{"id":641051,"date":"2013-01-30T13:24:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T18:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=747802"},"modified":"2013-01-30T13:24:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T18:24:41","slug":"nokia-starts-rolling-out-windows-phone-7-8-to-lumia-owners-will-continue-over-the-coming-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/641051","title":{"rendered":"Nokia Starts Rolling Out Windows Phone 7.8 To Lumia Owners, Will Continue Over The Coming Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" src=\"http:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/lumia900_465.jpg?w=100&amp;h=70&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-tc-carousel-river-thumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"lumia900_465\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 10px 7px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nokia has announced via its <a  href=\"http:\/\/conversations.nokia.com\/2013\/01\/30\/get-even-more-from-your-nokia-lumia-with-windows-phone-7-8\/\">Conversations blog<\/a> that the long-awaited Windows Phone 7.8 update, which brings a few of the features from Windows Phone 8 to older hardware, has <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/01\/23\/microsoft-releases-windows-phone-7-8-sdk-ahead-of-long-awaited-7-8-update-still-due-in-early-2013\/\">begun rolling out as promised<\/a> to owners of Nokia 510, 610, 710, 800 and 900 owners and will continue to do so over the next few weeks\u00a0through\u00a0February, pending operator approval.<\/p>\n<p>Features included in the update include the ability to resize Live (and inert) tiles on the home screen, new options for configuring the lock screen like fetching a changing daily background image from Bing and child lock features, and additional theme colors, as well as new languages. It&#8217;s not a huge step up, but it is a way to breathe new life into older devices left out in the cold in the wake of Windows Phone 8&#8242;s arrival, and that might bring some comfort to buyers of devices who were looking for something new.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of one of the devices listed above should get notified via their smartphones once their carrier has approved the update and it&#8217;s available to install. Notifications must be on for this to happen, Nokia points out, which is managed via &#8220;Settings &gt; Phone Update &gt; Notify me when updates are found.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nokia is the first confirmed manufacturer to announce the rollout, but other OEM partners including HTC are said to be getting the update by month&#8217;s end as well, so keep an eye out if you&#8217;re running these older devices.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tctechcrunch2011.wordpress.com\/747802\/\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=4_xAxfaxTOA:ozB537OMcng:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=4_xAxfaxTOA:ozB537OMcng:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=4_xAxfaxTOA:ozB537OMcng:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=4_xAxfaxTOA:ozB537OMcng:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=4_xAxfaxTOA:ozB537OMcng:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia has announced via its Conversations blog that the long-awaited Windows Phone 7.8 update, which brings a few of the features from Windows Phone 8 to older hardware, has begun rolling out as promised to owners of Nokia 510, 610, 710, 800 and 900 owners and will continue to do so over the next few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}