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Nokia Plans Slimmer PureView Handsets

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, Nokia unveiled to the world its first smartphone packing a 41-megapixel photo snapper, namely the Nokia 808 PureView. The handset is impressive, especially due to its camera capabilities, but the facts that it is quite bulky when compared to today’s slim hi...

24 May 2012
12:01 GMT

Download Store QML Client for Symbian 3.28.025 Beta

Today, Nokia made available for download a new beta flavor of the Store QML client for Symbian, namely version 3.28.025. The new application release brings along a variety of improvements and fixes, including better client stability at times when “the client gets into the situation of connection loss.” ...

21 May 2012
12:51 GMT

Soundtracker Radio 2.0.4 Available for Symbian and MeeGo

Today, Soundtracker announced the availability of a new flavor of their popular radio application for Nokia devices running under Symbian or MeeGo. Released in the Nokia Beta Labs as version 2.0.4, the new app iteration brings along a wide range of improvements, as well as various bug fixes for all supported platfo...

21 May 2012
04:35 GMT

Nokia Plans Bringing the Unlocked 808 PureView to the US

Nokia’s 41-megapixel behemoth 808 PureView was initially announced to become available in most markets around the world, except for the United States. However, it appears that the Finnish mobile phone maker might have changed its mind, and that it is currently considering ways to launch the device in the coun...

11 May 2012
04:41 GMT

Nokia 808 PureView Arrives on Shelves in May

Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced that its Nokia 808 PureView smartphone would arrive on shelves starting this month. The handset, the first one to arrive on shelves with Nokia's award-winning PureView technology packed inside, will be launched on shelves in India and Russia initially. The mo...

2 May 2012
05:08 GMT

Unlocked Nokia 808 PureView Now Available for Pre-Order in US

Although Nokia has yet to announce the exact availability of its new Symbian Belle flagship smartphone, the 808 PureView has already been listed by multiple European retailers and is now available for pre-order. Fortunately, Symbian fans living in the States haven’t been left outside. Major retailer Expansys i...

23 April 2012
14:31 GMT

Nokia Shoots 808 PureView Promo Video with the Phone Itself

Soon, a new Symbian-based mobile phone will become available for purchase with Nokia’s logo on it, namely the 808 PureView. Announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the handset packs a 41-megapixel photo snapper on the back, the most advanced camera on a smartphone. To show some of the mo...

20 April 2012
07:14 GMT

Nokia to Bring Popular Symbian Features to Lumia Devices

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia had a disastrous first quarter financial performance, influenced by its transition to Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system and by an increasingly competitive smartphone landscape. The company sold fewer Windows Phones than it originally expected and experienced a signifi...

20 April 2012
04:34 GMT

Nokia Suite 3.4.27 Beta Now Available for Download

Nokia has made available for download a new flavor of its Nokia Suite desktop application, though it is still available only in a beta state, namely 3.4.27. The new app release is meant mainly for testing purposes, and those users who will download and install it will stumble upon a series of issues that will alter ...

19 April 2012
04:56 GMT

Screenshots of Nokia Belle FP1 Emerge

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just started to deliver a new software update for some of the owners of Symbian-based devices, namely Nokia Belle Feature Pack 1. At the moment, the new OS flavor is being pushed only to the owners of Nokia 603, Nokia 700 and Nokia 701 devices. However, the company is set to m...

19 April 2012
02:28 GMT

Updated UC Browser 8.2 Now Available on Java and Symbian

Today, a new iteration of the highly popular UC Browser became available for download for devices powered by Java and Symbian platforms.A few hours ago, the team of developers behind the application announced the upcoming availability of a new flavor of UC Browser 8.2, and users can already get a taste of the applica...

12 April 2012
13:21 GMT

New UC Browser 8.2 for Java and Symbian Available Today

UC Browser, the team of developers behind the popular mobile browser featuring the same name, has just announced plans to make available for download a brand new flavor of their app for Java and Symbian devices. Today, owners of such handsets will be able to download a new version of UC Browser 8.2 with new feature...

12 April 2012
05:21 GMT

Slow Symbian and Windows Phone Sales to Impact Nokia’s Q1 Results

Nokia’s first quarter of 2012 is expected to be a slow one, similar to the last three months of the past year. Analysts suggest that the mobile phone maker will post disappointing financial results for the three months period ending March 2012. In fact, they claim that the company’s performance has be...

