Nokia has announced an update to the Symbian operating system, along with two new smartphone devices.
The new OS upgrade has a name rather than a number. It's called Symbian Anna and promises new icons, improved usability, a faster browser, better maps and an assortment of other tweaks.
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The Layar mobile augmented reality browser is now available for a number of Symbian S60 and Symbian^3 handsets. It overlays online digital content on top of a ‘real world’ image from the phone’s camera.
Users with the Nokia N8, Nokia C7, Nokia C6-01, Nokia E7, Nokia N97 and N97 mini devices can download the Layar Reality Browser from the Ovi store.
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Nokia has announced that its Ovi Store is now seeing 3 million downloads per day. It’s also had more than 400,000 new developers join Forum Nokia in the past 12 months has 92 developers who’ve achieved more than a million downloads for their apps.
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Orange and Nokia have announced an integrated Ovi service that'll combine apps from the Orange Application Shop with content from Nokia's Ovi Store.
Nokia’s Ovi Store with Orange will be accessible by Orange customers in the UK and France in 2011.
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It's all happening over at Nokia. Not only is it acquiring a new president and CEO, it's also saying goodbye to Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki. Mr Vanjoki, who runs Nokia's Mobile Solutions unit (smartphones, mobile computers and Ovi), has given six months notice and will continue in his role for the moment.
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