Hopefully, this will make those people whining about the Apollo upgrade to shut up. FWIW, I believe that MS will still try to get Windows Phone 8 to run atleast on the 512 MB RAM devices. The only thing that the current WP7 owners will probably miss out on will be the more graphically intensive games. I believe all apps can be made to run with the current gen hardware. This is a model that Microsoft has perfected all these years - with Windows in PCs

Handy.

Some interesting ideas. I don’t see this working out on Object Oriented languages.. 

In case you were wondering why your smartphone runs out of battery so fast.

Sadly true. Nokia keeps making a lot of stuff that the rest of the vendors don’t get.

Major takeaways :

• Four different resolutions (Please don’t)
• Multi-core processors
• NFC “wallet” < I’m still skeptical about people actually using this. 
• App to app communication (finally!) 
• “Business features” <  ???

Even if people don’t actually use the apps, the fact that they are available is a big factor for many people in buying a phone.