If there’s anything that has the smartphone market filled to the gills, it’s got to be the mouthful of Android devices launching here, there and everywhere. Nokia’s been in the smartphone game for as long as we can remember and it obviously had to do something to up its ante in this by now very ‘Androidized’ world. The company’s N8, C7 and C6-01 devices launched last year were designed to precisely do all this and more. These new Symbian devices now get their first software update, version 1.1.
According to Nokia Conversations, the new Symbian software was meant to deliver on the performance front at release. So what’s the need for an upscale so soon? Well, the folks over at Nokia say it is to enjoy a smoother performance. While end users may not be able to directly view the updated features, the overall improvement in phone usage will tell them how good the update is. Rendering the handsets more stable, the update brings with it new content too along with the tweaks and fixes.
From email invitations, users of the aforementioned handsets can accept meeting requests right away. Maps have also been incorporated straight to email so users can have a look at the meeting location via the map with the address included in the location field of the invite. The Nokia N8 in particular gets a new Quick Office 6.4 editor version that should throw open innovative venues of editing. Zooming in and out of Word documents seamlessly is just an added perk of this revamp.
All new models of the N8 in addition to this will also be preloaded with a trio of high quality games. Need for Speed Shift, Real Golf and Galaxy on Fire are the games on offer, though users in some countries may be offered Asphalt 5 instead of Need for Speed which really doesn’t sound like a bad deal either. These games are free for N8 users via the Ovi Suite and Ovi Store. Owners of these new Symbian devices can look forward to updating via Software Update on their device employing Ovi Suite. For N8 users, the update could be a massive download.
The latest buzz on the blog is that the standard non-customized version of the software is downloadable for the Nokia C7 only as of now. Users of the Nokia N8 and C6-01 handsets can expect their software versions to arrive early next week. There are country and operator specific variants in the pipeline too.