Video: PhoneDog's Symbian^3 Video Demo with Nokia's David Rivas

You’ve probably seen this already as it’s starting to go Viral – Noah from PhoneDog has a video demo with a Nokia VP, David Rivas about Symbian^3.

• Sexified all black Symbian^3 phone (is this just a “container” phone to demo the UI or possibly a real upcoming handset? Note, the middle menu button flanked by call and end keys.)
• Symbian^3 will have more than 3 homescreens (Rivas says you can keep on adding more homescreen pages as you need – no users ever ask for more)
• Smoother looking more up to date interface
• Fingers crossed it actually does look like this (remember how the N97’s UI was supposed to be all flashy and ended up being far from that?)
• Another glimpse at REAL multitasking in action.
• David Rivas says they’ve been doing something unique of having been multitasking for 5 years. No, you’ve actually been multitasking for 8 years. Remember the 7650 from 2002?
• Multitouch zooming – Rivas glosses over this as just something on the tickbox list  (Note he mentions that multitouch will also be for resistive screens – not that I’d want that but there are still some stylus happy people)
• There’s still no sign of what the web browser will look like

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0rd3TD9g_Y]

The carousel multitasking is nice. But I don’t like it in terms of practicality/efficiency. I hope there’s a tile option soon. Palm’s similar cards has this linear multitasking and it feels absolutely stupid swiping card after card after card whereas I can just tap across a grid of 16 apps viewable at once with Maemo 5.

Tags: Nokia, Symbian, Symbian^3, Video

Category: Nokia, Nseries, Symbian, Video