Leaked screenshots show Nokia Carla OS

The upcoming Nokia “Carla” OS update is set to roll out for the Nokia 808 Pureview, Nokia 700, Nokia 701 and Nokia 603 handsets. A new post showed up on NokiaNesia blog today containing a set of screenshots of a Nokia handset running the Nokia Carla OS.

According to the leaked screenshots of the Nokia Carla OS, we can observe that there’s a new Lock screen without Unlock button and you need to Swipe it to unlock the screen. There’s a new on-screen QWERTY keyboard, which looks like it has been adopted from Windows Phone OS and the Nokia Browser has also been updated with some new UI improvements.

The Music player has also has also got some refreshed improvements such as the New Interface for Option with Blue button, which seems to have been inspired by Meego Harmattan UI. The source has also mentioned that the Finnish mobile maker isn’t bringing the new Nokia Carla OS update for its 1st generation Symbian^3 handsets such as the Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6-01. Hopefully, Nokia will manage to bring the update for these handsets too.

Symbian/Nokia Carla OS images LEAKS:

Nokia Lumia 900 To Land On AT&T 8th April?

We were expecting the Nokia Lumia 900 to be available from AT&T some time this month, although we heard earlier this week that it looks like it will land on AT&T in April, with April the 22nd as a rumored launch date.

Now according to the guys over at The Verge, it would appear that AT&T may launch the Nokia Lumia 900 on the 8th of April, and this new apparently comes from an AT&T store manager. As a reminder, the Lumia 900 comes with a single core 1.4GHz processor and a 4.3 inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

Other specifications on the handset include Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, plus a front facing 1 megapixel camera, a rear facing 8 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, 16GB of built in storage, WiFi and 4G LTE. Of course this date has yet to be confirmed by AT&T, so we can’t say for sure that this will be the official launch date, but we suspect the handset will hit AT&T some time next month.

Nokia Lumia 900 US AT&T Release Date & Price Leak:

Nokia Holding Windows Phone Event In China March 28th

Nokia China is going to hold an event on the 28th of March according to All About Windows Phone. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what’s going to be announced at said event. Nokia’s been saying that they’re going to bring Windows Phones to the Chinese market in the first half of 2012 since they first showed off the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 at Nokia World back in October of last year. The fact that it’s finally happening, half a year later, warms out hearts since Nokia needs to make their smartphones available in as many countries as possible. The Finnish handset maker sold less than 1 million Lumia handsets in Q4 2011, which isn’t exactly promising, but it’s early days and things can only go up from here, right? Curiously a website known as CNMO.com found four Lumia smartphones that have recently gained regulatory approval in China: the Lumia 800, 800c, 710, and 719c. The 800 and 710 we’re already familiar with, the 800x and 719c are expected to be nothing more than CDMA variants.

What we want to know is when will Nokia bring devices like the Lumia 610 to China? Announced last month at Mobile World Congress, the 610 will cost roughly 185 EUR before taxes and subsidies. That’s almost 100 EUR less than Nokia’s current low end Windows Phone, the Lumia 710. China has plenty of rich people, we’ve all seen the insane lines at the Apple Store in Shanghai, but the majority of folks are your typical run of the mill middle class rural farmers who’ve packed their bags to move to the big city. They’re not the kind of people who buy high end smartphones. For them, something like the 400 EUR Lumia 800 is simply a pipedream.

All that being said, for all we know Nokia already has plans to bring the Lumia 610 to China, they’re likely just going to bring it over there later and focus on other countries first.

Nokia Lumia 800 Unboxing from Nokia World:

Nokia 808 PureView Smartphone Not Coming To North America

Then Nokia 808 PureView is a Symbian Belle smartphone that Nokia announced at this years MWC 2012, and the device comes with a 41 megapixel camera. Now it would appear that Nokia wont be releasing the Nokia 808 PureView in North America, presumably because of lack of interest from the US carriers. Of course you would still be able to buy a SIM free Nokia 808 PureView and use it with US carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile, as a number of online retailers will be offering the device SIM free in the US.

The Nokia 808 PureView comes with Symbian Belle and features a 41 megapixel camera and a 4 inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 640 x 960 pixels. Other specifications include a 1.3GHz single core processor and comes with 16GB of built in storage, plus a microSD card slot that can take up to 32GB cards. We heard yesterday that Nokia intends to use its PureView technology in future Windows Phone devices, and we can expect those to be available in the US at some point in the future.

Nokia 808 PureView [Hands-on][41-Megapixel Camera] :

Nokia Lumia 800 Battery Update Starts Rolling Out

Last week we heard that Nokia would be rolling out a new firmware update to their Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone smartphone, the update is reported to come with some additional fixes for battery problems as well as some other bug fixes.

It would appear that Nokia has started rolling out the firmware update to certain Lumia 800 handsets, with users in Singapore reporting that the update is now live. According to the guys from WPCentral, the update has given battery life on the device significant improvements, we don’t as yet have any information on when the update will be rolled out to other countries.

If you have received the 12070 firmware update for your Nokia Lumia 800 handset, leave a comment below and let us know, and also let us know which country you are in.

