Nokia Belle Refresh released for Nokia 500

Nokia has officially announced the start of deployment to Nokia Belle Refresh a few days ago.The update was initially released for Symbian ^ 3 is not branded. The first handsets to receive the update candidates were the Nokia N8, E7, C7, C6-01, X7 and Gold.Nokia has already announced that the distribution will also been extended to the Nokia E6 and the Nokia 500 in the next few days. In the last few hours there have been early reports about the Nokia 500 already updated to Nokia Belle Refresh.

New firmware 111.40.805 for Nokia N8 sighted on Navifirm

Navifirm is the ideal source to discover the new firmware coming for the Nokia devices. And today on the server that contains all the firmware and final test of the devices made by Nokia appeared new update for Nokia N8 .The firmware 111.40.805 for the ever-present camera phone was the terminus in Navifirm and has already been installed by some users who have begun to highlight the first innovations introduced and confirmed at the same time, that it is not of the expected update to Nokia Belle Refresh.

Nokia showing the new features of Symbian Belle Feature Pack 1 (Video)

Although it was made ​​official a couple of months ago and released in the first half of April, Nokia has decided to upload a new video on its YouTube channel to quickly explain some of the most important new features introduced with Symbian FP1 Belle.

Preinstalled on Nokia 808 PureView, Belle FP1 was also recently released the Nokia 603, Nokia 700 and Nokia 701, putting aside the various N8, E7, E6, C6-01, X7, 500 and C7.

Are this the first images of Symbian Belle FP2?

While waiting for the release of Symbian Belle FP1 for the second generation of S ^ 3 and having seen the first results of HTML5 Belle FP2 Browser.And now few hours ago have  appeared the first images of a new version of Symbian.

Unfortunately we can not verify if the images are related only to Symbian FP2 Belle or even Carla.

Based on the screenshot, the new features are:

1. New on-screen qwerty keyboard (adopt from Windows Phone qwerty model)
2. New Lock screen without Unlock Button
3. New method (Swipe to unlock) to unlock the screen
4. New Version and New UI Music Player
5. New Interface for Option (Now with Blue button - Look a like on Meego Harmattan)
6. New Version Nokia Browser
7. Some UI Improvement on Nokia Browser

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Future updates still coming to 1st generation Symbian^3 devices

The update to Symbian Belle FP 1 will be available only for Nokia 603, 700 and 701 , but the first generation of smartphones S ^ 3 will not be abandoned.

As has happened in the past months with the S60 5th edition, Nokia said on its support forum that the N8, E7, E6, X7, 500, C6 and C7-01 will continue to receive updates and bug fixes.

So, always hoping in community work, the first generation of S ^ 3 will still be supported in a formal way for a long time.

More info at discussions.europe.nokia

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