Nokia’s new flagship model running the Symbian^3 OS, the N8, has become available for pre-order in Italy, according to the company’s Italian website. The site also mentions that the device is slated for launch by the end of September, while the pricing of the N8 has been listed as €469 (around $610).

Though previous rumors had already placed the release date for the Nokia N8 in the third quarter, at that time, the pricing of the smartphone was said to be €370 (around $494). However, it has been clarified that the previously mentioned price estimate did

Nokia has been revealed to be strongly considering the creation of an N-series handset running on Symbian^4 operating software as a method to increase its fan base, which had been reducing in numbers lately. The plan was mentioned by the company’s new Chief of Mobile Solutions Anssi Vanjoki in his latest post on the company blog.

Nokia’s next handset release will be the N8 handset, which has been reported to be the only handset in the N-series to run on the Symbian^3 OS. However, the Symbian OS still remains the company’s preferred platform despite the

Mozilla has finally unleashed the mobile version of its much popular Firefox web browser. Firefox Mobile 1.1 is now officially available for Nokia’s Maemo mobile OS. The new browser runs on the same browser engine as Firefox 3.6 desktop browser and will also in addition, allow users to save pages as PDF for viewing offline.

The new Firefox Mobile 1.1 for Nokia N900 and N810 already brings in some support for the upcoming HTML5 standard, but many other design factors are still to come. For example, you can zoom into a page using double tap,

The Symbian^3 laden Nokia Flagship, N8 is supposedly getting ready to please the UK fanatics and we did mention yesterday that Vodafone is the probable carrier to offer the handset first. What we didn’t talk about yesterday was a specific release date for the device and now a Nokia mobile phone store employee has come to our rescue.

As per the Nokia staff member, UK smartphone freaks will get to lay their hands on the device on August 25 this year, which will be just a day after the Germans get lucky.

Despite this

New Nokia C7 pictures have just leaked online hours after being spotted in the company’s house of mobile devices — detailing the company’s hierarchy.

From the looks of it, although it’s supposedly a mid-range handset, its specs are quite alluring. Yes, you got that right, we managed to snatch a few specifications for the new Nokia C7, but make sure you take it with a pinch of salt, as none of these have been officially confirmed by the Finnish manufacturer.

First things to get our attention are the 8megapixel

A video of a Nokia N900 handset that was hacked and made to run with Android 2.2 Froyo as the operating software has appeared on the Internet. However, the video shows the handset and the OS working together very well, even displaying high speeds during browsing.

Froyo is also shown to provide decent support for the hardware in the N900, though it does not provide support for the memory card and is shown to be unable to detect the SD card in the device. Other features of the N900 phone that do not function on the Android 2.2 include automatically

A video for the Nokia N9 phone has been leaked online. The 42-second video, which is yet to be authenticated, is possibly a teaser trailer for the N9 handset which will be the first phone from Nokia to run on the MeeGo OS.

The MeeGo OS has already been adopted as the operating software in netbooks and certain tablets and Telefonica has also mentioned that the OS could be used in connected TVs as well.

The handset shown in the video definitely resembles the Nokia N8 and the trailer is also of superior quality, which suggests that the

An HTC handset named Gold, which features Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS, along with the Nokia E7 will be launched in the UK in the month of November, according to a rumored roadmap leak. However, the credibility of the rumor cannot be confirmed by us at this point.

The specifications and features of the HTC Gold handset have not been officially announced, though certain online reports suggest that the phone will be a UK variant of HTC’s Mondrian handset, which is rumored to include features such as a 1.3 GHz processor, 4.3-inch screen and a 5

The  C7-00 handset has been confirmed for a roll-out from Nokia owing to a string of XML codes that was added on Nokia’s website. The XML codes also indicate the C7 to be running on the Symbian^3 OS and reveal an nHD display with a resolution of 360×640 pixels to be present in the device.

The confirmation of the C7 handset through the XML codes on the Nokia site come a week after images of the phone were leaked online. The images showed the phone to have an 8 megapixel camera and a dual LED flash on its rear side. They also showed a