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
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.
Nokia must know that they are coming late to the party, having been stuck in the back waters with the dated Symbian.
surely they realise that many of the things they are taking about bring to the platform and the integrated applications and services hare already being done by the likes of Apple and Google and what they are talking about is nothing new.
It’s a late sell but I hope they succeed and win back some of the high-end smart phone users who jumped ship after the N97 debacle. I love Nokia smart phones so I hope Nokia shape up by the time I feel I want to move back from the Android platform, which currently is quite awesome.
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