Nokia sets Symbian updates for early 2011

The Nokia N8, a Symbian smartphone

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The prototypal updates to underway Symbian phones module materialize in the prototypal half of incoming year, Nokia said today.

At the Symbian Exchange and Exposition in Amsterdam, the sound manufacturer–which said yesterday that it was transfer utilization of Symbian backwards in-house–said the prototypal updates would allow the constituent of split-screen book entry, a Qwerty keyboard that entireness when the sound is in semblance mode, desegrated Swype input, and a newborn browser.

New Nokia honcho chief author Elop revealed in Oct that there would no individual be a intense fortuity between Symbian^3–the edition institute in handsets including the N8 and C7–and what was to be the upcoming Symbian^4. Instead, Symbian^4 has been scrapped and features that were cod to be free in that edition module be gradually additional to the underway sound range, so as to meliorate the individual experience.

See also: “Nokia: We module delimitate ‘open’ for Symbian”

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