New Nokia apps & Zynga games to make your Lumia even better

Published by Boc Ly on June 20, 2012

A fantastic new range of Nokia apps that will add new features and improvements are coming to your Lumia smartphone over the next few weeks.

In addition, an exciting new partnership with Zynga is announced that will make hit games like Words With Friends and Draw Something available for Lumia smartphone owners for a couple of months.

The new Nokia apps will be available starting this week in a phased approach, so you might have to be a little patient. However, we’re sure that they’re worth waiting for!

Each will bring new great functions and enhance your Lumia smartphone experience so let’s go through each app in more detail.

Camera Extras

Camera screenshot

This new camera app enhances your smartphone’s camera considerably. It adds new settings that will allow you to take pictures that you’ve never been able to take before.

  • Smart Group Shot: Capture great group shots in just one attempt by choosing the best faces from a burst
  • Action Shot: Capture fast-moving action shots with just one click and significantly improved shooting speed
  • Panorama: This new control feature makes it easy to capture beautiful panorama shots by finding the image in the sequence
  • Self-timer: Set up your Lumia on a stand and get yourself into more photos

Camera screenshot

This will be available in Marketplace for the US and China by June 22nd. It will be available for all other countries in July.

Contact Share

Contact Share screenshot

Tired of writing out phone numbers and contact information to pass onto a friend? This new app is a quick and easy way of sharing your contacts via SMS or email.

Counters

Counters is an innovative way of monitoring your Lumia usage and even setting up limits. This is particularly useful where you have call-time or data allowances from your operator and to make sure you do not incur extra costs.

Contact Share and Counters will be in Marketplace for China by June 22nd. It will be available for all other countries by July.

PlayTo

PlayTo screenshot

Many of us now have several devices, such as a TVs or Blu-Ray players, connected to a network. PlayTo will allow you to share pictures, videos and music from your Lumia smartphone to other DLNA –enabled devices on your network.

PlayTo will be in Marketplace globally by June 22nd.

Zynga Games

Words with Friends screenshot

It’s not just new functionality and features to look forward to. There’s fun, too.

From the autumn, you will be able to download Zynga’s world-beating games, Words With Friends and Draw Something, for your Lumia.

For a couple of months after launch, both these games will be available in the Nokia Collection before releasing generally on Windows Phone Marketplace.

We will be taking a closer looking at both the Zynga games in the coming weeks.

Software update for Lumia 800 and 710

As if new apps and new games titles were not enough, a new software update for the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 710 is also being released globally from June 27th in a phased update through Zune. This update will be required to take advantage of many of the new apps above.

This latest version of the Lumia software brings three long-awaited experiences to your Lumia 710 or 800: the introduction of Internet sharing, Flip-to-Silence and media streaming from your phone.

Further updates coming

Elsewhere, you may have read about the new Windows Phone 8. How does this affect your Lumia? Well, you are not being left out. All Lumia smartphones will be getting an update to give you some of the features of Windows Phone 8, including the new Start screen, as well as a pattern of ongoing updates going forward.

As ever, stay tuned.

Comments

  • http://twitter.com/gjchiasson Gerard Chiasson

    This is great to hear but I guess “some of the features of Windows Phone 8″ means that we won’t be getting WP8?

  • http://twitter.com/gjchiasson Gerard Chiasson

    This is great to hear but I guess “some of the features of Windows Phone 8″ means that we won’t be getting WP8?

    • http://conversations.nokia.com/ Heidi Lemmetyinen

      You’ll be getting WP7.8, which includes many great features from WP8, for example the start screen. The only features you won’t get are hardware dependent, like multi-core processors (a bit tricky to deliver those via SW update ;)

      • http://twitter.com/ChrisK91 ChrisK

        And you wont be able to run WP8 Apps, at least as long as they aren’t coded right…

        • http://conversations.nokia.com/ Heidi Lemmetyinen

          Not true. You’ll be able to run apps across all iterations, as long as they’re not HW dependent.

          • http://twitter.com/ChrisK91 ChrisK

            So I will be able to run native apps that don’t use new hardware on my Lumia 800?

          • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=850255340 Alexander Kellett-Ionescu

            Only seriously heavy graphics games will be WP8 only and they wouldn’t run on current generation WP7 phones anyway as the GPU performance is just too low.

            The vast majority of application devolopers will know that leaving out WP7 support at least for the coming 6-12 months will mean their feasible market is so much smaller that it wouldn’t make much sense unless it was the only option.

            Anyway by the time W8 gets big enough that the porting story starts making sense most people will probably have a WP8 phone anyway :)

          • http://twitter.com/ChrisK91 ChrisK

            If the new API changes don’t come to current devices there will be more none-wp7 apps than games. For instance SQLite: It is used by some very popular offline dictionaries, encyclopedias, flash cards apps, etc. Or custom shaders. Nothing special, there are a lot of uses where custom shaders come in handy. For instance when doing parallax scrolling. It’s not like impressive 3D games will be the only apps using new API calls.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=745017261 Michael Bond

        Did they mention the release date of WP 7.8 in the announcement, I got a call, ironically on my Lumia 710, when they were talking about it. ( I did catch the silence though when they broke the no WP8 news.)

        • http://twitter.com/dineshatnokia Dinesh Subramaniam

          not yet Michael. We expect to hear more about release dates in the weeks and months ahead.

      • Saket Mengle

        How will Nokia ensure that we will get app support from the WP8 apps? It seems like WP8 native apps are not supported by WP7.8. Also, apart from the start screen, what other features would be available in WP7.8 that are not currently in WP7.5?

        • http://conversations.nokia.com/ Heidi Lemmetyinen

          Apps will work on WP8/7.8/7.5, as long as they’re not HW dependent.

          • Saket Mengle

            Thanks for your reply. I hope you guys continue your support for windows phone and dont let us down. 

          • Vandhana Selvaprakash

             What about Skype? Will it be able to run in the background and receive calls in the 7.8 update?

