New Symbian UI is smoking hot!
….well at least in comparison to S60V5.
A month ago, Symbian’s CEO gave a rather vague presentation on the new Symbian UI. On Thursday, Engadget posted up a sneak preview of the upcoming Symbian UI which no longer resembles the murky confusion that is S60. With the new Symbian UI users will have:
- Reduced clutter
- Improved input methods
- Capacitive Screen (death to resistive on high end!)
- Multitouch
- Pinch and Zoom
- Single touch improved (less taps to get to places- would be fantastic if we can get to everything with 3 taps or under)
- Better website compatibility,
- Quicker flash
- UI will be faster – 3x faster than our high end (which one, N97 or N900?)
- Scrolling will be 60FPS vs current 15fps
- Optimized graphics – more responsive, beautiful
- Drastically reduce complexity and bring new fresh appeal – when Nokia does, many people will take a new look at Symbian to achieve what no other manufacturer can.
Without ranting too much as I have to go, all I can say is – finally! Although I know the whole Qt thing will help with the cross compatibility of applications, I can’t help but be perplexed still with Nokia being pulled at two directions, with Maemo on one and Symbian on the other. Is Maemo just a testing ground for Symbian? Would Nokia put this much effort into a Symbian device and not make it one of the high ends (remember the rumours that Nokia denied of dropping Symbian at the high end?)
Yea, if Samsung and Sony Ericsson could tweak the Symbian UI to be more user-friendly, I’m sure Nokia could do twice better, and efficient likewise.
Anyway, nice blog you have here. It’s been a daily-routine for me to check on it nowadays
Thanks for the info. A question, Will the new symbian UI work on old phone like n97 or omnia hd???