Rumored Windows Phone Update Coming Soon

There are a few things that you must do correctly in order to make a successful smartphone platform and one of them is update early and often. If rumors are true, Microsoft plans to do just that.

According to Chris Walshie, creator of WP7′s first jailbreaking tool, Microsoft is ramping up a major update in early January 2011. Apparently, Microsoft has been working on this first update long before the actual Windows Phone 7 release, which is very believable considering Joe Belifore announced a copy and paste feature to come in early 2011, at the release launch.
Other features rumored to be added are: copy and paste, 3rd party multitasking, custom ringtones and some enhancements to Bing for turn-by-turn directions.
Walshie also noted in a tweet, “MS took 3 months to do what Apple did in 3 years.” Which is true if the rumor is accurate, however, Apple was out in front of the smartphone market by far, so they could be slow to update some of their missing core features, Microsoft needs to update quickly and often if they wish to get WP7 off the ground and in the race.
Personally, I love my Windows Phone device and I think it’s extremely close to being much better than anything else out there, but updates need to happen as soon as they are rumored to for this to be the case. Since Microsoft has confirmed nothing, this update for Windows Phone is a rumor, so take it with a grain of salt.