More often than not I think that Nokia lacks logic in its moves. The fans expected a serious upgrade to fix bugs, add new features to the OS and boost user experience of those who own Symbian^3 models. When Nokia N8 was delayed by several months Nokia representatives mentioned a desire to offer an ideal system as an explanation.

According to PR 1.1 Symbian^3 still has many issues with up to 200 items being already fixed. These are serious drawbacks Nokia paid attention to. For example, developers of Nokia could not solve for years the issue of switching languages on the screen keypad with one tap.How can you be a market leader after that? Why launch an upgrade without serious improvements?

We do not get a new browser or new features. On an official Nokia blog they say that these tweaks are important, but not expressly visible to users. To sweeten the frustration we get a new QuickOffice 6.4.166 with the editing support. N8 got three games in the kit, which were earlier available for free at OVI Store. The performance was not improved and the new version of browser (7.2.8.10) does not offer anything special. It is still as outdated as ever. Integration of maps with mail is hardly a killer feature.

As far as Nokia N8 hit the shelves 4 months ago it took Nokia quite a long time to prepare this upgrade. It is available for Nokia N8, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6-01. Surprisingly, last week we mentioned in the Spillikins the inability of Nokia to come up with firmware in time.

The Nokia Ovi Store is getting an over-the-air update today, which will enable full Arabic support for the store and Qt based app installation. What this means is that apps created for Symbian 5th edition and Maemo will now be compatible with Symbian^3.

This is great news for the newest Symbian, because it opens a whole new window of content to the handful of phones that run it. And given the fact that the Ovi Store is way behind the Android Market and the iOS AppStore, this should be taken as a serious upgrade.

Keep in mind that an error with the update may occur and, should that happen, Nokia suggests that you hit Try Again and continue hassle-free.

In other related news the Nokia Diagnostics app has just been released in Beta form for Symbian^3. It's exactly the same as on the 5th edition and offers all the test it did before. Nokia are keeping it clean and simple here, why change something that's already good?

But as with the Ovi Store update, Nokia has a note about the Diagnostics app, as well. If you're using the N8, C6 or C6-01 you'll need to update your firmware from PR1.0 to PR1.1.

Finally, the Diagnostics application has been updated too, in order to fix the front-facing camera issue it obviously had before.

Money control.com, India No. 1 Financial portal has just released their official app for Nokia Touch Devices. The app extremely useful for traders who love to deal in Stock Market of India. The app developed by "Divum Corporate Services Pvt.".

Features:

Get live stock quotes:

You can get real time update on stock quotes, Indian and Global Market Indices.

Track your portfolio:

With the help of Portfolio Manager, you can track all your investments, assets and borrowings just from the single window.

News Update:

Get all latest News update from News Center.

Live TV:

You can watch CNBC-TV18 and CNBC AWAAZ live on your mobile.

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Sure, Ovi Maps is cool, free and with decent map coverage but it does not cut it for everyone. Luckily, Sygic comes to the rescue providing a pretty decent alternative with its Mobile Maps 10 app.

With nicely drawn animated 3D maps, intuitive address search, fast route calculation, lane assistant, signpost information, and loads of POIs Sygic Mobile Maps is a pretty well featured SatNav app. The Maps even include inter-passage roads and house contours in order to enable exact door-to-door navigation in apartment blocks.

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Remember the smart add-ons for Nokia 97 and N97 mini called Nokia Bots? They are useful apps for automatic managing of your sound profiles, alarms, battery and shortcuts. Nokia Beta Labs is now releasing the Bots for Symbian^3.

The supported devices are Nokia N8, C7 and C6-01. There are also various bug fixes and performance updates over the four Bots.

In case you need to know more about the Nokia Bots, watch the video below!