Earlier this year, Nokia revealed that thanks to a collaboration with Microsoft, Windows Phone 7 would be the company’s primary smartphone OS. However, Nokia hasn’t forgotten about Symbian and the company today announced an update for the OS called Anna.Leaked over the weekend, Symbian^3 Anna offers users a faster browsing experience along with a portrait-version of the onscreen QWERTY keyboard. The OS will also bring a refresh to the Ovi Maps experience that will improve search, text input and add homescreen scrolling.The update comes at the same time as two new handsets, the X7 and the E6. Touted as an entertainment device, the X7 comes with a 4-inch OLED ClearBlack widescreen touch display, 256MB RAM, 1GB ROM memory, an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, HD video recording, Flash 10, up to 32G of expandable memory, and access to Nokia’s Ovi store (if you’re into that kind of thing). The E6 is more of a business-orientated smartphone. It boasts a 2.46-inch TFT LCD display, 256MB RAM, 1GB ROM memory, up to 32GB via MicroSD, an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash and 720p video capture, Flash 10, and that all-important physical QWERTY keypad.The X7 and the E6 will both ship with Anna but Nokia is also planning to roll out the new version of Symbian^3 to other customers. Espoo has confirmed that N8, E7, C7 and C6-01 users will also get the Anna update, but has yet to provide anything more specific than “the coming months” in terms of a release schedule.
