Nokia has just announced its latest Symbian^3 based phone, C6, C7 and E7. The Nokia C6-01 has an 8 megapixel camera and a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen with all-new ClearBlack Display (CBD) technology which is said to deliver better outdoor visibility. The 3.5-inch (also AMOLED) C7 gets more memory than its family mate and a stainless steel body.  E7 features a 4″ CBD display and a slide out QWERTY keyboard that is “beautiful and all business”. View [...]

With tough competitors in the smartphone market, Nokia has to improve the Symbian OS and its touch UI.  And here it is, the new Symbian S^3.  It features new home page, “visual multitasking”, cover flow like music player and many more.  Check out the video below.

People like free things, and it is proven again.  The Ovi Map from Nokia has been downloaded for 1.4 millions times since it went free last week.  An on average, it is one download every second. The response has been so good that it’s exceeded Nokia’s expectations according to Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia Executive Vice President.  And the countries that top the 5 are China, Italy, UK, Germany and Spain. It is hard to resist when [...]

In order to fight iPhone and Android, Nokia established the Symbian Foundation in year 2008 and promised to open source the OS that runs on millions of phone – Symbian OS. Nokia hopes by open sourcing the Symbian OS, more companies will use the platform to create handsets and thus increasing the popularity of the the platform.  And eventually to get more developers to write applications for the platform and more people will buy Symbian [...]

The announcement of Google offering navigation software has got many of the GPS navigation companies like TomTom and Garmin into trouble.  The announcement from Nokia will get them into more troubles. Nokia has just announced to offer their Ovi Maps turn-by-turn navigation software free for Nokia smartphone users.  And the offer is global.  It covers 74 countries in 46 languages — a move that should cover 20 million smartphones globally with Ovi Maps available in [...]

A good news for Symbian phone users, Skype has just released Skype for Symbian beta for many of the Symbian handsets.  The Symbian phone owners can now have a native Skype client for the phones and do not need to rely on any other third party clients. From the announcement, phones that are supported are: Nokia E71, Nokia E63,  Nokia E66, Nokia N82, Nokia E51,  Nokia N95,  Nokia N95 8GB,  Nokia N81,  Nokia N81 8GB, [...]

During a recent Nokia press release, the Nordic telecommunication giant promises to deliver handsets that will have significant user experience improvement. In the press release, Nokia outlines: Improve our user experience; Re-engineer our Symbian user interface; deliver a major product milestone before mid-year 2010, and another major product milestone before the end of 2010; Deliver our first Maemo 6-powered mobile computer, with an iconic user experience, in the second half of 2010; Significantly increase the [...]

The latest Nokia music phone will be available this week in UK and Findland, the rest of the world will follow soon, according to Nokia official statement. The phones comes with 35 hours of music playback, 32GB of onboard memory, 3.2 inch capacitive touch screen which is rare in Nokia’s products.  The phone will be retailed at £449 in UK, free of contract. Nokia fans, you might want to pay attention to your local store [...]

Here is another bad news for Sony Ericsson, their Satio sales in UK is suspended by the 2 largest mobile phone retailers in UK, Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U after a high number of customer returns and complaints.  A “software glitch” reportedly causes Sony Ericsson’s flagship device to power down when users try to access certain applications — unfortunately, the issue can’t be patched via an over-the-air update.  However, Sony Ericsson spokesman is saying they [...]

Hey, if this is the phone you have been waiting for, wait no more.  It is now for sale from all operators in Singapore now.  All three operators (Singtel, M1 and Starhub) launch the phone on the same day (7th November).  The price? Singtel: SGD 298 – SGD 498 M1: SGD338 – SGD 538 Starhub: SGD398 – SGD698 The Nokia N97 mini comes with a 3.2 inch touch screen with resolution of 640×360, wife, HSDPA [...]