You may already be loving the new Symbian Anna, Nokia’s latest version of the Symbian^3 operating system, however their latest operating system release for our beloved Nokia N8 mobile phones is imminent and we’ve collated a number of different reasons as to why you should be updating your handset to the powerful operating system, Symbian Belle – well, Nokia have renamed the operating system to Nokia Belle.
I’m not sure about you guys but the Nokia N8 blew me away with its great usability and amazingly crystal clear 12-megapixel camera along with other excellent features – the build quality too was jaw-dropping. Coming close to a year and a half later the phone is still the best camera-phone on the market at the moment.
Beautiful new design
The latest release will be a fine-tune of the already great design of Symbian Anna, however Nokia Belle will give us an ever cleaner and brighter user interface, hopefully making it easier to use and keeping it looking absolutely gorgeous with its fresh, crisp new look.
More home screens
Nokia have decided to double the number of home screens from three to six, this gives the user more freedom to have their phone set up in a way that they’re happy with – better usability, it’s a win-win.
Everything in one place
With the addition of the new status bar and notifications tab, Belle will allow you to see information such as missed calls, text messages, reminders and so forth which is easily accessible – information at your fingertips.
Easier to navigate
A range of great, handy new navigation tools can be found at the bottom of the soon-to-be Nokia Belle interface, this allows you, the user, to navigate your way around your Nokia N8 handset faster than you’ve ever been able to before.
New built-in applications
With Nokia Belle comes the addition of some built-in applications as standard, which include some awesome business tools – your Nokia N8 will be more powerful and useful than it has ever been before.
Better lock screen
If your Nokia N8 is locked and you still want to access information with ease, that’s no problem, the new lock screen is packed with information that can be viewed in a glance. A great addition to the operating system.
Real multitasking
Curious as to what applications are running or what they’re doing? Not to worry as Nokia Belle gives you live multitasking so you can see exactly what’s running on your phone, or what’s going on, exactly when you want.
Greater social experience
With the great new handy social network widget on the Belle home screen you will be able to view friends updates in a matter of seconds without of ever having to open the application – handy!
You’ll only have to wait a matter of a month or so before you can get your hands on this wonderful new update, however if you live in the US it may be a different story. Hopefully Nokia have bucked up their ideas since the last fiasco and you’ll see the update on your handsets next month.
Are you excited for the new Nokia Belle and if so, what feature(s) are you most looking forward to?
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Already running the leaked version and loving it.
I Love The Anna But… One That Don’t Make The N8 Awsome only Great Is The Limit Amout of Apps. Nokia/Symban Needs To Take on Some Android Apps, Apple and Android Has A Large Selection The I Would Like But I Want My N8. Just Sayings Thats All
Believe me or not, Anna was pathetic for my N8 terrible performance, 3 apps open and says memory full, its shit in name of multitasking. My N8 was never laggy but I can understand now merely to open messages I need to wait for a while. Formatted twice it works properly (but not the way it worked earlier) unless I download those Symbian Anna SP updates :/ What shall I expect from belle ?
Hopefully something amazing, but i guess time will tell if it lives up to expectations. I can’t handle being let down (again).
HEy you can expect much. i have a prerlease version of nokia belle. now everything is running fine and no more errors as before. It’s not perfect but it’s how the nokia n8 should have been sold. (And yes anna was full of errors, really pathetic)
I have it Already and its quite smooth, but i have a problem, when i downloaded this pirated version, it came with a HD game, ” Hero of sparta”, and its installed on C: drive.. i want to uninstall this game but i couldn’t find a single file of it.. Please help me out.. as i am facing shortage of space in system drive
I’m not impressed with vague references to “awesome business tools.” We’re talking Symbian^3 (or is it just “Nokia Belle” now?). That means no app will read a single commercial ebook format – no Kindle, Nook, or eReader. Basically, no book that’s not already in the public domain.
It means you have a terrible calendar and a lousy task list. Poor integration with Outlook, Google, and other calendaring and task applications. No concept of “categories” whatsoever, with no way to filter and view appointments, tasks, or files, by category.
No way to build multiple links between contacts, appointments, tasks and files. Well, except for Projekt, anyway (which isn’t an optimum solution).
No connectivity to Outlook Web Access (lots of independent consultants use OWA to connect to their client’s Exchange Systems, when stodgy IT departments will not allow the use of a private party’s mobile device).
No. Nokia has a long way to go, before it can be said to possess even middling business tools. No where near close to “awesome business tools.”
No, Nokia’s interest is in entertainment, gaming, and a customer base who’s busy sponging off their daddy’s trust fund. Not a customer base who has to rely upon a smart phone to be productive in an “I’m making a living” kind of way.
sin that does not support NFC
How do i update to the symbian belle from symbian anna?
