Silverlight beta comes to S60 5th Edition

Microsoft naturally spent the overwhelming majority of its breath chatting up Windows Phone 7 Series at MIX10 earlier this week, but buried beneath the fanfare was a little morsel for a distinctly different platform. That’s right, Symbian fans, you’ve now got a Silverlight runtime (for a few devices, anyway) some two years after Nokia announced that it’d be coming. Support right… Continue reading

Qik Premium: video downloads, higher quality, Nokia only for now

Qik has finally gotten around to charging its customers this week with the announcement of Qik Premium, a new service that employs both a new phone client and some tweaked back-end stuff to offer users a handful of new features. The biggies appear to be MPEG-4 video downloads straight from the uploaded segments on Qik’s site and some sort of higher-quality transcoding… Continue reading

Nokia’s Series 40 to ‘offer a compelling touch experience’

Even though it’s lived a long, fruitful (some might even say wildly successful) life as Nokia’s one and only high-end feature phone platform, Series 40 is suffering from a bit of an identity crisis now that S60 pushing deeper than ever into categories traditionally considered dumbphone strongholds — one needs to look no further than the C5 to see that… Continue reading

Nokia C6 gets FCC approval, launching at CeBIT?

Say you’re Nokia. Well, you can’t be Nokia since Nokia’s an inanimate concept; say you’re Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. What’d be a good show to use as a backdrop for a new low-end line of smartphones, none of which are likely to generate a ton of buzz? Why, the monstrous fairgrounds of CeBIT, of course! There’s a bit of creative wording in… Continue reading

Nokia Nuron for T-Mobile looking more official than ever in press shots

We’ve got enough rumor momentum going now so that we don’t really doubt the existence of the Nokia Nuron for T-Mobile — but if you’re the particularly skeptical type, you might like to take a glance at Cell Phone Signal’s new press shots of the handset. As you can clearly see, this is a dead ringer for the 5230 it’s… Continue reading

Nokia 6303i Classic announced, ‘guarantees fun for a long time without charging’

If you were waiting for a mild refresh of Nokia’s 6303 Classic before taking the plunge on a new handset… well, you’re a strange character, but the good news is that your time has come at long last. The 2.2-inch QVGA display and 3.2 megapixel camera are both carried over; otherwise, you’ve got a micro-USB connector, 3.5mm headphone jack (good for the… Continue reading

BlackBerry OS seemingly ported to Nokia 5700 for some strange reason

First, a disclaimer: we don’t really know what’s going on here. That said, there’s a video accompanying the images posted on the forum Maxpda that have us believing some really, really smart dude with considerably too much time on his hands has managed to shove the BlackBerry Pearl 8220’s build of OS 4.6 onto a Nokia XpressMusic 5700. Why you’d want to… Continue reading

Nokia C5 seemingly leaked, but don’t expect much

It’s been a little while since Nokia locked up the Cseries trademark, and it looks like they’re finally putting it to good use here following the Xseries launch a few months back — but don’t break out your party pants just yet, because it looks like this could be Nokia’s new catch-all bucket for the low-end Symbian gear. The so-called C5… Continue reading

Nokia cuts phone prices across the board, S60 biting deep into dumbphone territory

The company notes that this is nothing more than a regularly-scheduled adjustment, but for what it’s worth, Nokia has quietly lowered prices across its entire range, in some cases by as much as 10 percent — nothing to sneeze at. Notably, the S60 5th Edition-based 5230 is now selling for €170 (about $239) in Finland, making it considerably cheaper than… Continue reading

Nokia Custom Dictionary takes predictive text to the obvious next level

Nokia’s just posted its literally-named Custom Dictionary utility to Beta Labs’ hallowed halls of experimental wares, finally bringing what appears to be a thorough predictive text solution to S60 devices so that you can use (in Nokia’s own words) friends’ names and nicknames, places, and “slang” (read: every four-letter word you know) with aplomb in the course of normal textual conversation. What… Continue reading