Bad news T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 710 owners. T-Mobile USA has confirmed that the Windows 7.8 update will not be provided for the Nokia Lumia 710.

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Nokia has announced that the much awaited Windows Phone 7.8 update started to rollout to older Lumia handsets running Windows Phone 7.5.

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In an odd turn of events it seems that HTC has given up on updating one of the most modded Windows Phones ever made the HTC HD7.  It recently came to light in a serious of tweets the other day. Where HTC had this to say "...HTC does not have plans to deliver a Windows Phone 7.8 update.."

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According to a tweet from Windows Phone Columbia the Windows Phone 7.8 update should start rolling out in ten days! Not for everyone naturally that would cause server meltdowns. However "some phones" will receive the update than according to the official tweet.

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With all the speculation running wild about Windows Phone sales with no real numbers to back them up Microsoft CEO himself Steve Ballmer took the stage at Qualcomm's keynote where he made the following statement:

"The new Windows Phones are incredible," he said. "In November, we reported that sales were four times greater than the same time last year, and during the week of Christmas, we sold five times more phones than the same week last year."

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It seems that Nokia is ready and willing to roll out the Windows Phone 7.8 update to all their devices but they are waiting on Microsoft at the moment.

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• Main features & specs:
• 3.7" 16M-color capacitive Super AMOLED touchscreen of WVGA resolution (480 x 800 pixels)
• Pixel density one of the best in the class at 252ppi
• Dual-band 3G with HSDPA 14.4 Mbps and HSUPA 5.76Mbps
  • 1.4GHzQualcomm MSM8255Snapdragon CPU, Adreno 205 GPU, 512MB of RAM
  • 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash
  • 720p video recording @30fps
  • 8GB of built-in storage
  • Standard 3.5mm audio jack
  • Standard microUSB port (charging)

Omnia W, being a Windows phone comes with a few disadvantages like Non-expandable storage, no mass storage, Zune-only file management and sync, no Bluetooth file transfers, and finally, no flash (nor Silverlight) support in the browser.

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7.8 running on a Lumia 800

In a word: No. But before thinking that this is necessarily a bad thing, let's just think about what the "skin" or UI actually does for an OS.

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