As promised, Nokia is making the latest version
of the Symbian platform source code available to
its platform development partners. The company long touted its intent to deliver the entirety of its open-source operating system
environment to the community.

And now nearly
all of the source code has been uploaded to collab.symbian.nokia.com, and the few remaining source files, tools, and documents will be
uploaded over the next few weeks, according to a post on the Forum Nokia site. Meanwhile, in a post on Nokia's Symbian Blog entitled "We are Open!," Petra Soderling, Nokia's
head of open source for Symbian smartphones,
said, "We are excited about the completion of the
transfer period, during which code delivery from
the Symbian Foundation has now been replaced
by an open and direct model from Nokia." Moreover, added Soderling: "As Nokia announced in February, our plan is for Windows Phone to be our primary smartphone strategy.
While Nokia and Microsoft are working on a
definitive agreement between the two
companies and we have begun working on
product collaboration, Nokia plans to ship at least
150 million Symbian smartphones and to continue deliver innovation and software
updates to the platform. To achieve all of this, we
need the collaboration with our platform
development partners and continue to value an
open way of working." Soderling also reiterated that Nokia will no longer refer to official releases as "Symbian 3" or "Symbian 4," but will deliver continuous
evolution of the platform to partners and
customers. "In line with this approach we are
not delivering software builds, but do offer build
tools through this website, and a SDK [Software
Development Kit] through Forum Nokia." In October 2010, Nokia decided to focus on Qt as
the sole application development framework for
the Symbian and MeeGo platforms. Nokia also
announced its intent to support HTML5 for
development of Web content and applications for
both Symbian and MeeGo platforms. "We have been working hard to turn most
Symbian Foundation era materials into the new
framework," Soderling said.

It's no secret that Nokia is expecting, hoping (and probably praying) that all of its Nokia smartphone users will become Windows
Phone users in the not-so-distant future.

But at least one market-research firm is counting on
this happening by 2015. International Data Corp. (IDC) made available
some of its latest predictions available in a
March 29 press release for its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. (Thanks to WinRumors.com for the pointer to the press release.) It's not too surprising that IDC is predicting that Android will remain the dominant
smartphone OS between now and 2015,
growing its current worldwide share from
39.5 percent to 45.4 percent. But IDC is
predicting that Microsoft's Windows Phone OS will come in at No. 2 by 2015, growing from
5.5 percent share this year to 20.9 percent.
Meanwhile, IDC claims that iOS will drop from
15.7 percent share, to 15.3 percent share in
2015.

So how is Windows Phone OS going to
catapult to No. 2 in four years? If you look at
IDC's chart, it will largely happen by picking up almost all the Symbian share, according to
IDC. IDC is predicting the 20.9 percent Symbian
share will be down to .2 percent by 2015. I 'm sure Microsoft is counting on getting a hefty
share boost from its $1 billion-plus investment in Nokia, but will the Softies manage to hold onto almost all the Symbian base, as Nokia
tries to wean them from Symbian? I 'd think, given some Nokia users' skepticism about the sanity of the deal, more than a few might go
Android or iOS. Four years is an eternity in the smartphone
business. Lots of unanticipated things could
(and will) happen between now and then.
Plus, as we've seen with the Microsoft-Yahoo partnership, two vendors ' market shares combined don't necessarily equal the total of their respective shares. Nonetheless, Nokia
has stated in recent financial filings that its
ultimate goal is to try to "retain and transition the installed base of approximately 200 million
Symbian owners to Nokia Windows Phone
smartphones over time." What's your take? Are the IDC analysts overly optimistic, in terms of Windows Phone 's potential gains from the Nokia deal? Or is the
Nokia deal Microsoft's guarantee of relevancy in the smartphone market? And for the record — I have no idea how anyone can predict (or even guess) what the
mobile market will look like four years from
now. Even the growing number patent lawsuits among all the different players alone could end up having a significant impact on
the players and shares by then (maybe). So
remember: Don't shoot the messenger here. I am not backing IDC's prediction

some said symbian hp dead , but
Nokia has accidentally spilled the evidence of working on yet another Symbian^3 based phone - Nokia T7-00.

