Nokia C5-03 is a mid-range Symbian smartphone for people on a budget. Offering a 3.2-inch resistive touch screen, 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, A-GPS and microSDHC card slot.

Similar in specification to the Nokia C6-01, the C5-03 makes some compromises along the way to keep the price down. Perhaps the most important difference between the C5-03 and C6-01 is the display.

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Leaked video of a brand new Nokia X7 running Symbian^3. This Nokia X7 seems to have 4 different speakers.

Nokia C6-01 disposes of the QWERTY keyboard found on Nokia C6, bumps the camera resolution up from 5MP to 8MP Full Focus with dual LED flash, and the screen technology to 3.2-inch capacitive AMOLED. The Nokia C6-01 comes with the newer Symbian^3.

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The third quarter of 2010 produced record sales of more than 81 million communication devices based on open operating systems (smartphones). Android accounted for 25.5 percent of worldwide smartphone sales, making it the No. 2 operating system (OS). It was particularly dominant in North America.

Apple’s iOS, on the other hand, dropped from last year, from 17.1 percent in 2009 to 16.6 percent in 2010. Symbian took the top spot with 36.6 percent of sales share.

In the third quarter of 2010, Nokia sold 110.4 million units into the channel. This resulted in a market share decline of 8.5 percentage points from the third quarter of 2009. But shortages of low-end devices also encouraged many consumers to buy a more expensive product. Combined with favorable currency exchange rates, this meant Nokia’s financial results were better than expected.

Samsung had a strong third quarter, as mobile phone sales reached 71.7 million handsets in the third quarter of 2010, up 18.2 percent from the third quarter of 2009. Samsung sold close to 1 million bada devices in the third quarter of 2010, and 6.6 million Android phones, making Samsung the top Android seller.

LG sold 27.5 million mobile devices in the third quarter of 2010, as its global market share dropped to 6.6 percent.

Apple delivered a stellar performance in the third quarter of 2010, selling 13.5 million units.

RIM sold 11.9 million devices to end users in the third quarter of 2010, and its global share of the smartphone market fell to 14.8 percent. RIM’s share of the overall North American market declined to 11.2 percent in the third quarter of 2010, from 12.7 percent in the third quarter of 2009. RIM lost its leading smartphone market position to Apple.

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The new Nimbuzz 3.0 for Nokia Symbian and Symbian^3 devices is ready to download.

The new version was specially optimized for Nokia’s N8, E7, C6 and C7 which run on Symbian^3.

Here are the useful new features you will enjoy in this version:

• Customizable tabs: select which tabs you want to see and in what order.
• 2 new chat styles: with avatars and without.
• 3 options to view the Contact List.
• Sort contacts by status.
• NimbuzzOut call rates are displayed in real time below the number before placing the call.
• Recent calls tab: see all your received, missed and outgoing calls.
• My info tab: gives you quick access to your profile, NimbuzzOut credits, accounts, suggested friends and friend invites.
• Facebook Connect: removes the 400 contacts limit and connectivity issues.

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In Q3 2010, the worldwide smart phone market grew an impressive 95% over the same quarter a year ago to 80.9 million shipped units. Nokia retained its leadership position, albeit by a diminished margin, with a 33% share of the market. Apple’s healthy performance this quarter saw it achieve a 17% share worldwide, a little ahead of RIM, which held a 15% share this quarter.
In the world’s largest smart phone market, the US, Apple ousted RIM from the top spot, seizing a 26% share as iPhone shipments continued unabated. RIM has also launched its latest generation smart phone, the Torch, though it only saw half a quarter’s shipments in the US. But the plethora of smart phones running the Open Handset Alliance’s (OHA’s) Android platform meant that Canalys’ final published country-level data shows that it took the lead in the US market by operating system (OS), with a 44% share.

Once again this quarter, it was devices running the Android platform that proved the greatest driver of growth in the worldwide market, up 1,309% year-on-year from 1.4 million in Q3 2009 to more than 20.0 million units in Q3 2010, forming a quarter of the market share.

Driven by Nokia, the Symbian Foundation retained its position as the leading smart phone OS vendor worldwide.

Devices running Microsoft’s OS accounted for just 3% of worldwide smart phone shipments in Q3 2010, though with the launch of Windows Phone 7 devices, the outlook for the fourth quarter and beyond is significantly improved.

