It is the end of an era or more accurately close to the end. Nokia has dropped the Symbian branding from its own smartphone OS and is now calling it Nokia Belle – no more Symbian S60 versions, just Nokia and the version name. This move probably comes after Nokia sold and outsourced Symbian to Accenture, which would mean it does not own the Symbian trademark anymore. Nokia also announced it will release the Belle update for the Nokia N8, E7, E6, X7, C6-01, C7, and Oro starting from February 2012. However...

It was supposed to be an event to launch the first handsets running Symbian Anna in India – the Nokia X7 and the Nokia E6. And yes, most of the talk from Nokia at the dais was about the devices and the Anna update to Symbian ^3. But looming over the event, rather like a pair of Shakespearean ghosts at a Macbethian banquet, were two names with which Nokia has been associated: Windows Phone and the N9. Many was the media person who asked the Nokia team about the “phone without buttons” (the Me...

We knew that they were in stores already, but Nokia today officially took the wraps off the E6 and X7 handsets. The devices are the first in India to feature the latest version of Symbian, Anna, and to REALLY stress the fact, Nokia presented four ladies on the stage – Gul Panag, Soha Ali Khan, Diandra Soares and Sagarika Ghatge – as they “represented ‘Anna’ with their grace, style & elegance” (yes, that was the press release, folks). Speaking in more common sense terms, Anna re...

There was a time when booking in advance was largely the preserve of Bollywood blockbusters, but of late gadgets have joined the pre-booking bandwagon. The latest to enter the category is Nokia’s next touch and type E Series device, the E6. Those wanting to book the device can do so by (take a deep breath, folks) heading to www.nokia.co.in/E6, filling an online form, indicating their preferred Nokia Priority store, and after being called by aforementioned store (a feat that we are told will be accomplis...

Even as Nokia transitions from Symbian to Windows Phone operating system, the handset vendor is still busy tweaking the soon-to-be-defunct platform. Nokia calls this new version of Symbian ‘Anna’ and will soon launch the E6, which will be one of the first smartphones running this operating system. We spent some time with this ‘Touch and Type’ smartphone today and we feel that this could be one of the better offerings from Nokia in a long while. The phone feels sturdy to hold and the ne...