><\/center>Microsoft (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) struck a nerve with customers when it revealed that smartphones running Windows Phone 7<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/06\/20\/windows-phone-fragmentation-microsoft\/\"> could not be updated to Windows Phone 8<\/a>. This will not be the case for Windows Pone 8 with the company's <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/12\/26\/microsoft-windows-blue-rumor-269545\/\">rumored Blue update<\/a>, however. Greg Sullivan, a senior marketing manager at <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a>, confirmed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2416002,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000762\">to <em>PCWorld<\/em><\/a> that the company has \"an upgrade path going forward\" for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-phone-8\">Windows Phone 8<\/a> devices. The executive added that Microsoft's current mobile operating system is also powerful enough to adopt to new hardware components, something Windows Phone 7 had trouble with. <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/28\/windows-phone-8-upgrade-348935\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/OiGu7MTUbbY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (MSFT) struck a nerve with customers when it revealed that smartphones running Windows Phone 7 could not be updated to Windows Phone 8. This will not be the case for Windows Pone 8 with the company&#8217;s rumored Blue update, however. Greg Sullivan, a senior marketing manager at Microsoft, confirmed to PCWorld that the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36vj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}