Nokia Clarifies Battery Update On Lumia 800, Promises Audio / Camera Fixes Soon:

Nokia PureView Technology Headed To Their Windows Phone Devices

Last week Nokia presented the new Nokia PureView 808, a very promising smartphone at the Mobile World Congress.

The features for the phone are:
1.3GHz single-core processor
41 megapixel high-resolution sensor with Carl Zeiss optics
Xenon flash
Full HD 1080p video recording
512MB of RAM
Symbian Belle OS
4-inch nHD resolution ClearBlack touchscreen
16GB included storage,
HSDPA and WiFi connectivity
1400mAh battery

The Nokia PureView 808 has a rear-facing shooter features a feature called “over sampling”, which condenses 7 pixels of information are into 1 pixel. This feature lets to extremely-high levels of detail, and lets users to capture photos at any size they like; from 5 or 38 megapixels.

Nokia confirmed that the PureView technology is going to have the Windows Mobile platform. This will include the Lumia Windows Phone generation.

Jo Harlow Nokia’s VP of Marketing, said to Aamulehti a Finnish newspaper that its PureView technology is heading to the Windows Phone mobile platform as a part of the Lumia series of smartphones. Harlow said that “it will not take very long” For the PureView technology to come to its Windows Phone devices, he didn’t specify timeframe.

PureView technology, Windows Mobile, more powerful cameras are now something that we are expecting on this new generation of smartphones, maybe some users will change their actual smartphones to a new Nokia. With the availability of taking better and enhanced pictures, along with a new OS Nokia is growing their technology and opening their product line to a new niche.

Nokia 808 Pureview Hands on Review: First Look at MWC:

Nokia Lumia 610 Budget Windows Phone In The Works?

We know that Nokia will be unveiling a number of Windows Phone devices at MWC 2012 later this month, and now details of a new budget Nokia Windows Phone handset have been rumored, the Nokia Lumia 710.

According to a recent report, the Nokia Lumia 710 will be priced lower than that of the Nokia Lumia 710, and it will come with Windows Phone Tango, which will support lower specifications that the existing version. There are no details on the actual hardware of the Nokia Lumia 610, although the device is expected to launch for the pre-paid market and may very well retail for under £100.

This would give Nokia and Windows Phone an entry to the budget pre-paid smartphone market, and such a device could end up being very popular.

Nokia Belle update finally starts reaching Symbian handsets today Nokia Belle update finally starts reaching Symbian handsets today

After a long wait, Nokia Belle, the second major update to Symbian^3, starts rolling out to handsets today, Nokia announced in its official blog. The update finally makes Symbian look much more like a contemporary operating system with matching visuals, 6 home screens, a new drop down menu a la Android, neat widgets with a huge clock a la HTC Sense, better maps and plenty of other novelties.

Functionality is also improved, with faster browser with a cleaner UI, imaging applications supporting 720p video recording at 30fps and simpler menus. A couple of Microsoft apps like Lync and OneNote will also soon be made available. The Nokia Symbian Belle update is available now for the following models:

Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia E6, Nokia X7,Nokia C6-01,Nokia C7 or Nokia Oro.

The only handset that will need to wait a bit is the Nokia 500. Nokia Belle will be available for it in the coming weeks. The update is available in pretty much all major Nokia markets - in Europe that’s the UK, Russia, Germany, etc. As to the updating process itself, it’s pretty straightforward, and there’s even a step by step guide at Nokia’s official blog, so hit it below to get the instructions and let us know how it all went in the comments below.

Nokia Belle Update - same phone, new experience:

Nokia Lumia 800 Lands In Australia In March

As Nokia continues its global roll out of its latest Windows Phone devices, the company has announced that they will launch the Nokia Lumia 800 in Australia in March. The Nokia Lumia 800 will be available with a number os Australia’s mobile carriers and the device will be available in a range of colors, which include white, black, blue and magenta.

As a reminder the Nokia Lumia 800 comes with a 3.7 inch AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, and it comes with Windows 7.5 Mango, processing is provided by a single core 1.4GHz processor. The Nokia Lumia 800 also features a 8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, a dual led flash and auto-focus, it can record HD video in 720p, there is also 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1, HSDPA, HSUPA and it uses the new micro SIM card instead of a standard SIM card. There are no details a yet on how much the Nokia Lumia will retail for when its lands in Australia in March.

Nokia Lumia 800 Review:

Microsoft to add Nokia’s name within Bing Maps on every device

Microsoft has been using data from Navteq for their Bing Maps since the beginning, a subsidiary owned by Nokia and has also allowed the use of Nokia Maps on Nokia’s Lumia phones. Now, they will be making this partnership more visible to the user.

Microsoft will now be displaying Nokia’s name within Bing Maps. And this applies to every device that runs Bing Maps and not just Nokia’s. This includes all the other Windows Phone 7 devices as well as recent BlackBerry phones that will soon start using Bing Maps for navigation.

Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, has also mentioned that Nokia will be working closer with Microsoft to work on Microsoft’s other properties as well.

I wonder what the other Windows Phone OEMs feel about Nokia and Microsoft working so close with each other.