{"id":644620,"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.media\/index\/644620","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft confirms Windows Phone 8 devices are upgradeable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/28\/windows-phone-8-upgrade-348935\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/bgr-htc-windows-phone-8x-12.jpg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" 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&#8217;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 &#8220;an upgrade path going forward&#8221; for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-phone-8\">Windows Phone 8<\/a> devices. The executive added that Microsoft&#8217;s current mobile operating system is also powerful enough to adopt to new hardware components, something Windows Phone 7 had trouble with. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/28\/windows-phone-8-upgrade-348935\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/OiGu7MTUbbY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","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":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}