Nokia N8 Goes Official: 12MP Camera, Symbian^3, Due Q3 2010

The Nokia N8 is go! Letting the pretenders to the megapixel throne like the Sony Ericsson Satio and Samsung Pixon12 slug it out for the best part of a year, the Finnish manufacturer has finally weighed in with their bid for smartphone supremacy...and it's looking good. First things first, this phone is packed with new features from the ground up. The Nokia N8 is one of their first handsets to boast the the all-new Symbian^3 platform, introducing a host of features and functionality that Nokia's handsets have been sorely lacking for some time. Multi-touch and gesture support for pinch-to-zoom makes the N8 more finger friendly than ever before, with a 3.5-inch capacitive display proving the perfect home to prodding and poking. Proving...

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Nokia C3: S40 Handset Due In June, Exclusive To Vodafone UK

Symbian cements its mid-range smartphone status with the new Nokia C3 - an S40-powered device with Blackberry leanings in design, feel and function - due to make an exclusive UK debut on Vodafone. Arriving both in stores and online in June, the C3's price has not been divulged as yet, but it is firmly centred to appeal to the youth market, with a pair of appealing colours confirming its entry into the prepay market. With a full QWERTY keyboard and minimal user interface, the Nokia C3 enables easy access to Nokia's suite of messaging features including Messenger and Ovi Mail, whilst the 2 megapixel camera and storage support means that the handset is a little more appealing to budding chatterboxes. We predict that Nokia C3 deals will hover...

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Nokia N8 In The Flesh: Live Photos Galore

After an unexpected leak and and a few renders of the device to keep us happy, finally we get a real look at the Nokia N8 as Pocket Lint release exclusive snaps of the latest hardware to come out of Espoo. Nokia weren’t letting anyone turn the handset on, so there was no peek at the user interface or the inner workings of the new Symbian^3, so for now at least, the star of the show is still that 12MP camera with the Carl Zeiss optics. Design wise it’s looking fairly Mac-like and we’re told that the N8 has a weight and heft to it that suggests a great build quality. Also borrowed from the Mac however, is no way to open up the unit, which means there is no user replaceable battery - possibly the most surprising thing that Nokia could have...

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Samsung Omnia HD2 i8920: Symbian^3 Handset Gets Leaked Photo and Specs

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Nokia C3: S40 Messaging Handset Available For £80 From Vodafone

Nokia’s latest mass-market messaging handset – the C3 – is now available to buy from Vodafone for the extremely reasonable prepay price of just £80. Not only does the C3 gives you access to a plethora of instant messaging services from Yahoo Messenger and Windows Live Messenger to Google Talk, as well as Nokia’s own Ovi Chat, the Nokia have been very clever and combined them all in a single application called Multi IM. Social networking is equally simple as updates, tweets and alerts all pop up clearly on the C3’s broad home screen. Thanks to the full keyboard hammering out messages is as easy as 1-2-QWERTY and similarly e-mails are a cinch, with easy connections to your mail client. With a 2-megapixel camera, 3G and Bluetooth (unfortunately...

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Murtazin Defends Nokia N8 Review

  Last night, Eldar Murtazin defended his review of the as yet unreleased Nokia N8 as journalism, whilst bashing Nokia's claims that he has been in league with one of Nokia's competitors as "puerile slander". In his post earlier this year, Murtazin described as possibly the "disappointment of the year" and the post contained photos of the phone, which Nokia cite as evidence that he had the phone in his possession. Subsequently Nokia solicited the help of the Russian police to help recover the phone. Murtazin claims that he never had the phone, but merely has "access" to it, for a few hours a day at best. Furthermore he has defended his right as a journalist to maintain the confidentiality of his source and has presented photographs...

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Nokia 5250: Attractive, Affordable Symbian Handset Leaks

As Symbian edges ever closer to mid-range mobile mainstay, we're seeing the platform pop up in ever more enticing handsets. The latest to break cover was from the hallowed halls of Nokia themselves, with the Nokia 5250 proudly (yet briefly) posing as a competition prize, quickly snapped for later perusal. Seemingly running Symbian S60, the Nokia 5250 will be another addition to the selection of handsets currently on offer for the lucrative market, where price is a major determining factor. A little postulation by GSMArena views the 5250's screen as leaning towards the 2.9-inch display of the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, albeit with an nHD sheen. A paucity of fancy smartphone features is predicted - a given at a lower price point - but its...

