Nokia E72 unboxing

Today at Symbian-Life Blog it gives me greatpleasure to tell you that we have an E72 for review purposes. Over the next few weeks we shall be putting the E72 through it’s paces and give you the complete low down on the new QWERTY phone from Nokia. So for now sit back and enjoy the video.

Symbian V/s Maemo: who will be the most favoured child

There has been a lot of talk about Symbian being abandoned by Nokia in favour of Maemo for their high end devices by the year 2012. Ben Smith mentions this in his post. That’s where it first appeared and has been picked up by everyone.

Nokia, in a bid to salvage the insider news spill stated that it is not shifting away from S60. It’s funny that this is so surprising. With Nokia having spun Symbian off into a foundation and made it independent of itself, was in a way the beginning. Then came the N97, which was everything one wanted from a Nokia and almost an iPhone killer, but firmware problems were abound, Nokia had begun to ship ‘half’ finished devices and attempted to fix them with firmware updates. This made it abundantly clear that Symbian was not going to shape their high end devices anymore, at least not the touch devices. there were too many problems with it’s implementation on touch devices.

Personally speaking, the S60 is a robust OS on a non touch phone, it’s still the one to beat here. But with the competitors (Samsung, LG, Apple, etc) having deciphered this secret, they have simply worked around the ‘problem’.

The touch factor bought in a lot of challenges, which still hasn’t been completely solved. Nokia was beginning to lose it’s game and for a brief moment it was lost. It needed something to bounce back.

Nokia being Nokia, did some research and worked around the problem and brought in Maemo, an OS which it had developed for it’s Internet Tablets. The OS was fresh, and could be developed as a full fledged OS for future devices. Being a Linux based OS, development would not be that complex. To add to that, they made Maemo completely open, this meant that one would be able to get apps and various things in huge quantities and fast.

So is Symbian no longer Nokia’s favourite child? I don’t think so, Symbian which has been developed so much by Nokia (predominantly) will still remain a part of it’s software solution, it’s focus might change and instead of doing duty on only middle to high end end devices, it might be loaded onto devices which are more tuned towards the mass market. Thus fulfilling a void that no manufacturer is interested in fulfilling or is not currently looking at. One look at Nokia’s portfolio today, and you can see that it is slowly creating that gap within it’s portfolio and when the new Symbian OS is out, one could very well see it on devices in that segment. At the same time, I don’t think Symbian will be completely ruled from their mid end devices category.

With this new approach of giving something different and new to their high end phone customers, Nokia is attempting to reinvigorate the top end of their devices and bring it back into the limelight for the right reasons. At the time of the launch of the N95, the software was one of the ‘wow’ factors of the device, with the N900, Nokia is attempting to recapture that emotion again. But with the market becoming so diverse and big also the addition of the ‘app’ store, now a cornerstone of having an OS, the dynamics of this market has evolved. The external variables have now become internal variables. An OS without applications supported by the handset manufacturers now is a dead investment. Nokia has all the cards and the coming few years will see how the ‘Big Blue’ plays out it’s cards and reshapes the industry. It is clearly a gamble, and Nokia has a lot to gain and lose.

Spotify coming to Symbian !

Spotify , the increasingly popular music streaming service has finally announced a native client for the world’s biggest mobile platform , Symbian.

Today we’re delighted to announce the launch of Spotify for Symbian. Symbian is the operating system used by a number of smartphones including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung.

Today’s release means that Spotify Mobile is now available on millions more phones, such as the Nokia 6220 Classic, E71 and 5800 XpressMusic models. The application will also run on some of the more popular Sony Ericsson and Samsung smartphones, such as the Samsung GT-I8910 Omnia HD and Sony Ericsson Satio. Symbian is our third launch for Spotify Mobile, along with previously released iPhone and Android versions.

So how do you find out if your phone can run Spotify? Visit m.spotify.com from your mobile browser and find out if your phone is supported. Alternatively, enter your phone number in the Spotify Mobile page. We’ll send you instructions via SMS on how to get started with Spotify Mobile.

We also list all supported devices on our Symbian page, so if you’re looking to buy a new phone and want to know which ones we support you can find them there.

We hope everyone enjoys this early Christmas present!

So there you go , Spotify right there on your beloved Nokia or infact almost any Symbian Device !

Source- Spotify

Nokia unveils 6700 slide and 7230 !

Nokia has come out with two more mid range devices to fulfill the mass market demands. The 6700 slide and 7230 slide both are meant to offer good competition to the low-mid range segment especially upto the Rs 11000 range. So lets have a deeper look at the two…

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Nokia Digital Design Bootcamp – Delhi 2009

As we had informed you earlier , Nokia India had kindly invited us to attend the Nokia Digital Design Bootcamp at Oberoi , New-Delhi.

The evening centered around interaction with Nokia’s design team responsible for the amazing iconography , homescreens and even upcoming UI technologies. We are thankful to Nokia for giving us the opportunity to peek into the mind of these talented designers and get a first hand look at the designers perspective of a device.

The one on one interaction with the very people who design the devices that millions use in an experience to be remembered. Read more

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