Some Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 device owners will be in big trouble when Windows 10 Mobile releases later in the year. From what we’ve come to understand, any handset with 4GB of internal storage will not be able to update to the new operating system.
This is a surprise and no doubt it will cause some device uses to launch in a fit of rage. After all, Microsoft did state that all Windows 8 and 8.1 devices will be able to get Windows 10 Mobile when the operating system becomes widely available.
Microsoft said that the operating system will take up a whopping 5GB of space on your smartphone, a number that is quite large for a smartphone operating system. It means that only devices with 8GB or more storage will be able to receive the Windows 10 Mobile update.
With the vast amount of things Windows 10 Mobile is capable of doing, we in some ways can understand why this is happening, but the many persons who have purchased these devices will not because a promise was made.
As we sit here thinking about this issue, we have to say that Microsoft must be planning a second version of Windows 10 Mobile that is less feature rich than the 5GB version. We say this because the low-end market is where Microsoft sell the most phones, so Windows 10 Mobile should be able to run on these low space handsets.
Unless the software giant is aiming to only release 8GB or more devices for Windows 10 Mobile in the future, something we would stand behind because 4GB internal storage is ants food these days.
At the end of the day, Microsoft is going down a troubling path because this could cause some Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 users to jump ship. The most loyal will upgrade to newer handsets, but others, they might very well look to Android.
Source: Microsoft Germany.