          • http://twitter.com/dineshatnokia Dinesh Subramaniam

            more info to come, Vandhana.

          • snoflake

             I think we’ll take the lack of an answer as an answer.

          • http://www.facebook.com/xonos Xonos Tay

            That’s the prob…

            Once WP8 launched, most dev will develop their apps in native code and thus WP7.8 won’t run the apps anymore…Just imagine all apps upgraded to native code, what will happen to 7.8?

            Basically MS screwed everyone of us using Lumia and Nokia and MS just cheated on us for hiding the upgrade news from us!

      • snoflake

        At the moment the only example is the start screen (inc. tiles). The additional Nokia apps aren’t very interesting except insofar as they address existing missing functionality in WP7.x – i.e. inability to monitor data or send contacts. The rest is just frills for the gullible the key issue is app compatibility (as much as we know at the moment is WP8 apps are not downwardly compatible) and once WP8 is released I would estimate the vast majority will be written for WP8 especially as that enables developers to target Windows 8 and Win8RT (Surface). Resulting in existing Lumia owners being cut off from the many many (not Nokia’s window dressing) apps missing from Windows Phone such as BBC iPlayer. Another example are current Lumia owners even going to get backgrounding for Nokia Drive or will data be shared between Nokia maps and Nokia Drive or are all these features reserved for WP8.

        The impression is Nokia themselves don’t seem to really know what’s going on (Microsoft not keeping you in touch?) or surely they couldn’t condone the very recent introduction of a very expensive flagship device into the European market knowing it was going to be orphaned for customers within weeks of their purchase and will not be explicity supported for 18+months as Microsoft themselves felt was important to emphasise for WP8 devices, in fact more like 8 months at most.

    • http://www.facebook.com/zahrans M Zahran Sallay

       simple answer: no.

      reason being it’s pointless trying to upgrade current lumia devices with WP* since it doesn’t have or support the neccessary hardware requirements.

  • http://artemyev.biztoolbox.ru Andrey Artemyev

    Great news!

  • http://artemyev.biztoolbox.ru Andrey Artemyev

    Great news!

  • soexcitedsoscared

    Thank you Nokia for continuing to support your users.

  • JustMF

    It’s a shame for those who now spends a large sum of money on Lumia 900, in the autumn it will be obsolete, and will update only the main screen …
    The official blog of WP, says that besides the start screen update to 7.8 will bring, and you say “some features” …I dont know what to do with my Lumia 800

    • http://www.twitter.com/wixostrix WixosTrix

      I’m pretty sure it’s gonna get more things, like the Wallet Hub.  No reason current phones cant have that, they just won’t be able to make tap-transactions.  Joe Belfiore alluded to more features in the keynote.

      • JustMF

        may be, may be
        in addition to the interface, I would like to see Skype integration, IE10, new mail client and new cool applications

  • Robert Simpkin

    What about the Usage Monitor App (I forgot the official name), any dates for that?

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

       Nokia Counters – coming soon – see above

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

       Nokia Counters – coming soon – see above

  • http://twitter.com/alvetica Al Pavangkanan

    Nice to see Zynga aboard 

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  • Laxman Bablani

    Just want to say a big thank you from all India Nokia Lumia buyers – Screwed with WP8, No Nokia Music or Reading thanks to your amazing licensing skills, and now god knows when we get these apps!

    Again, Thank you!

    • http://www.facebook.com/vemuri.sudhakar Sudhakar Vemuri

      Agreed. But unfortunately the hardware on the existing WP devices from Nokia does not support WP8. It would be the similar experience of playing an iPhone app on a iPad and microsoft does not want to compromise on Quality. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/thorsten.hindermann Thorsten Hindermann

    The accounted updates are the minimum for us current Nokia Lumia users. I hope, there are a lot more update for our WP7 Phone as we can’t update to Windows Phone 8!

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

      We can’t comment on that yet – but there’s a commitment to a regular pattern of updates.

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  • Kookootz

    Hebrew support for Lumia 800? Was kinda counting on WP8 update to resolve that…

  • Sentinel24

    This may be a little off topic. I have not had a chance to watch the WP Summit Keynote yet, but could anyone clarify what exactly the 7.8 update brings apart from the new Start experience?

    For example, the deep VoIP integration? Perhaps a version of Wallet for non NFC services like airline boarding passes which just display a QR code?

    • http://twitter.com/dineshatnokia Dinesh Subramaniam

      more information to come from Microsoft soon. As of now, they’ve mentioned the new start screen.

    • http://www.facebook.com/vemuri.sudhakar Sudhakar Vemuri

      They just teased the features of Windows 8 and only a few of them would trickle down to the 7.8 update. Though they did not directly mention the Wallet could be used for non NFC based services but from what I saw each coupon had a QR Code in it suggestion the possible use. I do not see why this could not be used for Airline passes. Nothing was mentioned about the deeper VOIP integration but as per Tech Crunch and it sources, it does feature an integrated version of Skype. 

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  • Suresh Chamuah

    Nokia has cheated us… With in 4 months my phone is now a primitive piece of junk. Please I request you to refund my money. Enough with this lumia I am going to buy Android or iOS device

    • Keir Brython

      Oh for goodness sake! I think that a few people need to get a grip on reality!

      Your Lumia hasn’t become a piece of junk overnight just because a new operating system roadmap has been announced. It’s still going to get a stack of updates and enhancements. The upgrade to 7.8 will be a significant improvement to the user experience. You should be looking forward to that.

      It’s inevitable that the phone you buy will become superseded at some point. The mobile phone industry is moving very quickly!

      Choose your phone because it does what you want it to do and you won’t be disappointed. You will only be pleasantly surprised when Nokia delivers enhancements … which they will.

