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Tech News 101: The Symbian is FINALLY dead!

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( monocoque case – that is what grabs you when you see a powered N8 for the first time. That’s what happened to me and it became my first smartphone and it remained until it was clear that it’s OS, Symbian^3 will no longer be developed with new releases. Image source: http://mobilemegamall.com)

My venture to smartphones probably triggered by an incident at a car park – the parking attendant with dirty short pants & flip-flops was updating his status on Facebook with an . It then occurred to me that the age of the smartphone is already here and somehow I had missed catching the boat.

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Tech News 101: Nokia N8 Firmware Update Part 3

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(Any new to with new features, themes and UI is always welcomed. Image )

This probably will be the “last” ^3 OS update before Nokia goes all out on Windows Phone 7

I managed to update my N8 to the latest – yesterday but to do that, one needs the latest Nokia Suite (FOTA – firmware update over the air was not possible).

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Tech News 101: Nokia N8 Firmware Update Part 2

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(I love the smell of napalm…err…software updates for my Nokia in the morning. Image source: http://noknok.tv)

I thought it was the long-overdue PR1.2 update but the device screen shows the release type as “ Anna” (now I believe that PR1.2 was never released in Malaysia). It took less than 30 minutes for the latest updates for my N8 from Nokia servers – it was clean and smooth.

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Tech News 101: Nokia N8 Firmware Update

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( for are essential for smooth running of the hardware and improve user experience. Image source here)

PR1.1 firmware has been deployed in other regions since January 2011 but only yesterday I was able to update the from PR1.0 to PR1.1 (my previous attempts shows the message “no update available” when rest of the world was already playing with PR1.1). The update was fast and done without hiccups.

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Tech News 101: Nokia N8, My Personal First Impressions

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(After many phones over the last few years, this Nokia N8 must be my real smartphone which means a major leap from a traditional phone experience – Image source: http://www.photographyblog.com)

Well, it is not really an but it is cheaper and in some areas, better and certainly a quantum leap over this.

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