We’re hardly the target audience for a pink phone and Lady Gaga-esque visuals, but Nokia’s latest commercial does make me laugh. Or weep, when I remember that Nokia’s stock prices are at a 13-year low.
Nokia’s got a new teaser trailer out for their shiny N9. And, like most Nokia hardware, it’s great looking! Except for what’s on the screen, which, as commenters are pointing out, appears to be Symbian. Ugh. Nokia: give us Windows.
Yesterday we questioned why anyone would jump on board the dying Symbian smartphone platform when Nokia announced its new X7 and E6 smartphones. Today Nokia gave us the answer – they’re not taking the platform off life support until 2013 at least.
Anyone who had their hopes set on the death of Symbian following Nokia’s partnership with Microsoft is going to be sorely disappointed with the Finnish handset makers announcement of not only two new Symbian smartphones, but an updated version of Symbian as well.
Either this is the world’s dullest April Fool’s gag, or Nokia really has released the source code for Symbian. If it’s the latter, that means developers can tinker with the builds, now that Nokia will no longer be developing the platform itself. [The Inq]
Nokia may be moving to Windows Phone 7 next year, but that doesn’t mean the company is giving up on Symbian just yet. The C7 has just been launched for Vodafone and 3 customers, and in an attempt to convince users that Nokia has apps too, Vodafone has promised that all apps downloaded to the C7 before the end of May will be free.
Android/Symbian: Firefox 4 is the big browser release of the day, but it’s not the only one. Opera released a new version of their mobile browser for Android and Symbian devices. New features include:
Remember last year when Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7, and sales of Windows Mobile 6.5 handsets all but disappeared like the dinosaurs? With Nokia now set to move its smartphones over to the WP7 platform, it kind of feels like the E7 slider they’ve just released is headed down the same path to extinction.