11 April 2012
07:11 GMT

Download Nokia Suite 3.4.21.0

In addition to announcing the availability of a new software update for the Nokia Lumia 900, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia also released a new flavor of Nokia Suite today. The new version brings along a series of performance enhancements, as well as improved features. Users will benefit from better stability of ...

11 April 2012
03:37 GMT

40% of Nokia's Outsourced Symbian Developers "Laid Off Voluntarily" by Accenture

It appears that things are going bad for the Symbian platform and, indirectly, for its users. Although Nokia outsourced some of its employees that were directly involved in Symbian development and support to a third party company, it looks like support for the platform is close to being shut. Those who are not famil...

3 April 2012
05:53 GMT

Alleged Screenshots of Nokia Carla Emerge

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is moving closer to the release of a new version of the Symbian platform, supposedly set to arrive on devices under the name of Carla. Following a wide range of rumors on this platform release, alleged screenshots with the platform have made an appearance on the Internet. Through ...

2 April 2012
04:07 GMT

Download Nokia Suite 3.4.16 Beta

Nokia has just made available for download a new version of the Nokia Suite application for Windows computers. The latest version of the application is 3.4.16, which was pushed out through the Nokia Beta Labs mainly for testing purposes. The iteration weighs 88MB and can be downloaded from Softpedia as well, thr...

29 March 2012
05:49 GMT

Store QML Client for Symbian Updated to Version 3.24.053

Today, Nokia has announced the availability of a new version of the Store QML client for the owners of devices running under its Symbian platform. The new flavor of the mobile application was made available for download for beta testing, and arrives on devices with a variety of fixes. No new features have been incl...

27 March 2012
16:51 GMT

Nokia to Launch 808 PureView in the UK Only in May

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is gearing up for the release of its most advanced camera phone to date, the Nokia 808 Pure View. Made official at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the handset will arrive on shelves with Symbian on board and with a 41-megapixel photo snapper on the back. What hasn&r...

23 March 2012
12:08 GMT

Nokia 808 PureView Not Coming to North America Through Official Channels

It appears that the history repeats itself as Nokia confirmed that its monster camera phone Nokia 808 PureView wouldn’t be officially launched in North America. Just like the MeeGo-based N9, the 808 PureView smartphone will not be offered by any carriers in the United States or Canada. The confirmation comes v...

6 March 2012
10:31 GMT

Nokia World 2012 Confirmed for September 25-26 in Helsinki

Nokia World 2012 has just been announced and the Finnish company confirmed that for the first time the event would be held in Finland. Helsinki, Nokia’s own home turf, will be the city that will host Nokia World event this year, which is set on September 25-26. The event will be held in the Helsinki Exhibitio...

6 March 2012
07:31 GMT

Weather Widgets Arrive on Nokia Belle

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just made available for download Weather Widgets for its devices running under the Nokia Belle operating system. These are some of the most requested features for the mobile operating system, and the company has finally decided to respond to users’ needs. “Fans of...

2 March 2012
10:50 GMT

Nokia Belle Feature Pack 1 Coming Soon to Nokia 603, 700 and 701 Smartphones

One month after Nokia deployed the long-awaited Belle upgrade for the Symbian Anna smartphones, the Finnish company promises that the first major update of the operating system will be rolled out in the coming months. It appears that the first smartphones to receive the Feature Pack 1 update will be Nokia 603, Nokia...

2 March 2012
03:04 GMT

Opera Mobile 12 Now Available for Android and Symbian

Today, Opera has made available for download a new flavor of its Opera Mobile application for handsets running under Google’s Android operating system and for those powered by Symbian. We’re referring here to the final version of Opera Mobile 12, which was made official at the Mobile World Congress in ...

27 February 2012
16:51 GMT

MWC 2012: Nokia 808 PureView Hands-On

Today, Nokia unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the most advanced camera-phone in the world, namely the Nokia 808 PureView.   The new device will be released sometime in the second quarter of the year with a 41-megapixel photo snapper packed on the back.   The handset vendor include...

