Nne wrote:
3. As for PR. Nokia takes the brunt of any negative feelings about WP7, they are rarely directed at microsoft (who actually control the software). As well as the fact Robot and Fruit phone lovers will take any opportunity to bash WP7.
Nokia made the choice to switch to WP, so of course people blame them. Also when people go into a store, they think they buy a phone, not an operating system. Sure, some tech people might buy an operating system, but I'm betting most people think they are buying a phone. Therefore, it's the phone that is either good or bad.
they already have re flashed the phones in the past... the problem stems from the drivers being made by the hardware manufacturers and not Microsoft. as a result they cant force these manufacturers to re-wright and test drivers for all of there old phones. this is the same issue that keeps most current gen phones from using the tethering capability's of the WPOS. it was finished in the 7.5 build but manufacturers left it deactivated in the phone bios.
to insure that everyone gets a consistent experience ms chose to give a separate update that removed some of the more demanding BG processes and features that are not compatable with curent gen hardware anyways. as a result they wont require a bios/drivers rewrite.
the release date is october...ish 
We appreciate that you are all eager to update, but there is no date that we can share at this time. Microsoft and Nokia will both make their announcements when the general release begins, but as always there will be throttling in the Microsoft update system which means that not everybody received the update notification to their phone at the same time, and some operator-variant models may be awaiting network approval.
