Windows Phone 7.8 update for AT&T Nokia Lumia 900 appears on Navifirm

The Windows Phone 7.8 update has been available on Navifirm for several Nokia Lumia devices for some time now, but has unfortunately eluded the Nokia Lumia 900 for AT&T until now.

The Lumia 900 was the previous flagship Windows Phone from Nokia featuring a 4.3 inch ClearBlack display, 16GB of internal storage, an 8 megapixel camera which is capable of 720p HD video recording, a secondary camera for video calls, 4G LTE connectivity and it is powered by a 1.4 GHz processor with 512MB of RAM. The device was recently succeeded by the Nokia Lumia 920 which brought several hardware improvements along with Windows Phone 8.

If you own a Lumia 900 be sure to check out the following change-log and video and head over to our guide to learn how to download the update

• New Accent colors, matching Windows Phone 8, bringing the total to 20 + 1
• Bing Wallpaper of the day, which will auto-update your lockscreen image.
• New boot screen with updated Windows Phone logo
• New Office logo, though OneNote is not a separate app like in WP8

Unfortunately the resizable live tiles is the most valuable feature in the WP7.8 update. While we can excuse Microsoft leaving out some features as exclusives to WP 8.0 we cannot excuse the company for not offering some very usable features like

• Keeping the Wi-Fi on when screen is locked
• Reject calls will an SMS
• Update to Internet Explorer 10 for security, compatibility and HTML5 support
• Lack of Xbox Music + Video

We hope that Microsoft will eventually bring the WP8.0 or newer update to lower end devices, but for now we have to be satisfied with WP7.8. If you own a Lumia 900 head over to Navifirm and see if you can download the update for your device. Once you do, you can follow our guide on how to install Windows Phone 7.8 on your Nokia Lumia device.