27 February 2012
08:35 GMT

Nokia Carla to Arrive on Nokia 801

Nokia Carla, the next flavor of the Symbian platform, is expected to arrive on shelves later this year. The first handset to feature it is now said to be the previously rumored Nokia 801. The phone maker made it to the headlines a few times before, but was recently suggested to have been scrapped, along with the whol...

24 February 2012
01:56 GMT

Nokia Social 1.5 Now Available for Belle Smartphones

Nokia is going social all the way. After betting everything on Windows Phone platform, the company is now turning its attention to Symbian phone users. With Nokia Belle already deployed globally, since earlier this month, Nokia is now looking to update some of the critical services and apps that is still offering t...

23 February 2012
09:02 GMT

Nokia Carla (ex-Symbian) Update Coming to Belle Smartphones in Q4 2012

Nokia has just released the Belle update for most of its Symbian Anna smartphones and the company is readying for a new challenge, Nokia Carla for all compatible devices. The folks at NokiaPoweruser have been tipped by a source close to the matter on Nokia’s update roadmap for 2012. It looks like the Finnish c...

22 February 2012
08:08 GMT

Nokia Teases High-Res Camera Phone for MWC 2012

One of the mobile phones that are expected to make an official appearance at the Mobile Word Congress next week is the successor of Nokia’s high-end N8. Supposedly called Nokia 808 (Pure View), the device is said to feature 1080P video recording capabilities, while running under the older Symbian operating sy...

22 February 2012
01:49 GMT

Nokia Drop Receives Nokia Belle Support

Nokia has just announced the release of version 1.4 of their Nokia Drop application for devices powered by the Symbian operating system. The new application iteration arrives on devices with great enhancements included into the mix, such as support for automatic updates, or silent installation features. At the sa...

18 February 2012
05:55 GMT

Nokia Unveils MWC 2012 Agenda

Nokia is coming to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, and is expected to bring along a wide range of new devices. The company has been long rumored to plan the launch of a new high-end Windows Phone device at the event, and also to aim at releasing a successor for the flagship N8 Symbian device. N...

15 February 2012
12:11 GMT

Symbian-Based Nokia 803 Emerges Again

Rumor has it that Nokia is getting ready to nail Symbian’s coffin, and that we’ll soon see the last handset powered by this OS being unveiled to the world. The phone is said to be a high-end device, and info on it has just emerged online courtesy of BGR, who claims that Nokia will launch it in May with ...

8 February 2012
11:46 GMT

Photo of Symbian-Based Nokia 801 Leaks

Nokia has been long rumored to plan the release of a successor for its high-end Nokia N8 smartphone, but specifics on the matter have been lacking until now. Recent reports, however, suggest that the company might be nearing the release of this device, and that the company could put an end to any other Symbian pla...

7 February 2012
14:41 GMT

German Server Found to Serve Malicious Mobile Apps

Researchers came across a server located in Germany that hosts numerous websites ready to serve mobile malware that targets Android and Symbian users. Trend Micro experts found a total of 1,351 sites hosted on the server in question, all the websites falling into a certain category. They identified Android Market ap...

7 February 2012
07:46 GMT

Nokia to Kill Symbian with N8 Successor

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia will send the Symbian platform to the graveyard sooner than originally announced, if the latest reports on the matter are to be believed. There will be only one new Symbian model pushed to shelves from Nokia, and it will arrive as the successor of the Nokia N8 flagship phone. Nok...

4 February 2012
08:31 GMT

Nokia Carla Currently Under Testing at Nokia

Following the release of Symbian Anna and Belle last year (the latter was released as Nokia Belle), Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has started to work on the next version of the mobile operating system. Called Carla, the new platform release is already under testing, at least this is what recent entries on the comp...

1 February 2012
16:01 GMT

Updated Soundtracker Available on Symbian, S60 5th Edition, Series40

A new version of the Soundtracker mobile application is now available for download for devices powered by Symbian, S60 5th Edition, Series40. The S60 5th Edition S^3, Symbian Anna and Symbian Belle iteration of the app has reached version 1.7.5 and includes a variety of performance improvements and bug fixes.Moreov...

23 January 2012
14:41 GMT

Nokia 801T Lands in China with Symbian, TD-SCDMA Connectivity

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia plans on increasing its presence on the market in China, and the company has just announced a new Symbian smartphone for this market, namely the Nokia 801T. The new device is running under the Symbian operating system, and is set to land on shelves in China with support for the loc...

