Nokia is planning on cutting almost 285 jobs in the process of developing its manufacturing plant in Salo, Finland. “Salo is a crucial part of Nokia’s global manufacturing network. Plans involving changes to employees are always painful, and they are set in motion only after thorough consideration. However, with these plans our aim is to ensure the plant’s future competitiveness and its special role as one best suited to the production of high value mobile devices,” says Juha Putkiranta, Senior Vice President, Markets, Nokia. Read the rest of this entry »

Version 200.12.87 is available for the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic. V.200.12.87 is available over the air and through the Nokia Software Updater. In case this update isn’t available for your product code please wait as it will be come available sooner or later.

Changes noticed from V101.48.128 to V200.12.87

• web browser is faster, new toolbar and more improvement
• photo gallery is faster
• Ngage application is not installed Read the rest of this entry »

The Symbian Foundation has just announced that Symbian, the worlds most popular smartphone operating system, is now officially open source. In 2008, Symbian Software Limited was acquired by Nokia for USD 410 million, and in April 2009 a new independent non-profit organisation called Symbian Foundation was established. The foundation includes Nokia, AT&T, LG, Motorola, NTT Docomo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. The Symbian Foundation’s decision to make its code open source means that any organisation or individual can now use and modify the code for ‘any purpose.’ Read the rest of this entry »

SAP, Nokia and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) have announced that the respective antitrust authorities have approved the establishment of their joint venture, Original1 GmbH. Original1 began business operations on February 1. Established to deliver unique product authentication and anti-counterfeiting services across the globe, Original1 is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and headed by Claudia Alsdorf, former vice president of SAP Research. The plan to form Original1 was initially announced on October 27, 2009.

DigiTimes have reported that Nokia is planing to speed up the development of the Symbian platform by launching Symbian^3, which will feature multi-touch functions, in the third quarter of 2010. Apparently the Finish giants are looking to scrap Symbian^2 altogether and continue to push the Symbian development even further with the release of Symbian^4 by the end of this year.

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Not only the Nokia N97 has been updated but also its little brother got an update. The Nokia N97 mini  can now be updated to version 11.0.045 . Thus far v.11.0.045 is available via NSU only. Fortunately the N97 Mini sports User Data Preservation so that you don’t have to make a backup file

Firmware V11.0.045 brings:

• The software contains many fixes and improvements over v10 firmware including:
• More free RAM after booting (around 6MB more)
• Improved call reliability
• Browser improvements
• Music player improvements
• Improved image and video stability

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The Nokia N97 has just received a new firmware update taking it up to v21.0.045 (PR2.1). To get this software through your device you can follow our quick and easy guide which will give you everything you need to know. The Nokia N97 supports UDP (User Data Preservation) therefore all your data will remain intact, however we still recommend you do a full backup to ensure you do not lose anything.

Changelog:

• Improved call reliability
• More free RAM after booting
• Smooth touch screen scrolling
• Browser improvements
• Music player improvements
• Improved image and video stability

Via – The Nokia Review

Until Nokia World 2009 the Finnish phone giant had two major series with a letter before the number – the N and the E Series. With the Nokia X6 and X3 they have introduced the new Xseries, a music orientated product-line. Apparently the Nokia X6 is supposed to be the successor of the 5800 Xpress Music, Nokia’s most popular touch-screen device. However, what are the advantages and disadvantages of the Nokia X6?

The main focus of this device is without a doubt the music capability. It comes with 32GB internal memory (there is a 16GB version available too), 32 hours of music playback, loud stereo speakers, decent headphones and on top of that a comes with music subscription is enabled for an entire year. Read the rest of this entry »

The Nokia Beta Labs have just released a fix to the pre-Beta touch version of Nokia Image Exchange that was released earlier. The original version unfortunately had some issues that needed immediate attention. Therefore today’s update should make the application more stable, with which they have also included some UI polish. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently the official Symbian site launched a new webpage; countown.symbian.org, which, you guessed it, is some sort of cryptic countdown. It usded to be titeld 108 and changed to 49 now. What these numbers mean, well no one is quite sure. There is also a message in the source code of the web page reading “if you’re looking for a secret, here’s one: 108.” What do you think it could be? We’d love to hear your thoughts, so drop a comment below or join in the conversation on twitter with hash tag #symbiancountdown.

As far as we can tell this countdown refers to a major announcement

This refers to a major announcement coming soon, so please keep your eyes peeled.

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