Dual Core Symbian Phones with revamped UI and “True Zoom” for 2011 (and Nokia E7 release )

Engadget reports that Nokia will be shipping Dual Core Symbian Devices next year with a revamped UI.

Well, Symbian has always been open about its roadmap. Back in February this year they mentioned this in exact detail (when they were still Symbian Foundation and Symbian^N was still the norm). Now Nokia has taken Symbian development back and Symbian will no longer have ^N nomenclature, just Symbian as we have confirmations that Symbian^3 devices will be getting the much awaited new enhancements meant for Symbian^4.

Today however in a presentation in Beijing, Gunther Kottzieper from Nokia gave some slides incidating Nokia Symbian 2011 focus areas including

• Q1 Symbian update will include over 50 features << new browser, new keyboard, draggable homescreen

Toshl Expenses Tracker made entirely in Qt – Now available for Symbian^3 on Ovi Store (#N8 #C7) Manage your finances with ease!

Here’s a neat little app we first encountered with the Nokia N900 and Maemo 5.

• It’s a very, very easy to use expenses tracker to help manage your finances. At this time of the year, with the plastic and cash flying at Christmas, this app is a must have download to keep an eye on your money!
• It’s available now (Symbian^3) for FREE on the Ovi Store.
• It’s entirely made in Qt which the makers have said Nokia people were extremely helpful with. Overall, thumbs up for Qt especially over previous alternatives. More on this at the end of post.
• I’ve tried it on the N8 and it’s a great app (more on this below).

This doesn’t just sit on your phone. You can sync your data from your other phones with the PRO account service which not only means you can monitor your data from any phone or PC but you’ll also get analysis graphs of your expenditure to give a visualisation and new perspective of your spending.

Thanks to Matic Bitenc we have a discount code for the first 20 people that gives you 50% off the one year service.

Nokia E7 on Amazon.com for 679 USD

Sanders emailed us at tips@mynokiablog.com to share that the Nokia E7 has been listed on Amazon.com.

Unfortunately it is “Temporarily out of stock” i.e. not available for sale yet but should be within this month according to Nokia.

It’s listed at a somewhat steep 679USD though hopefully that won’t be the actual price on sale.

Three UK have announced they’re picking up the E7 (more networks and outlets to come mind!) and will deliver it early 2011.

Check it out http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-E7-00

Three UK Confirms Nokia E7 coming early 2011 (may still appear 2010 in other channels)

In this video sneak peak, Three UK give an overview of the Nokia E7’s new features, crowning it somehow as the new smartphone flagship.

In the video you’ll hear that Three expect the E7 to come to THEIR network early 2011. Nokia promised it will be available Dec 2010. So there’s still time for the E7 to appear on their sales port as well as come to other networks.

The E7 as you know features a fantastic QWERTY keyboard, possibly the best Nokia’s produced; a big, super bright 4″ CBD AMOLED display and a 8MP dual LED, 720p camera. I know what many are thinking and continue to think, “Man, if only the latter could have fit N8’s cam.”. Oh well, the E7 was a before Elop product where segmentation was key.

Video: Nokia E7 and HDMI-out to 110 inch screen

Like the Nokia N8, the Nokia E7 has a HDMI out. Connect up your E7 and you can show whatever is on the E7’s screen on the bigger TV or projector screen. Oddly not all phones can do this. Some can just show media if any. Nokia’s TV out gives you a portable PC like experience of hooking up to a “monitor”, whether it be the browser, the menu, music player, photos or video player.

Watching movies is particularly great since you’ve got 720p playback with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound. With the USB to Go feature, you can connect a hard drive full of media to be played back via the E7.

Here in this video you can see the E7 playing nicely with a 1080p projector over HDMI out. The projector screen here is 110 inches! That’s massive! Not as big as the record breaking N8 movie screen but more than enough for a home theatre. Dang 42″ is good enough, no? :p The video is in 1080p which better shows off the clarity of HDMI out.

Lastly, don’t forget that if your screen doesn’t have HDMI connection you have the 3.5mm TV-out. As seen in the C7, even though it lacks HDMI out, near HD quality can still be output (very high quality analogue signal).

Damien Dinning Dispels the myth and misconceptions behind Full Focus cameras #C7 #E7

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Nokia’s Damien Dinning, Imaging wizard, has written a comprehensive post about Nokia’s Full Focus camera to educate and dispel about the myths and misconceptions about cameras without autofocus (as seen in slim E7 and C7  – C6-01 too though slimness debatable).

Full focus – low tech – v – simple? “it could be easily argued that Full Focus cameras are in fact more complex than autofocus cameras”

Benefits of Full Focus Camera?

1. With a Nokia Full Focus camera you can simply grab moments without the fear of images or videos ever being out of focus for subjects from around 50cm through to infinity, regardless of lighting conditions or subject position in the frame etc.
2. No shooting lag waiting for autofocus. Despite the Nokia N8 featuring the fastest autofocus of any mobile at just 350ms (average), it’s still a delay.
3. Everything from approximately 50cm to infinity in the same picture/video appears in focus. Hence the name ‘Full Focus’ cameras. Conventional cameras have

Gallery: Early Nokia E7-00 Low Light Camera Samples appear on Flickr

Mark Guim from The Nokia Blog has found a bunch of Nokia E7-00 sample photos on Flickr. Mostly low light and mostly titled “Slutty” something or other, e.g. Slutty Chicken, Slutty Zombie and Slutty Lady Bug :o.

Low light and people moving…hmm..possibly not the best combination to show any camera potential. The images are from pre production E7-00, in low light and NOT full sized.  It’s not camera centric like the N8. No auto-focus, No Carl Zeiss, No dual LED as opposed to XENON… I think it would be better with autofocus but that was omitted to keep the E7-00 slim. For real low light (or heck any light) prowess, you should check out the Nokia N8. See these samples from Halloween. Fingers crossed it does better when lighting is more favourable.

Flickr Gallery is available here or click below to see the Gallery in case as Mark says, the flickr one is removed.
Click to see the gallery below as well as E7-00 proto 720p video which is actually quite good.

Video: Nokia E7 Speaker Test

Want to know how the speakers sound on the Nokia E7? This was difficult to test in a noisy Conference environment such as Nokia World.

uptodateksa2 has some time alone with the E7 and plays some Natalie Imbruglia and Yonas Bardouh (the latter which he says is not his taste :p).

Check out the new volume rocker on the E7 which was designed to keep the E7 trim apparently.

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Nokia Ad Videos: Rally Master Pro and Galaxy on Fire for Symbian^3 C7/C6-01/N8 and soon E7

Couple of great games to download for your Symbian^3 C7/C6-01/N8 and soon E7.

Rally Master Pro and Galaxy on Fire (Free).

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Nokia E7 Promo Video – Experience the New Nokia E7 – The Ultimate Business Smartphone

Here’s a promo video of the Nokia E7. She’s a fashion designer who’s supposedly out in nature and breaking free.

That tilt-flip screen action though…awesome. And that incredible keyboard – Oh I wish all future Nokia QWERTY tilts will have that or better (hello N9!).

I don’t get the part where the girl pauses to take a photo of a butterfly. Sorry, but no macro for you. And oh it’s the PDF viewer where you can’t view in full screen. YAY! (pdf viewing is so nice on N900…HMMP)

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