Nokia Kills Carla Name, Now Refers to It as Belle FP1

Bad news for Symbian fans as Nokia quietly confirmed there wouldn’t be any Belle Carla update in the future.

Although it has been rumored that the Finnish company plans to release a major re-haul of the Symbian OS sometime this year, which was to be called Nokia Carla, it looks like it has been cancelled. In fact, Nokia Carla is said to be embedded into upcoming Nokia 808 PureView, but we all know that the smartphone has been confirmed to run Belle FP1. The information has been recently confirmed by Mattia Fiorin, product manager at Nokia Italy, who told Nokialino that Carla was no longer the name the company used for the promised update.

According to him, “FP1 is pretty much what was once called Carla.” Unfortunately, we don’t have a clue whether or not FP1 contains all the features promised in Nokia Carla, so until PureView 808 goes on sale we can only speculate. However, there is some good news as well. Even though we initially thought that Nokia won’t be able to push the FP1 update to N8 units, it has been confirmed that a specially tailored version will be available for Nokia N8 as well. Fiorin also confirmed the N8’s processor woul receive a minimal overclock in order to better assimilate the latest FP1 update. There’s more to it as Nokia’s official also confirmed plans to deploy a future Belle FP2 update on the N8.

While we don’t have any information on this Belle FP2 update, there are speculations that claim Nokia Donna has been renamed as well and will be referred to with this name. Apparently, Nokia Donna would bring support for 720p display and dual-core processors to Symbian operating system, though we don’t have any confirmation from Nokia yet. Stay tuned for more updates on the matter.

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