Not so long ago we informed you about Symbian Anna that is already available for four Nokia flagships, the Nokia N8, E7, C7 and C6-01. But as I understand it is not enough, because users want more, they want the new update, Belle. Probably, when Symbian Belle running on the Nokia N8 leaked, they “smelled the scent of blood,” and now no one can stop them. Nokia doesn’t even try to stop anyone, moreover, yesterday the company announced the new version of Symbian OS will be available for the Nokia N8, C7, E7, C6-01, E6 and X7 from the fourth quarter onwards.

Today we’ve already seen three Nokia smartphones running Symbian Belle, but they are all mid-range smartphones and probably won’t appear in the U.S. Now the Nokia N8 owners are eager to know whether their favorite cameraphone, the N8, will get Belle.

As it is an official announcement, we have no reason not to believe it won’t happen, but what does “onwards” mean?  Maybe the company meant fourth quarter and beyond? Who knows? However, we’ll hope for the best.

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Yesterday was a great day for Nokia as it announced the new version of Symbian^3 OS, Belle, but it is not all, as the company unveiled three new smartphones running Belle and sporting 1GHz processors. We were aware about these devices earlier, so let’s have a closer look at them.

The first handset is the Nokia 600 that is designed especially for music lovers. The Nokia 600 is equipped with a 106phon loadspeaker, which means there is no other handset able to compete with this “beat.” It allows us to say the Nokia 600 is the loudest smartphone that Nokia has ever produced. Moreover, the device is equipped with a built-in FM transmitter for broadcasting music to a car stereo or other FM receiver (plus, an FM antenna is built into the phone’s body, which helps users not to plug in headphones when using it), a 3.2-inch nHD touchscreen with a resolution of 360×640 pixels, a 1GHz processor, 2GB of internal memory that can be expanded up to 32GB with a microSD card, a 5MP full-focus camera with LED flash that also can record HD videos at 720p and a 1200mAh battery providing 15 hours of talk time and 23 days in stand-by mode.

The Nokia 600 measures 111x53x13mm and weighs 100g. Moreover, the phone sports 3G cellular radio and supports GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections.

The Nokia 600 will be available in black, white, pink and lime, and consumers will be able to get their hands on it in Q3. The device comes with a price tag of €180 (US$260) which is quite an affordable price, I think.

The second handset is the Nokia 700 which is going to be the smallest smartphone in the world (as it measures 110×50.7×9.7mm and weighs 96 grams). It’s a world phone that can be easily used in any network due to Symbian Belle and a pentaband radio. The phone is packed with a 3.2-inch ClearBlack AMOLED display, which is also protected by GorillaGlass technology. So we can assure you it sports one of the best touchscreens ever. Other features include 2GB of internal memory, a 5MP full-focus (with LED flash) and a VGA front-facing cameras, a 1GHz processor, Bluetooth, FM radio, GPS, compass and others.

The Nokia 700 will be available in grey, silver/white, coral red, peacock blue and purple starting from Q3 with a price tag of €270 ($390).

The third handset is the Nokia 701 which sports the brightest smartphone screen out there in terms of nits. Though there are many other handsets with perfect screens, the Nokia 701 boasts a brighter 3.5-inch IPS-LCD display powered by the ClearBlack technology.

This smartphone is similar to the Nokia Astound in design and some features, as the Nokia 701 sports an 8MP camera, a 1GHz processor and 8GB of internal memory. The phone measures 11×56.8×117.3mm and weighs 131 grams. The battery is rather attractive as it provides 9 hours of talk time in 3G mode and when we take into account the fact it is a pentaband smartphone, we can conclude how long it will “withstand” in other networks.

The Nokia 701 will be launched in steel dark, silver light, amethyst violet and white, and will be priced at €290 ($420).

P.S. All these smartphones have an NFC functionality that Nokia promotes actively, and all prices are set for unlocked versions.

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When talking about the leading manufacturers in the market, we see that the main problem they come across is the absence of color variations of their handsets. But you cannot say the same about Nokia. The manufacturer is never afraid to offer fresh colors for its newer devices, while most of them are quite bright and mainly targeted at the younger generation of the customers.

