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Nokia Lumia 900, the Finnish manufacturer’s previous flagship Windows Phone smartphone, finally starts receiving the Windows Phone 7.8 update today. AT&T customers who’re still using this smartphone will be receiving this update, which brings a number of new features as well as improvements. The update’s roll-out was announced earlier today via a tweet from the official Nokia Care U.S. account. Windows Phone 7.8 update for AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 is now available through the Zune PC app.

Windows Phone 7.8 update for Lumia 900 brings a new start screen experience. Live Tiles can now be re-sized by simply tapping and holding them. Various fixes for functionality issues are also on board, such as the fix for Live Tiles not updating. New theme colors have also been added. Various lock screen improvements have been made as well, these include Bing photo of the day as wallpaper and accidental input protection for security code. Once the update has been installed, new or update Nokia apps will also be available under Nokia Collection in the Marketplace. This Lumia 900 update can be installed through Windows Phone Connector for Mac or the Zune PC application.

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While we’re sure many Windows 7.x owners are bummed that they are missing out on Windows Phone 8, hopefully Windows Phone 7.8 will be a good enough update to tide you guys over until you get a new phone. Now we know that Windows Phone 7.8 is currently sitting on the AT&T servers waiting to be pushed out, but when exactly will that be taking place? Well according to the folks at Windows Phone Central, they have learn via an leaked internal AT&T email that the Windows Phone 7.8 update is expected to begin rolling out to Lumia 900 devices come 30^th of January which apparently is a day earlier than expected. The changelog of the update can be found on WPCentral’s website (source link below), but if you’d rather skip on the reading, you might be interested in checking out the video above by the folks at WMExperts, who have managed to install Windows Phone 7.8 on the Lumia 9200 and have put together a walk-through on some of the changes you can expect.

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As some of you guys know by now, Microsoft has officially confirmed that the Windows Phone 7.8 update will only be making its way onto WP7.5 handsets come early 2013, somewhat of a bummer for WP7.5 owners especially since their devices will not be eligible for the update to WP8. Either way while a specific date of release has yet to be confirmed, a video was spotted recently where WP7.8 was seen running on the Nokia Lumia 900. The video is called a “quick preview” and it most certainly is that, basically giving us a quick rundown on how WP7.8 might look like running on WP7.5 devices. According to the uploader of the video, the version of WP7.8 running on the Lumia 900 is only the preview version of the software and it might not even be the final release. It’s not much to go on but we guess this is what WP7.5 users will have to contend with until more details are revealed, so if you’ve got a minute to spare, check out the video above.

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Do you know what’s better than one interview with Stephen Elop? Two interviews in one month. We’d barely recovered from yesterday’s bout of nostalgia when we were given the opportunity to sit down with Nokia’s CEO in his office at the company’s HQ. Better yet, we were allowed to record the discussion with a hand-held Lumia 920 prototype. The resulting video is remarkably stable. Full disclosure: the audio was recorded with a shotgun mic mounted on a Sony NEX-C3 camera.

We talked about HTC’s colorful “signature” Windows Phone 8X and 8S and what that means for the Nokia-Microsoft partnership. Next we asked if Nokia is planning to work with carriers to offer incentives for existing Lumia owners to upgrade to the company’s 920 and 820 handsets. Finally, we discussed the evolution of PureView imaging technology from the 808 to the 920 and how Nokia plans to combine these building blocks in the future. Hit the break for our video interview.

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The Engadget Interview (captured with Lumia 920): Nokia CEO Stephen Elop on WP8 and beyond originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Fresh on the heels of the much-anticipated Lumia 920 announcement, some new figures have come to light regarding its predecessors’ success. According to the Finnish phone-maker, a total of 7-million Windows Phone / Lumia devices have shipped to date. The firm was also keen to point out that this number comes from 54 markets in total — some 130 different operators. While this might seem modest, especially with only 600,000 of those sales being in the US, 4-million of those Lumia devices were sold in Q2, roughly double that of the preceding two quarters, so things are on the up. Now it just remains to see what impact any new Windows Phone 8 phones will have.

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Nokia: 7 million Lumia phones sold to date in 54 countries, 4 million in the last quarter originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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