TechNow: Nokia to call their next Windows Phone Device Firmware update: Nokia Cherry Blossom Pink

Nokia is known for keeping some really good names for their Windows Phone Device Firmware updates. The Microsoft Winows Phone 8 GDR2 (Portico) update packing Nokia Amber update. This was succeeded by Nokia Black update which packed Windows Phone 8 GDR3 (and the firmware was codenamed Bittersweet shimmer!)

So what’s next in line? What will come with Windows Phone 8.1? A rumor earlier this week talked about it being Blue, but that sounded kind of fake, because Windows Blue and Windows Phone Blue were the codenames for Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 respectivelly. And to add, we’re expecting a color beginning with C (coz it started off with Amber then Black). Today we finally learn what that new color might be, with a leak revealing Nokia’s Cherry Blossom Pink software.

Some screenshots of WP8.1 accompany this news, but with 8.1 itself still being largely unfamiliar to us, they’re of limited us to us; how to tell where the 8.1 stuff ends and the CBP stuff begins? Still, we’ve provided a few below, and once again we get to check out 8.1′s ability to throw up a background image behind your Live Tiles and you get onscreen device navigation controls (like Android 4.0 ICS onwards)

There’s also a chance that we could be looking at a repeat of that situation with Black and Bittersweet Shimmer, and while Cherry Blossom Pink may be what Nokia is codename for it’s next firmware update, it could elect to go with a much more concise name for the public release. Honestly, even Blue might still be on the table. It’s no certainty, but we may well get our answer at Nokia’s April 2^nd event.