Symbian Anna finally hits the T-Mobile Nokia C7 Astound

If you take a look at the progress of Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia in rolling out Symbian Belle to its more capable smartphones, you will find out that the updates are not happening as fast as we would want it to be. This is also the case for the roll-out of Symbian Anna to those eagerly awaiting the update on their devices.

If you happen to have T-Mobile USA as your carrier of choice and are toting a Nokia C7 Astound from the carrier, congratulations are in order given the fact that the Symbian Anna update for the said handset is already available. As a background, the C7 Astound is basically the Nokia C7 that the company released to the rest of the world. Unlike the C7 Astound, the original C7 shipped with Anna while the C7 Astound was stuck with Symbian^3.1.

The Symbian Anna update which is being rolled-out to the T-Mobile C7 Astound via OTA is about 11MB big and brings a web browser that is faster and along with enhancements on the text input of the handset among others. While waiting for the update tohit your device, you can pass the time by reading through the specs sheet of the Nokia C7 Astound from T-Mobile.

The C7 Astound is a solidly-built handset that measures 117.3 x 56.8 x 10.5 mm and tips the scales at 130 grams. With these vital stats, we can safely say that the C7 Astound is not as sexy and lightweight as we would want it to be but the handset packs a rather attractive design aesthetic.

When the C7 Astound was released, Nokia wasn’t into coming up with Windows Phones yet so the company doesn’t make use of SoC chipset yet at that time. This is the case with the C7 Astound where it only has an ARM11 processor taking care of the computing power for the device while the graphical concerns are handled by the handset’s dedicated Broadcom BCM2727 graphics chip.

The C7 Astound has 256 MB of RAM that supports the processor of the device in powering its operating system while the internal memory of the handset is pegged at 8GB. Despite the meager onboard memory of the handset, the C7 Astound comes with a dedicated memory expansion slot that lets a user add up to 32GB of external storage to beef up the internal storage of the device.

The display of the C7 Astound is an AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display with a diagonal of 3.5-inches. Its resolution is at 640 x 360 pixels wile pixel density comes up to 210 ppi. The display of the handset is also covered withCorning’s Gorilla Glass making it scratch-resistant. As for its shooters, the C7 Astound has two – a primary 8MP shooter found at its back panel and a VGA snapper adorning the handset’s front panel.

Given these attributes and capabilities, we already know that the Nokia C7 Astound from T-mobile is one capable device. Upgrading it to Symbian Anna will only make the device better.