Microsoft Lists Windows 10-Compatible Phones

Microsoft has updated the list of the Windows phones that are currently compatible with the Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones. Although the list includes only Lumia devices and not any other from other Windows phone supporters, it is longer than the first vesion that was published on February 12th, when Microsoft sent out the first build of Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones.

The reason for the limited list of compatible phones was that Microsoft had to select from the set of phones that had sufficient system partition sizes configured by the manufacturer. This was necessary for us to be able to in-place upgrade the phones. Microsoft had also talked about a feature its engineer's were working on called "partition stitching" that would allow them to re-size the system partition dynamically, paving the way for WOndows 10 upgrades on a larger set of phones.

Partition stitching is done in the latest Windows 10 version for phones, so here is the latest list. Of course, the current list of supported phones will be longer in the future, but also any of the devices listed below could be pulled from the list in case a bug is found: