Majority of the users who owns a Smartphone running on Windows Phone 7.5 OS are counting days to when the Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade that Microsoft has assured will arrive on their older Smartphones. According to the reports of Singapore, Windows Phone 7.8 OS has already been released to manufacturing (RTM) earlier this week.
The news is directly coming from a developer event held in Singapore which was focused on Windows Phone 8 development via WMPU and developers at the event were informed that the Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade is anticipated to release in just few days to week. Microsoft and Nokia together held the event but it is vague that whether this upgrade will roll out only to Nokia Lumia Smartphone in the mentioned time period or to Smartphones of other OEMs too. As per the sources, IE10 will not be making way to the older devices with the Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade as the browser is said to be fully hardware accelerated.
The Windows Phone 7.8 upgrade will bring the new start screen which will arrive with three Live Tile sizes that users can customize. Few days back, a leaked slide pointed out that older devices will also get twenty themes which users will be able to use to customize their Windows Phone Smartphones.
Microsoft is expected to include feature to edit MP3 files and use it as a ringtone, while the Internet Explorer could come up with security updates and fixes. Even Rooms and Xbox Music feature could also arrive with the upgrade.
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