Nokia slide shows What's coming after Windows Phone 7.8 Update

When Microsoft announced windows Phone 8, Nokia said that no Windows Phone 7 model can be updated to Windows Phone 8 and it was believed that Windows Phone 7.8, which brings some Windows 8 features to older Windows Phone models, like the same new start screen, re-sizable live tiles, Wi-Fi tethering and improvements to the camera, would be the last update for those phones that started life at Windows Phone 7.

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— Windows Phone Россия (@WindowsPhone_ru) November 13, 2012

Confirmed by a tweet from the official Russian Windows Phone Twitter page, there will be 18 months of support for Windows Phone 7.8 which will last through the middle of 2014. Which means that there is still updates coming to the current windows phones that already upgraded to 7.8.

According to the slide, the Next Update will be 7.X which means it might be Windows Phone 7.9 packing some improvements & bug fixes... Only minor updates.

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