What is Windows Phone 8: Forbes Reports Nokia to Use 8 instead of 7.5

No hard release date has been provided for the result of the Microsoft and Nokia Windows Phone partnership. However, many people (including myself) expect some announcement or delivery before the end of the calendar year. Many of us, I believe, also expected the first Nokia Windows Phone device to be based on “Mango” Windows Phone 7.5. Forbes’ Elizabeth Woyke, however, reports that it will be based on a version beyond that: Windows Phone 8.