The Nokia 500 Is Nokia's First 1GHz Symbian Smartphone

The Nokia 500 has just been announced as Nokia latest Symbian Anna smartphone. The new phone is based on the Nokia C5-03 specs-wise but refreshes some of the key features, retaining the reportedly affordable price tag.

Symbian Handsets To Start Shipping With Anna From July

The Nokia Connection 2011 event is still going on and CEO Stephen Elop just announced on stage that the existing Symbian^3 devices will be getting the Symbian Anna update in July.

Nokia E6 and X7 Go On Pre-Order In Germany

When announced a month ago, the Nokia duo E6 and X7 caused a good deal of excitement. Packing the latest Symbian update, called Anna, the two smartphones proved that the OS is not yet ready to head into oblivion.

Nokia Germany Leaked New Symbian^3 Homescreen

Some images posted on the Nokia Germany web site just lifted the curtain on one of the features to come in the next Symbian^3 update. What we are seeing is the free-form widgets that were initially rumored to come with the PR 2.0 Anna update, but apparently did not make it.

Nokia ORO Is A C7 With Fancy Clothes, Coming Soon

For those of you who are already tired of their Vertus, there is some good news. Nokia ORO is coming soon and it is not your plain feature phone made from nice materials. Instead, it is the Symbian running Nokia C7 gone through a gold and leather treatment.

Nokia N8 Gets Dressed In Pink For Ladies Use

Nokia N8 is already available in five completely different colors - orange; blue; green; dark grey; and silve white. It seems the variety was not enough so today Nokia launches a pink N8. Is that Symbian Anna running inside?

Nokia Moves 3000 Symbian Developers, To Lay Off 4000 Other Employees

Today Nokia announced it's moving 3000 Symbian developers to Accenture group and dismisses 4000 other employees, but promises them a solid social responsibility program to help them through.

Nokia E72 Gets A Firmware Update To v54

Nokia has recently started pushing a firmware update to the Nokia E72, still the portrait QWENTRY candybar business flagship device in the Finnish manufacturer's portfolio, at least until the E6 finally sees the light of day. As usual, Nokia keeps supporting smartphones with software updates for many months, sometimes even years, after their release.

Nokia X7 Shows Up On Video Sporting Symbian's Latest UI

After a long and dramatic series of rumors, and only two days before Nokia's online event, a promotional video of Nokia X7 for Three UK surfaced in YouTube, and brought a great deal of excitement to us.

Nokia Schedules A Symbian Event For 12 April, Gets Even With HTC

Nokia is holding an event dedicated to Symbian smartphone on 12 April. Inviting the press to go and "discover what's new with Symbian smartphones" the Finnish company will most likely announce a new addition to its smartphone lineup. Or at least that's what we hope for.

Photos Of Symbian^3-Running Nokia T7-00 Leak, Some Specs Too

Live photos of the unannounced Nokia T7-00 just surfaced in China. Apparently the Symbian^3 smartphone will be a slightly trimmed-down version of the Nokia N8 flagship, dropping the 12 megapixel shooter, but retaining the sleek aluminium unibody design.

Nokia E6-00 Images and Videos Leaks Again With A Bang

The Nokia E6-00 has come out of the shadows yet again in another of its typical monthly leaks. If you remember, it was first hinted in a leaked Nokia XML file, then a month later some photos of the device emerged. Finally, a couple of weeks ago, a new photo of the E6 was revealed with the phone sporting a classy back look.

Nokia T7-00 Leaks, To Come In TD-SCDMA and HSDPA Flavors

It appears that Nokia is about to add a new Symbian^3 smartphone to its range of devices. The Nokia T7-00 is obviously the first representative of a whole new series that should join the existing C, E, N and X handsets.

Nokia Reveals Its Plans For The Symbian^3 Future

The Nokia vice president Purnima Kochikar has just released an open letter to developers, revealing the company's plans about their Symbian^3 platform. Apparently the Finns are planning to continue releasing new smartphones running on Symbian^3 as well as regular updates for the OS itself.

Those new devices should bring 1GHz+ CPUs and faster GPUs to Symbian^3. Kochikar also says that the company will make full use of its expertise in location-based services and imaging to make its new Symbian^3 smartphones more attractive.
Of course, its the UI that's currently holding the Symbian lineup back, but Nokia plans to do something about that too. There are several updates that should dramatically improve user experience in the pipeline. The first one is pretty major, delivering a brand new home screen, new flexible widgets, new icons (picture above), a faster browser, new Navbar and a fresh look and feel to Ovi Store and Ovi Maps, including integration of social media services in Ovi Maps.
That first update should come some time in the summer. In fact, several of its components have already made their way to the Nokia C7 Astound that should hit T-Mobile US in a week.
Unfortunately, once again we did not get the answer to the most important question - how long will the Symbian^3 support last? Apparently Nokia will only be able to answer this once they enter the WP7 market and see how things go there.
On some markets such as India, China, Turkey and Russia, the Symbian^3 smartphone platform will continue to be marketed alongside Windows Phone 7.