      I wish that Microsoft had’ve chosen to call Windows Phone 7.8 something different like Windows Phone 8 – Light Edition. Then there wouldn’t be all this irrational response.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=850255340 Alexander Kellett-Ionescu

        I agree that the PR could have been far better on this.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gautam-Divekar/100000122107577 Gautam Divekar

      i will like to advice you to stay on current windows phone 7.5 platform for another year.there are some mods coming to wp7.8 and some third party “MORTIS” from narvel. they are opening up regiistery by default on 7.8 update.

  • Suresh Chamuah

    Nokia has cheated us… With in 4 months my phone is now a primitive piece of junk. Please I request you to refund my money. Enough with this lumia I am going to buy Android or iOS device

  • http://twitter.com/Panda_wei Liu Dawei

    very disappointed that WP8 is not coming to my Lumia 800.. it’s been oni half a year old.. I would not say Nokia has cheated my feeling but certainly Microsoft has cheated Noia and its users. 

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=693594154 Leon Meijer

      Come on. You bought the 800 for the specs and software it had at the time. I’m glad they don’t upgrade existing phones, because then you’ll get software that’s not optimized for the hardware. And the #1 end user feature – the new start screen – will be ported to the 7.8 update.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=693594154 Leon Meijer

      Come on. You bought the 800 for the specs and software it had at the time. I’m glad they don’t upgrade existing phones, because then you’ll get software that’s not optimized for the hardware. And the #1 end user feature – the new start screen – will be ported to the 7.8 update.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=693594154 Leon Meijer

      Come on. You bought the 800 for the specs and software it had at the time. I’m glad they don’t upgrade existing phones, because then you’ll get software that’s not optimized for the hardware. And the #1 end user feature – the new start screen – will be ported to the 7.8 update.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DKSBV26FKJSD4DKWQUP234WWFY Abhi

    I have been a nokia loyal customer for 12 years. Right from scratch of 3310. My last best Nokia phone was my Nokia N8. Amazing phone! Sadly I dropped it in water. Then I buy Lumia 800. Even though many people told me not to buy a windows phone. But i thought Nokia is not dumb enopugh to invest in something that isn’t the future. I was proved so badly wrong, that more than disappointed, I was hurt. I cannot win any friendly argument when it comes to Android, iOS and Nokia. Everybody hates Nokia now. Nobody cares! You guys made such a huge mistake by going to windows platform. Android would have put you right back on top. Now a company which had the least market share 5 years back is the no 1 share holder. A screwed up battery back up phone and yet people go for samsung, why? ANDROID! Windows phone does not give me bluetooth modem / Wi-fi hotspot. Cannot send files through bluetooth. Marketplace sucks!! even if marketplace gets 100,000 apps none of them I repeat none of them will be good compared to Google Play. There are only so many settings I can play around with the phone. Cannot send contacts or receive them. Yeah sure leave an update and an app for that now but the thing is you have left your customers disappointed and frustrated for so long that in our minds we have decided to go for something better. As I am typing this, I have decided to give my Lumia 800 to my dog as a bone. Reason being i paid 24k for the phone and no one wants to buy it! Once Nokia had 60% resale value. Now no one wants to buy it! Back in the day thats how I used to upgrade new phones. Now i would have made my dog happy for 5 mins thats ok. Off to buy Samsung SIII a superior phone hands down to iPhone or to any Nokia phones today.

    - You just lost yourself a loyal customer.

    • http://twitter.com/iansmithers Ian Smithers

      Firstly, I like to start with what you have said about Android, its a great OS! Any app you want you can find it, great news right? NO!! Because it is open source it turns out you can upload anything e.g a Virus, Android has the highest infected phone rate going for any mobile OS, but I guess that is not bad because there is plenty of Antivirus software for you to download right? Windows Phone OS has no Antivirus this is because Microsoft take the time to go over the software uploaded to the marketplace, putting people first. Now as stated above Nokia will be releasing Wi-fi Hotspots (Internet sharing) they didn’t have to add it but they did good on them! As for the battery I had a Firmware update for my Lumia 800 months back I now get at least 2 days worth of battery unlike some other phones out there on the market in which you will be lucky if you even get a day. So WP8 will be coming soon but not to current WP devices on the market (not so good) but what are they giving us WP7.8 new start screen which looks awesome as for other end user features as stated in the summit yesterday Microsoft have not stated what features 7.8 will be getting, but they made clear why they wouldnt get WP8 this is because the biggest changes we can see for WP8 is hardware and as it was only annouced yesterday this makes it very hard for a
      phone that was realised last year to have any of these features, unless of course they have a time machine. So please either understand all that I have stated above, or please move to Android which does not seem to push out OS updates to its users unless the device maker decides to, or maybe move to iPhone like the rest of the sheep.

      - A very happy loyal Nokia customer

    • http://twitter.com/iansmithers Ian Smithers

      Firstly, I like to start with what you have said about Android, its a great OS! Any app you want you can find it, great news right? NO!! Because it is open source it turns out you can upload anything e.g a Virus, Android has the highest infected phone rate going for any mobile OS, but I guess that is not bad because there is plenty of Antivirus software for you to download right? Windows Phone OS has no Antivirus this is because Microsoft take the time to go over the software uploaded to the marketplace, putting people first. Now as stated above Nokia will be releasing Wi-fi Hotspots (Internet sharing) they didn’t have to add it but they did good on them! As for the battery I had a Firmware update for my Lumia 800 months back I now get at least 2 days worth of battery unlike some other phones out there on the market in which you will be lucky if you even get a day. So WP8 will be coming soon but not to current WP devices on the market (not so good) but what are they giving us WP7.8 new start screen which looks awesome as for other end user features as stated in the summit yesterday Microsoft have not stated what features 7.8 will be getting, but they made clear why they wouldnt get WP8 this is because the biggest changes we can see for WP8 is hardware and as it was only annouced yesterday this makes it very hard for a
      phone that was realised last year to have any of these features, unless of course they have a time machine. So please either understand all that I have stated above, or please move to Android which does not seem to push out OS updates to its users unless the device maker decides to, or maybe move to iPhone like the rest of the sheep.

