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Nokia Maps (aka Ovi Maps), has been a staple on Nokia’s Symbian handsets for several years and arguably a credible rival to Google Maps on other platforms. Thanks to the dying Symbian platform, Nokia has decided to release its new HTML5 map app to all mobile operating systems including Android and iOS. Currently, Nokia Maps is in beta,…
At IFA 2011 in Berlin, Nokia’s booth featured all the company’s latest handsets, specifically the recently announced 701, 700, and 600. On one of the 700 models at the show, a video was being looped that showed a Nokia handset we’ve never seen before. It looks like it runs Belle, the latest upgrade to Symbian,…
SPB Software keeps bringing its SPB Shell 3D UI software to new platforms. After Android, the company is going for folks with Symbian^3 smartphones such as the Nokia N8, C7 and E7. If you’ve been reading our previous articles on SPB Shell, you know it replaces the phone’s default homescreen with a 3D interface from where users…
Update: Plenty of videos added to the bottom of this article! As we expected, Nokia just announced Symbian Belle, the successor to Symbian Anna, which as of right now is a whopping 5 days old and is still in the process of being rolled out to various territories. Back to Belle, the user interface gets…
Mobile app ad agency Inneractive recently released an infographic detailing some data they’ve gathered after dishing out ads across multiple platforms. While some, like iPhone and Symbian, were more or less split evenly, Android app usage leaned towards male with 61%, and BlackBerry eked towards females with 59%. The infographic also dives into which app categories…
Nokia’s Facebook page has a funky countdown timer that’s set to hit zero at around 08:45 in the morning (New York time) on Wednesday, and it says “It’s time to try something new on Symbian”. The folks at Engadget noticed that the filename of said countdown timer is “belle_fb_TeaserMain”, and it doesn’t take a rocket…
Last week, after much anticipation, Nokia released Symbian Anna, their update to Symbian^3 that packs features such as a portrait QWERTY keyboard, faster web browser, and an overall easier to use interface. Owners of the Nokia C7 were also given near field communication (NFC) capabilities; the NFC chip that was inside the C7 since it…
David Meyer, writing for ZDNet UK, wrote this on November 09, 2010: “At the Symbian Exchange & Exposition (SEE2010) in Amsterdam, the handset manufacturer — which said on Monday that it was bringing development of Symbian back in-house — said the first updates would include the addition of split-screen text entry, a QWERTY keyboard that…
At some point during the summer, owners of Nokia hardware running Symbian^3 will get an over the air software update to a newer version of the operating system called Anna. It’s got rounded icons, an easier to use and faster web browser, and a lot of little tweaks that should noticeably improve the user experience.…
Nokia has just announced the 500, their first 1 GHz smartphone. It’s going to run the latest version of Symbian, known as Anna, have a 3.2 inch screen with a resolution of 640 x 360, 5 megapixel camera, quadband GSM/EDGE support, and pentaband (850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz) 14.4 Mbps 3G support, meaning it’ll effectively have high speed…