Revealed: AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 update for 7.8 coming Jan 30th, now with full details

Nokia Lumia 900 users on AT&T can look forrad to receiving the Windows Phone vii.8 OS update on Wed, Jan 30th—1 twenty-four hours earlier than what we were anticipating. Windows Phone Central has learned (via an internal AT&T electronic mail) details of the update including that it was approved on January 7th past the carrier.

Nosotros've written extensively on the 7.8 update recently including giving a full video-tour of what the update volition wait like. That was accomplished by flashing our Lumia 900 with the Nokia-approved ROM files that were posted to Nokia'south servers. While this method works, information technology also wipes the telephone and can exist risky (in addition to frustrating if you don't take the right drivers).

Below is the full changelog for the AT&T 7.viii. For the virtually role, we confirmed well-nigh of these in our hands on yesterday only at present we have some more details about some of the "nether the hood" tweaks.

New Software Specifications:

Availability Appointment: January 30, 2022
File Size: ~100 MB – device updates volition be performed via PC side-load only using Zune software.
Data use charges against customer data buckets will not apply.
Software Version: 2175.2307.8858.12480
Baseband Version: 2.i.75.22
Kernel Version: 7.x.8858.136

Software Update Includes:

New Start Screen - This alter immediately refreshes and updates the look of the customers Nokia Lumia 900. Customers volition now have a commencement screen that is similar to Windows Phone 8. This new kickoff screen provides users with more options to personalize their outset screen. More than tiles can be pinned to the start screen and their sizes tin can be contradistinct between small, medium, or large. In improver the wide vertical black zone on the far right called the "gutter" has been removed.
New theme colors – Customers will accept even more options to personalize their Lumia 900. A new theme colour may be selected from many new colors that have been added to the expanded color pallet.
Bing "Image of the Day" Lock Screen Choice: Customers may now enable the regularly irresolute "Image of the Day" from the Bing search screen to exist automatically displayed as their lock screen wallpaper. Every bit a upshot the customer will accept a new lock screen image available on their device each day.
Improved Lock Screen adventitious wipe protection: Customers will feel an enhanced lock screen that is less likely to open accidentally by an inadvertent touch on the brandish. This will help extend the life of the battery for customers who had experienced this upshot.
Quality and Security Enhancements – Customers will experience greater device stability with the implementation of multiple software fixes and enhancements. Improved security fixes and enhancements have been made to protect customer information on their device.
Market Enhancements – Customers will feel an enhanced marketplace experience and a newly optimized download process.
API Enhancements – Customers ability to experience the do good of these new API enhancements will depend on OEM implementation or third political party applications that apply these new APIs. A customer should check the download shop afterwards completing the upgrade for new OEM and third party applications. For example: Bluetooth DRM free file transfer API, User data migration API, Convert a local DRM gratis MP3 file to a ringtone API

No surprises at that place, to be sure, but some of those fixes and enhancements are certainly welcomed, especially for those with ii-year contracts and tin't upgrade to the Lumia 920. Indeed, the 7.8 Tiles practice go a long fashion in making the device feel new and it should brand regular customers content.

Unfortunately, there was no word on seven.viii updates for other Windows Phones on AT&T.

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