The Nokia Lumia 900: A good phone at a great price that you probably shouldn't buy

Microsoft is SO FUCKED with their Windows Phone



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 if you live in the US, you probably shouldn't buy it.

No, the problem is, well, the future. Unlike the dumbphones of yore, smartphones are chock full of complex software; software that has bugs, and software that doesn't necessarily do everything that you might want. But this is OK, because it also gets better. Bugfixes are released, new features are added, APIs are extended to enable more powerful applications, and the phones improve with time.

With a dumbphone, the phone is at its best on day one. With an updatable smartphone, it's at its worst on day one.

The problem is, it's not clear just what the Lumia 900's future really is. This is a problem with two causes: AT&T and Microsoft.


Whatever the cause, the burden is so great that AT&T doesn't want to take the time or money to validate minor bugfixes. Reading between the lines, the company will validate feature updates, including Tango, but any new bugfixes published by Microsoft between these updates—and authorized by other carriers—will be ignored.

If these rumors are true, buying a Lumia 900—or any other Windows Phone handset—is a risky proposition. If you buy subsidized, on-contract handsets, you'll typically be eligible for a new subsidized upgrade every two years. A reasonable expectation, then, would be two years of software support in the form of bugfixes and updates. But if current handsets can't run Windows Phone 8, they'll essentially be cut off from future support in about six months. Developers might still target the older handsets to some extent, but many more will be targeting Windows Phone 8's extended capabilities and richer APIs.

Such a move would be enormously hostile to an early adopter who's invested in the platform right now, and if the Lumia 900 takes any serious market share, there will be a lot of new users left behind.



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The Nokia Lumia 900: A good phone at a great price that you probably shouldn't buy
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