Nokia Symbian Anna aka PR 2.0 Announced

Nokia has announced the much awaited update to the Symbian OS. It is called Anna and was previously known as PR 2.0.

Symbian Anna will be made available for the Nokia N8, C7, C6-01 and E7 over the coming months.However no specific dates have been announced.

One of the first changes that you notice are the new icons. The text input has been improved and the much awaited portrait QWERTY keyboard  along with split screen entry is now available.

The new browser offers faster performance and is easier to use.

The photo gallery has also received a few updates. The other applications that have been updated are OVI Maps, OVI Store, OVI Suite and Social.

Nokia announces E6 and X7 with New UI

Nokia has officially announced Nokia E6 and Nokia X7. E6 is the successor of Nokia E72 that is a business phone and Nokia X7 is entertainment device. These devices will have new UI that is named Symbian Anna.

Both E6 and X7 has stainless steel body and slim design. E6 has 8GB internal memory and good battery life. X7 has large 4 inch AMOLED display. Both these have 8MP fixed focus camera.

Specs of Nokia E6

• 2.4 inch (640 x 360) 16.7 million colour TFT LCD Capacitive touch screen
• QWERTY keyboard.
• Accelerometer, Proximity sensor and Ambient light detector
• Dimensions: 115.5 x 59 x 10.5 mm
• Weight: 133 g
• 8 MP camera with dual LED flash and video recording at 720p (25 fps)
• 256MB RAM and 1024MB ROM
• 8GB internal memory, expandable up to 32GB -- MicroSD
• Micro USB 2.0 and USB On-the-Go support
• Wi-Fi b/g/n, 3G HSDPA -- 10.2Mbps, HSUPA -- 2.0Mbps
• Bluetooth v 3.0, GPS with A-GPS
• 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
• 1500 mAh battery

Specs of Nokia X7

• 4 inch (640 x 360) 16.7 million colour AMOLED capacitive touch screen
• Accelerometer, Proximity sensor and Ambient light detector
• Dimensions: 119.7 x 62.8 x 11.9 mm
• Weight: 146 g
• 8 MP camera with dual LED flash and video recording at 720p (25 fps)
• 350 MB internal memory, expandable up to 32GB -- MicroSD (8GB included)
• Micro USB 2.0 and USB On-the-Go support
• Wi-Fi b/g/n, 3G HSDPA -- 10.2Mbps, HSUPA -- 2.0Mbps
• Bluetooth v 3.0, GPS with A-GPS
• 3.5mm audio jack, FM Radio
• 1300 mAh battery

Nokia X7 comes preloaded with games like Galaxy on Fire HD and Asphalt 5 HD. As announced previously, both these devices comes with new enhancements like new icons, improved text input, faster browser, hardware accelerated encryption and new e-mail client.

This new software update would be pre-installed for the newly shipped devices like Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6-01 and the update for current Symbian ^3 devices would be available soon.

E6 comes in Black, Silver, White colors and X7 comes in dark steel and silver colors. Price and availability of these device yet to be announced.

Nokia to announce Symbian update in a week; releases Nokia Drop beta app now

It seems all those Symbian updates that Nokia has been working on since October last year are finally coming to fruition, with a major “Discover what’s new with Symbian Smartphones’ announcement scheduled for April 12th in London.
Check out the press invite above. The update is expected to pretty much refine the interface of the platform, hopefully extending beyond just the homescreen, browser, onscreen keyboards, and messaging, if previous announcements are anything to go by.

In related news, Nokia Beta Labs has released an experimental sharing application called Drop, which will allow users to send images and links from a browser to their Symbian smartphone. The push-application is available for Symbian^3 and Series 60 5th Edition smartphones. It requires a browser extension, compatible only with Firefox 3.6 or 4, and Chrome 10. The drop icon will have to be added to the browser’s toolbar for easy access.

Download the Nokia Drop beta app and extensions from here, and get to know more about it,here.

Windows 8 screenshots show Metro-style login screen, Ribbon-style interface

A whole set of Windows 8 screenshots have leaked, with Windows 8 Secrets co-authors Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott responsible for most of them, using pre-beta and alpha builds of the operating system.

Apart from incorporating WP7-inspired Metro UI for the login screen (as seen above), with a cute rendition of CTRL+ALT+DEL, it looks like Microsoft is also working to integrate a Ribbon-style interface for Windows Explorer with dynamic tabs, as well as more evolved preview panes and file/context-menu systems.

While the Ribbon interface can be hidden, it is possible that Microsoft intends the Ribbon interface for just one type UI i.e., Aero Lite, and that other view styles could ideally be used with other UI types.

Check out a whole bunch of screenshots below, and note, that these are from a pre-alpha build, and more often than not just give a general indication of what is to come, and in most cases, contain dummy icons: 

Sony Ericsson XPERIA ARC at stores In India for Rs.32000 MRP

The XPERIA ARC is now available at several mobile retailers across India. This Android 2.3 smartphone is one the finest camera phones to hit the market.The Camera on this phone is powered by the Exmor R mobile Sensor and the display is powered by a Bravia Engine.

Box Contents

• ARC ( LT15i)
• Battery
• Charger
• 8GB Memory Card
• USB Cable
• HDMI Cable
• Handsfree
• Screen protector film
• Leather case
• User guide

The phone is retailing at an MRP ( Maximum Retail Price ) of Rs.32000 but is available for around Rs.28000 in several shops.

HTC Desire getting Gingerbread this month

HTC Desire is known as one of the famous and most selling Android devices of all time. It was launched byHTC last year in February after the launch of Nexus One. As the Nexus One is a Google phone, it always gets the updates before any other Android phone. Nexus One is already running on Gingerbread, where as the HTC Desire users are looking forward it from a long time now. But today, Three UK has officially announced via Twitter that HTC Desire will get Android 2.3 Gingerbread in late April or early May. As you all may know that update for unlocked version is always launched before the locked version. So may be SIM-free version of Desire will get the Gingerbread update before the carrier one. Along with the HTC Desire, HTC Desire HD, Desire Z and Incredible S will also receive it as we told you recently. So Desire owners don’t throw away your phone because you will be receiving an update soon. Are you excited about this good news? Tell us!