Nokia
Symbian^3 demoed, promises to deliver what users expect
Mar 14th
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 a live audience.
Touch-driven Nokia C6 strikes with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard
Mar 14th
Nokia C6 will be the third side-slider in the S60 5th edition family and according to the new naming convention, adopted by the Finnish company it shouldn’t be much pricier than the Nokia C5 (135 euro before taxes). The Nokia C6 only has 256 MB of internal memory (compare to 32 GB in Nokia N97 and 8GB in N97 mini) and seems to drop the steel frame in favor of an all-plastic body.
First Symbian^4 demo videos spotted, innovations missing
Mar 2nd
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.
First Snapdragon-powered Nokia phone in the works
Mar 2nd
It is probably an understatement that Nokia and Qualcomm have buried the hatchet. Kissed and made up is more like it. In a recent interview Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs reveals Nokia have a Snapdragon-powered Symbian smartphone in the pipeline. Due by the end of the year.
Nokia and Intel combine Maemo and Moblin into MeeGo
Feb 16th
Now, how about that – Nokia and Intel shook hands to merge their mobile Linux projects into one. And along came MeeGo. The silly name aside, MeeGo is the blend of Nokia’s Maemo, used on the Nokia N900 and a few others, and Intel’s Moblin, which powers MIDs based on the Moorestown platform.
First look at the Cseries with leaked Symbian-running Nokia C5
Feb 7th
Symbian is going to push out S40 out of all but the most basic phones – the newly leaked Nokia C5 is good evidence of that. With a modest price tag this handset would steer many buyers in Symbian direction.
The Nokia C5 is also the first phone of the Cseries we’ve seen yet – remember back in July last year when Nokia trademarked Xseries and Cseries? With the Nokia X3 and the Nokia X6 we saw the Xseries – the successors of the XpressMusic lineup – and now it’s clear that the Cseries takes over where the “classic” phones left off.
Symbian goes fully open source, it’s a free download to all
Feb 7th
There have been quite a few rumors about the fate of Symbian, but now the OS has entered a new stage of its existence – its code is now open source. This move began in June 2008, when Nokia bought Symbian and created the Symbian Foundation to take over the development of the OS. And the Foundation has big plans for the future.
The Nokia X6 poll results are in: its capacitive touchscreen wins the day
Dec 6th
Nokia Conversations recently had a poll asking readers for their favorite Nokia X6 feature. The winning feature by far was the 3.2” capacitive touchscreen – Nokia’s first. One in three voted “capacitive” but how the rest of the votes are spread out is pretty interesting too.
Nokia N900 UI portrait mode enabled, coming to you soon [Rumour]
Dec 5th
It is no secret that Nokia N900 UI is about to get a portrait mode-enabling update pretty soon. What might come as a surprise though, is that the handset has all the functionality needed already and it only needs to be unlocked, rather than be designed from scratch. Okay, there’s also some optimization needed but that shouldn’t take too long, right?
Nokia holds back S40 to make way for Maemo and Symbian
Dec 5th
Today, at its annual Capital Markets Day event, Nokia revealed some details about it OS distribution strategies that we find particularly interesting. Apparently the company has finally realized two important things concerning its products. First, that the Maemo OS has great potential and second that their S40 feature phone UI is long outdated (at least in the midrange).
Nokia tease with Symbian UI improvements coming in 2010
Dec 5th
Yesterday Nokia announced their 2010 year plans for major renewal of the aging Symbian user interface and pushing the first Maemo 6 device. But the good news didn’t end there, since the podcast published actually demoed some of the UI changes.
Nokia Takeover Dopplr Oy
Sep 29th
Nokia today announced that it has acquired Dopplr Oy a service for smart travelers. Dopplr is used to share personal and business travel plans privately within a networks, and highlight interesting places to stay, eat and explore in cities around the world.
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