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If you are one of the million of Symbian users out there, we have some fantastic news for you: Opera Mini 5.1 beta for Symbian is now available for download (point your mobile browser to m.opera.com). The beta features a brand new native version of Opera Mini. This means improvements in loading time (overall) and a flawless integration with your phone!

List of improvements:

• Faster start up time.
• Even faster page loading.
• Improved scrolling performance.
• Integration with your your phone native input.
• Improved performance, especially for older S60 devices.
• Improved fonts.
• Device integration for cut-and-paste, email client and more.
• No more dialogue boxes asking permission to connect to the Web.

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The Sony Ericsson Vivaz is a Symbian OS touchscreen phone with an 8-megapixel camera and has its focus spread to multiple functions, photography, HD video recording, music playback and internet connectivity. The camera is located on the back, together with the LED flashlight. It is not covered by any special slider. The resistive touchscreen has 3.2-inch with a 360×640 resolution and below the touchscreen are three buttons.

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• Designwise, it is the steel and glass of the iPhone 4 vs the aluminum of the Nokia N8.
• Both phones have 3.5-inch screens.
• The iPhone 4′s IPS-LCD has been called Retina Display, for its astonishing 640×960 pixels of resolution.
• The Nokia N8 has the competing technology in its AMOLED screen, with its high contrast and vivid colors, set back by the 360×640 pixels of resolution, and higher than the iPhone 4 reflectance under bright sunlight, which diminishes visibility.
• Both handsets only have one physical home key under the screens.
• The one on the Nokia N8, though, is tiny and hard to reach when using the phone with one hand, without the risk of dropping the handset.
• The iPhone 4 is surreally thin at 9.3 mm, while the Nokia N8 clocks in at 12.9 mm, excluding the elevated area on the back, where the camera is located, necessary to fit the big sensor of the 12MP shooter, and the Xenon flash.
• Nokia has improved on the user experience in Symbian^3 and it now offers multiple home screens with the all-important widgets on them.
• The Symbian^3 homescreens look more complicated than the interface of iOS.
• The browser on the Nokia N8 is definitely a weak point, compared to Safari in the iPhone 4.
• Both handsets also offer a complete set of connectivity options, and the Nokia N8 is supporting the newest Bluetooth 3.0 standard.
• Symbian^3 supports USB-on-the-go for connecting a memory stick directly to the Nokia N8, and copy or play files from it, whereas iOS4 still doesn’t support USB mass storage mode.
• The Finnish handset also has an FM transmitter, which can beam music from your phone to your home or car stereo, which is a nice option to have, but often runs into interference problems in big cities with many radio stations.
• Nokia N8 takes higher resolution photos, but doesn’t capture that much more detail for a 12MP shooter.
• The multimedia gallery looks better on the iPhone 4, whereas on the Nokia N8 the grid of thumbnails doesn’t even offer discernible borders to distinguish the separate files, it just looks like a quilt.
• From the iPhone 4, videos can be uploaded to YouTube straight from the gallery, while on the Nokia N8 uploading to popular services directly from there is not supported.
• Speaking of video playback, Nokia N8 plays anything thrown at it, including DivX/Xvid, and the .mkv Matroska container.
• The in-call performance on the Nokia N8 is very good, with loud and clear sounding voices in the earpiece, while the noise-cancelling microphones do their thing for better output at the hearing end.
• The iPhone 4 also has a noise cancelling mic, and the voice quality for the receiving end is very good, even in loud environments.

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The Nokia E7 has a large 4-inch AMOLED widescreen display (360×640 resolution) on top of a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, an 8MP camera with dual-LED flash, capable of 720p HD video capture, and 16GB of onboard memory.

Technical Profile:

• WCDMA and GSM/EDGE
• Symbian^3
• 4-inch AMOLED capacitive touch display (640 x 360 pixels)
• Touch and full keyboard
• 123.7 x 62.4 x 13.6 mm (L x W x H)
• 176 g
• 1200 mAh removable battery
• 16GB mass memory, 350 MB internal memory, RAM 256 ROM 1024
• 8 megapixels camera with dual led
• HD 720p video capture
• Anodised Aluminium chassis

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