Symbian-running Nokias Belle in February 2012

We had a apocryphal alpha but this time it's for real. The Belle amend for earlier Nokias is clearly appointed on the Finnish company's agenda for February 2012. The Nokia Belle... wait, what? It seems that Nokia accept accustomed up on the Symbian name and is now calling the OS artlessly "Nokia Belle".

We'll get aback to that in a minute. For now, actuality are the accordant capacity about the amend - absolute owners of Nokia N8, E7, E6, X7, C6-01, C7 and Oro can apprehend Belle in February abutting year.

Also, several models (N8, C7 and C6-01) are headed to shops with Nokia Belle out of the box. They'll be accessible in China initially and will after aggrandize to added markets. There are no added enhancements to the models, except accepting the most recent OS early.

You can apprehend our Belle analysis to see aloof what you'll be accepting with the update.

Back to the name - Nokia afresh handed development of Symbian over to Accenture and are now alike removing the name of the OS from their phones. It's not a huge loss, unless you're cornball about the years of history. Still, it was a rather abrupt rebranding, abnormally back you