Nokia was the first manufacturer to come up with a gold-plated device, that is the Gold Edition of the Nokia C3-01. That’s why we weren’t even surprised with the color range for the upcoming Nokia N9. First it was rumored to come up with only 3 color options — black, magenta and cyan. But as we see Nokia is not planning to stop here.

From the leaked shot we see that the Nokia N9 is going to be available also with green and orange versions. Maybe both of the colors are going to be available for some specific location, but still this is just an awesome discovery.

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Mobile World Congress is definitely the major event in the mobile world. That’s why most of the manufacturers are getting prepared for the event a few months ahead. This is the main platform for introducing new devices and sharing with the upcoming plans. Thus no surprise that Nokia is getting prepared for the event starting now. Many things were changed in Nokia, so I guess the company has a lot to announce.

The next session of the event is going to take place on February 2012, in the same awesome Barcelona.

Mark Squires, Nokia communications director, mentioned in his tweet the following: “We’re going to Mobile World Congress Barca in a big way next year, Nokia to exhibit at AppPlanet & our CEO @selop will also keynote.”

Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO, is going to be the key player of the event who will talk about the novelties from a 2300 square meter stand. The information about the stand was also revealed from a tweet of Mark Squires.

Great to hear news about this exciting event, but remember that we need to wait for a few more months: Mobile World Congress 2012 will be held from February 27 to March 1 of 2012.

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The Nokia X7 is one of those devices that won geeks’ hearts with their design and features, but no matter how attractive it seems there are several things that make people mad. Of course, they can be solved easily, but users get tired trying to customize their handsets, so we decided to introduce one of the tricks that will help you turn the vibration off on the Nokia X7’s screen. I believe this vibrating screen was always getting on your nerves, too, so this post will be very useful for you. Thanks to NokNok.

The Nokia X7 sports a 4-inch AMOLED display that provides very enjoyable view of the phone’s video and picture content and is the main way to “communicate” with the phone. By default the phone is set up to feedback to each touch of you by a small vibration. And if you are here reading this post it means you want to change this function since you don’t like it either. Moreover, these vibrations waste energy and impact on the battery charge. So follow these instruction to turn the vibration off:

• On the homescreen, tap on the profile icon, which is below the current date. In the pop-up menu select Edit active profile to proceed.

• If your homescreen lacks the date and time widget, you can reach there by taping on Menu > Settings and then Profile. Then select your standard profile and choose Personalize. In the opened list scroll down and find Touch screen vibration point. Tapping on it you’ll see three levels of vibration and a option box to turn the vibration off.

• By default the vibration is set on Level 2. So if you want to turn it off completely just check the option box Off, if you want to weaken the vibration, choose Level 1. Than tap OK and the job is done.

Remember, the changed profile settings work only for the current profile, so if you want to turn the vibration off for all profiles, do the same for all them.

Every time when geeks talk about phones’ design, it becomes a dispute, because people perceive the world differently. The same thing happens with mobile phones’ design as some people like pink phones, the others feel good holding huge ones, and the thirds prefer slim handsets. All these types of phones we can find among Nokia’s models, but designing a phone is not an easy thing, at least for Nokia — the company has several principles that must be followed while creating a phone. This is an important part of Nokia’s philosophy which keeps the company on the top of phone makers.

As you see the video introduced 8 Perspectives on Design that are quite attractive and respectable, because all we know Nokia’s smartphones are the greenest handsets in the world. Generally, Nokia dominates in The Most Environmentally Friendly Manufacturer list, and it is not accidental, because the materials used for creating Nokia’s devices are environment-friendly. This is why Nokia presents the most eco-friendly devices in the world.

You know, maybe it’ll seem people don’t look at these facts buying a phone and pay more attention to the main features like screen size, processor or OS, but be sure Nokia will continue its “pure” activity. I think such things are hidden from simple users, but they MUST KNOW not everything depends on OS and processor.

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Nokia has launched many luxury phones recently. Not so long ago the Nokia Oro was officially introduced and then visited FCC. Then we heard about the upcoming Vertu phones that are most likely going to run Windows Phone 7. Now Nokia is releasing a new version of the Nokia C3-01, called the Nokia C3-01 Gold Edition.

