Nokia had to know that without hardware encryption capability, those W7 phones were just a sacrificial placeholder.
That’s why I bought a 710, because I knew I couldn’t upgrade. I saved my phone upgrade for when Windows 8 came out.
But anybody who bought the other phones will still be able to use them and buy the apps for them. It’s not as though the phones they own are bricks.
They did. I heard an interview with the CEO who said, six months ago, that the really nice phones won’t be coming out until July.
I just read, Microsoft does plan to offer a small upgrade, when they release Windows 8, that will give much of the functionality of Window 8, on Windows 7 phones. So it’s not as though Window 7 phones are being turned into bricks.