Skype, now when in talks about Windows Phone, has been in talks since Nokia Belle was leaked and stopped working on it. There were various applications on Symbian that actually stopped working on Nokia Belle or started to crash in between their execution due to having some compatibility issues. Skype was one of those but now supports.
Two of the Nokia services and apps, Chat Client “IM for Nokia” and “Social Networking Client” – earlier designed specially for Symbian^3 devices – now have been updated to work with Nokia Belle with additional features and Belle UI. In fact these new versions won’t support initial Symbian^3 or later Symbian Anna OS as these new versions come with new widgets specially for Nokia Belle home screens.
A popular camera app for camera giant Nokia N8, CameraPro N8 provides enhanced camera functions, has already received various updates till now including bug-fixes, user interface changes and functionality enhancements. Today CameraPro N8 has again received an update listing at Nokia Store with bug fixes.
It’s still an issue for many to check what version of Qt framework they have installed on their Symbian smartphones. Mostly it is because now many of the apps are based on Qt frameworks. Probably every next version of Qt is getting released more often. Many of the apps as well sometimes conflict with the installed version of Qt framework. Here comes the QtInfo utility app to check what version of Qt framework you have installed.
Nokia Car Mode, that runs within your smartphone to provide easy access and simplified user interface to the most relevant applications for in-car use. The simplified user interface and well designed interaction creates less distraction for the driver than traditional smartphone user interface.
There’s a new release 10.2.10 for Nokia Belle Only of Nokia Play To with localization, improved connectivity handling from the top bar and on/off -homescreen widget for the server which you need to manually install to your homescreen (options… add widget… DLNA server).
Official release of Symbian (oops! sorry Nokia Belle) is of course as far as February 2012. But little glimpse or leaks of Belle for existing Symbian^3 devices have already started. Adding in the list of favorable devices, now Nokia C6-01 has been appeared in Navifirm listing the new Nokia Belle version 111.30.609 in firmware releases.
Today Skype on Symbian has received another update version 2.4.5 via Nokia Store. Previous Skype version was 2.0.5 which is still available at Nokia Store and in fact both versions are separately available under the publisher Skype.
Nokia Store previously received a quick update version 3.20.050 via over the air (OTA). There was no such a detail what features or fixes this update brought. But now Nokia Beta Labs has made this version available for download. This update brings improvements in update logic.
A long lasted chain of the leaks of Symbian Belle versions for Nokia N8 continues with another version 111.030.0609. Previously leaked version was pretty successful for most of the users to get their hands on it because all of the required firmware files were added into the images. Here is another leaked version 111.030.609 of Symbian Belle for Nokia N8. This is a hacked and moded custom firmware which is not original stock firmware.
