Nokia Rolls Out Anna Update for US NAM Smartphones
After months of anticipation, Nokia has officially begun its roll out of the Symbian Anna update for the US NAM versions of the N8, C7, C6-01 and E7. The update makes major and minor changes to the operating system such as a portrait virtual QWERTY keyboard and changes to the photo gallery as well as instant [...]
Nokia Rolling Out Symbian Updates for Select Phones
Nokia has announced that it will roll out updates to select phones running Series 60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 and Series 60 5th Edition which will include the Symbian Anna web browser, which adds support for non-ASCII characters, international domains, and will render web sites faster. The update will also update Ovi Maps, adding [...]
Nokia Adding New Camera Features to Symbian Anna Update for N8
Nokia has announced new features being added to the Symbian Anna update for the N8 coming in the next few weeks, with key features taken from hacks performed by the Symbian community. When the update for the N8 rolls out it will add continuous autofocus for video capture and full 720p30 video resolution for video [...]
European Commission Cancels SYMBEOSE Initiative
After first being announced in November of last year as a last ditch effort to save Symbian following the failure of the Symbian Foundation to reach its stated goals, the European Commission’s SYMBEOSE initiative has been canceled without the intended 22 million euro loan changing hands. The SYMBEOSE consortium was intended to turn Symbian into [...]
Nokia Cuts Jobs and Outsources Symbian Development to Accenture
Nokia has confirmed that it will cut 4,000 jobs related to research and development as well as an additional 3,000 via outsourcing contract to outsourcing firm Accenture, moving the internal Symbian development team to the firm in an attempt to save US$1.46 billion in R&D costs by 2013. The new deal is a further expansion [...]
Nokia E7 Up for Pre-Order
Nokia’s last major Symbian device in the E7 has been officially posted for pre-order on Nokia’s own online store ahead of its official launch next month. The E7 features a tilting 4 inch wide sliding touch display which covers a QWERTY keyboard and also features an 8 megapixel camera with 720p video capture. Like the [...]
Nokia to Focus on Windows Phone 7, Symbian Phaseout, MeeGo Becomes Experimental
Nokia today announced their plan to transition the their smartphone division to Windows Phone 7, over the next two years. The company has recently acknowledged the extreme difficulties that it has had in evolving to the new generation of smartphone platforms. By embracing Windows Phone 7, and entering into a strategic partnership with Microsoft, Nokia [...]
T-Mobile Cancels Nokia Nuron 2
Following up on the news of Nokia canceling the X7 for AT&T last week, it seems that T-Mobile has canceled the successor to its surprisingly popular Nuron in the Nuron 2, which would have been a rebranded Nokia C5-03. The C5-03 as available in Europe features S60 5th Edition, a 3.2 inch resistive touch display [...]
Nokia Cancels X7 for AT&T
According to the Wall Street Journal, Nokia has canceled a planned launch of the Symbian^3 powered Nokia X7 originally intended for AT&T as an exclusive model due to a lack of confidence in AT&T’s ability to promote the device and their willingness to subsidize the device in order to draw customers to the smartphone. Were [...]
Editorial: An Open Letter To Symbian, Symbian Foundation, and Nokia
Over the past few months, Nokia and Symbian Foundation have moved around assets to a degree that would make a startup blush. Yesterday, the two announced that Nokia would be taking over primary development control of the Symbian platform, but that Symbian Foundation would remain as a licensing authority. This leaves more questions than answers. [...]
