Nokia has started rolling out updates for its range of Symbian/Belle-based smartphones which were released in 2011 and 2012, though we’re hearing that some older devices (like the E7, C7, C6-01 and X6) may also get their share of new features. In other words, the software targets owners of the Nokia PureView 808, Nokia 700, Nokia 701, Nokia 603, Nokia X7 and Nokia 500. The main new thing included here are homescreen widgets, namely Webview widget, Mirror widget (for phones that have a front-facing camera), Stopwatch, Toggle Flashlight and Contacts Communication (to get quick access to favorite contact). . . . → Read More: Nokia Symbian/Belle FP1 and FP2 smartphones (PureView 808 included) getting software updates
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Google’s Quickoffice app has made the leap from the iPad to iPhone and Android devices today, allowing users to quickly edit and modify Microsoft Office files on their mobile devices. The Quickoffice app, which debuted on the iPad last December, also allows users easy access to their word documents by syncing with Google Drive. . . . → Read More: Google’s Quickoffice App Now Available on iPhone and Android The latest Operating system figures for the US have been released by Kantar. . . . → Read More: Latest US market share figures released Alright, so Microsoft is in no danger of toppling iOS or Android anytime soon. But the analytics firm Kantar has seen significant growth for Windows Phone, largely at the expense of BlackBerry. In practically every major market WP8 has started to chip away at its competitors, growing from 6.2 percent to 6.7 percent share in the UK in just one month . . . → Read More: Windows Phone sees big gains at the expense of BlackBerry and Symbian Is it because Android is the most popular smartphone platform in the world right now, or is it because it’s just fundamentally easier to attack? In any case, Google’s mobile juggernaut Android continues to be the world’s biggest magnet for mobile malware. . . . → Read More: Android Accounted For 79% Of All Mobile Malware In 2012, 96% In Q4 Alone, Says F-Secure  Few would doubt that 2012 was Android’s year given how rapidly it grew, but it’s good to have some context. IDC is more than willing to oblige . . . → Read More: IDC: Android surged to 69 percent smartphone share in 2012, dipped in Q4  So long, Symbian. Nestled away in the company’s financial announcement this morning , Nokia confirmed that its pixel-punching 808 PureView phone will be the last release powered by the increasingly creaky Symbian OS . . . → Read More: Nokia 808 PureView: officially the last Symbian phone  Symbian is now officially dead, Nokia confirmed today. In the company’s earnings announcement that came out a little while ago, Nokia confirmed that the 808 PureView, released last year, was the very last device that the company would make on the Symbian platform: “During our transition to Windows Phone through 2012, we continued to ship devices based on Symbian,” the company wrote. “The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid-2012, was the last Symbian device from Nokia.” This confirms long-floated reports starting over a year ago that the PureView would be the last view we’d have of Symbian . . . → Read More: Nokia Confirms The PureView Was Officially The Last Symbian Phone Nokia is slowly turning around its ailing mobile handset business and today that effort had a nice fillip, by way of some revised figures in which it “exceeded expectations” for Q4 sales. Within that, Nokia says that in Q4 it sold 4.4 million Lumia devices — exactly twice as many units as those of its once-mighty Symbian platform, which sold 2.2 million. But in case you missed the writing on the wall, the decline was underscored once more in a conference call today discussing the revised figures. There, Nokia’s CFO Timo Ihamuotila said that Q4 would be the “last meaningful quarter for Symbian” sales and handsets for the company, as its business increasingly becomes a mix of Windows Phone devices, smartphones based on Series 40, and more lower end devices . . . → Read More: See Ya, Symbian: Q4 Was The “Last Meaningful Quarter For Symbian Sales” Says Nokia  Nokia is rolling out an update for its powerful camera-phone, Nokia 808 PureView. We don’t have all the details, but we’re hearing that the software version 113.010.1508 brings improved performance and new features to the table. The 420MB heavy download certainly sounds promising as that much data should include a ton of changes and software updates . . . → Read More: Nokia 808 PureView gets a firmware update that brings improved performance and new features |
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