Nokia is wonderful at hardware. But like Motorola, another veteran of awesome industrial design, Nokia is not terribly strong on the software front–once upon a time it was, but it proved unable to shake itself loose from the now-outdated software of its glory days. The Nokia E7 is a prime example. It really is a …

T-Mobile UK has backtracked on its decision to drastically cut the mobile data use allowances for existing as well as new smartphone customers, following an explosion of public anger at the move. Yesterday the operator said it will now only offer the reduced levels of data to new and upgrading customers, while existing customers will get the 1GB to 3GB …

A U.K. consumers group known as Which? is criticizing T-Mobile’s decision to reduce its “fair-use” limit for smartphone data usage, asserting that the move may break the operator’s own terms and conditions. In a blog post today, the group said T-Mobile is selling smartphones built for video streaming and downloading, but then telling its customers they should not use the …

Nokia plans to stick with Symbian as its main business phone platform even when MeeGo, its new top-end operating system, is released. On Tuesday, Nokia business smartphones chief Ilari Nurmi told ZDNet UK that Nokia had “great converged device plans based on the MeeGo platform” and that there were “different types of needs and wants in the enterprise market,” but …

The U.K. government should offer tax credits to businesses that upgrade their networking equipment to support IPv6, according to Vint Cerf, who is widely regarded as one of the founders of the internet. Cerf, who co-invented TCP/IP, said on Thursday that businesses in the U.K. and the rest of Europe risked being cut off from customers in parts of the …

The first updates to current Symbian phones will appear in the first half of next year, Nokia said today. At the Symbian Exchange and Exposition in Amsterdam, the handset manufacturer–which said yesterday that it was bringing development of Symbian back in-house–said the first updates would include the addition of split-screen text entry, a Qwerty keyboard that works when the phone …

Lee Williams ZDNet UK The head of the Symbian Foundation, Lee Williams, has quit. According to a statement from Symbian today, Williams stepped down for “personal reasons.” He has been immediately replaced with Tim Holbrow, the foundation’s chief financial officer. Williams’ departure is the latest in a string of exits associated with the mobile operating system, which–since Samsung and Sony …

HTC saw a 130 percent year-on-year rise in its revenue in September, the phone manufacturer said in a brief statement (PDF) today. According to HTC, it brought in NT$27.1 billion (US$875 million) in September. Its revenue for the whole third quarter was NT$75.8 billion (US$2.45 billion). “September revenue was impacted by product transition with small portion shipment of new products, …

Microsoft has released a version of Silverlight for some implementations of the Symbian mobile operating system, meaning its rich media player will appear on Symbian handsets before it reaches Microsoft-based phones. The port of Microsoft’s rival to Flash was made available to users of the Nokia 5800, N97, and N97 Mini handsets, which run the Symbian-based Nokia S60 5th edition, …

Nokia has sold its wireless-modem business to semiconductor company Renesas Electronics, and the two companies have agreed to develop modem technologies together in the future. The $200 million sale of Nokia’s wireless-modem business, which includes LTE, HSPA, and GSM technologies and patents, was announced Tuesday. In a joint statement, Nokia and Renesas said they had formed a long-term alliance to …