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Nokia X3 Touch and Type: S40 Device Combines Full Keypad And Touch Display

Nokia seems set to try and please everyone with their latest handset reveal: the X3 Touch and Type. Incorporating both touch and a full suite of physical buttons for the first time in a Nokia device, the Touch and Type reboots the original music-loving X3 with a more appealing form factor, five colourways and a brushed aluminium finish. Weighing in at a spritely 78g and measuring a svelte 9.6mm, the Nokia X3 Touch and Type also brings the specs with a 2.4" touch display, 3G connectivity, and a 5-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom. Battery life is impressive with 17 hours standby and 5 hours 2G talktime, whilst mail, messaging and apps are ably catered for with the Ovi service. The S40 Touch operating system gives the X3 Touch and...

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Nokia 5250: Symbian^1 Handset Aims At Music Fans On A Budget

Today Nokia launches another effort in their bid to reclaim the lucrative mid-range sector with the 5250, an affordable touchscreen handset with music on its mind. The Nokia 5250 fits the standard form factor from the Finnish manufacturer, looking much like the stylish X6 albeit stripped of smartphone frills including 3G, GPS, and Wi-Fi. The handset is built for touch with a 2.8-inch TFT widescreen display, with a 640 x 360 pixels resolution. Snapper-wise, a 2-megapixel camera rests on the rear of the 5250, with robust Ovi gubbins inside for all manner of uploading to YouTube. The lack of fast data access sounds like a huge loss for such a socially-savvy phone, but the 5250 still rocks out with the Guitar Hero 5 Mobile game,...

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Nokia C7 Reviewed: Symbian ^3 Handset Gets Early Airing

Whilst we eagerly anticipate the debut of Symbian^3 in the flagship form of the Nokia N8, ever intrepid reviewer Eldar Murtazin has managed to get his hands on another handset powered by the new interface - this time it's the Nokia C7. Swapping out some of the N8's more flighty specs for mid-range alternatives - the C7's camera takes a dip to a still impressive 8-megapixels with LED flash (as opposed to the 12MP, Xenon packing N8), whilst gets 8GB of memory whilst the N8 rocks 16GB on board as standard. That being said, the C7 can boast a similar 3.5-inch capacitive AMOLED display complete with pinch-to-zoom support - a relative rarity on Nokia touch phones - as well as an abundance of connectivity with Wi-Fi, 3G and Bluetooth 3.0 support....

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Swype Beta Arrives For Nokia Symbian^1 Phones

Not content with helping a humble Manchester lass break the world record for fastest texter ever and appearing on the new Samsung Galaxy Tab, typing app Swype is winging its way over from Android to Symbian handsets. Now available in beta form for loads of Nokia's Symbian^1 devices including the Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6, 5800 XpressMusic and the 5230, Swype provides swift text entry to touchscreen phones by allowing users to deftly drag fingers (or a stylus) between letters on the keyboard, rather than pecking away at . Whilst still a Beta Labs product, the ease of switching to the Swype input method is a little strange at first, but proves second nature after sending a few messages thanks to generous and loose predictive analysis...

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Nokia E7 To Be Revealed At Nokia World 2010

Sounds like the Nokia E7 will finally be getting an official unveiling at this year's annual Nokia World shindig, held this year in foggy London. Reuters reports that the manufacturer will be introducing expectant phone fans to the Nokia N8 - the first handset to debut running the new Symbian ^3 software - as well as the E7 with MacBook Pro-inspired looks and confirmed to be sporting 'a large touchscreen and full keyboard'. Despite losing ground in the smartphone market to Samsung and Apple, financial firm Morgan Stanley have recently double-upgraded their valuation of the Finnish phone maker due to a higher-than-expected consumer interest in the N8, as well as a competitive yet profitable price point for the device. Whilst I'm not going...

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