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Symbian ^4 UI First Look

Posted by Farhan on January 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment

The Symbian Foundation today released the images for UI proposed by Nokia for Symbian ^4 operating system based on QT , which also works on Maemo platform and as Symbian Foundation wrote “ Qt-based UI layer is intended to supersede the S60 Avkon UI Framework “ so expect an all new OS outlook . There is also a lot of technical jargon which I’ll skip and drop straight to the pix
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/image...ia-symbian.jpg

As you can see that Symbian is moving more towards multi screen standby , not the simple twin mode in E71 , E72 but three full screens of customizable widgets , hence the three dots in the bottom of the pic along with the extra large clock widget superimposed over back graphic . Symbian 4 also tends to be more inclined towards touch screen with the keypad icon , supports drop down menus like in Nokia 5800 with the small arrow pointing down . The battery and Cell strength indicator are also shifted to one corner . With the networks increasing their presence and lessening white areas, I think the cell strength could be a waste of on screen resources and the phone can simply beep or give out a warning once the signal strength drops certain threshold . There seem to be support for customizable widgets and where to place them as the Clock Widget seems superimposed and seems that it could be moved . Given the small screen factor , can the widgets ne resized , Nokia could work on it , I can simply resize the image making the image and text smaller as a pic . There is a todo list which again is superimposed and later email etc widgets could also be added

In the image viewer , it’s more or less like that of Nokia’s beta Image Viewer with scrolling options and tight integration with OVI Share .

OVI is coming out to be big in Nokia’s strategy and is being complemented with many other services ranging from emails to apps download to pics , hopefully but than it will be available in Pakistan

Video Player in landscape mode , shows the transparent bar , which is new in Symbian and solid icons are already being used in N900 / Maemo

In all I like the new UI , the first devices are expected in Q1 2011 so the wait is not so long . I’m expecting the first devices to show up at Nokia World 2010.

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/imag...x_symbian1.jpg http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/imag..._symbian-2.jpg
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/imag..._symbian-3.jpg http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/imag..._symbian-4.jpg

http://senseapplied.com/index.php/sy...ui-first-look/

took the pics from gizmodo as they were bigger
http://gizmodo.com/5448903/symbian-4...itll-look-like hy