      - A very happy loyal Nokia customer

    • http://twitter.com/iansmithers Ian Smithers

      Firstly, I like to start with what you have said about Android, its a great OS! Any app you want you can find it, great news right? NO!! Because it is open source it turns out you can upload anything e.g a Virus, Android has the highest infected phone rate going for any mobile OS, but I guess that is not bad because there is plenty of Antivirus software for you to download right? Windows Phone OS has no Antivirus this is because Microsoft take the time to go over the software uploaded to the marketplace, putting people first. Now as stated above Nokia will be releasing Wi-fi Hotspots (Internet sharing) they didn’t have to add it but they did good on them! As for the battery I had a Firmware update for my Lumia 800 months back I now get at least 2 days worth of battery unlike some other phones out there on the market in which you will be lucky if you even get a day. So WP8 will be coming soon but not to current WP devices on the market (not so good) but what are they giving us WP7.8 new start screen which looks awesome as for other end user features as stated in the summit yesterday Microsoft have not stated what features 7.8 will be getting, but they made clear why they wouldnt get WP8 this is because the biggest changes we can see for WP8 is hardware and as it was only annouced yesterday this makes it very hard for a
      phone that was realised last year to have any of these features, unless of course they have a time machine. So please either understand all that I have stated above, or please move to Android which does not seem to push out OS updates to its users unless the device maker decides to, or maybe move to iPhone like the rest of the sheep.

      - A very happy loyal Nokia customer

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=850255340 Alexander Kellett-Ionescu

        Just a quick correction, it is not that it’s open source that causes this. Open source software in general is far more secure than non open source.

        It is Androids fault however that it is less secure for the end user. It’s caused by them being more open with the marketplace. I agree that’s a bad thing. But Android users should accept the downsides to their choice.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/DKSBV26FKJSD4DKWQUP234WWFY Abhi

    I have been a nokia loyal customer for 12 years. Right from scratch of 3310. My last best Nokia phone was my Nokia N8. Amazing phone! Sadly I dropped it in water. Then I buy Lumia 800. Even though many people told me not to buy a windows phone. But i thought Nokia is not dumb enopugh to invest in something that isn’t the future. I was proved so badly wrong, that more than disappointed, I was hurt. I cannot win any friendly argument when it comes to Android, iOS and Nokia. Everybody hates Nokia now. Nobody cares! You guys made such a huge mistake by going to windows platform. Android would have put you right back on top. Now a company which had the least market share 5 years back is the no 1 share holder. A screwed up battery back up phone and yet people go for samsung, why? ANDROID! Windows phone does not give me bluetooth modem / Wi-fi hotspot. Cannot send files through bluetooth. Marketplace sucks!! even if marketplace gets 100,000 apps none of them I repeat none of them will be good compared to Google Play. There are only so many settings I can play around with the phone. Cannot send contacts or receive them. Yeah sure leave an update and an app for that now but the thing is you have left your customers disappointed and frustrated for so long that in our minds we have decided to go for something better. As I am typing this, I have decided to give my Lumia 800 to my dog as a bone. Reason being i paid 24k for the phone and no one wants to buy it! Once Nokia had 60% resale value. Now no one wants to buy it! Back in the day thats how I used to upgrade new phones. Now i would have made my dog happy for 5 mins thats ok. Off to buy Samsung SIII a superior phone hands down to iPhone or to any Nokia phones today.

    - You just lost yourself a loyal customer.

  • Martin Tousig

    Does anyone know if IE10 will be a part of the WP7.8 update for the current devices?

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=850255340 Alexander Kellett-Ionescu

      I’m also very interested in this. IE9 is really not very nice to use and is the biggest gap on the current 7.5 devices.

      • Martin Tousig

        My concerns are mainly the HTML5 support. IE9 (both mobile and PC version) has really poor (almost non-existing) HTML5 support… 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=850255340 Alexander Kellett-Ionescu

    Not sure if anyone has been positive yet in this thread… But in case not, I’ll start!

    The upcoming updates sound great! I’m so happy my phone gets Windows Phone 7.8! In 12-18 months I’ll buy whatever WP8 device replaces the Lumia 710 that I already own! So happy I bought a medium level Lumia device rather than making almost twice the investment in the iPhone 4 only to find out it doesn’t even get turn by turn navigation!

    You have a future customer Nokia! (I haven’t had a Nokia since my lovely Nokia 6170 was stolen! :()

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=850255340 Alexander Kellett-Ionescu

    I hated my iPad 1st generation after the upgrade to iOS 5.0. And my iPhone 3G was slow enough to be useless after the upgrade to iOS 4.0. I prefer that Nokia is up front in telling us that they just can’t! Anyway, Next time don’t buy such an expensive device. I bought the Lumia 710 and love it, and while I’m disappointed, I have enough space money to buy their next phone! Unlike the iPhone which costs much more! Maybe some Android devices are okay, but none of the rest provided ICS / 4.0 upgrades, so whats the difference…? (I know only of one nice and cheap phone that got 4.0).

    Also there is a deep technical reason for this. Most of the power of Windows Phone 8 comes from the fact that it is built on the same platform as Windows 8 RT. Windows 8 RT has very specific requirements for hardware, so likewise, so does WP8. I prefer good devices now than average devices in 12 months. Every company has to decide which parts of its product will not be perfect. No one produces the perfect device for everyone!

    • snoflake

       Genius so your support for Microsoft and Nokia is to recommend no one to buy their expensive devices and only to risk a little money on their cheapie ones. You’re right but it will be the end of Nokia if everyone follows your recommendation.

