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Outrageous: T-Mobile USA will not upgrade the Nokia Astound (rebranded C7) to Symbian Belle
Back in September 2010 Nokia announced a Symbian^3 smartphone called the C7. It can best be thought of as a Nokia N8, but without the fancy high end camera, and in a body that’s much more fashionable. Half a year later (April 2011) it hit American shores courtesy of T-Mobile for just $80 with a two year contract; they rebranded it as the Nokia Astound (see video below). When Nokia started pushing out Symbian Anna, an update to Symbian^3, many people rightly assumed that the Astound would also get the … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Nokia 803 to land in May, said to pack the largest camera sensor the mobile world has ever seen
Rumor has it that Nokia is going to announce just one more Symbian device before finally kicking the platform to the curb. That device is said to be the long awaited successor to the Nokia N8, which launched in October 2010 with a 12 megapixel camera and Xenon flash. During the 15 months that thing has been on the market, nothing has come close to touching it in terms of image quality. Samsung’s Galaxy S II, Apple’s iPhone 4S, they both have fantastic cameras, but they don’t hold a candle … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Nokia starts rolling out Symbian Belle, Mac users left out in the cold
Yesterday evening Nokia announced that users of Symbian Anna devices can now update to the newest version of the operating system, Symbian Nokia Belle (see video below). Seeing as how I got my girlfriend a pink Nokia N8 for her birthday last autumn, I told her to rush over to my place with her smartphone and a microUSB cable so we could begin the update process. It’s not that I didn’t trust her to do it herself, I just wanted to see first hand what Nokia Belle looks like on … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Nokia 801: Are they seriously going to release a Symbian device that looks like the Lumia 800?
It’s bad enough that the Nokia Lumia 800 looks exactly like the Nokia N9, now rumors suggest that Nokia is going to release a Symbian running device called the Nokia 801. Said smartphone is a picture perfect image of the N9 and Lumia 800, except that it has a 4 inch screen that does 640 x 360 pixels, 12 megapixel camera, and will be the first Symbian device that can record 1080p video. Under the hood there’s a 1.4 GHz processor paired up with 512 MB of RAM, though we … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Rumor: Nokia’s next Symbian device will also be their last
This coming Saturday will mark the one year anniversary of the historic day when Stephen Elop, Nokia’s new CEO, got up on a stage in London and announced to the world that both Symbian and Maemo were going to be thrown under the bus, and that the future would be all about Windows Phone. One thing Stephen mentioned during that announcement was that Nokia still has plans to sell 150 million Symbian smartphones. That’s recently changed though. Late last month when Nokia reported their Q4 2011 financial results they said … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Skype for Nokia Belle phones is out
Skype has updated its app for Symbian Belle devices (version 2.1.23) like the Nokia 700, 701, 603 and many others that will get the new OS via a firmware update. The popular VoIP application now comes with Belle-like look and feel, while the overall performance has been significantly improved. You know that Skype is a must-have app on your smartphone, right? So if you have a compatible device, get it now. Sure there are other VoIP solutions out there, some of which are even cheaper to use. However, with most … Read more
Dusan Belic
Nokia to start pushing out Symbian Belle on February 8th?
Someone in Nokia’s Vietnam offices is about to get in a whole lot of trouble. Apparently a website that wasn’t supposed to go live accidentally did, and said website announced that Symbian Belle was going to be available for Symbian Anna users starting on the 8th of February. Note that we’ve already known for a while now that Belle would come out in February, we just didn’t have an exact date. The update requires that you connect your device to a computer, which is a minor niggle, but there are … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Nokia Car Mode now available in the Nokia Ovi Store
Nokia Car Mode has been released for Nokia (Symbian) Belle devices in the Ovi Store, providing users with easy access and simplified user interface to the most relevant apps for in-car use such as music player, contacts and navigation. As a result, drivers are less distracted and more focused on the road ahead. There are two versions of the Nokia Car Mode available, depending on the user preferences and availability of MirrorLink enabled car infotainment system in the region. The first version includes the MirrorLink and could require the user … Read more
Dusan Belic
Nokia N801T heading to China Mobile with Symbian Anna and NFC
Nokia announced a new Symbian Anna smartphone in China that’s ready for NFC-based contactless payments. In addition, the device marked as 801T rocks a 4-inch ClearBlack LCD touchscreen, China Mobile-friendly TD-SCDMA connectivity, 8-megapixel “full-focus” camera with 720p video recording support on the back, VGA front-facing camera, 8GB of built-in storage, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, 256MB of RAM, 3.5mm headset jack, and a microSD card slot with hot swap support. Moreover, there’s mobile TV capability which is enabled with an awkward lookin’ external antenna. All in all, the Nokia N801T is a … Read more
Yoeau
Nokia kills the Symbian brand, Symbian Belle now simply called “Nokia Belle”
Nokia’s official corporate blog has just announced that they’re no longer calling the latest version of the Symbian operating system “Symbian Belle”. It’s now been changed to “Nokia Belle”. If that isn’t a sign that Symbian is about to get thrown under the bus, then we don’t know what is. Also in Nokia’s announcement of the death of a once prominent brand is a timeline for when current Symbian Anna devices will get upgraded to Nokia Belle. Expect to see the Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia E6, Nokia X7, Nokia … Read more
Stefan Constantinescu
Nokia says Symbian Belle coming to Symbian Anna devices in early 2012
This summer Nokia announced the latest version of the Symbian operating system, Belle, along with the first three devices to support it; the 600, 700, and 701. The latter two are now out in a number of markets, and the 600 sadly got cancelled, but what’s important is that people who have played with Belle have said that it finally makes Symbian competitive to Android in terms of user interface. Whether or not it’s too late for that is another story all together. Now what we’ve been wanting to know … Read more