Not really a tablet but yet another smartphone aimed a different segment and might come with different branding. Just spot the listing of Nokia T7-00 mobile phone via the OVI Publishing Tools. At this moment, all we can say is that the new T7-00 appears to be slotted somewhere between N8, E7 and upcomingX7. Nokia already has new smartphone series with following initials - N, X, C and E. Now looks like Finnish mobile phone maker will introduce new T- Series of smartphones. According to the reported OVI Publishing Tools listing, the new T7-00 will run Symbian^3 version of mobile OS. The smartphone is listed to have 360x640 screen resolution which is same in N8, X7, C7 and C6-01 handsets. So I presume it will come with 3.5-inch to 4-inch touchscreen display. Details about the said Nokia T7-00 are very less and no photos have been spotted online. Nokia has promised to introduce more handsets this year and hence we ll patiently wait for this new T-series handset.
so symbian isn't dead.

NOKIA C6 Looking from distance it seems like a black N97
but closely it`s possible to see the differences. The C6 creeps trying to run the Symbian
operating system that is increasingly overtaken
by Android and by the IOS. <!-- more -->
Open the box
It`s time to open the box and see what Nokia
offers. Besides the terminal we have the mobile
phone charger, headphones and a 2 GB card
memory already included. The Nokia C6 has a small but resistive 3.2 inch
screen and a full keyboard.
Performance
Allied to the low reactivity of the operating
system itself, there are times when we touch the
screen and we can`t be sure the instruction was
correctly perceived by the C6 and is being
processed or if simply we have to reload for
something to happen.

There is no stylus provided but it isn`t required
anyway. The tactile screen and the full QWERTY
keyboard are more than sufficient. Beside the keyboard that is hidden beneath the
screen, the C6 have six dedicated hard buttons
and a switch to quickly lock or unlock the
terminal. The usual red and green buttons with
the middle button for the menus can be found in
the bottom of the screen. On one side there is the volume control and a
button to "open" the camera. On the other side,
there`s a slot for the memory card. The 5 MP sensor does not produce the best
pictures ever seen on a smartphone but
nevertheless a good camera for less demanding
users who occasionally take some pictures.

Screen and sound
home screen can have widgets and is
customizable. However, we can only have a
panel with key shortcuts the competition already
has several panels for some time. I`m not sure if that`s intended to compensate for
the low sensitivity of the screen or not but you
can switch between widgets using the physical
keys. The speaker works fine and the sound is well
projected inside a room. It`s impossible to say the
same about the earphones provided as they
never performed well. If you want to use C6 as a portable music player
and fill the 2 GB memory card with music then it
is advisable to invest in some good headphones. During a phone call, both the microphone and
voice quality are average with no parasitic noise
to disturb communication. In the end the Nokia
C6 provides a crystal clear sound.

Technical Characteristics
Operating system: Symbian, S60 5.0; Frequency range: Quadband; Speed: HSDPA; Screen: resistive, 3.2"; Storage: 200 MB + 16GB microSD; Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, micro USB; A-GPS; Camera: 5MP; Dimension: 113.4x56x16,8 mm; Weight: 150g; Autonomy: 5h talking/400h standby.

If, like many, you only tend to fire up Internet
Explorer to download Firefox or Chrome, then
you may want to check out what Microsoft's
elves have been slaving over to put these
browser upstarts in their place.

