Video shows Windows Phone 7.8 on Nokia Lumia 510

A video from China shows the low-end Nokia Lumia 510 running Windows Phone 7.8. Expected to launch in the country before the end of the year, this low-end model has a 4 inch WVGA LCD screen with an 800MHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor, 256MB of RAM, a 5MP rear facing camera and a 1300mAh battery. Since it runs Windows Phone 7.8, the phone displays the new Start screen with different tile sizes, new accent colors and the Bing lock screen wallpaper.

Windows 7.8 will eventually make its way elsewhere as an update to Windows Phone 7.5 handsets, and could be launched sometime in the next few weeks. That might not make owners of Windows Phone 7.5 models completely happy since they are not getting the full Windows Phone 8 treatment, and are locked into their current devices for more than a year. Recently, some leaked slides show that for those legacy Windows Phone models, there will be some life after Windows Phone 7.8.