News · 20 Jun 2012 · MTW Editorial Team
Microsoft has unfortunately just announced that none of the Windows Phone 7.X handset currently available will be upgradable to Windows Phone 8. Nope, never, nada, zip… Instead Microsoft is announcing Windows Phone 7.8 which will be a free update that will be pushed ALL Windows Phone handsets bypassing carriers (and downloadable via WiFi) that will will simply add the new Windows Phone 8 start screen to all “legacy” WP7 handsets. Other WP8 features which are not hardware dependent may or may not be part of WP7.8. Nothing has been officially announced ye). That’s it folks there’s nothing else to say here. That shiny Nokia Lumia 900 you got last week will be stuck forever with the Windows CE based WP7.X platform. Feel free to comment below and share your thoughts (or anger..).
Check out Windows Phone 7.8 running on the Nokia Lumia 900 (courtesy of Anand):
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