Earlier this year, Nokia announced that Belle Feature Pack 1 will not be available for the 1st generation Symbian devices like: Nokia N8, C7, C6-01, E7, E6 and X7. Good news is that Nokia promised that it will provide support for these devices in the future and that users may expect new updates. The guys over at Unleash the Phone got some interesting info and it looks like Nokia is already working on an update, named Belle Refresh.

Check the screenshots after the break.

The build no is v111.040, browser version is 8.3

The update will bring new widgets

Widgets in action

The music player will have a new look

Bad news is that Notification bar does not have Activities and Notifications grouping, but according to the source this is not the final version and some changes are expected it the coming days. The update will be available for the Nokia N8, E7 and C7 and no info was given regarding other devices.

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DailyMobile Moderator vegetaleb has recently purchased an HTC One X, here is his personal review.

Ok ladies and gentlemen I finally bought an HTC One X 3 days ago, I am posting this review which I hope will be different from what you have already seen, I will focus on practical side of the phone and comparing it with my previous phones.
Photos taken with a Nikon D90

Presentation:

The One X comes in 2 colors, White or ”Gun Grey”, I chose the grey one after some reports of people who have both colors, they claim that after a while the matte coating on the back will wear off and it will be either shiny white or shiny grey, dunno if they are right but I took the grey to be on the safe side (shiny white is cheap). The borders have not the matt coating out of the box.  You will notice that in some photos it looks dark grey and on other just grey, it depends if you are outside or inside your home! Here are some photos:

Feeling in hand:

With 4.7” screen we can’t say this smartphone is not big, it’s large, larger than Sensation and SGS2 but the good side is that it’s slim.
It won’t be very ergonomic for a girl’s hand but for guys with normal to big hands you can still use just one hand for calling and some other stuff.
The feeling of polycarbonate materials are excellent, it will stick in your hand but with a smooth texture.

The screen:

HTC has finally upgraded their technology to SLCD2 after using the ”old” SLCD on Desire,DHD,Sensation…

The SLCD had poor viewing angles and just average sunlight visibility, the SE Arc and SGS2 were better.
The SLCD2 of the One X with its 720p HD resolution (wallpapers at 1440×1280) is…an awesome incredible fantastic screen!

Viewing angles are perfect,sunlight visibility is at last above average, the picture quality is astonishing very detailed and crisp, it’s like if the pictures were paint on the screen.

Compared to SGS2 the pixel density and the colors are better while keeping the same viewing angles,though the blacks are just a little better on SGS2.

The only complaint I have is that I got the yellowish screen, FW 1.29 corrected it a bit but I have on rare wallpapers some yellows and orange turning toward green.

The Camera:

Ok we are still on 8mp while Sony is using 12mp on its Xperia S, though this time HTC upgraded the lens to match f:2.0 and wide angle of 28mm and added a chipset just for the camera.
The result is very different than on the 8mp of the Sensation!
Photos are without doubt the fastest taken on a phone (from what I know)
The details and colors are WAY better than on Sensation, night shots thanks to the new aperture need less flash.
Recorded videos in HD and full HD are excellent, here again much better than on Sensation,a guy at work said that recorded videos are so ”alive” and clean that it gives the feeling that it’s a window.
dunno if it’s the videos or the screen that gave this impression
Back on Sensation the stock camera app used to badly record sounds,the result was muffled speech. On One X the quality of sound recorded is loud and clear.
Camera stock app is very easy to use and features tons of special effects.

Here are some samples taken without any edit:

Taken in full darkness with flash:

The Speaker and Audio:

Another complaint we had on previous HTC was the loudspeaker being too quiet, hearing the phone ringing in a busy street or mall was difficult.

On the One X the loudspeaker (with beats logo) is certainly louder,it has good bass (sometimes too much) and we can hear the phone ring in nearly all situation, it’s as loud as SGS2 but I still prefer the Xperia S loudspeaker which you can hear even in a gym class (they put loud music there).

Using third party apps to boost the volume is good but you will hear weird clicking sounds after for example the weather animations.

No beats earphones given so I used my own Hifiman RE-272, beats equaliser are too bassy, I recommend an app with a real equalizer.

