Nokia’s Symbian^3 flagship — the 3.5-inch N8 with 12 megapixel camera — just went up for pre-order on Espoo’s Italian storefront showing an end of September availabilty. Now before you get up in arms about the €469 price tag (about $610), remember, the €370 estimated retail price announced was pre tax and pre carrier subsidy. That’s just how Europe does things, deal with it.
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Nokia N8 up for official €469 pre-order in Italy, available in September
We all know that Symbian is still holding the fort as the globe’s most widely used mobile OS, but anyone interested in criticizing it nowadays will have to get into a queue .
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The mechanism that opens and closes the articulated display is pretty neat — but otherwise, there isn’t much from Negri Electronics ‘ video of its mysteriously-obtained Nokia prototype that is likely to raise many eyebrows. The phone — labeled “C0″ but more likely a member of the Nseries or Eseries — gets poked and prodded over the course of four-odd minutes, revealing a number of ports protected with plastic flaps (micro HDMI included, it seems) along with a good, close look at that expansive QWERTY keyboard. Performance looks reasonable but not mind-blowing — and we don’t want to pass judgment on a software build that’s likely got months of work left before retail — so this could be a reasonable option for N97 and N97 Mini owners looking for an upgrade with a capacitive display and some ultra-mild UI rework.
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Nokia N9, E7, C7, or whatever it’s called gets caught on video
If Nokia’s N8 is just too much smartphone for you then perhaps you’d like to take it down a notch with the C7. As part of the C-series of Nokia devices, you can expect it to trim some of the specs off the N8, but not much as the flagship device of the family . You know, something very similar to the apparently leaked image and specs (pictured above) we saw a few weeks back.
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Symbian^3 C7 with nHD display confirmed on Nokia’s own site
No folks, those mythical N8 review units still aren’t on our doorsteps, but we can offer you the next best thing: a thorough (we mean thorough ) overview of the Symbian^3 environment that will be front and center on Nokia’s next great phone. Eldar Murtazin of mobile-review reports on everything from the sophisticated handling of contacts and caller ID pictures, through the noticeable speed improvements, past the limited utility of online widgets that display only two lines at a time, beyond the “weak spot” web browser, and all the way to Symbian’s unhealthy habit of “clinging to continuity.” It’s an enlightening read, which pulls no punches with its conclusion: Symbian^3 is an evolutionary step up from S60 5th edition, which brings nothing new to the market and offers no comparative advantages.
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Symbian^3 reviewed in exquisite and ruthless detail by Eldar Murtazin
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Nokia N8 to be final Symbian N Series device, all MeeGo from here on out
After seeing the C7 listed in what looked to be legitimate Nokia documents, we now have our first look at the handset — or at least a device that claims to be the C7-00. Purported specs scrapped from a Chinese site suggest an 8 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, stereo speakers, and a display measuring about 3.5-inches. It’s unclear if said display is resistive or capacitive or if we’re looking at an S60 5th or Symbian^3 OS until somebody switches the damn thing on.
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Nokia C7 caught with 8 megapixel camera?
Expect this to be the first of many similar announcements as Nokia works out carrier agreements for its new flagship phone .
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Nokia N8 gets first official carrier in Vodafone UK
Nokia’s new hotness, the N8 , is starting our week off in fine style. Finest Fones , what looks to be a Symbian-only mobile news site, is reporting its own tests done with the handset that show it comfortably outpacing its predecessor. Of course, in these fog of war-obscured times (before proper hardware is dished out), we can’t really be sure of the veracity of what we read, but Symbian^3 ’s newfound ability to exploit graphics hardware seems to be paying off relative to the more primordial ways of the S60 5th software on the N97 .
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Nokia N8 benchmarked against N97, makes it look old and busted
This is totally out of the blue, but we were just hit up with a screen shot suggesting that T-Mobile USA will be launching a portrait QWERTY handset from Nokia on June 16 known as the E73 ‘Mode.’ As is evidenced with the Nuron , T-Mobile has a tendency to assign trademarkable names to Nokias in its lineup that are known elsewhere in the world by their model number only, so we imagine that this phone will end up launching globally simply as the E73 as it takes over the E72’s throne as Espoo’s top productivity beast. More on this as we get it, but in the meantime, check out a bigger shot of the phone after the break