This new C3-01 edition has an 18-carat gold plating and ceramic-feel keymat materials. A “matching theme” – whatever it means – is also coming with the smartphone.

Most of the specs of the Nokia C3-01 Gold Edition haven’t changed since the older version, only some of them were updated. Both versions work in the same 2G/3G networks, both are based on the Series 40 mobile platform, have the same dimensions (111 x 47.5 x 11 mm) and the same weight (100 g). Their displays are 2.4-inch (240 x 320 pixels) TFT resistive touchscreens showing 256K colors.

As for the cameras, they’re the same again – 5 MP (taking 2592х1944 pics and VGA videos at 15fps) with LED flash. And for performing all these functions the phones have standard Li-Ion 1050 mAh (BL-5CT) batteries.

Unlike the “ordinary” C3-01, the Gold Edition has a 1GHz processor (who knows why?), 140MB storage instead of 30MB. RAM and ROM amount is the same — 64MB and 128MB respectively.

The Nokia C3-01 Gold Edition will most likely be offered in several markets only (Middle East?), and its price will be rather low – only about 220 Euros (about $317). The previous posh Nokia phone cost much more, remember?

The Nokia N8 owners are feeling really lucky lately. First, the smartphone received the famous Symbian Anna update that fixed many bugs, and then the next Symbian Belle update was leaked. And now we have good news again – the Nokia N8 is receiving a camera update!

The update includes some UI and video capturing improvements and faster access to camera controls. You will now be able to shoot smoother videos at 30fps. You can download the update from Betalabs and learn more about it from Nokia Conversations.

The Nokia N8 has a 3.5-inch (360 x 640 pixels) AMOLED capacitive touchscreen showing 16M colors, a 680 MHz ARM 11 processor and Broadcom BCM2727 GPU. It also has 16 GB storage and a microSD card slot, so its memory can be expanded up to 32GB. The smartphone also has 256MB RAM, 512MB ROM and a standard Li-Ion 1200 mAh battery.

However, the Nokia N8 is most famous for its powerful 12MP camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, Xenon flash. It can take huge 4000×3000 pics with great quality. And as for videos, it was able to record 720p videos at 25fps till now, and with the update it’ll start recording at 30fps.

Elbert Perez’s Occasional Gamer site is very popular nowadays because the author has collected some stats about the upcoming handsets. However, at this time we must look at the online list once more as we have been wrong earlier when we were thinking the Nokia 800 is the same Nokia SeaRay. The updated list clearly shows these are different handsets (or maybe the same smartphone is designed for different networks).

We knew Nokia is working on other WP-powered devices besides the SeaRay, but there was no information about them, so we tend to think there is only one handset being tested. Honestly, I think the Nokia 800 is not one from Windows Phone handsets, it’s more like one of those smartphones that must run Symbian Anna and sport a 1GHz processor.

Anyway, the updated list is clear, and if everything is correct (I mean Elbert Perez’s research), we’ll see a completely new Nokia smartphone soon. But if they are the same models produced for different networks, then Nokia wants to repeat the same practice as Motorola and HTC do for their Droid (Milestone) lines (like the HTC Arrive and the HTC 7 Pro, respectively).

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Nokia introduced its first devices running the Anna version of Symbian OS not so long ago, and recently the Nokia E6 and the Nokia X7 got the chance to receive the updates. Maybe this was the main preparation for presenting the new Belle update for Symbian OS. This guess is supported by the new countdown clock now visible on the Facebook page of Nokia. The clock has a note promising “something new on Symbian.”

The countdown is going to finish on August 24, which means that tomorrow we’ll witness the novelty from Nokia, most likely Symbian Belle. This version of Symbian is already available on the Nokia N8. We think that Nokia will either introduce Belle just as the update for Symbian, or they will introduce a new device running this update. Tomorrow we’ll see which path Nokia will take.

There’s another hint that makes us believe that it’s going to be Belle: there’s a link next to the countdown clock, which has a “belle” component in it.

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