howcasing IE9, Microsoft talked up its support
for HTML 5 and hardware acceleration which
sees the browser doing tasks previously the
domain of Adobe Flash, while offloading
graphical chores into graphics hardware. Interactivity and zippy graphics aside, IE9 also
sports a bevy of other lesser known features
such as "Pinned Sites" and what Microsoft calls
"One Box". But the million dollar question is
whether or not IE9 and it's new feature set
have the chops to take on Chrome and Firefox? Look and feel While Internet Explorer has long sported a user
interface that even its own mum would
struggle to love, IE9 signals a change in design
direction. The clutter has been kicked to the
curb as IE9's designers focus on less interface
and more on the web. This may sound like small beer but at the end of the day, as web
pages become increasingly information rich and
complex, less is the new more in the browser
interface game. From this perspective, IE9 seems to have moved
on from its awkward teen years into a more
mature early adulthood. The fugly menu bar is
gone and its navigation buttons and address
bar now dominate proceedings. Equally nice are
the small-yet-noticeable tweaks that add a hint of sophistication - such as the backwards and
forwards buttons changing colour to match the
of the site you're browsing. Add in the Aero
glass frame and translucent windows, and IE9
is a good match for Windows 7 or Vista. It
won't work on the aging XP operating system. New features Rather than taking the same tired old chassis
and adding different coloured upholstery,
racing stripes and a shiny set of wheels,
Microsoft seems to have gone to some effort to
add genuinely useful features to IE9. It may be one of IE9's more subtle features but
Pinned Sites quickly became an indispensible
part of my surfing repertoire. Thanks to Gmail
and several other sites, I live with browser
pages open 24/7 on the PCs scattered
throughout my home and work. As the cloud continues to grab a growing slice
of our productivity, being able to pin websites
to the Windows Taskbar makes a whole lot of
sense. Once you've dragged a site to the bar, it'll
behave like a completely separate application,
complete with notifications (e.g. new email etc). Some pinned sites also support jump lists
(which are shortcuts to site specific tasks when
you right click the pinned icon on the Windows
taskbar). It mightn't sound like much, but it
goes a helluva long way towards streamlining
how you interact with the web. Also absent is the multitude of distracting text
field boxes that plagued previous versions of
Internet Explorer. The address bar is still there
but now does double duty for entering search
terms. Tab trickery has also been given a spit
and polish with tabs now able to be snapped out from the browser and misbehaving tabs
able to be closed without killing the entire
application. Equally nice is the new Tab Page which shows
sites that you've visited. Last but by no means
least, Microsoft has finally heard the pleas of
many a geek and added an actual real to
goodness Download Manager so you can now
see what files have been downloaded and the progress of downloads as they happen. Performance IE9 may be brimming with usability
improvements, but power users have a near
insatiable need for speed, so has Microsoft
added a bigger donkey under IE9's hood? There's been a lot of talk about IE9's HTML5
support and hardware acceleration as well as a
new faster JavaScript engine, plus support for
fancy pants web technologies like CSS3 and
SVG2, but is IE9 really that much faster? Having spent the better part of a week with
IE9, my answer to this is a positive yes. After
having had several badly-behaved Firefox add-
ons bring it to its knees in the past, IE9's "Add-
on Performance Advisor" was a godsend. The first time I fired up IE9, I was greeted with
a pop-up asking if I'd like to speed up
browsing by disabling slower add-ons. The
resulting snappiness was a welcome addition. Perhaps the most noticeable performance boost
with IE9 during my testing wasn't browser
start up or page render times (although these
felt plenty fast), but how responsive it felt in
use. Hitting the stop button on earlier IE
versions felt like trying to stop a runaway bus, especially when lots of tabs were open. With
IE9 things felt more like taking a spin in a Lotus
Elise.

To IE9 or Not to IE9? Until recently IE was primarily seen by geeks in
the know as a vehicle for downloading Firefox
or Chrome, but the will IE9 see this change?
Thanks to a significantly improved interface
design, some genuinely useful features and
usability improvements (one of which is definitely speed) Internet Explorer 9 is primed
to give both Firefox and Chrome a real run for
their money.

According to the grapevine Nokia ’ s first MeeGo smartphone called the N9 seems to be revealed with its high quality pictures. The new pictures seem to be quite similar to the N9 handsets by
Nokia which was disposed few months ago.
Though Negri Electronics showed up few images
claiming them to be Nokia N9, but those images
any how doesn ’ t look like the images of Nokia N9, that we discovered off late. However the
detailed specifications of Nokia ’ s N9 handset yet to be disclosed. Hence for
now we can only give you few
features that we are expecting from
the device

According to the images
the handset has got a wide
touchscreen display with a full QWERTY keyboard that offers easy typing facility. It also boasts a front-
facing camera together with a flash-
enabled photo camera on the rear. The
N9 handset is also seen with few
functional keys on the left side of the QWERTY
keyboard. These photos were publicized more or less at the same time when latest images and videos of the Nokia C7 have also been revealed online. If you are too keen to buy Nokia ’ s N9 handset then you need to wait few months more
since Nokia is planning to launch this device
sometime later this year. Till then follow us to get
more detailed reviews on this.

Nokia will launch its first Windows Mobile phone in roughly 12 months from now, the
Finnish firm’ s India MD, D Shivakumar said. Shivakumar also defended the deal with PC
operating system maker pointing to Microsoft ’ s strengths in areas such as socia networking,
search and other software. In a regulatory filing in the US on Friday, Nokia
had said that it expected most of its smartphones
to migrate to the Windows Mobile platform only
in two years, setting off speculation that it will
take two years to implement the strategy. Nokia and Microsoft had announced a deal last
month under which Nokia promised to build
smartphones only on Windows platform, and to
abandon other platforms like Android and
Symbian.