      While we’re at it I’m sure everyone is very glad for you that you have enough money to spare for a new device other than the orphaned one you were sold howeverr many in Nokia’s traditional target markets and those where many recent Lumia campaigns have been targeted don’t and will be stuck with abandoned devices that won’t get new apps (they will be written for WP8 and not compatible) for some years to come as they can’t afford to buy another new device mere months after trusting Nokia with their hard earned money. Yet another breach of trust and another dent in Nokia’s previously enviable brand reputation and trustworthiness. They have after all been heavily promoting these devices as suitable for all users (not just techie early adopters) and have known since last year (Paul Thurrot has since Dec 2011) that they were already orphaned before they were even introduced to many markets.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=850255340 Alexander Kellett-Ionescu

        Given that I’m suggesting buying less expensive phones more frequently, I wouldn’t say that doing so will hurt Nokia. I can’t wait for the day when it makes sense to push my mum to purchase a Lumia. The 610 when its available here is in that category.

        I’m ignoring the rest of your response as its irrational. People shouldn’t spend money on things they can’t afford. That’s all I advocate.

        • snoflake

          Very wise

    • snoflake

       Genius so your support for Microsoft and Nokia is to recommend no one to buy their expensive devices and only to risk a little money on their cheapie ones. You’re right but it will be the end of Nokia if everyone follows your recommendation.

      While we’re at it I’m sure everyone is very glad for you that you have enough money to spare for a new device other than the orphaned one you were sold howeverr many in Nokia’s traditional target markets and those where many recent Lumia campaigns have been targeted don’t and will be stuck with abandoned devices that won’t get new apps (they will be written for WP8 and not compatible) for some years to come as they can’t afford to buy another new device mere months after trusting Nokia with their hard earned money. Yet another breach of trust and another dent in Nokia’s previously enviable brand reputation and trustworthiness. They have after all been heavily promoting these devices as suitable for all users (not just techie early adopters) and have known since last year (Paul Thurrot has since Dec 2011) that they were already orphaned before they were even introduced to many markets.

  • kartik tarla

    we WP mango users now feel like symbian users atleast symbian was very old so when u call a symbian phone obsolete or legacy it doesnt sound bad but when u hold lumia and ppl say its a legacy device with obsolete OS sounds really bad and WP7.8 is not going to console us, we want nokia to offer upgrade to existing lumia users.

  • Aakash Khan

    I really feel sorry for Nokia Lumia 610 users. I doubt that will receive any software updates due to it’s hardware limitations :(

  • kartik tarla

    This wont hurt countries where you can buy phones on contract as they cost less and you can buy/replace your old phone withing 12-18 months, but in India where Lumia is very pricey and we had bought it cash down we are feeling cheated now.

  • http://www.facebook.com/xonos Xonos Tay

     As long as the apps is coded using native code, you can’t run those apps~

    • http://www.facebook.com/laszlo.lenkei Lenkei László

       And developers know this also. So if they can, they will go for silverlight to be able to put up their app to a much bigger market.

    • perecFX

      no one will write apps for 7.8 bcs of 1% of market.

    • http://www.facebook.com/xonos Xonos Tay

       To make this worse, so far no even one Nokia person dare to answer about app native code support for 7.8…

      Where are you? Nokia ppl? To scare to tell the truth? Bunch of liars! I regret even to buy Lumia!

  • Mhammed Abu-Serrieh

    I believe that such ruched Apps and updates .. are really for the Intention to distract us from the Very Fact that >>> “The Shit has hit the Fan” pretty Hard…… by announcing that the current LUMIA line will only be getting the stripped down WP 7.8 

    ..
    But still , the ongoing high quality support for the Lumias is certainly appreciated , 

  • http://www.segana.co.uk segana

    I have a Lumia 800 and I’m a Nokia fan and a Windows Phone fan.

    Yesterdays announcement hasn’t changed this and you won’t find me crying in the comment sections about “how unfair it is” and how “Nokia/Microsoft screwed us”…they didn’t!

    We all would have loved for WP8 to come to our devices and I even entertained the possibility briefly before coming to the realisation that for WP8 to really succeed and gain the market share we all know it should, then it needs to be the best OS it can be.

    I’m happy knowing that I’ll be getting WP7.8 and am looking forward to finding out over the next few months which of WP8 features will be making it’s way back to us (only the start screen has been announced, but there will be more).

    A lot of the WP8 stuff just simply won’t work on current devices due to their lacking of certain hardware functionality.

    I’ll enjoy WP7.8 and really enjoy WP8 when I can get an early upgrade.

    I also look forward to the great new updates Nokia will be throwing my way.

    • http://twitter.com/xhe Max

      No matter what we feel, the current gen WP7 devices will become miserable if most WP8 apps are compatible with WP8 only.

      • http://twitter.com/bluechrism Chris Martin

         However, most developerss will know that lots of people are using WP7.X devices and write their apps accordingly, since they will also work just fine on WP8.  Of course there will be apps using features that WP7.X just can’t do, and there will be devs who do target the new api just because.

        However most developers will understand that to get the biggest audience for their apps, especially if they want $ for them, they need to target WP7.X and not jump to WP8 only unless app features require it. 

        I don’t think the doom about apps not coming to WP7.X will be nearly as bad as people are making out.

  • mads333

    Great camera updates.
    BUT!!!!
    What about an update for the white balance in the lumia 800/900??
    I dont use the camera very often because the white balance settings is crap.

  • Vandhana Selvaprakash

    When I bought a Lumia 900, I was confident that Nokia wouldn’t leave its users in the lurch w.r.t to WP8, and that at least the Lumia 900, given its age and “flagship phone” status, will be upgraded to WP8. I’m not interested in the hardware improvements (obviously), but I was counting on at least “real” multi-tasking, and the improved skype integration reaching us.

