Really ? Did you do any homework or read any of the blogs about Windows Phone 8 ? I guess not. A key word that you should know is "search" as you would of found your answer.
There will be update to wp7/wp7.5 called wp7.8 and you have same interface than Windows phone 8
I'm pretty sure we'll be able to put some sort of custom ROM WP8 on a WP7 device.
Other than the secure boot, which should hopefully be easily turned off, I haven't seen anything which would prevent the OS from running on a WP7 device.
Secondly, from my understanding current hardware specs of wp7 phones are not high enough, do not meet, wp8 requirements so the answer is probably no. The official line is a definate no, wp7 devices, even new ones like lumia 900 will not get wp8 update
really? did you do any homework or read any blogs about how to get laid as a nerd? i guess not. a key word you should know is "balls," as you'd require a pair as a real man and help you stop masterbating at online porn, move out your mom's house, and finally get laid at 43 years of age.
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The new upgrade goes to the NT kernal over the WinCE one. That does take more horsepower than current devices can do.
Absolutely not true. The NT kernel will run on seriously low specs without any issues. It'll happily run on an old pentium 233 and 32MB RAM without any notable issues in performance. In fact,WP7 hardware is sufficient to run full blown Windows 7, not just the NT6 kernel (assuming the processor was x86 and not ARMv7)
I don't se drivers being a huge blocker as the number of drivers for NT6 is huge, and even in the worst case scenario any drivers we may be missing can be written.
It'll be interesting to see how quickly someone gets WP8 running on a WP7 device.
Hahaha. If you read ANY PLACE on this site, it says to SEARCH before posting.
You must not know how to read. This has been a major topic of discussion over every Windows Phone 7 related site.
It does not take a geek or loser like yourself just to spend 2 min reading before posting a subject that has been posted everywhere.
The new upgrade goes to the NT kernal over the WinCE one. That does take more horsepower than current devices can do. It will have native support for C++ and a lot of other modern tech (NFC and others). The current chipset in current devices will not be able to handle it with reasonable performance. As I understand it.
IF some hacker was to create a rom for a current device, it would not support more than 1/2 of the OS and the performace would not be anything worth using unless they stripped everything out.
It's really questionable if a hacker will be able to get it working on current devices and what type of performance. If you really want to know the changes, it's a little long but, it really shows what it can and will do...
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Windows-Phone/Summit
It's the full streaming event, and it's almost 2 hours but, it's impressive and I can see why they went this route.
I understand your anger and frustration, but as I explained.. the moderator already gave his response. The last comment was in July of 2012.. 2 years ago. Although the delivery of the user you quoted wasn't correct, he did bring up a point that happens to be in the forum rules. Search before posting. Numerous posts with the similar question have appeared and have been answered similarly. At the same time, I understand HIS frustration. We see a lot of duplicate questions asking whether you can install Android on WP8/WP7, install WP7/WM6.5 on WP8, and installing WP8 on WP7. Here are some examples:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2406649
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2081505
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1724869
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2022026
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1977198
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1880124
Again, I'm sorry that you were offended by some of the replies, but know that we're all here to help out.