HTC 8XT for Sprint reportedly not getting Windows Phone 8.1 update until November?

Either HTC's Twitter account is drunkard and spouting off random timeframes, or HTC and Dart are really in no rush for to update their HTC 8XT, a custom phone that looks like a cantankerous betwixt the HTC 8s and HTC 8x.

Asked virtually the Windows Telephone 8.1 update, and presumably non the majuscule 'U' version aka 8.1.one, and HTC responded to Aaron B. on Twitter with the succinct "You can wait the Windows 8.1 update to roll out to Dart's HTC 8X in November." Annotation non by November, but in November.

This follows on the earlier news about Verizon's HTC 8X not getting the update until "belatedly October", which is barely meliorate.

We suppose HTC'south Twitter account could be wrong, fifty-fifty if they sounded confident in the response. Indeed, when asked about T-Mobile's 8X they gave a more familiar "We don't have any info to share on that right now. Stay tuned for future announcements."

One alternative interpretation of this news is the Sprint, and HTC are skipping 8.1 and going for 8.1.1 aka Update 1. A Nov timeframe for that release makes sense.

Updates are something that require carrier approving and Dart is never leading the pack on those, nor Windows Telephone devices in general. In the past, we take advocated people just drop Sprint as a carrier if they want a better Windows Phone experience. This late 8.1 update, if proven accurate, but solidifies our argument (it also does not make HTC wait good).

By comparing, a expert per centum of Lumia phones have received Lumia Cyan and 8.1 already. The ane holdup appears to be for those on the Preview for Developers, simply even they make up technically a small minority of users.

HTC, meanwhile, has had issues taking the 8.1 update, even through the Preview for Developers program, which has been blocked since August. Current devices enrolled do non get the latest 8.1.1 version, as there is a deeper issue that HTC needs to solve for hardware. Microsoft did change a lot in eight.i, for the improve, simply some of it are broad changes like a standard Bluetooth stack (Bluetooth SMART), aspects of the camera, and other underlying memory functions. Presumably, HTC is having a rough fourth dimension at getting information technology to work.

Source: Twitter; Thanks, @Supergamer65, for the tip!

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