Last year when Nokia changed the name of the Symbian Belle OS to Nokia Belle, it also mentioned that the Belle update will be released in February 2012. Now, news is abuzz that the Finnish giant will most likely be rolling-out the the Nokia Belle update starting from February 8 for the Nokia N8, E7, E6, X7, C6-01, C7 and Oro. Folks at the Nokianesia Blog spotted this ad above on Nokia Vietnam website. Of course, this update will be released globally and won’t just be available for Vietnam. Stay tuned in...

Announced in August, the Nokia 500 is now available for pre-order with online retailer Flipkart for Rs 10,200. The 500 runs on Symbian Anna and features a 1GHz processor, a 5.0 MP camera, 3.2-inch 640×360 pixel display, Wi-Fi and GPS. It has 2GB of internal memory and a microSD card slot that supports cards up to 32GB. It comes with two additional exchangeable back covers. Nokia is expected to release the latest Symbian Belle update for the 500 towards the end of this year. It is We expect Nokia to offic...

Nokia has just announced its Symbian Anna based smartphone – the Nokia 500. The handset is 3G ready, runs on a 1Ghz processor, features a 3.2-inch capacitive display with a screen resolution of 640×360 pixels, a 5.0 megapixel camera at the back with video recording (no secondary or front-facing camera), in-built storage of 2 GB expandable up to 32 GB, promises a talk-time of 5-7 hours on 3G and 2G networks respectively and music playback time of up to 35 hours. The Nokia 500 will be available in Bl...

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...

Guys, Nokia’s C7 is back and this time it dons a golden look. The handset in question is called the Nokia Oro, flaunts super-glossy 18-carat gold paint job on the edges, the back is protected by Scottish leather cover and runs on the latest version of the Symbain OS – Anna. It’s not just the looks that remind you of the Nokia C7 but also the specifications. The Finnish vendor hasn’t really changed the data sheet as the Oro sports specs of the C7 – a 3.5-inch AMOLED display, an 8....