I just hope you guys know that Nokia is gradually moving from symbian OS to windows and the Anna is just an update for windows OS move.
tired of waiting and all the promises nokia was making all over the year. Sellimg my n8 and going for android!
I’m waiting for Symbian Bell, when it is coming to India for upgradation
Nokia is playing with the customers. After the N95 8G I waited too long for a good replacement, then N8 came out, Now, 1 year later, Nokia is Late again… Where is my 12MP sensor camera replacement for the N8 I am so tired now… if HTC or Samsung makes a Good camera phone I am out.. Elop Sucks, windows mobile sucks… Bad choises, now they have us waitting for BELLE!! But belle is not going to give me more cpu or RAM… Nokia SUCKS!!
Truth be told? Nokia n8 didnt live up to expectation. Just 3 apps, it says memory full, close some apps. And the maps can’t be edited to suit a particular locality or state at large. I really hope that belle will satisfy me.
getting pissed off with n8, cant get nokia store to open or the social app wont load. great camera but poor phone. help!!!!
Waiting since long in Pakistan. I dont want to die waiting before its release. Please do at ur erliest.
My n8 is affected by purple tint….. hope they can come up with some kinda fix for videos same like what they did for photos with the Anna upgrade
better have support for most video files including mkv hd files!
New themes,new performance,new widgets,friendly UI,and perfection of the multitasking even though somehow my Anna can run 7 Apps at a time weirdly amazing but even though it freezes a lot,uhm well 12 mpx of camera is the real deal and also guys the video flashlight…wats with the redness and no bright light?
Updated yesterday, looks and feel good. My main phone currently is Lumia 800 but the camera and sound still cannot compared to Nokia N8. I use my N8 when I travel overseas. (Photos, GPS, local normal SIM card & long lasting battery)
nokia n8 is very nice phone, i need flashlight torch , , camara very super night video is not good i need belle video flash light ,
yesterday I updated N8 from anna to belle in India.
Its not so great, one thing I really miss is the big clock screensaver of N8.
some thing are good but its still not smooth
So far, not liking it. Here are a few issues :
1) I had pure font installed on Anna – sure enough, it’s back to crappy looking Sans font with Belle. And now, you cant change it unless you hack your phone. FAIL.
2) No easy way to close open apps. What were they thinking?
3) Useless and difficult notifications screen. You have to do a length of the screen swipe to keep it open. Plus, they hide the bluetooth switch in there for no good reason, when it could just be an app shortcut like before.
4) Super slow to load. Even slower to load email. And speaking of email, the widgets are huge. Now I can take up an entire homescreen with 3 emails each from two email accts. Used to be able to fit three accts, emails and shortcut row on one page.
5) switching between home screens REQUIRES swipe. No little button on the bottom, so you are stuck with three swipes sometimes to get to the right page (if you have 5 homescreens)
I could go on, but it’s too painful already to think that I might have to downgrade, or just lose a lot of apps and get the N9 already. Frokin Nokia…really???
i cant watch on youtube.. What happened to my flash player? I hate my n8.pls. Help.where can i download a replacement for flash player?
A follow up on my previous post : Im hating my N8 on Belle even more now.
1) If you do hack your phone and install Nokia pure font, it is poorly done, and many apps it wont fit in the allotted space right. Especially the calendar widget, where it slightly overlaps the time. FAIL.
2) You actually CAN close apps the way you used to with a menu click and “show open applications” – but you have to do it with the thumb breaking long press of the hardware button on the bottom left of the phone. Does nokia not yet understand that people HATE that button and dont want to use it?
3) I cant believe they took away the standard notifications widget. The operator services widget only works for calls. I HATE having the stupid window pop up in the middle of the screen when you have a message, etc, especially with no way to preview. FAIL FAIL FAIL
4) Not only is it slow all around, and you really cant use all 6 homescreens or it gets even slower, but the worst part is that the touch screen is no longer responsive. I even did a full delete data and restore, reinstall bell, etc, and it still sucks. You press a screen icon, and wait a couple of seconds, wondering if it registered. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Ridiculous.
5) Yup, still no way to switch via button push, instead you have to swipe constantly. Stoopid.
And more
6) opera mobile doesnt work for shat, and page loads wont scroll properly until fully loaded. Hate that. Big pages means you are stuck waiting. And the lack of touch screen sensitivity and responsiveness makes using the browser super annoying.
7) No delete icon at the bottom middle of mail. Unbelieveable. You have to use menu, delete. Stupid. And when you preview a message from the awful widget, you can only delete and go back to the widget, it wont let you scroll or go to the next message, unless you enter the app. Oy.
Why? Why? Why are we subjected to this crap? Did we not fork over enough money? WTF?
after the last upgrade I find the widget on the screen , Microsoft Configure Application wath I have to do ?