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  Thanks to a forum post, we just got a peek on Nokia’s upcoming C7 touchscreen device from the Cseries. The phone will apparently run Symbian^3 OS and feature a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen display with multi-touch support, 8MP camera with dual LED flash, face recognition, stereo speakers and front facing camera. Other details like availability [...]

  Nokia might have been the first one to unveil a Symbian^3 device but it will be an Asian vendor who will bring the Symbian^3-equipped phone to the market first. Lee Williams, executive director of Symbian Foundation confirmed to Reuters that a phone running Symbian 3 software will be shipped first by an Asian vendor [...]

  Symbian has released couple of videos showing interface of Symbian^4. The first video shows multiple homescreen and its widgetized interface whereas the second video goes through the image viewing menu. The interface – as you’ll see – is clearly meant for larger sized touchscreen devices but unfortunately fails to amaze considering it’s the UI [...]

  Symbian, world’s most widely used platform has gone open source. Symbian Foundation, who owns the platform has released the source code of the OS for developers to fiddle with. This important step could mark Symbian’s future of Symbian that although is in existence for over 10 years but has failed to capitalize to new-age [...]

  Nokia’s unfathomable commitment to Symbian is no secret. Nokia has released some concept proposal UI for Symbian^4 and is currently asking for feedback from Symbian developers. The Qt built S^4 UI boasts revamped layout, support for irregular shaped homescreen widgets, improved task-switcher and more. Nokia has in fact, compared the UI to Android, webOS [...]

  When Nokia confirmed that they’re remaining committed to Symbian, everyone was surprised as to why is the world’s biggest handset maker clung to the aging Symbian instead of Maemo? Well, here’s their answer – a refreshing UI to make the OS as competitive as others in the market. The first phone with the new [...]

  A source with knowledge of Nokia’s product roadmap let Reuters know that the Finnish giant is planning to launch only one Linux phone in 2010. The Linux OS in Nokia’s case is Maemo and if this is true, Symbian has a fair chance to dominate Nokia’s smartphone portfolio. But if we see the other [...]

  Sony Ericsson’s Kurara has sprung up again revealing more details of the promising device. Kurara is claimed to give Samsung’s Omnia HD run for its money with the integration of ARM’s Cortex-A8 processor, 256MB RAM and PowerVR graphics. It also supports 720p and claimed to be the fastest S60 around. Eldar from Mobile-review has [...]

  Nokia had a N900 meetup in London and some executive from the marketing team blurted out that Nokia will drop Symbian from Nseries devices by 2012, which was later debunked by the Finnish company as “completely premature”. “While it is our policy not to disclose details of our product roadmap, we’d like to explicitly [...]

  It’s the first time both Nokia and Microsoft have come together and the alliance looks beneficial to everyone, including the consumers. Microsoft will create Office Mobile and other range of productivity tools and will be developed as well as marketed to Symbian smartphone users, carriers and businesses. To initiate, Nokia plans to introduce these [...]

  Well, it was expected, isn’t it? Guardian’s claim of Nokia Android device that was supposed to be shown in September has been thrashed by the Finnish phone maker. It also didn’t make sense to believe that Nokia would develop on Android since Symbian is their core platform. “Absolutely no truth to this whatsoever. Everyone [...]

  Adobe will be releasing a beta version of Flash Player 10 for smartphones in October. The confirmation came during a Q2 earnings call where Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told that the player will hit in October on Windows Mobile, Google’s Android, Palm’s webOS and Symbian platforms. If you’re trying to search for one of [...]

  While we have seen couple of computers running on Android, this is the first time S60 platform has made an appearance on an Atom based computer. Guys at S60 on Symbian Customer Operations (SOSCO) took an off the shelf Atom based motherboard and ported to show S60’s potential. As Symbian itself puts it, they [...]

  Symbian Foundation is yet to start its operations but the open source Symbian OS is already getting some attention. Last week 14 companies including HP, MySpace joined the foundation and according to Executive Director, Lee Williams by the end of the year, around 400 to 700 members are expected join the foundation. That’s a [...]

  Back in July, Nokia gave a major shock to Nokia users using Blackberry service when they announced to drop the development and support of Blackberry Connect software. It was not the best app but it was the only one for Nokia users to communicate with the BES servers. Now, Tom Furlong, head of Nokia [...]