Microsoft Windows Phone 7 "NoDo" update ready... ish

Windows 7 Phone owners in the UK will have to wait until next week to update their phones with Microsoft NoDo (no donuts) software version that adds cut and paste and other features.
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UK network has told the Guardian that they will be rolling out the service to contract customers over the next 10 days, but the exact time varies between them.
This is the opposite of the PC world, where an update is immediately available to everyone when it is available, the same is true for Apple's iDevices
The update, which will be available through the Microsoft site and requires owners to connect their phone to the computer to implement it, is the first major upgrade since Windows 7 Phone was released in the UK in late October, and will be rolled out by operators around the world.
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Some users of SIM-free phones will already have the warning, told The Guardian UK network.
It is the opposite of Google's Android phones, most of which can not update before the carriers and Google blesses specific phone OS upgrades, which could take months
The delay until the update has been partly caused by the network'requirements - imposed on all handset manufacturers - to test the patch thoroughly to insure it will work with their individual systems.
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UK carriers have tested the patch to ensure it will work with phones that they sell and rolling it out cautiously, after a previous service performed some Samsung phones useless.
Although Microsoft initially said it wanted to bring Windows 7 Phone updates to all Windows 7 Phone devices, smoothed it on whether these updates will be immediately available to all owners
The updates for HTC and LG 7 Trophy Optimus 7 (WP7 the units that Vodafone offers) have been approved by Vodafone and will be distributed later - MS has started to gradually roll out the update, start small with customers with open market handsets this week.
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Updates will be via the PC suite, said a spokeswoman Vodafone.
Now we know that it is not the case, and while the delays do not seem nearly as Android-esque which makes no harm competition, the glacier is slow compared to Apple
A spokesman for O2 said: We are working with Microsoft to bring Windows 7 Phone NoDo service to our customers HTC HD7 as soon as possible.
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We currently expect it to start in early April.
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Everything Everywhere - combining Orange and T-Mobile - said: Our current plan is for Microsoft to roll out our approved version next week, in mains with other operators.
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The update does not take full multitasking support for third-party applications.
Nokia, which lately announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft to put Windows Phone on its future smartphones will wait for Mango - and possibly later - before releasing a Windows phone devices.
The NoDo update was expected initially to arrive in early February, after a phone using it was used in Steve Ballmer's keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in early January.
This date then moved to 8 March went.
The pre-update that affected the Samsung phones were meant to make future software upgrades easier, but its effect on these phones are understood to have delayed the update for about a fortnight.
Every software update to any carrier-sold the phone, including iPhone, is tested by each carrier before it is sent out, and can only be deployed when all agree to use their.
The number of different phone models that run an operating system, thus complicating the update process.
It does raise the question of how to update that bricked Samsung phones passed the approval process - but has meant that the networks are more cautious than ever about to roll out Windows phone updates.