Yesterday Nokia began uploading the Symbian Anna firmware for the N8 and E7 on its servers. Luckily, it did not stop with those two and the Anna updates for C7 and C6-01 also hit the servers later.

Symbian Anna is available now for download via the official channels - either as an OTA update or through the Ovi Suite. All Nokia N8, E7, C7 and C6-01 qualify for the update no matter the region, carrier or color.

Currently, the Anna updates are rolling out in most of Europe and Asia but its a matter of days before they go worldwide.

Symbian Anna key features:

• Virtual portrait QWERTY for fast, one handed typing
• Split screen view while typing; so you can see message threads, webpages, contacts or email 
• An easier to use and faster browser, delivering quicker page loads and improved navigation 
• Refreshed Nokia Maps including simpler search, new public transportation routes and the ability to check-in to Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare or local social networks
• A feature to share your location via email and SMS

Features for business users:

• Instant messaging and presence with Microsoft Communicator Mobile
• E-mail enhancements including full meeting request support
• True business grade security with hardware  accelerated encryption
• Easy and secure intranet access for business users who want to access their company intranet

Features for developers:

• Flashlite 4
• Java Runtime 2.2
• Qt Mobility 1.1
• Qt4.7

Nokia N8 has not even received the official Anna update yet, but the most daring of its users are already rewarded with the next Symbian iteration Belle. The files required for flashing Belle on your N8 are already available for download so if you are knowledgeable enough and decide that its worth voiding your warranty you might get it up and running right now.

There’s not much in the way of instructions on how to flash it in the forum thread that lists the download files, but you can find them over here. You would need to apply the Anna update first though, if you have not done so already.

The Belle update itself brings along an updated notifications drawer, a new keyboard and camera UIs and a few other more minor tweaks. You can check it out in action in this video that leaked previously.

Nokia has uploaded the Symbian Anna firmware for E7 and N8 on its servers and the updates should start rolling out any moment now.

The Symbian community has been waiting for those updates since the announcement of the Symbian Anna back in April. It seems they are finally coming to the E7 and N8 smartphones all over the world.

Nokia has started uploading the Anna firmware updates on its servers for all country, carrier and color-dependent N8 and E7 phones. Whatever version of N8 or E7 you own, I guess its a matter of hours (or days in the worst case scenario) before you get your hands on the official Symbian Anna firmware.

A tipster just sent us photos of the Nokia 700 Zeta, along with some specs though they did not confirm if there really is a 1GHz processor inside. In one of the photos you can see the new homescreen of Symbian Belle, the successor of Anna.

They did give us some specs though a 3.2" nHD AMOLED screen, which points to this being a Nokia C6-01 replacement. The Nokia 700 is also reportedly quite light (a bit over 80g) and measures 110 x 51 x 10mm, which doesn’t quite mesh with the "thinnest smartphone ever" claim, but those measurements can change as its design is still being developed. 

From the photo, you can see that the camera is a 5MP unit and has a LED flash. We cannot guess at whether or not it has autofocus though. Also, the Nokia 700 has NFC connectivity, which Nokia seems to be warming up to following the Nokia N9 announcement.

Other specs that the tipster managed to get out of the Nokia 700 (which as we speculated might be called N7) is that it runs Symbian Belle (an update to Anna) and packs Wi-Fi b/g/n. There is also fast HSPA speeds (10.2Mbps or 14.4Mbps downlink and 5.76Mbps uplink). The battery was a 1080mAh unit.

The Nokia Connection 2011 event is still going on and CEO Stephen Elop just announced on stage that that the existing Symbian ^3 devices will be getting the Symbian Anna update in July.

This includes the N8, C7, C6-01 and E7. All the new devices from July onward will ship with Anna pre-installed and current devices will get it through a software update by the end of August.