No Windows Phone 7 Upgrade Path for Current Windows Mobile Phones: HD2 Owners Shafted

Some vendors like Nokia are calling their smartphones (like the N900) “mobile computers”. One big difference between most smartphones and real computers is that many (most) smartphones do not have significant upgrade paths. Yes, they may have incremental updates (if that much). But, most Windows Mobile 5 phones are not, for example, upgradeable to Windows Mobile 6.5 from an official source (let’s leave XDA-Developers out of the picture for most end-users). One of the biggest exceptions to this rule is the iPhone family.