[UPDATE 10/4] Microsoft’s Gabe Aul has tweeted that the Windows 10 Technical Preview will be reaching to the listed phones below at 10AM PST, which is a few hours away from now.
Microsoft is really fast on it this time, shortly announcing a preview build of Windows 10 for Phones two months back, the company is now announcing a new list of phones that be able to run the preview, while you may think why Microsoft isn’t making it available to all phones at the same time because most of the older Windows Phone models have to be repartitioned in order to support the new operating system. In addition to this, Microsoft has also reported via its blog that the team has been working on the following updates:
– The partition stitching feature code came into our main code branch late last week. The Storage and Filesystems Team had been working on this in their branch and it passed all of their quality evaluations.
– We spent this week testing on individual devices, as well as providing the builds with this feature to our internal rings so that we all could test it on our own phones which had been previously not usable. I’ve been thrilled to get my beloved Lumia 1020 on Windows 10!
– This testing will allow us to support A LOT more phones for the next flight. I get a ton of questions every day on Twitter about when your favorite phones will be usable, and I’m happy to report that the vast majority will be supported with the next flight (full list below.)
– We’ll also have support for phones that didn’t have China Mobile Operator support in the last build, so that’s great news too for our Windows Insiders in China.
– We still have some work to do to validate individual phones, as well as the builds that we’re flighting through our internal rings. As I said in the post on frequency I cannot guarantee a date for a new build. What I CAN tell you is that we feel great here about the partition stitching code and current builds, but we likely still have at least one more week of engineering to do to ensure we get a great build for the expanded list of devices.
And finally, Windows 10 for Phones preview will be coming to the following Windows Phone models unfortunately leaving out non-Microsoft brands:
– Lumia 1020
– Lumia 1320
– Lumia 1520
– Lumia 520
– Lumia 525
– Lumia 526
– Lumia 530
– Lumia 530 Dual Sim
– Lumia 535
– Lumia 620
– Lumia 625
– Lumia 630
– Lumia 630 Dual Sim
– Lumia 635
– Lumia 636
– Lumia 638
– Lumia 720
– Lumia 730
– Lumia 730 Dual SIM
– Lumia 735
– Lumia 810
– Lumia 820
– Lumia 822
– Lumia 830
– Lumia 920
– Lumia 925
– Lumia 928
– Lumia ICON
– Microsoft Lumia 430
– Microsoft Lumia 435
– Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM
– Microsoft Lumia 435 Dual SIM DTV
– Microsoft Lumia 532
– Microsoft Lumia 532 Dual SIM
– Microsoft Lumia 640 Dual SIM
– Microsoft Lumia 535 Dual SIM
If you have one of these phones listed above, download the Windows Insider app from the Windows Store, keep calm and wait patiently for the update to arrive, you’ll definitely get it
