If you happened to be one of those who purchased the Nokia Astound with T-Mobile, well, we have a bit of disappointing news to pass on — your handset will not be getting an update to Belle. The details have come by way of the @NokiaUS Twitter account where they state rather simply; “Unfortunately the more »

As expected, today Nokia announced the Symbian Belle update, and a few new devices to go alongside it. We have official word that the new devices are the Nokia 700, Nokia 701, and Nokia 600. Each of the new smartphones are powered by Symbian Belle, with 1GHz CPUs, and NFC which Nokia seems quite proud more »

Nokia is getting ready to announce something new for Symbian. The company’s Facebook page has a Flash countdown that will end on August 24 at 1:45 GMT. What’s it all about? Well, it looks like it could be a software update for Symbian. When the Flash countdown was put up, it was originally called Bell more »

We recently learned that the Nokia N9 was not going to come available in the US market and while that may have been a disappointment for some — there is a bit more to add to that. And lets just say, those still digging Symbian or those who were hoping to jump on (or try more »

Following its study into Netflix usage on individual devices, Nielsen has returned with another report detailing the leading smartphone manufacturers and mobile operating systems in the United States. It’s no surprise that Android and iOS are leading the pack, but now we’ve got numbers to back it up.

The Nokia Oro, or Nokia Gold, is a new Symbian-powered smartphone that is definitely not for everyone. This is a phone for someone who doesn’t mind spending around $1,125 for a phone with an operating system that’s about to become irrelevant. The software isn’t the selling point here. The materials that make up the Nokia Oro is second to none. The phone is made up of 18-carat gold with a sapphire crystal as the home key. On the back, the Nokia Oro is made up of premium leather from Scotland. It’s being marketed to people in Europe, Eastern Europe, China and the Middle East. It’ll be released in the third quarter of 2011.

We’ve known about the partnership between Microsoft and Nokia for a while now, but there’s always some paperwork that needs to be done in deals this massive. Today Nokia and Microsoft revealed that the two companies have signed a “definitive agreement” in their partnership. This means that both sides have agreed to the terms of their agreement and are ready to move ahead.

Sure, if you read the title of this post you will likely realize that is sort of a crazy statement. And truth be told I have no plans on getting an Astound with T-Mobile, but at the same time — you have to admit that they have come up with a rather awesome commercial. Via more »

We knew that Nokia has a Symbian event planned for April 12th, and well, it looks like at least some of the surprise has been spoiled. And sadly, the details included in the spoiler are not all that exciting — a new UI for Symbian. Bottom line here, there were two videos on YouTube, one more »

If Gartners latest projections are correct, Windows Mobile will launch something this side of magical in 2014 or 2015. The latest projections provide an insight into how the OS leaders of today will fare in the future. There’s good news for Android and Windows Mobile, iOS stays flat while RIM and Symbian nose dive. So more »