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[zirk]

Rumor has it the latest Nokia Belle will available for download tomorrow for late Nokia Symbian phones, only months after their Anna release, supposedly bringing their OS closer to the iPhone and Android (yea right) and a promise from Nokia for updates and support till at least 2016.

Their not giving up are they!

Wasn't keen on the Anna update mainly cos it turned my E7 into a brick for a few days, that said it is  a good phone, if not a bit confused, and I like the slide out qwerty pad and the free Sat Nav and speed camera updates.

Anyone going to bother to upgrade?

Chris.

ps, I'll let you turn your phone into a brick, before I do mine.

     

[Dishevelled Den]

ps, I'll let you turn your phone into a brick, before I do mine.

   

Never mind Zee, I hear it grows on you.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T_KB0V5dzY

[pscocoa]

always will have a go - so far I have a good experience with Nokia and have never struggled with their upgrades particuarly,  although some used to be very slow in the past.

[zirk]

ps, I'll let you turn your phone into a brick, before I do mine.
 

Never mind Zee, I hear it grows on you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T_KB0V5dzY

  , its not funny though I will probably end up like that by the end of the week,

[pscocoa]

my N8 product code is not scheduled for release as yet although a lot of N8 codes are already done - maybe tomorrow as they are working on the prouct codes all the time.

[zirk]

my N8 product code is not scheduled for release as yet although a lot of N8 codes are already done - maybe tomorrow as they are working on the prouct codes all the time.

As far as I know, Belle will update from sratch, even if the phone has no updates from the old Symbian 60?

[pscocoa]

no I mean - there is a whole list of product codes (not model numbers) which are ready for Belle and mine is as yet not one of them -

[zirk]

no I mean - there is a whole list of product codes (not model numbers) which are ready for Belle and mine is as yet not one of them -

Gotcha, in that case your way ahead of me on that one.

[feeutfo]

I don't care what fat Pasty says. Symbian was a far more capable os than cripples os. It may have been a bit involved but it was far more complete in functions between applications. Cut and paste, predictive text, picking phone numbers out of web pages, and some other stuff I can't recall ATM.

However, even just looking at their ads, it's clear they've still learnt bog all from their apple nightmare.

Or have they...? They need to sort it out. Competition is good for consumers.

[zirk]

I don't care what fat Pasty says. Symbian was a far more capable os than cripples os. It may have been a bit involved but it was far more complete in functions between applications. Cut and paste, predictive text, picking phone numbers out of web pages, and some other stuff I can't recall ATM.

However, even just looking at their ads, it's clear they've still learnt bog all from their apple nightmare.

Or have they...? They need to sort it out. Competition is good for consumers.

Tend to agree with you there Chris, Symbian in its final platform was quiet stable, Anna pretty much sorted the bugs for higher processer late phone with more Ram, think Nokia are now taking a backward step from anoucing its all Win Mob or nothing and have now committed to getting belle and its next update later this year to compete with Apple and Google, lets face it they have the resources.

Problem is their trying to put the cherry on the a dead cake, mainly due to the outside App developers losing faith on a so called dead platform, Nokia could make it happen if they put their heart to it a few years back but alias i think it may be a bit late, shame really as they did make a half decent phone.   

[tunnie]

my experience of more recent Nokia handsets, is they really have still yet to get a nice touch screen device. Nokia Symbian phones are just shite to use, so clunky, very unresponsive & very frustrating to use.

Its a shame as they are more capable, such as the alarm still working when you power off the phone!

I used use Symbian S60 in anger with tomtom + bluetooth GPS extra, downloaded maps for USA, very useful to have when I drove there a few times, way before times of iPhone.

Just a shame handsets were crap, the Lumia is quite nice and I do like Windows on it, its very different to Android iOS, and it works very well I think

[aaronjb]

Nokia used to make some really nice handsets and, for those still stuck in 2005, they probably still do.. The whole smartphone thing seems to have eluded them, though.

[feeutfo]

Ah, yes, Nokia and touch screens. The n900 total nightmare.

The fact the e7 has a flip out qwerty keyboard tells me they still haven't mastered these new fangled touch screen thingamy jigs. I mean why have both? A query keyboard is WAY to small in a mobile device, and can only be an extra cost best spent getting a touch key board to work correctly...? No?

The moment we have a landscape interface, it instantly becomes a two hands only device.

Yes that's that decided, thanks for reminding me Tunnie.

Nokia?    NO    THANK    YOU.    The Muppets.



Touch screens. Not all good, tbh. I mean, the old traditional text keyboard with three letters per key etc. I didn't even need to look at the screen to type with one hand....

 But at least the crapple does work. It has yet to crash. Not even once. No lost text pages with half written posts lost in the eather. Does my rather nut that does.

[zirk]

Well downloaded Belle, quiet tidy first thoughts, with much neater icon arrangements, webs as lot quicker, screens a lot better can actually use the two finger iphone method for zooming etc, use to have dig both thumb nails in the screen before.

The bit that really won me over was the free Microsoft Pack addition, so can now open and edit my Word and Excel files, it opened a Word file (3mb, with lots of pictures and page setup macros) instantly, made some changes, saved then, chucked back on the PC, perfect, really impressed with that.

Overall thoughts, pretty good, there getting there, well for me anyway as Im still sitting on the fence trying to work out which way to swing, Win Mobile or Andriod, probably never will be iPhone, as I need decent camera, MS Docs and the need for web speed HPDPA or better in my line of work.

[feeutfo]

iOS is out of your using microsoft office type stuff, I would have thought?