Nokia renames Symbian Belle to Nokia Belle

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Nokia renames the interface on its phones to Nokia Belle. Until now it was known as Symbian Belle. Although the name Symbian in use continues, he will not figure so prominently longer be called as before.

The step is not explained, but in a blog post called Nokia Belle interface suddenly Nokia Belle instead of Symbian Belle, the name it used until now. This is the name Symbian not mentioned.

Therefore, it seemed that Nokia is the name Symbian will disappear, but according to fansite AllAboutSymbian, that is not the case: the unit is now referred to as Symbian smartphone with Nokia Belle interface. According to the site, the interface updates to disconnected updates of the operating system. Another reason would be that consumers the name of the operating system does not know or associate with the in the past few years, bad running smartphonetak of Nokia.

This seems to Nokia name Symbian less important. Although the operating system for many years the market leader, it has no good image. It is unclear whether the name Symbian in the future by Nokia is called, or that it is buried in the specificatielijsten of new aircraft.

Nokia Belle update for Symbian, in which the interface is changed to the operating system more of the appearance and the functionality of the current market leader Android. So is the bar at the top made smaller, where new notifications can be viewed by the bar down to pull. Also, the home screens are addressed, where widgets scrolls according to can be and a variety of formats. A lot of textual menus have been replaced by icons.

Symbian is no longer the main smartphone platform for Nokia. The Finnish manufacturer has started selling handsets with Windows Phone in the Lumia line. The Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 are the first Windows Phone devices, while the manufacturer at the CES in January, likely new models or versions will announce.