15 December 2010

Nokia Plans Complete Software And
Hardware Overhaul For Symbian Based Devices

At the International Mobile Internet Conference 2010 in Beijing, Nokia Senior Manager Gunther Kottzieper gave a presentation about company’s Symbian based Smartphones that provides insight into the company's plans for software and hardware upgrades.

According to Gunther, there’s a lot of activity underway, Nokia programmers working on more than 50 modifications and improvements based on early user feedback and most of them are planned to come in the first quarter of 2011.

As we already reported couple of weeks ago, Nokia is planning to some new features such as NFC and significantly upgrade the touchscreen text input by offering a split screen, a portrait mode keyboard, and the Swype system for typing connected letter groups.

Company is also planning to completely renew the browser which is by far the worst part of the Symbian^3 operating system. The new browser will be offered as standalone application and will be upgradable just like any other 3rd party application. It will also get the complete UI overhaul and will get the HTML5 support during the second quarter.

Of course, all these new about the upcoming software updates we’ve heard before but what is really new and exciting is hardware plan that reveals models with 1GHz processors and more graphics memory in the second or third quarter.

Company is also planning smartphones with dual-core processors and the N8 successor with teh real optical zoom!? The only bad news is that those products aren't scheduled to arrive until the fourth quarter of 2011 or the first quarter of 2012.