    I doubt if I’m getting any of that with the 7.8 update, given the radio silence on my questions here. I’ve already formulated my “exit strategy” from the Lumia 900 around Oct-Dec. By then, I should have a good handle on whether I want to “beta-test” a WP8 phone like I did the Lumia 900, or go back to an Android device. I’d be more angry at my experience with the Lumia 900, but my ETF from ATT only comes to about $150, given that I picked up the phone for a cent, AND Nokia credited me $100 for the broken memory management issue. I’m sure I can sell my Lumia 900 for at least $150 off-contract on Ebay,so I should break even. Fingers crossed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gautam-Divekar/100000122107577 Gautam Divekar

    i knew that my lumia 710 was not upgradable to wp8 when i bought it in april. but it was so cheap compared to other smart phones and feature set was good enough for me. i hope there is more to 7.8 update than a new start screen. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gautam-Divekar/100000122107577 Gautam Divekar

    i knew that my lumia 710 was not upgradable to wp8 when i bought it in april. but it was so cheap compared to other smart phones and feature set was good enough for me. i hope there is more to 7.8 update than a new start screen. 

  • http://twitter.com/SeanMastersons Sean Masterson

    If you didn’t know your 7.8 is fine for the next two years.  All those offended and hurt that the Lumia 900 can’t make it to W8 should calm down. What exactly are you missing? If your phone does not have the hardware to multi-task, why would you want the extra OS bloatware?
    7.8 will give your phone everything it needs to keep up, minus the hardware instructions that would just muck it up.  What they should have done was call 7.8 W8Lumia. 

    • ashutosh sharma

      O HIGH THINKING.. ANSWER ME..
      will the upcoming WP8 apps  magically start working on L900..  and you think WP8 will not have cheaper phones.. And mind you .. CHEAPER PHONES DONT HAVE DUAL CORE.. so dont play shit by saying “dual core required”.. seriously.. Now I Give Up On Nokia.. Will Never Buy One Again.. Should’ve listened to my friends while purchasing 29k L800 here in India.. Disappointed..

    • http://twitter.com/timeframepix Keith Austell

      Still no ActiveSync. Worthless from corporate side.

    • snoflake

       Not asking for WP8 (or even changing 7.8′s name to WP8) what I am (and I think most are) is an assurance that there will be continued software feature updates after 7.8 i.e. into 2013 and 2014 (like Apple and Android offer) not just window dressing “lipstick on a pig” app token throw aways from Nokia. Most of the new Apps Nokia is giving us dumb fools for trusting them (for two years) I have relatively little interest in.

      What I am interested in are all the new apps to come that are missing at the moment in the Windows Phone environment (not rubbish from Nokia I don’t particularly want – look how Ovi worked out vis-a-vis Nokia services). I want BBC iPlayer, an OFFICIAL Betfair app etc etc.

      Nokia have claimed on this site that WP8 apps will run on the WP7.8 legacy (loser) devices, however this directly contradicts at the moment the information that seems to be coming from Microsoft. I want Nokia to clarify this. If it turns out to be the case that WP8 apps won’t run on our legacy units (as I believe they won’t) they  then I want to them to explain firstly why they allowed people to buy new units this year without making them aware that they would have no future. Secondly what Nokia proposes to do to import the apps that are incompatible (as I believe 90% will be written to WP8).

      There seems every likelihood that our legacy (junk) devices will see barely any new content for them after Q4 and nothing by mid 2013. That is not the prospect that Niokia sold or advertised. It is widely acknowledged that WP is missing many apps available in other ecosystems but that they were catching up and most would come in the end. Well with the abandonment of WP7.8 gullible fools that is most transparently NOT the case. We are not going to get any more than is in the store now. Take for example Betfair that I cited earlier, any official App developed will now be put on hold and then developed to take advantage of the new multitasking features in WP8 which will make it unavailable to us.

      We keep being given bland assurances but these are the same apologists who for most of this year have been saying all WP devices would get WP8 and how ridiculous the rumours were. Nokia have known since last year that any Lumia device bought this year was dead end junk and I consider it a gross abuse of customer faith.

  • http://twitter.com/j0_0hn jon t

    It’s not autumn for those of us in the southern hemisphere. A clarification in brackets would be nice for all of your Australian, New Zealander, African and South American fans ;)  

  • ashutosh sharma

    and one more thing. why are you launching separate camera apps. why cant you include it in the main freaking camera app.. like you’ll do it for your WP8 devices.. huh

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/LZUPJOXXA2BBAY37PJHXJNFH4M gOLdEn gOd

      It downloads as a separate app but the options will show up in your regular camera menu. 

  • http://twitter.com/timeframepix Keith Austell

    How about talk Windows into getting ActiveSync in place so my access to Outlook would be secure? My Lumia is now virtually useless as I was holding out for the Win8 upgrade. This sucks.

  • lumpaywk

    what i want to know is when is angry birds space is comming out? Also what is the support situation for low end wp devices? Last couple of months it seems Nokia and MS have been making a really big deal about low cost low end wp devices yet now what is going to happen with them as wp8 seems to require high end hardware????

    • http://twitter.com/phillwilkinson Phill Demba Wilkas

      No current handsets are getting wp8, you’ll be getting 7.8 instead which is basically a theme update as you wont be able to use 8′s apps.

  • Budule

    I find all this out 31 days after i get the 900 (yes , 31 days….1day after my 30 day trial)……..i came very close to just throwing it out the window or stomping it to death…..just felt like an elephant mounted me as this is my first smart phone ever and i had my choice of ANY phone in the store, ANY PHONE!!…..i guess what they did was probably “legal” but what can i do?……not a damn thing…..so unless im willing to eat my contract i guess for the next 700 and some odd days i’ll use it , but surely, SURELY, the will HAVE to offer the people who bought lumia’s some kinda of trade in deal when wp8 comes out…..if not my SECOND smart phone wont have Nokia or Microsoft anywhere on/in it…….and i get all the “well the hardware wont run it” stuff but not being tech savey by any means , i just assumed that a BRAND NEW FLAGSHIP JUST LAUNCHED PHONE with COMMERCIALS and BILLBOARDS and POSTERS all over the walls of the store had a shelf life of more than a few days……

