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‘Nokia C7’ Stories

Sorry Nokia Astound users, T-Mobile USA has dumped you

, Feb 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

T-Mobile USA has frustrated already-irate Symbian fans in the US with the news that the Nokia Astound, the rebadged C7 priced at just $80 last year, will not receive an update to Nokia Belle, despite its European equivalent getting the OS upgrade. "Unfortunately the Nokia Astound on T-Mobile will not be updated to Nokia Belle" Nokia US confirmed via Twitter. Read The Full Story

Nokia C7 sits in world’s first prosthetic smartphone arm

, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [3]

Mister Trevor Prideaux, a British man born without an arm on the left side of his body, now has what we're pretty sure is the world's first prosthetic limb with a built-in smartphone dock. Not only that, but he's using the cool Nokia C7, a device that not only Chris Davies reviewed here on SlashGear, your humble narrator Chris Burns wrote a review for the USA side of things as well. Now one of these magical little devices sits in the hardened arm of a Brit - hows that for taking your "handicap" and making it work in your favor. Plain old human arm not looking so good to you now, is it? Read The Full Story

Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T Join Forces for $100M NFC Investment

, Aug 29th 2011 Discuss [1]

There's some big money floating around right this minute, all of it aimed directly at NFC venture Isis, a soon to be rival of Google's NFC service known as Google Wallet. Mobile payments will be the way of the future if Japan is any indication, a mobile payment piece of hardware a MUST in every smartphone (and quite a few feature phones too) on the islands if you want to sell a single unit. Bloomberg has some "people with knowledge of the project" who are saying that this investment is set to be a big step toward what Juniper Research says is a $670 billion dollar market by 2015. Read The Full Story

Angry Birds Magic brings Rovio’s Game into NFC Reality

, May 30th 2011 Discuss [0]

If there's one formula that's worked for Rovio thus far with their Angry Birds game series, it's the promise of extra levels. Rovio's newest effort in spreading the love is a new Angry Birds game called Angry Birds Magic. Angry Birds will soon have a feature in which when you tap your NFC-enabled phone to a friend's NFC-enabled phone, you'll unlock several new levels. This feature was revealed to at WIMA 2011 at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco - tap unto the future! Read The Full Story

Nokia Oro: Gold-plated Symbian luxury (with added thumb protection)

, May 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

All eyes may be on Nokia's Windows Phone Mango plans, but the company still has a 150m Symbian target for 2011 and is looking to niche (and expensive) handsets in order to hit it. The new Nokia Oro takes the C7 and gives it a decidedly gauche 18-carat gold plated casing, a sapphire crystal home key, and a Caledonian leather battery cover. Read The Full Story

Nokia Drop Beta, from Nokia Labs

, Apr 6th 2011 Discuss [5]

Nokia Labs released a beta for a new application. They posted a demo for a Google Chrome extension that allows the user to drop images and hyperlinks directly onto their Symbian OS equipped phone. Mark Guim demos the extension with a Nokia C7, or Nokia Astound here in the US. Take a look at Nokia Drop. Read The Full Story

T-Mobile Nokia Astound on sale now: $80 Symbian^3

, Apr 6th 2011 Discuss [1]

As promised, T-Mobile USA has put the Nokia Astound - aka the Nokia C7 - up for sale, with the Symbian^3 smartphone priced at a bargain $79.99. The handset, which we reviewed yesterday, has a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera, front-facing camera and a slick metal chassis. Read The Full Story

T-Mobile Nokia C7 Astound Unboxing and Hands-On [With Symbian^3!]

, Mar 28th 2011 Discuss [15]

We had what seemed like only a few moments with this shiny little pebble back at CTIA 2011, and now we’ve got it for an extended period, all to ourselves! This is the Nokia C7 Astound, a Symbian^3 device that will be carried by T-Mobile exclusively in the very near future (April 6th for $79.99 with a 2-year contract,) has a 3.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen with a physical home, call, and end-call buttons, metal chassis, and is supported by T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ network for data. Let us inbox this little treasure.

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T-Mobile Nokia Astound brings Symbian C7 to US (missing a 3G band)

, Mar 22nd 2011 Discuss [6]

As expected, T-Mobile has a new Nokia smartphone to tentatively offer to the American public at CTIA 2011, and also as expected it's a rebadged version of the Nokia C7. The T-Mobile Nokia Astound runs Symbian on a 3.5-inch AMOLED display, paired with an 8-megapixel camera, and will drop on April 6 for $79.99. Read The Full Story

Nokia promise Symbian US launch at CTIA 2011

, Mar 16th 2011 Discuss [10]

With Nokia's Windows Phone strategy now not expected to bear fruit until early 2012, it looks to be all Symbian this year. The company isn't holding back, though; according to its CTIA 2011 invitation, via The Nokia Blog, the Finns will "spotlight our latest solution for US consumers" at the tech show later this month. Read The Full Story

Nokia C7 Review

, Nov 18th 2010 Discuss [21]

The Nokia C7 could well be described as the less outlandish sibling of the N8: a more sober design, more mainstream camera and more affordable price tag, for what’s the second Symbian^3 smartphone from the company. Alternatively, it could be a business bargain. First impressions at Nokia World 2010 were solid, but does the day to day experience live up to the sturdy chassis? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Nokia C7 hides unused NFC chip; software update incoming

, Oct 20th 2010 Discuss [0]

We must confess, of all the things we've thought of doing with our Nokia C7 review unit, taking a screwdriver to it and searching for a NFC ("near-field communications") chip didn't occur to us.  Our loss, apparently, since Nokia has indeed fitted a short-range wireless chip inside the new Symbian^3 smartphone; they're just not telling us exactly why, yet. Read The Full Story
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