According to Canalys, a global IT market research
firm, the share of Windows in total smarphone
sales had plummeted to just 3% during the last
quarter of 2010 despite having been present on
more than half of the smartphones in the early
2000s. In comparison, Symbian, which is being discarded by Nokia, had a marketshare of 31%. Critics and consumers dismissed the last major
version of Windows Mobile, called Windows
Mobile 6, as being clunky and resource-hungry,
though they have been kinder on the new
version -- Windows Mobile 7, unveiled earlier this
year. Shivakumar said Nokia ’ s bet is on the new version and its is much better than the earlier
ones. “ We took the decision after looking at that operating system [Windows Mobile 7]. It ’ s a good operating system, ” he said, when asked about abandoning a popular product for a less
popular one. Nokia, which has around 35-40% of India ’ s cellphone market, is estimated to be maintaining
its share in the smarphone market as well,
despite teething troubles in bringing new models
to market. The Finnish firm has been caught in a
semi-paralysis for the last 2 years as rivals such
as Samsung and LG raced ahead by introducing tens of new models in the smartphone category. The flounder also cost Nokia ’ s four-year-old CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo his job late last year, and
brought Stephen Elop, then head of Microsoft’ s business division to Nokia ’ s head. Shivakumar said the alliance between Nokia and
Microsoft will give the latter a second shot at the
mobile market, thanks to Nokia ’ s 33% global marketshare. “ Microsoft has been looking for a strong hardware partner, but they have been on phones
[platforms] which has not given them that
strength. With Nokia, suddenly the scales are
huge. “ So, for the first time in many a markets, people will get used to a Windows Mobile phone thanks
to the Nokia tie-up, ” he pointed out. For Nokia, the deal will help the company give a
quiet burial to the ailing Symbian operating
system while leveraging Microsoft ’ s influence as a shareholder at Facebook to bring nifty features
to its future smartphones. “ Its [new] operating system has links to it [Facebook].. It has a range of services which
complement Nokia services -- they have Bing
[search], Zune [music] and games,” the India MD said. Meanwhile, Nokia will launch around 40-50
new phone models in 2011, including around 20
smartphones built on Symbian, he added. He also claimed that the Rs 23,000 ‘ N8’ trebled the Indian smartphone market since its launch six
months ago. Around 6 million out of the 155
million phones sold in India last year are
expected to have been ‘ smart’ , according to research firm IDC India. They are expected to hit
39 million units by 2014, according to Canalys.

The morning after Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake to hit
the island nation in recorded history and the
tsunami it unleashed -- and even as the earth
continued to twitch with aftershocks -- the
disaster's massive impact was only beginning to
be revealed.


The 8.9-magnitude temblor, which was centered
near the east coast of Japan, killed hundreds of
people, caused the formation of 30-foot walls of
water that swept across rice fields, engulfed
entire towns, dragged houses onto highways,
and tossed cars and boats like toys. Some waves reached six miles (10 kilometers) inland in Miyagi
Prefecture on Japan's east coast.