    • http://twitter.com/phillwilkinson Phill Demba Wilkas

      In the same boat, I upgraded and got a HTC One X and my wife wanted the Lumia… 2 year contract (standard in the UK now) and all she is getting is basically a theme update and apps that she should be able to get anyway… really disappointed.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/Z6TFT7XRDEWCMSBBMT7W7SXX3A Brian F

    Can anyone answer this.  I have a Lumia 900, the latest and greatest o.k…  Bought it and thought I could use the Internet sharing like I did on my old E91 and E7.. but Noooooo, if you want to use it now, you have to go give Mr AT&T the 50 bucks a month… of course am on the unlimited (grandfathered) data plan…  so went back to the blackberry 9810.  Or if I buy an unlocked version, would the internet sharing but opened already… ready to toss this one in the box…

    Also can someone advise when the AT&T Uverse will ever open up and not have to use the Wi Fi settings…?  again back to the Blackberry for this…

  • kartik tarla

    so many comments, now why doesn’t nokia reply,

  • http://www.facebook.com/robinvanveghel Robin van Veghel

    Still nothing in the marketplace. Guessing it takes time to add em or something???

  • svenj

    I don’t know Robin, if they say “PlayTo will be in Marketplace globally by June 22nd.” and “This [camera extras] will be available in Marketplace for the US and China by June 22nd “, maybe they should be in the Marketplace by June 22nd. Don’t promise stuff and not deliver. Especially after ticking off a large portion of the user base.

  • http://twitter.com/phillwilkinson Phill Demba Wilkas

    When are they going to sort out the bluetooth, amazed that after years of using a simple service you can no longer send things by bluetooth… really lets windows phones down.

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  • http://twitter.com/eakangk Eakan Gopalakrishnan

    thanks for the good news! now i am a little less depressed than i used to be.

  • http://twitter.com/eakangk Eakan Gopalakrishnan

    thanks for the good news! now i am a little less depressed than i used to be.

  • http://twitter.com/eakangk Eakan Gopalakrishnan

    thanks for the good news! now i am a little less depressed than i used to be.

  • http://twitter.com/eakangk Eakan Gopalakrishnan

    thanks for the good news! now i am a little less depressed than i used to be.

  • http://twitter.com/eakangk Eakan Gopalakrishnan

    thanks for the good news! now i am a little less depressed than i used to be.

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  • Douglas

    Nokia, I’m sorry but Camera Extras is in no way a solution to the lack of features in Windows Phone for the camera. Maybe this is the Symbian user in me talking here, maybe it’s the N8 user in me. I was excited to hear the announcement about this but after trying it yesterday, I have to say I’m extremely disappointed.

    Opening the camera up, I expected to find these new features where they would seem to make sense. Some in Scenes, some by themselves. They weren’t. Okay, fine, let’s try the timer since this was one of those features I’ve missed. Oh, look at that, what’s this Nokia screen. Oh, here we go. Let’s change the timer settings and see what presets I have to work with. WAIT, there are no options, what? I can’t even select to use my flash? What?

    This is my issue for Action, Smart Group Shot, and Panorama, Nokia, and my issue with Microsoft and why I didn’t like the idea of you choosing to use Windows Phone instead of Android. Microsoft has such a lock on the UI that we the user have to suffer here. All I wanted was this to actually be a part of the camera UI so I still had access to all the options the UI gives you. I have to wait for WP7.8 and hope it’s actually part of the UI there.

    Nokia, if you’re actually reading this, I’m extremely worried about your ability to give users a top notch camera like the N8′s or 808′s, with xenon flash, and HDMI, AND a powerful camera UI like that of the 808 or N8. Even if Microsoft is letting you take charge of that, I can’t see this turning out all that well because Windows Phone seems light years behind Symbian in terms of raw functionality and your ability to code features for it. Honestly, the only thing I like about the WP camera UI is the swipe to review your photo. I wish I could replace everything else with the Symbian Belle UI, and could you please make the volume rocker change the zoom and make sure there’s no issues with the dynamic range like there is in the 900 (although I have a feeling that’s due to a poor design of the camera module being set too deep into the phone).

    I’m always looking to share my opinions with you Nokia. I’ve been a longtime user starting with my N75, moving to an N95, N97, E72, and N8. I really want you to succeed, and I feel that valuable consumer feedback like mine is essential for that to happen.

  • http://twitter.com/demarmj Matt DeMaris

    “for a couple of months”…is this saying that it won’t be available later? I bet this is a disclaimer so that when Words With Friends decides to use the WP8 kernel and stop supporting WP 7.8, Nokia can say, “Well we did a great job supporting you guys for a few months.” Nokia, you’re a letdown.

  • Arturo Castro Urbano

    I´m going to sell my lumia 800, I spend a lot of money for a for a phone that can not be upgraded, I understand for a phone for 3 or 4 years on the market, but a phone that until recently was regarded as the jewel in the crown, THAT IS INCREDIBLE.

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  • ashutosh sharma

    camera updates.. special apps.. huh.. they couldn’t even get nokia reading out here at India.. 
    my 29K Rs phone is obsolete.. now after sometime, it’ll be out of apps.. 
    I sometimes wish I had symbian belle in my L800. 
    Atleast belle is a fully grown OS (even those 601 have dolby surround sound unlike my so called flagship phone.)
    Or nokia pls do one thing, flash symbian belle on my phone.. 
    its much better than this M$ crap..

  • ashutosh sharma

    hmm after thinking now I get the point. I purchased L800 by putting TRUST on Nokia. However, now I feel where I did blunder.. After all nokia- most trusted brand in India, is going for makeover. And I’ve learnt not to trust, atleast not Nokia ever again..

    Heck the symbian team were the real Nokians, now since they are gone, so is Nokia.. 

