Telstra Windows Phone 7.8 update table heightens hope for a Q1 release

Windows Phone 7.8

We began to get rather hopeful with news of an imminent release for the Windows Phone 7.viii update, thank you to a tweet published past UK mobile operator O2. The company has quickly become the premier Windows Phone carrier in the UK, supporting the platform with stock of not only Lumia handsets, just Samsung and HTC every bit well.

At present Telstra has provided some hints that consumers with Windows Telephone 7 hardware won't have to wait as well long for the much predictable update.

If the Australian operator's update tables are annihilation to go past, Windows Phone seven.eight volition exist striking consumers from January 31st onwards. The expected date of arrival is for Lumia 800 handsets, while other Windows Phones are subject to availability - approval and deployment dates have non yet been locked down by Telstra. See all supported Windows Phones beneath:

Handset	Update	Status	Expected client availability appointment	Notes
Nokia Lumia 800	Windows Telephone 7.eight update	First round testing	31/01/2013	Northward/A
Nokia Lumia 610	Windows Phone 7.8 update	First round testing	TBC	Approval/deployment dates non locked down even so. Expected to exist available late February/early March
HTC Titan 4G	Windows Phone 7.8 update	First circular testing	TBC	Approving/deployment dates not locked downward withal. Expected to exist available tardily February/early March
HTC vii Mozart	Windows Phone vii.eight update	First round testing	TBC	Approval/deployment dates not locked downwards even so. Expected to be available late Feb/early March
HTC HD7	Windows Phone 7.viii update	First circular testing	TBC	Blessing/deployment dates not locked down yet. Expected to be available late February/early March
Samsung Omnia Westward	Windows Phone 7.8 update	First round testing	TBC	Approving/deployment dates non locked downwards however. Expected to exist bachelor late February/early on March

Should other mobile operators in multiple markets follow a similar release strategy, we'll expect to see the rollout commence completely past March. That'due south if the above dates concur out, of course. We'll keep an eye out for more data surrounding the update, merely it's definitely non long to go now.

Source: Telstra, via: WMPU

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