A French site has a slide published with an overview of the features of Windows Phone 7.8, the update that the current WP devices get Windows Phone 8 this fall comes out. The features are mainly from the sleeve of Nokia.
The new features of Windows Phone 8 appears only the new start screen, with the size customisable live tiles in Windows Phone 7.8. Things like over-the-air updates, Internet Explorer 10, Secure Boot, encryption, and mobile wallet Wallet in the update are missing. Also hardwarefeatures as hogeresolutieschermen and removable micro-sdhc-cards by the update is not supported. In addition to the Windows Phone 8 features that Microsoft announced, the slide also details from the recently leaked sdk.
Most of the features in the 7.8 update from Nokia, as appears from the slide that by Smartphone France is published online. The authenticity of the slide is not to check, but the information is in line with earlier publications. So is Nokia Counter, under the name of ‘Data Sense’ in Windows Phone 8 is integrated, and Nokia Lecture, an app for colleges. Flip to Silence is a feature that was previously in HTC devices was to be found, and the ringtone turns off if the user of the phone turn around when he called. Or the new lockscreen with more aanpasmogelijkheden in the update, still not fixed.
Users of current Windows Phones like the Lumia 800, the 900 and handsets from HTC, Samsung, LG, and Acer, get the update after Windows Phone 8 has appeared. There is still no release date for the update is known, but which will at the earliest in October will come true.