    Bye.. This shall be my last handset from you. I’ll never recommend nokia handsets to my juniors, my cousins, my friends(who were thinking of purchasing L800, my colleagues)
    I’ll try to inflict as much damage as I can to compensate for the damage you’ve given me by breaching my trust.. 

    Fck U..!!

    • http://twitter.com/MaatoukMarc Marc Maatouk

      Smart reaction dude! yes blame Nokia for being responsible for the Software!

      • ashutosh sharma

        hmm.. I dont blame NOKIA. I blame myself for purchasing this.
        But I WILL make sure that no one blames themselves for mistake similar to mine. Then it’ll be even i suppose.

        • http://twitter.com/MaatoukMarc Marc Maatouk

          If anyone should be blamed is Microsoft for being responsible of the Software. Remember, the Lumia range won’t go obsolete not now and not in the near future even after the launch of WP8. Nokia declared that it will continue to upgrade their Lumia range and u can see that clearly with the update to tango, WP7.8 and many more and it will still bring new games and app. ok, you won’t get upgraded to WP8 but you’ll get many features of it ( most of them not yet declared). Don’t let your anger lead u to conclusions. Think clearly, for the long term, this is the best solution or you prefer upgrading your Lumia to WP8 but having multiple problems with it such as lag or freeze?????

          • kartik tarla

            All nokia is bringing is a couple of apps/games as a consolation, do u think they’ll keep doing that even after wp8?
            MS argues that they dont see a reason why app developers wont develop for WP7.5 after WP8 well let me give the reason why they wont.
            app developers have 2 options, either develop for WP7.5/WP8 or develop for Windows 8, i.e for mobiles/tablet/pcs. what would they prefer, you tell me.
            and WP7.5 is still lacking many features which wont be taken care of since now ms would be concentrating on wp8, with wp7.8 they only anounced a new start screen n nothing else, and they way they are maintaining their silence abt it it means u wont get any more features.

          • http://twitter.com/MaatoukMarc Marc Maatouk

            Developers won’t begin developing apps in large quantities for WP8 when it’s released. They will start their move when and only when WP8 users will outnumber WP7 users and this won’t happen before 2013

          • kartik tarla

            Marc,
            You might be still thinking whats the big deal with lumia not upgrading to WP8, i would bet all those who bought lumias unlocked and paid full price would feel cheated same as I’m, and i think its reasonably fair for us to be frustrated, dont u think?

          • http://twitter.com/MaatoukMarc Marc Maatouk

            Yes and i’m not saying that you have no right to be frustrated cz i also have a Lumia simfree with full price. I’m only saying that somehow somewhat I understand what happened and I take it into consideration. I’m not completely satisfied with MS’s move. I’ll continue to use my phone even after the release of WP8 till the second half of 2013 at least cz WP7 is still a phone like it was before the announcement of WP8

      • kartik tarla

        If i buy a nokia phone whom else should i blame? 

    • http://www.facebook.com/vignesh.ramesh.149 Vignesh Ramesh

      Same Here BUDDY

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  • http://www.facebook.com/robinvanveghel Robin van Veghel

    So gueesing today The update rolles out?

  • kartik tarla

    Where are the prmised lumia 800 updates???
    - 6th July, India, no updates Available

    • http://twitter.com/MaatoukMarc Marc Maatouk

      To get the update u can do the nodo trick (you force the update) cz it’s going to take all this month, here are the steps:
      Turn your phone on Airplane mode and turn off WIFI Connect your phone to your PC to open ZuneGo to phone settings and get ready to click the update button.Click the update button and immediately disconnect your computer from the web (unplug LAN cable or disable Wi-Fi)If executed properly,  Zune will make the update availableReconnect your computer to the web and click the update button in Zune

  • Miika Satopää

    lies, wheres the update 18.7.2012.. Lumia 710

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    San Francisco: Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc sued Zynga Inc on Friday, accusing the social gaming company of copying key elements of EA’s “The Sims Social” game for Zynga’s own title, “The Ville.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001050230354 Fer Cervantes

    Mid august and still no signs of camera extras in Mexico…

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001050230354 Fer Cervantes

    Mid august and still no signs of camera extras in Mexico…

    • http://twitter.com/NDVillagrana Nestor Villagrana

      I have camara extras and I am in mexico

  • http://www.facebook.com/ashutosh.nigam.188 Ashutosh Nigam

    Hello, I have a Lumia 800 and am still wondering for following features in my mobile:

    1. How to silent the camera shutter and LED flash light alert?
    2. How can I view my call details (such as duration) in my logs?
    3. How to transfer files using blue-tooth from other devices (it always shows not compatible for all of them)?
    4. How can I mute annoying alerts which just plays right into my ear when I am on some call?

    Is any of these a part of next update from Windows/Nokia and when can we get the update for new OS version (7.8 or 8.0).

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XMB57B2TSQTYAL2QM72JAFUHWI Syeef

    Stupid Microsoft. Last time they did the same… they didn’t even let me update my WindowsMobile 6 to WindowsMobile 6.5. Now this! Nokia knew this is going to happen… but they kept quiet; they should have told users of this before selling their phones.

    @Nokia, no software update is going to compensate this… will I be able to run WP 8 apps? if not, Shut up!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mitchell-Sheehan/596673792 Mitchell Sheehan

    When are the Zynga apps coming to India? Because they still aren’t available in our Marketplace.

  • http://twitter.com/kinaton DJ Jason Sensation

    another missing leading release about zynga games..

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1817718255 Kyle Ezra

    Ok. It has been like 4 months. When are you going to release draw something and words with friends??? Since we are waiting this long, we should get other zynga games like scramble with friends, hanging with friends, etc. While you are at it, get Instagram to release an app?? Maybe even pandora?? These are the necessary apps that we really need when windows phone 8 comes, and I get my lumia 920, MAYBE.

  • http://www.facebook.com/desiree.etienne.3 Desiree Etienne

    what about the updates for htc phones (any models) because Im only reading about updates for nokia phones