Tag: Symbian
Nokia 'blackmailed out of millions' by hackers
Nokia was reportedly blackmailed out of millions of euros by criminals who had threatened to reveal stolen source code six years ago, according to Reuters. The phone-maker reportedly paid the hackers after they threatened to publish the app-signing keys for…
Nokia 808 PureView confirmed as final Symbian smartphone
It's the end of an era: Nokia have confirmed that the Nokia 808 PureView smartphone was the last Symbian based phone the company will be releasing. Revealing the news as part of their Q4 earnings report (which also saw the…
RIP Symbian: Nokia's ageing mobile OS put in "maintenance mode"
Nokia have finally laid to rest Symbian, their aged mobile OS that initially brought them great success in the smartphone race before dragging them beneath the waves of competition. Nokia have announced that the operating system is now to enter…
Good news for Nokia – Five tech companies that bounced back; Apple, Motorola and more
So on Tuesday Nokia unveiled the mobile phones it hopes will once again help it become a major player in the smartphone market. It's a do or die scenario for the company for if the Microsoft Windows 8 powered…
Official Microsoft Office Suite hits Nokia…Symbian phones!
Microsoft have today launched the Office suite of apps for Nokia's Symbian platform. Now I know what you're thinking, Symbian is a dead duck in the mobile OS pond, what with Google's Android, Apple's iOS and Windows Phone 7 from…
Nokia's 41-megapixel PureView design headed to Windows Phone?
Remember the Nokia PureView cameraphone revealed at Mobile World Congress 2012 back in February? The one that was mad as much for its 41-megapixel camera as it was for making use of Symbian rather than Windows Phone as its OS?…
Nokia Play To beta app brings DLNA capabilities to WP7 Lumia range, select Symbian handsets
Nokia have just lifted the lid on a new beta app that lets you use their Windows Phone 7 Lumia range and other Symbian handsets to beam videos, music and pictures wirelessly to your web-connected smart TV. "Nokia Play…
Over half of all smartphones now running Android
The Android smartphone assault continues to go from strength to strength, with new stats published by Gartner today revealing that Google's mobile OS now accounts for over half of the total smartphone market share. The smartphone market made a big…
Nokia ship 1.5 billionth Symbian Series 40 mobile phone
They may be focussed on plugging their Windows Phone Lumia smartphones at the moment, but Nokia spared some time today to mark a quite staggering milestone for their other OS. The Finnish company announced today that they've now sold 1.5…
Nokia X7 hits Three stores
Nokia's X7, surely one of the company's last major Symbian smartphone outings before the big Microsoft Windows Phone 7 push, has hit the Three network. Packing the latest version of the much-maligned Symbian OS (Anna), it features a 4-inch Clear…