The epicenter of Friday's main quake
was located off Miyagi Prefecture, about
230 miles (370 kilometers) northeast of
Tokyo, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Also in Miyagi, officials reported that a
train had derailed and authorities had
lost contact with four trains in coastal
areas, Kyodo reported, citing the East
Japan Railway Company. Six million households, more than 10%
of the total in Japan, were without electricity, said Japan's ambassador to the United
States, Ichiro Fujisaki. In Tokyo, rail service was suspended overnight,
elevated highways were shut early Saturday and
surface streets remained jammed as commuters --
thousands of whom had spent the night in
shelters -- tried to get to their homes in outlying
areas. Video aired by Japanese broadcaster NHK
showed extensive fires in Miyagi and in the port
city of Hakodate, in the southern part of
Hokkaido island in northern Japan. An oil refinery
was burning in Chiba Prefecture near Tokyo,
according to NHK. And Kyodo News said fires could be seen in extensive areas of Kesennuma in
Miyagi. Aerial views of Kesennuma showed plumes of
white smoke emanating from the center of the
city and large, black areas the flames had already
traversed. In the city of Minamisoma in Fukushima
Prefecture, all that was left of many structures
were their foundations. Only concrete and steel
buildings appeared to have withstood the wash.
No people were visible in the streets of the town,
whose population on Friday had been 70,000. And a dam in Fukushima Prefecture failed,
washing away homes, Kyodo reported. There
was no immediate word of casualties, but the
Defense Ministry said 1,800 homes were
destroyed. The National Weather Service sent a warning to
50 countries and territories it said could be
affected by the tsunami. Scores of aftershocks jarred the country
Saturday, punctuated by a pair of strong
earthquakes in the early morning, including one
with a magnitude of 7.1 and another with a
magnitude of 6.8. A leak occurred in an atomic power plant in
northeast Japan, a spokesman for Japan's nuclear
agency said Saturday. Cooling equipment stopped
working when generators failed in the quake,
and the temperature inside the plant in the
Fukushima prefecture had risen; officials lowered the pressure inside the plant hangar by venting
it, said spokesman Kazuo Kodama. But high levels of radiation led officials to
suspend the release, NHK said. Alternative plans
were being evaluated, the broadcaster said. Citing Japan's nuclear safety agency, Kyodo said
radiation levels were 1,000 times above normal
in the the control room of the facility's reactor. An evacuation order was extended to people
who live within 10 kilometers (6 miles) of the
plant, named Fukushima Daiichi, about 160 miles
(260 kilometers) north of Tokyo. The agency said the radiation amount posed no
immediate threat to the health of nearby
residents, Kyodo reported. Cooling problems also appeared to have affected
to another of the Tokyo Electric Power
Company's nuclear facilities. Kyodo reported the power company alerted
authorities that the cooling system at three units
of another plant in the same prefecture. That
prompted Japanese authorities to add that plant
to its emergency list, along with the another
plant, Kyodo said. Prime Minister Kan inspected the plant and the
rest of the affected region from a helicopter. The government ordered the evacuation of
residents nearest the plant as efforts to keep it
cool after it was shut were initially hampered. Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported
Saturday that the death toll is more than 900,
with about 700 others reported missing. Earlier
Saturday the nation's Kyodo News News Agency,
citing police, reported that the death toll was 433,
with at least 784 missing. The official death toll is likely to rise as authorities
continue rescue and relief efforts in the worst-hit
areas. Kyodo predicted the death toll would
surpass 1,000.

The first update for Windows Phone 7 is already
out but the first one with merit - well, with copy
and paste anyway - is coming this month
(though not as fast as expected). Hopefully,
Microsoft has learned from their mistake with the
first one and this one will go smoother.


The first update was supposed to improve the update process itself to make the phones ready
for the future updates. That didn't go very smoothly as Samsung Windows Phone 7 owners
will attest, but the issue was fixed and WP7 phones should be all ready to get one of those
small but "I can't believe it doesn't have it"
features. We're talking about copy and paste - we've seen
it on video and there's a new video out too. The update is also expected to speed up performance
of apps and revamp the Marketplace. The update was officially confirmed for March
and Microsoft France's public relations blog says
the update will come in the second half of March
(instead of the first half as originally planned).
Either way, you'll receive a notification when it's
available. Microsoft has promised a lot more for Windows Phone 7 - Internet Explorer 9 mobile browser,
Twitter integration, cloud support for Office and
of course multitasking. These features should
come later this year, bringing Windows Phone 7
up to speed with the competing OSes before the
WP7-running Nokias come out.

jennifer Lopez fans in India (are there any?) now
have a reason to rejoice. The official first track of
her much talked about album – ‘ Love ?’ will be made available exclusively on Nokia ’ s Ovi store until March 9th, 2011.

The digital version of the song, ‘ On the floor’ features the American rapper, Pitbull. Apart from
this track, her new album ‘ Love ?’ will combine R&B, pop music and hip hop songs for a mixture of
club-ready singles as well as slower mid-tempo
songs and is tentatively scheduled for release in
March 2011

The Justin Bieber fever seems to have spread across the globe as the teen sensation has
become the most downloaded artiste across Asia,
Europe and Latin America.


According to Nokia's Ovi Music, Bieber has
rocketed up 52 places in the January 2011
downloads chart to 26th place, beating biggies
like Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Ke$ha and Akon. Ahead of his debut global "My World" tour, which
kicks off March 4 in the Britain, he has his
popularity has seen a 350 percent increase in
music downloads since January of last year. According to a press statement, India is the global
hotspot for 'Bieber fever', accounting for 28
percent, followed by China with 16 percent,
Finland with 13 percent and Britain with nine
percent. His most downloaded song is "Baby", followed by
"One Time" and "Somebody to Love**".