billgates: What does 'Awaiting final variant' means?

psychrn: as Mauricio stated ive had the new update on my Lumia 1020 a couple of weeks now.Im a recent "Android convert" so havnt quite caught up with all the WP nuances.
So what was the Major improvement of Black over Amber WM8??

bfarmilo: I need to find out what the other new things are......

macuser: This is a good link to try if you want to know when the Telecom/Vodafone 520 will have the update    http://www.nokia.com/global/support/software-update/wp8-software-update/wp8-availability-in-asia-pacific/

BrentR:

psychrn: as Mauricio stated ive had the new update on my Lumia 1020 a couple of weeks now.Im a recent "Android convert" so havnt quite caught up with all the WP nuances.
So what was the Major improvement of Black over Amber WM8??

We've made something just for that question ;)

http://conversations.nokia.com/2014/01/09/lumia-black-update/

MaxLV:

macuser: This is a good link to try if you want to know when the Telecom/Vodafone 520 will have the update    http://www.nokia.com/global/support/software-update/wp8-software-update/wp8-availability-in-asia-pacific/

Why does it take Nokia/Vodafone/Telecom etc SO LOOOONNNNG to get the updates out for each model?

What exactly is it that they have to do that causes several months delay?  Surely they could test all models at once and release the updates for all models at the same time.

Or is it a sales/marketing ploy, update the expensive models first, then wait a month or two, and hope that those of us with the cheaper models like the 520 get sick of waiting and buy a 1020/1520 just to get the update?