Nokia PureView 808, 700, X7 and others receive software updates
While Symbian, known as Belle OS in its last days, is dead for while, it’s not yet completely buried. Nokia has started rolling out software updates for most of its Symbian smartphones that were released in 2011 and 2012. Included are the PureView 808 (with its awesome 41MP camera), the Nokia 700, Nokia 701, Nokia [...]
Nokia Belle Refresh rolls out via software update starting today
Symbian is dead, right? Right. That however hasn’t stopped Nokia (or Accenture, Symbian’s new owner) from releasing yet another software update for its 2010 range of devices (those that were launched running what was then called Symiban^3). So, the Nokia N8, E7, C7, C6-01, X7, and Oro are already in the process of receiving the [...]
Nokia 808 PureView will be available in the UK on June 30
The Nokia 808 PureView is finally (officially) on its way to the UK. And in just a few days, it will arrive over there, 41 MP camera in tow of course. The 808 PureView has been up for pre-order ever since April, but there was no word on an actual release date. At one point [...]
Nokia 808 PureView now up for pre-order in the US, ships on July 8
The Nokia 808 PureView with its insane 41 MP camera sensor can now be pre-ordered in the US. This follows the official announcement that it was headed over there from a couple of days ago, and the pricing details which emerged yesterday. So if you’re interested in picking up one of the most unique smartphones [...]
Nokia 808 PureView gets priced for the US, pre-orders start this week
Yesterday we let you know that the Nokia 808 PureView is on its way to the US, despite Nokia’s claims to the contrary back when it first announced the monster cameraphone. And today we have some more details for those of you anxious to get your hands on one. The 808 will be sold by [...]
Nokia PureView 808 officially “coming soon” to the US
Although it hasn’t put up a press release or anything like that, Nokia has confirmed that its 41MP PureView 808 cameraphone is going to be officially released in the US – as expected from last week-end’s Facebook tease. The PureView 808 is now sitting comfortably over at Nokia USA’s website, with a “coming soon” notice [...]
Samsung Galaxy S III and Nokia 808 PureView priced in China. Galaxy S III will be on all carriers
Two of the most important smartphones announced this year have been priced for the Chinese market. On one hand, we have the Samsung Galaxy S III, with top of the line specs and record pre-orders – it’s bound to be one of the best selling devices this year. On the other hand, the Nokia 808 [...]
Nokia PureView 808 might be released in the UK on June 21
It looks like the Nokia PureView 808 may not be delayed until July in the UK after all. Amazon UK is currently saying that the handset is due to be released “on June 21”, and obviously allows interested customers to pre-order it. The retailer is asking £499.98 for a SIM-free 808 – that’s about €625, [...]
Nokia 808 PureView delayed in the UK until mid-late July?
The Nokia 808 PureView may have been delayed in the UK. According to the relevant page up on retailer Clove‘s website, the first PureView phone is now slated to arrive only in mid-to-late July. That’s also what the aforementioned company told one of its customers who pre-ordered a Nokia 808 PureView. Said customer sent the [...]
Unlocked Nokia 808 PureView to be launched in the US soon
It looks like Nokia will release its 808 PureView smartphone in the US after all. PC Mag had a chat with Nokia US president Chris Weber, who said that the company is trying to “figure out a way to make that [the 808 PureView] available in the U.S. in the next couple of months.” Unlike [...]
Nokia 808 PureView rolls out this month (in India and Russia first)
Nokia has announced that its new 808 PureView Belle smartphone is now ready to be released in select markets around the world. The first countries to get the handset (sometime this month) will be India and Russia. Likely the best camera phone made until now, the Nokia 808 PureView features a 41MP Carl Zeiss sensor [...]
Nokia developed a fix for Symbian’s annoying user prompts in June 2009. Patent application proves it
It amazingly turns out that Nokia figured out a way to remove the highly annoying user prompts in Symbian… in June of 2009. And it even has a patent application to prove it. The application was recently made public at the USPTO, and it shows that three years ago, Nokia was actively concerned with one of [...]
Nokia PureView wins TIPA’s Best Imaging Innovation award
Announced back in February at MWC 2012, Nokia’s PureView technology is being used only on the Nokia 808 PureView smartphone for the beginning. And although the handset hasn’t been released yet, the technology has already won an award: Best Imaging Innovation from TIPA (the Technical Image Press Association). TIPA is praising the 808 PureView’s “comparatively [...]
Nokia 700, 701 and 603 now getting Belle FP1 firmware updates
Although Symbian is dead, and sales of Symbian – now Belle – smartphones are plummeting, Nokia is still committed to offering software updates for them. Three of the company’s Belle handsets, which were introduced in the second half of 2011, are now getting updates to Belle FP1 (Feature Pack 1) in Asia. The handsets are [...]
Symbian is dead. For real this time. Nokia is now an upstart in smartphones, with 1% market share
Nokia has previewed the Q1 2012 results today. And they are a disaster. I did expect Nokia’s first quarter to be bad. But nowhere as bad as this. In Q4 2011 Nokia sold 19.6 million smartphones. 18 to 19 million of them were Symbian devices. This quarter they have shipped 12 million smartphones. 2 million [...]
Windows Phone now outsells Symbian in the UK, Nokia Lumia 800 helped a lot
Since Nokia unveiled Windows Phone as its new main smartphone platform in early 2011, it was obvious that Symbian sales would fall even faster than they did until that moment. Now, in the UK, for the first time in history, Symbian’s market share is so low that even Windows Phone is above it. And we [...]
Nokia 500 gets a Belle update starting today
Nokia has announced that owners of its 500 Symbian smartphone (introduced back in August 2011 with Symbian Anna on board) should receive an update to Nokia Belle starting today, February 15. Nokia Belle brings simplified menus, a new notification bar, enhanced browser capabilities, HD video recording at 30fps, and Nokia Maps version 3.06. The update [...]
Nokia to announce the Lumia 610, Lumia 900, and Symbian-powered 808 PureView (N8 successor) at MWC
What a day filled with Nokia-related news items this is! And now we get the biggest of them all. PocketNow claims that it has received word about all of Nokia’s upcoming phone announcements that will be made during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in exactly two weeks. Two Windows Phones will be unveiled then. The [...]
HTC Flyer, Nokia E6, BlackBerry Torch 9860, and iPhone 3GS to be discontinued by Orange UK soon
Earlier today we brought you news about a few T-Mobile devices that are bound to reach End-of-Life status soon in the US, and now it’s time for some similar news, this time coming from Orange UK. The operator is going to discontinue three devices before the end of this month, and a big name in [...]
Nokia Belle update may be coming on February 8
Last month when we also officially mourned the passing of the Symbian brand, Nokia promised that the Belle software update for devices currently running Anna (such as the N8, C7, C6-01, E7, X7, and E6) will arrive sometime in February. But back then the Finnish company didn’t go to the trouble of providing an actual [...]
