Symthic
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Oh I don't think so. Item - Icon. Everyone else has WP8.1 and has gone from Black to Cyan to Denim OS firmware Verizon? Not a chance. Same with the 928. Meanwhile Microsoft is pounding out cheap and midrange phones that cost a fraction of what the Icon did and they ARRIVE with the newest firmware. That's pure BS. If you are selling a phone you represent as a flagship, freaking SUPPORT it like a flagship.
Droid MaxxHD? Flagship andorid phone. One of the last to get Kitkat.
Blackberry Z30? Never did get the latest firmware. At this point I doubt it ever will. If you want the latest you install a leak and hope you don't brick your phone.
Don't call me ignorant. I've dealt with Verizon and their freaking slow updates for many years. Since my Blackberry 8330. Their update cycle purely sucks. If you don't know that, you don't know much. Granted the new Droids are getting updated faster. But god help you if you don't have a Droid. They just cannot be bothered.
Yeah, I'm coming to the Turbo from a Lumia 928. I don't know if/when the 8.1 update came out. Still, Windows Phone has the ingenius "Preview for Developers" which circumvents the inefficient update system of carriers by allowing the user to opt-in to the readily available builds. I had 8.1 on my phone since it was publicly available, and my brother's Icon did too.
That said, Verizon's Windows Phone support does suck. It took like a year for them to even get a single phone (the HTC Trophy, my first smartphone), and a little longer for them to get the 928 and Icon, both of which are only available in black and white, as opposed to the colorful spectrum of the phones available on other carriers.