Posts Tagged ‘Symbian’
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE
We’d figured the 5530 was destined for markets around the globe where 2G still dominates, so imagine our pleasant surprise to see that good ol’ Nokia USA is as amped as anyone to start selling the company’s new low-cost S60 5th Edition device. This leaves potential buyers in a doozy of a dilemma, though: most retailers are now selling the 5530’s big brother, the 5800, for under $300, which makes the $290 sticker for a 3G-less version pretty hard to swallow. On the flipside, the 5530’s unquestionably the more attractive phone and the updated home screen is going to leave 5800 owners insanely envious. It’s a tough call, and it’s not a call we’d want to have to make — one of each, perhaps? There’s no shipping date listed on the preorder, but for your patience Nokia’s awarding you with an MD-8 stereo Bluetooth speaker if you order online — just pony up your $289.99, pick the white or black version of the phone, twiddle your thumbs, and don’t be shocked when the New York and Chicago flagships get stock before you do.
[Thanks, Oscar M.]
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic up for $290 preorder on US site originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: 5530, 5530xpressmusic, accessories, engadget-mobile, fcc fridays, games, handsets, network, Nokia, podcasts, preorder, Symbian
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Filed under: Software, Symbian, China Mobile
Its website is still showing a Coming Soon page for us, but the Wall Street Journal is reporting via Hong Kong — China Mobile’s hometown — that the world’s largest carrier’s app store is now live. The service, which offers the usual array of apps and media that you’d expect of any self-respecting fee-based carrier content deck, is said to support some ten handsets out of the gate from Nokia, Samsung, and LG. Mysteriously missing from that list is anything that’d be running OMS, though we suppose that makes sense since the first OPhones aren’t coming to market in an official capacity until next month.
China Mobile’s Mobile Market apparently goes live ahead of schedule originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: App Store, china, china-mobile, chinamobile, engadget, engadget-mobile, fcc fridays, japanese, mobile, mobile-market, network, Nokia, Samsung, Symbian
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
At a quick glance, you might think that you’re looking at the back of a 5530 here, but look closer — the camera’s a little different, and we don’t know what’s up with that grille or the slits underneath. Indeed, we could very well be looking at the back of a rumored 5900 XpressMusic, a phone allegedly set to bow at Nokia World in Stuttgart next month with a 5 megapixel camera, S60 5th Edition FP1 (first we’ve heard of an S60 5th Edition feature pack), and — get this — support for SDXC, which would give the phone truly insane expandability options. It’s also apparently a bit thinner than the 5800 it’d be replacing, though the SDXC rumor is truly off the wall — we’ll need to wait right up until Nokia World until we believe that particular tidbit.
[Via mobile-review]
Update: Looks like the photo’s been floating around for a while — hard to say whether it’s legit or not — but these spec details are new. Of course, time’ll tell whether they turn out to be legit — everyone got their German vacations booked? Thanks, Symbian Freak!
Nokia 5900 XpressMusic spotted from the back? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: 5900, accessories, browser, handsets, messaging, network, nokia 5900 xpressmusic, photo, podcasts, rumor, S60 5th Edition, Symbian, XpressMusic
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian
We didn’t expect too many fireworks from Microsoft and Nokia’s joint teleconference this morning, and, well, we didn’t get any. As expected, Office Mobile is coming to Symbian, along with Office Communicator Mobile, SharePoint, and Microsoft System Center, and the two companies also said they’ll be working on “future user experiences” for Nokia customers. Don’t get too worked up about that, though — Nokia said it was “deeply committed to Symbian,” and that “there are no such plans” to work on a Windows Mobile device. So much for that. We did ask whether this partnership would affect Nokia’s rumored Maemo plans, and we were told that development is Symbian-focused for now, but that there might be “other business opportunities” in the future, so at least that door remains open a hair — but for the most part this is all about Microsoft and Nokia trying to stake out a stronger enterprise position, not anything else. Video after the break, if you’re having a hard time taking that nap.
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Microsoft and Nokia announce Office coming to Symbian originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: accessories, culture, Microsoft, microsoftsystemcenter, Nokia, office, officemobile, sharepoint, Symbian, systemcenter, Windows Mobile, windowsmobile
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian
Poor
Symbian. Sony Ericsson’s been giving you some hot play with its
Satio smartphone, but lately it seems Nokia wants little to do with you, always throwing a cold shoulder and mentioning what a great guy that
Maemo dude is. Now, according to rumors from the (still pink) German Financial Times, Nokia is looking to drop Symbian OS altogether and move to Maemo wholesale, powering not just its internet tablets but also its smartphones, the first of which is due in “the next few weeks” — possibly referring to the
RX-51 Rover that’s been out and about lately. According to the report, the Symbian OS just can’t keep up with the younger players these days; “far too cumbersome to work with.” Nokia has issued a typical no comment, but interestingly last night’s mention of a “
alliance” between Microsoft and Nokia for the creation of Office for Nokia phones made no explicit mention of Office for Symbian. Intrigue; we love it.
