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Well, there may be no date of release for the next version of Android, the Ice cream sandwich, but Nokia will be rolling out the Symbian Belle on October 26. Remember, October 26 is the date when Nokia World 2011 will kick off. The update will roll as on OTA and also through the Ovi [...]

My Nokia Blog received information from an anonymous tipster of what could be the specs of the next Windows powered Nokia phones to be launched next month. The names of the leaked phone are Nokia Ace, Sabre and Sea Ray. If this news has to be believed, all these phones would be announced at the [...]

  Microsoft Canada has inadvertently spilled the beans on upcoming devices running Windows Phone 7.5 codenamed Mango. In the terms of Mango App Challenge for devs, Microsoft promised to give away couple of Nokia and Samsung phones. Although we know about Nokia Sea Ray, another phone that will be unveiled by Nokia will be known [...]

  Near Field Communication (NFC) is undoubtedly the most talked piece of technology this year. It all started with Google integrating the NFC chip in its Nexus S device which then followed by many other devices, including few Blackberries. Nokia too joined in the NFC bandwagon and have integrated NFC capabilities on their upcoming devices [...]

  Nokia has announced that they’re now shipping the much awaited N9. N9 as we know runs on MeeGo and will mostly be one of the last Nokia devices to run the OS that Nokia once completely banked on. Anyways, N9 comes with a 3.9-inch curved glass AMOLED WVGA display, MeeGo 1.2 OS, TI OMAP3630 [...]

  Nokia also announced three mid-range phones powered by Symbian Belle. First up is Nokia 600 which is touted to be the loudest smartphone to day. The phone features loudspeakers that reaches up to 106 phon and comes with an FM Transmitter or FM radio with internal antenna. On the hardware front, the Nokia 600 [...]

  Nokia at an event in Hong Kong announced the next version of Symbian OS. Symbian Belle will take over from Symbian Anna later this year and will bring lots of new features and UI improvements. As evident from the screenshots, Belle has been made to be more touch-friendly and will sport subtle UI improvements [...]

  Nokia has finally released the much awaited Anna update for Symbian^3 devices. Available for Nokia N8, C7, C6-01 and E7, the Symbian Anna update brings in lots of new features like an improved user interface with ‘squircle’ icons, split messaging screen and most importantly, portrait QWERTY keyboard support. Other features in the update are [...]

  Gamescom — as the name suggests — is a trade event for gaming companies to show their wares but it seems Nokia will be tagging along with Microsoft to show something. Nokia is sending invites to journalists for an event on Aug 17 at Gamescom. Nokia does not say what to expect but it [...]

  Nokia has officially announced its first ever 1GHz phone running Symbian OS. Dubbed as Nokia 500 and unlike what we had expected, it is a mid-range phone. In addition to the speedy 1GHz processor, the phone features Symbian Anna OS, a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display with 640×360 resolution support, 5MP camera, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi, [...]

  Nokia’s top smartphone maker position was already come to an end when Apple announced their results few weeks back but apparently it’s going worse. With Samsung’s Q2 results out, analysts estimate Samsung has sold around 19 million smartphones, beating Nokia by over a good 2.3 million units. This however, was unable to take over [...]

  According to a report on Bloomberg, Samsung is tipped to beat Nokia and Apple in terms of smartphone sales for Q2 2011. The report cites research company, Strategy Analytics who reckons Samsung has a very bright chance to beat the two of top companies ruling the smartphone market. Samsung is estimated to sell around [...]

  Nokia’s upcoming Windows Phone device has got another sighting but this time it’s purely unofficial. As you can see, the stealthily hidden phone is similar to Nokia N9 with ubiquitous Windows Phone touch-sensitive Back, Start and Search buttons. The video gives a brief glimpse of the phone build and the UI and despite being [...]

  Press images of Nokia’s upcoming budget smartphone codenamed Zeta has been leaked. Website, Know Your Mobile were handed this shot but without any explicit details about the device. The only confirmed features are the phone’s new Symbian OS dubbed as Belle, a 5MP camera with LED flash, VGA camera on the front and a [...]

  Global System for Mobile communications or fondly called as GSM has completed two decades of its service today. The GSM standard first came into existence in 1991 where the very first call was made between Finland’s former prime minister, Harri Holkeri, and the mayor of Tampere, Kaarina Suonio over a network jointly developed by [...]