We all truly love the Symbian Foundation’s robo-duckie mascot, don’t we? Sadly enough for Symbian, though, it’s going to take more than just charm and grace to win over the iPhone App Store’s crop of cash-flush developers.

Apparently, Symbian was at the WWDC today, doing its best to woo, with all-day festivities involving coffee, food, a “hackathon,” prizes, and free Nokia 5800 handsets for attendees. We are expecting Ovi Store to fill in with some solid stuff as well….Take a look at the picture below and you will know what we mean.

Symbian iPhone Devs

Source: EngadgetMobile

Okay, guys, here is your first and very blurry picture of a device that is supposedly the Sony Ericsson “Kokura”. This looks the spitting image of the Idou. Interestingly, the specs are very much like the Idou’s, too, with a 12.1 megapixel camera and S60 5th Edition both said to be in the mix.

We all know that Sony Ericsson wants to launch the Idou with the Symbian Foundation’s R1 release, but the difference between R1 and S60 5th Edition is bound to be little more than the difference in an old-school S60 Feature Pack. But the actual question is, is this really just the Idou by a different name? Would that mean again, that its launch is not very far off? Never worry, we are waiting hawk-eyed to bring you more information on this one.

Sony Ericsson Kokura

Source: EngadgetMobile

The latest buzz in mobile town is that there has been a bug in the much-anticipated Nokia E71x’s firmware, which involves email, which was one of the most important factors of this device. Considering this problem, AT&T has had to push back the launch of this mobile phone, while it desperately tries to fix the irritating bug.

Really sad. The Nokia E71 has been doing its round all through North America since July 2008 and this AT&T version of the smartphone has been hyped only too much. Our deepest sympathies to all you Symbian fans out there, tut tut.

Anyway, the silver lining here is that the delay may come with a price break – probably it would cost only about $149.99 on contract after rebate launch. Of course, this is only a rumor. But that will not stop us from hoping for the best. Are you listening, AT&T?

Nokia E71x

Source: EngadgetMobile

Samsung recently announced that it had shipped more than 5 million of its touchscreen F480 mobile phone units. The company now claims to hold 25% of the world’s touchscreen mobile phone market. Most of the touchscreen devices shipped recently use Samsung’s very own TouchWIZ UI, though some models for North America, such as the Instinct, do not use that interface.

Well, we are waiting to see what kind of UI the company would bring to Android. Would they be using the selfsame TouchWIZ technology on Google’s platform or would they go for Android’s own native interface, such as the thing we see on the HTC Dream and HTC Magic? Maybe they will introduce their technology. After all, Samsung has brought it to Windows Mobile and Symbian as well, right? Well, let us wait and watch for more.

Samsung F480

Source: IntoMobile