WINDOWS PHONE 7.8 UPDATE EXPECTED ON JANUARY 31

Finally , there is some bit of good news for smartphone users with Windows Phone 7.5 devices . It seems that Microsoft is to roll out a windows Phone 7.8 update for these smartphones shortly.

Recently , Microsoft Posted an optional Windows SDK Update  for windows Phone 7.8 on its develouper's blog . This update offers two new Windows Phone 7.8 emulator images to the existing SD installation .

 With the help of these two emulators images the developers will be able to fully test how their Windows \phone 7.5 app's Live Tiles will look and behave they are running on Windows Phone 7.8 devices .

With recent reports have indicated that Microsoft will be launching the Windows Phone 7.8 Update Pretty soon . The British telecom carrier O2 had indicated that the update will rolled out by the end of January while Microsoft's Colombian Facebook Page had posted that this update will arrive on january 31 , 2013 .

 From current Scheme of things it appears that it's just a matter of days when Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 7.5 Users will get an update notification.

Furthermore , microsoft has also posted in its blog that " new phones with Windows Phone 7.8 are begining to ship " . Not sure of what Microsoft is trying to indicate through this . To us it can mean two things . One , handset maakers might be planning to ship their existing smartphones pre-loaded with Windows Phone 7.8 in near future. Second , it coud mean that the company is planning to launch ne smartphones on the lines of Nokia Lumina 510 and Nokia Lumina 610.