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22/06/2012

The Windows Phone 7.8 Start Screen on a Nokia Lumia 900, an early look in photos and video

The Windows Phone 7.8 Start Screen on a Nokia Lumia 900, an early look in photos and video: Gallery Photo: Nokia Lumia 900 with Windows Phone 7.8 Start Screen






The dark news amongst all the good here at the Windows Phone Summit was that existing Windows Phone devices wouldn't be updated to Windows Phone 8. Instead, they will receive certain features from the new OS, most imporantly the new Start screen experience. Microsoft calls the updated Start Screen on Windows Phone 8 the "marquee feature" and, as you are probably aware, it's coming to existing devices with Windows Phone 7.8. We got a chance to sit down with Microsoft's Greg Sullivan to take a look at the updated Start Screen experience on a very early build of 7.8.
Microsoft has done away with the "right rail" to expand Live Tiles across the whole horizontal distance and also added a new tile size, bringing the total to three. Developers...
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