Here you can see it close to my Cowon J3

Conclusion:

The One X is a huge step forward for any previous HTC device in all the fields, it’s a very fast phone (phonebook scrolling for example is extremely fast).
It has everything to be a winner, quad core, superb SLCD2 screen,32 GB internal memory…

The upcoming SGS3 has a removable battery as well as micro-sd slot, the One X has a more prestigious look and Sense 4.0 is the most practical UI on Android.
All I can say is that if you buy the One X you will certainly not be deceived by this monster of technology.

All the flaws of previous HTC have been corrected.

About the reported flickering issue, it looks like it was the UK first batch’s that were bad, newly bought One X in Europe including UK are now good, HTC claimed it will be corrected via OTA 

Thanks vegetaleb for the review, for discussion visit our Android Phones forum.

One of the most overlooked features on new HTC Titan II is it’s camera. When it was first announced at Mobile World Congress every was clamoring about it’s 16mp camera. Unfortunately for HTC shortly after their announcement of this amazing camera Nokia announced their astonishing Nokia Pure View 808 with a 41mp camera and the Titan II was forgotten about.

However the Titan II still has the largest screen ever on Windows Phone (4.7 inches) Plus somehow they managed to tuck a 16mp camera with a F2.6 aperture into a very slim phone. So lets not make the mistake of over looking this phone.

While I don’t have a full write up on this phone yet I do have a few sample shots showing what it’s capable of. I haven’t tested it fully indoors yet at this point but I do believe it could replace my point and shot camera.

Research in Motion aims to expand its presence in the low-end smartphone market with its new BlackBerry Curve 9320. The Verge has posted some press images of the upcoming BlackBerry Curve 9320 which is expected to be announced next week at BlackBerry World in Orlando.

BlackBerry Curve 9320 is running BlackBerry OS 7.1 and is rumored to feature: 320 x 240 2.44-inch screen, single core processor, 512MB of RAM, Wi-Fi, HSPA, and a 3.2-megapixel camera with flash. BlackBerry Curve 9320 is expected to be launched in India and other Asian countries, Vietnam and Indonesia and quite possibly, T-Mobile in the United Kingdom.

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The guys at Technet has published some live pictures of the new Nokia 500. Head over to this post to view the Nokia 500 gallery. Enjoy!

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It’s not a sight you see every day. A robot made entirely out of used Nokia phones. As micgadget points out the Nokia Robot has been made to highlight ‘Green’ – or more accurately, encouraging people to start a low-carbon green life by exchanging their old Nokia for a free film ticket!

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HP TouchPad Pictures – The HP TouchPad is HP’s first webOS tablet. The device has an ample screen real estate of 9.7 inches, with resolution of 768×1024 pixels. The TouchPad has been a much-anticipated device, as it is capable of unleashing the full potential of the webOS platform and its outstanding multitasking capabilities. In the HP TouchPad we see webOS 3.0 for the first time. This latest edition of the OS comes with lots of changes so as to make the interface more functional and comfortable to use on a big tablet screen.

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The guys at iSpazio has published some really nice concept pictures of the iPhone 5. Head over to the next page to view pics!

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The folks at Nokia conversations has published a few photo samples taken with the Nokia N9 camera. Head over to this post to view the photo gallery. Enjoy!

The Nokia N9 is Nokia’s first phone with MeeGo. It features a curved 3.9-inch AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass. The N9 is unique as it doesn’t have any buttons on the front, so all navigation is handled with virtual buttons and gestures in MeeGo. Under the hood, a 1GHz TI OMAP3630 CPU matched with PowerVRSGX530 GPU and 1GB of RAM, powers the platform. On the back, there is an 8-megapixel Carl Zeiss wide-angly auto-focus camera capable of capturing 720p videos. The phone ships with Nokia Maps supporting online navigation and features NFC, Dolby Headphone and Dolby Digital Plus. The N9 will be sold in 16GB and 64GB varieties.

Here are a few comparison pictures between the new Nokia N9 (MeeGo), iPhone 4 (iOS) and the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc (Android). Enjoy!

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