Update: As Reggie has pointed out in the comments, Peter Schneider, Nokia’s Maemo marketing guru, has put the brakes on this rumor via Twitter. “No, Nokia is not replacing Symbian with Maemo. Symbian and Maemo will continue to coexist.” So much for intrigue, and romance.
[Via TechCrunch]
Nokia rumored to be kicking Symbian OS to the curb, moving in with Maemo originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: culture, games, Linux, mobile, Nokia, rumor, rumors, Symbian, symbianos, virgin-mobile
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Filed under: Nokia, Others
We’re not sure what to make of this, but we were just invited to a joint Microsoft / Nokia teleconference during which the two companies will announce an “alliance.” Yeah, there are some pretty wild possibilities there — Nokia going WinMo? Redmond going Symbian? The creation of MaeWinMo? — but considering the featured speakers are Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft’s business division, and Kai Öistämö, Nokia’s EVP for devices, we’re guessing the real announcement will be something more pedestrian, like native Exchange support on Symbian or possibly that upcoming Atom netbook running Windows 7. Otherwise, hell — Nokia would be supporting three different mobile OSs, and that seems just a little too crazy, even for Espoo. We’ll see — it all goes down tomorrow at 11AM Eastern.
Update: This is probably unrelated, but Microsoft’s Mac BU just called its own presser for Thursday, so if you’re looking to spend the night weaving wild nonsensical conspiracy theories, we’d say all the pieces are in place.
Nokia and Microsoft to announce an “alliance” tomorrow — what? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: kai istm, messaging, Microsoft, stephen elop, Symbian, Windows Mobile, windowsmobile
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Nokia, Rogers Wireless, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that leaked lineup documents suggest Rogers has an eye on Nokia’s Surge; Rogers has a pretty good relationship with Nokia, after all, and the Surge is the kind of device that pretty much any text-savvy carrier with an established rapport with Nokia would be looking into. What might be more of a surprise is that they’ll apparently be launching it as the 6790 Surge — Nokia’s global designation for the device — as opposed to the simpler “Surge” preferred by AT&T. After AT&T’s move we’d taken 6790 as more of a European branding, but hey, props to Rogers for keeping it real and letting Nokia roll with its traditional scheme. No word on availability yet, but we’ll allegedly be looking at CAD $89.99 (about $83) on a new three-year agreement when it finally does launch.
Rogers signs up for the Nokia Surge? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: accessories, canada, games, mobile, network, News, Nokia, podcasts, QWERTY, rogers, slider, Symbian
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Sprint, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
We’ve yet to see a Satio or XPERIA X2 or X3 at retail, but it looks like Sony Ericsson have yet another full touch phone in the works as it tries to revitalize and reinvent itself with a renewed focus on Android, Symbian Foundation, and Windows Mobile for its smartphone lineup. What we’re looking at here is claimed to be a spy shot of the Jalou — that’s a retail name, not a codename, by the way — which is said to run S60 5th Edition (just like the Satio) with WiFi, GPS, and some form of HSDPA on board. The Sony Ericsson fan base is pretty notorious for crafting beautiful, very believable concept devices using nothing more than Illustrator and an overactive imagination, so we’d urge caution here — but other than a display that seems to have been blacked out, it all seems believable enough. The bigger question might be whether the world’s ready for two Symbian-based touchscreen smartphones from Sony Ericsson in the next few months.
Sony Ericsson ‘Jalou’ next in company’s Symbian lineup? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: culture, engadget-mobile, full touch, fulltouch, games, messaging, network, S60, satio, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Symbian
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Reviews, Nokia, ATT, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA
Some might say that the phone you’re peering at above is the most un-Nokia-like Nokia device produced in quite some time (if not ever), but remember, this one was custom made for US consumers and AT&T’s audience — something that’s not true for too many Espoo-sourced handsets. Once known as the Mako, Nokia’s Surge (or 6790 in international speak) is certainly unorthodox in design, though the actual specs list is fairly familiar. We get the feeling that Nokia was aiming to hit a very specific niche with this device, somewhere in-between the text-happy handsets adored by tweens and the smartphone desired by Mr. Suit. Care to see if we think Nokia accomplished said goal? Then head on past the break, vaquero.
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Nokia Surge review originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Tags: 6790, browser, data, hands on, Nokia, nokia surge, phone, review, S60, surge, Symbian, symbians60
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Filed under: Handsets, Reviews, Nokia, ATT, Symbian, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA
Some might say that the phone you’re peering at above is the most un-Nokia-like Nokia device produced in quite some time (if not ever), but remember, this one was custom made for US consumers and AT&T’s audience — something that’s not true for too many Espoo-sourced handsets. Once known as the Mako, Nokia’s Surge (or 6790 in international speak) is certainly unorthodox in design, though the actual specs list is fairly familiar. We get the feeling that Nokia was aiming to hit a very specific niche with this device, somewhere in-between the text-happy handsets adored by tweens and the smartphone desired by Mr. Suit. Care to see if we think Nokia accomplished said goal? Then head on past the break, vaquero.
Continue reading Nokia Surge review
Nokia Surge review originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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