27 December 2011
06:41 GMT

Nokia Belle UI Arrives on Existing Phones in February 2012

Two months from now, a wide range of Nokia mobile phone users will enjoy a new UI on their devices, the Nokia Belle, previously known as Symbian Belle. The Finnish mobile phone maker has just made the official announcement on this, and also confirmed the handsets that will receive it: Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia E6,...

21 December 2011
08:23 GMT

Soundtracker Radio for Symbian, S60, and Series40 Updated

A new version of Soundtracker is now available for download for beta testers who own handsets powered by Symbian, S60, and Series40. Owners of S60 5th Edition S^3, Symbian Anna and Symbian Belle devices can now download version 1.7.4 of the application, with a series of performance enhancements packed inside, along...

19 December 2011
17:01 GMT

Nokia Maps Suite for Symbian Gets Updated

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just announced the availability of an update version of its Nokia Maps Suite for devices that are based under the Symbian operating system. The Nokia Maps Suite packs a series of applications that are meant at providing users with location and navigation features on their devic...

14 December 2011
15:01 GMT

Soundtracker Radio Updated for S40 and S60 5th Edition Devices

A new flavor of the Soundtracker Radio application is now available for download on S40 and S60 5th Edition Nokia mobile phones. To be more precise, two different iterations of the application are available for Nokia users, namely version 1.7.3 for all S60 5th edition devices and for smartphones running under the S...

12 December 2011
16:01 GMT

Nokia Nearby App Gets Updated

Nokia has just made available for download a new version of the Nokia Nearby application that it released for its Symbian and S40 users not too long ago. The new flavor of the application was pushed to the Nokia Store with a series of improvements when compared to the previous app releases, as well as with new feat...

8 December 2011
12:51 GMT

Symbian Carla Screenshots Emerge, Show MeeGo-Like UI

We already knew that Nokia was working on the release of new flavors of its Symbian operating system, supposedly called Carla and Donna, but no specific info on what these might be all about has emerged until now. Today, however, we can have a close look at the UI in these platform releases, courtesy of a series o...

7 December 2011
03:02 GMT

Nokia’s Store QML Client Updated, Nokia E6 Now Supported

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has made available for download a new flavor of its Store QML Client or Symbian devices, offering support for a few more smartphones than before. However, this is not all, since Store QML Client 3.20.044 also adds support for additional languages, while also bringing a series of ot...

5 December 2011
16:21 GMT

Nokia Live View 2.03 Is Out Now, Still in Beta

A new version of the Nokia Live View application is now available for download for devices based on the company’s Symbian operating system. The new application flavor, Nokia Live View 2.03 beta, is meant to deliver a series of performance enhancements to users, which include fixes for install issues, crashes,...

2 December 2011
16:21 GMT

Nimbuzz for Symbian Updated with New Look

A new flavor of Nimbuzz for Symbian devices is now available for download, with a new interface included in the mix, and with a series of other enhancements as well. The application was already made available for download via Nimbuzz’ website, and is expected to hit the Nokia Store next week. Moreover, the ...

26 November 2011
05:39 GMT

Download Opera Mobile 11.5.1 for Symbian

A new version of the Opera Mobile browser is available for download for devices running under the Symbian operating system, namely Opera Mobile 11.5.1. The new app flavor arrives a few weeks after the release of the Opera Mobile 11.5 for Symbian, and is meant to fix various issues that have been found in the brows...

21 November 2011
15:31 GMT

Download Opera Mini 6.5.1 for Symbian

A new flavor of the Opera Mini mobile browser for handsets that run under Nokia's Symbian platform is now available for download, namely Opera Mini 6.5.1. The new application release comes to the market with predictive text input and language choice added to the search field, as well as with a variety of fixes...

18 November 2011
11:51 GMT

Nokia Maps 3.08 with Weather Hits Gold Status

Today, a new flavor of the Nokia Maps with Weather application has emerged from the Nokia Beta Labs and is now available for some of the latest Symbian devices out there. The new Nokia Maps 3.08 with Weather was pushed out of the beta status with a new installer in tow, and is available for all handsets running un...

16 November 2011
16:31 GMT


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