Isaiah's Tech

It's rare to find anything with Bluetooth 3.0 support these days, but it will be a normal thing in the future. For now, the first handset that looks like it will be getting the Bluetooth 3.0 treatment is the Samsung GT-S8500. Unfortunately that seems to be the only thing that seems to be desirable right now. We do know that this handset will feature EDGE / GPRS connectivity, a 3.1-inch OLED (probably touchscreen) display, and the TouchWiz UI. We don't know if this will be one of Samsung's first handsets running Bada but we'll hopefully see it at MWC in two weeks. Check out the Bluetooth SIG here.

[Engadget, Tech Tree]

If you believe what Digitimes has to say then keep on reading. Apparently, Nokia is looking to skip Symbian^2 and they're planning to go straight into Symbian^3. This is great news because Symbian^3 will be coming in Q3 of this year and it will bring multitouch gestures to a handset near you. Along with that news, Symbian^4 is expected to launch at the end of this year or at the beginning of next year. Version 4 will likely be based on Qt so that the software will support both Symbian and Maemo simultaneously.

If you're still in love with the current Symbian there's no need to worry because Symbian S60 and S40 is here to stay but they'll be owning the cheap-end of the spectrum for Nokia. We all love Maemo 5 on the Nokia N900 and the good news is that we'll see Maemo 6 by the end of this year as well - hopefully on the successor to the N900. That's some pretty good Nokia news for the week.

[Digitimes]