News tagged "Symbian"

One of Nokia's most affordable smartphones, the full touch 5530 XpressMusic, has just got a software update. The new firmware version 30.0.009 is said to bring universal kinetic scrolling to the 5530 as well as some other goodies. Nokia...

What do we've got here! Images of Nokia's first 8-megapixel full touch cameraphone have just popped up. The Nokia C7 will finally close the gap between the bunch of company's 5-megapixel cameraphones and the N8, which is the only Nokia phone with a...

Yesterday, kind of secretly, Nokia announced the 5228. At first look you will hardly find difference between the newbie and its sibling, the Nokia 5230. But that's only because it is hidden deep under the hood: the new Nokia 5228 is the GPS-less...

After all these years of manufacturing smartphones Nokia still has no Windows-powered smartphone. But that might change soon? In a recently leaked presentation on Nokia's software and services plans, the company mentions Windows OS along with the...

USB On-The-Go is a relatively unknown feature on mobile phones despite its obvious advantages. Watch how some lucky dude connects a USB flash drive and even a Nokia C5 to the N8 and plays some tracks from both. USB On-The-Go has been a relatively...

Nokia has obviously put a lot of eggs in the N8 basket and is keen to convince us that it's a phone worth having. Nokia has just released the first of a trilogy of videos that demonstrate the new Symbian^3 user interface and the N8 speed and...

The Nokia N8 is coming. Soon. On Vodafone. The 12MP sharpshooter will land in the UK, but unfortunately Vodafone is mum on the details. The German Amazon site put the Nokia N8 on preorder a while back too, but chances are we won't see it until the...

The highly anticipated Nokia N8 is already available for pre-order in Germany. You can get it for good 470 euro. Another new fact is its availability date - rumors have 24 August as expected shipping date. The Nokia N8 was unveiled a month back...

It's odd for the US to get a Nokia phone before Europe, but it happens. Such is the case with the previously unseen Nokia E73 Mode, the successor to the E72 throne. It's coming to T-Mobile USA, bringing the traditional Symbian and QWERTY...

The Garmin Asus joint venture unveiled a new addition to their lineup of navigation-centered mobile phones. The Garmin Asus A10 is a full-touch phone running on the Android OS platform but with a focus on pedestrian navigation in Europe and...

It wasn't that long ago when Nokia introduced the Amethyst Purple color version of the E72 and now we can officially welcome the Nokia E72 White Edition. On top of that, the company has also released an E72 software update. As its name reveals,...

The Nokia X5 has been announced! But it's not what you think. Today, Nokia announced the Nokia X5 and C5 models with TD-SCDMA (Chinese 3G). The X5 is midway between the X6 and the X3, and the Nokia C5 model has been updated as well. The...

Only a month ago around 1.5 million apps were downloaded from the Ovi Store each day and now the downloads per day reach 1.6 million. That sure sounds impressive. But the App Store could only laugh at the Ovi Store. During the premiere of the new...

Yesterday's big announcement came and went and still no sign of Nokia N8. Sigh! We received an interesting tip about that mythical 12MP cameraphone - a possible release date and a potential carrier. We can’t confirm or deny any of the rumored specs,...

Some more specs of the rumored Nokia N8 were uncovered. What is said to be Nokia's first 12MP cameraphone leaked through an XML on the company's website. An nHD screen and Symbian^3 are all but certain, though nothing about the key feature of the...

It has been a while since a Nokia phone topped the "Longest specs sheet" charts but the Nokia N8-00 that just leaked seems like it means it. The future smartphone flagship runs on Symbian^3 and packs a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics....

They say you shouldn't count your chickens before they hatch, but according to a market survey Android has laid a lot of eggs in North America. The total number of smartphone shipments will rise by 38% compared to last year for a total of 65.1...

Symbian^3 is due this year, in fact we've heard that S^3 devices should arrive in Q3, but we hadn't seen a live demo of it. One just hit the Internet - it runs on a laptop rather than a phone but still, the UI is manipulated in real time in front of...

The SatNav business has been turned on its head a couple times in the last year, but none of the competitors are giving up. A new challenger, the Sygic AURA, is hitting just about every smartphone platform around. The Sygic AURA puts an emphasis...

A few weeks back there were some speculations about Symbian's future but as it seems, Nokia aren't keen on leaving the most popular smartphone OS in the mud. Instead, Symbian OS is on its way to a total makeover just like Windows Mobile. Just a...