Nokia has now introduced the Symbian Belle version for majority of its existing Anna smartphones. At present, the company is getting ready to launch Nokia Carla for every compatible device.
The first smartphones operating under Nokia Carla which is gone to the hit the market will be released in Q3 of this year. According to the newest reports, the second generation Belle smartphone including the Nokia 603, 700 & 701 will first migrate to new version of Nokia Carla OS. Afterward, by Q4, the remaining Belle running smartphones in the Nokia portfolio including N8, E6, E7, C7, C6-01 and Nokia X7 will get upgraded to Carla.
Furthermore, Nokia Carla will be circulated to all smartphones presently on Belle. There’s a trivial, but significant difference between the first generation and second generation Belle smartphones. The first version had no NFC support and came with less clock frequency of 1 GHz CPUs. This is the reason why Nokia decided to employ a trimmed down version of Carla to all the initial Belle smartphones. For those devices a lighter version updates shall be provided to evade performance hiccups. However, browser & resizable widgets can be built in along with other better smoothness & bug fixes. The newer 1GHz Belle devices can rise on up to Carla and probably to Donna.
The main improvements seen in Carla when compared with Belle are,
- NFC
- Dolby surround
- New improved Widgets
- Improved Browser (Version 8)
Finally, we can conclude that the Nokia Pure View (successor of Nokia N8) won't be the last device running on Carla. As a minimum, there would be at least 2 more Carla smartphones which would be out in the market by this year end. Moreover, Nokia also plans a worldwide roll-out for Carla, so that the users could obtain the update all at the same time.
