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T-Mobile Astound will not be updated to Nokia Belle

   

 

Nokia US informed everybody on Twitter that the T-Mobile Astound, which is the Nokia C7’s variant for the United States, will not be updated to Nokia Belle.


T-Mobile Astound was last updated to Symbian Anna in November, but will sadly not see Nokia Belle. We can see T-Mobile’s point in not going ahead with the update though. Nokia Belle is a major update, and with Astound being the only Symbian phone in their portfolio, it doesn’t make much sense for them to invest in supporting another OS.

   

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Yash Maheshwari

Lawyer by profession and a long time Nokia & Symbian user, Yash has been following Nokia's journey with Symbian and now Windows Phone. He is always open for discussion on everything Nokia, Symbian & Windows Phone. You can follow him online -

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next time when you find a story be sure to add a link where you got it from.

Eh? Yash posted this when he noticed it himself. We were the first to break the story. Kinda hard to get 'it from' anyone if we broke it, eh? :o)

Why link when you can embed the source from where you got the story?

If I were a T-Mobile Astound user who bought one on that two year contract, I'd be pissed. Just sayin.

That's too bad, especially when one is on a 2 year contract. That being said, people can also download the latest generic Belle firmware using Navifirm and then flash the phone using Phoenix. It's certainly a bit of a work, but with Belle the Astound owners will also get NFC capability. Definitely worth upgrading to this version, IMO.

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