Half of microsoft phones upgrade to windows 10 mobile

Windows 10 was available very recently and we already have the first data on its evolution within the Microsoft mobile phone ecosystem. According to the data provided by the people of Adduplex, 15.2% of users who have a Windows Phone have already installed this new operating system. From here comes the good and bad news for this Microsoft mobile platform.

Windows 10 Mobile will reach half of its active devices

If we added that 15.2% together with 35.2% of users who have a compatible terminal for Windows 10, we would find the data that more than 50% of users with a Windows phone are a "potential" user of Windows 10, the problem is that the other half of users will be left out and will not be able to update their terminal to the new operating system.

Why only 50% can upgrade to Windows 10?

Because Windows 10 implicitly requires a phone that has 1GB of RAM, devices that have 512MB of RAM are not supported. We could even go further and say that those with a Snapdragon S4 processor cannot update to Windows 10 either. Most of the phones with Windows Phone 8.1 and that have 512MB of RAM memory belong to the low range of terminals, terminals like the Lumia 810, 820, 825 onwards would not have any problem but the Lumia 720, 710 downwards would have them and they will have to settle for Windows Phone 8.1, which still continues to be supported by Microsoft with most of the compatible Apps.

This type of inconvenience is very common in Android devices, where only 2.3% of users are using version 6.0 Marshmallow and 34% still use " KitKat ", which was released back in 2013. Apple for its part It doesn't seem to have this problem and 80% of their iPhones and iPads use iOS 9.