FreeForm widget for Symbian PR3.0/Belle stylie leaked on a Nokia YouTube Channel; could it come to Anna?
Ganesh and Kunwar has emailed us in a couple of images that show the new free form widget UI in the homescreen expected in PR3.0/”Belle”. Cheers also to Adnan for reminder tip.
Oddly, this was leaked on an official Nokia channel, NokiaHomebase. As you can see, the widgets aren’t confined to their usual enclosures, looking much more dynamic than the old style of rigid looking widgets.
However, as you can see, the battery and signal bar are not combined into a single status bar, but are still old style Symbian^3. Does this mean PR3.0 freeform widgets are coming to PR2.0/Symbian Anna or was this just another error in the photoshop department? (Not unlike Nokia to have simulated screen fails :p)
The space wasting bottom bar is gone though, including the indicator telling you what homescreen you’re in. In the PR3.0 preview, there was still a bottom bar present.
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lets put it into perspective.
Take a samsung 800 mhz processor device. Like ace.
And a 680 mhz nokia. Aka all of symbian 3.
Symbian 3 can have 720p but the samsung cant. There is something symbian is doing right.
The 720p stuff is all done by the GPU. The old ARM11 can’t do that.
Samsung’s Ace has a Qualcomm MSM7227 in it that is coupled with a mediocre Adreno 200 GPU that isn’t capable of neither showing nor recording 720p video.
Processors can’t be compared clock for clock, there is far more to it than that. Perhaps inspiration for an article?
yup i would like to point that out.
I mean, the price of both the devices are comparable and within the same price range no?
But what you get in terms of hardware is different.
The price for a C7 and an Ace are about comparable. But to say that it’s because of Symbian that the C7 can do 720p in that price range isn’t quite right I think.
It has more to do with Nokia buying the HW platform in bulk, a very big bulk considering there are 6 devices (N8, C7, C6-01, E7, E6, X7) all using identical hardware.
The price/features are more down to getting good HW deals than it is down to Symbian making that happen.
“It has more to do with Nokia buying the HW platform in bulk, a very big bulk considering there are 6 devices (N8, C7, C6-01, E7, E6, X7) all using identical hardware.
The price/features are more down to getting good HW deals than it is down to Symbian making that happen.”
Samsung who happen to be a supplier of electronics component and the second bigger handset manufacturer isn’t able to do the same? Surely you jest.
They probably could, but they opted for a bigger margin on their products. Research has to be paid for, otherwise Samsung as an electronics MFR can’t innovate.
And why you point this out is beyond me, I merely said it to point out that it’s not Symbian that’s bringing 720p to low price ranges it’s more Nokia with getting good HW deals.
Symbian allows Nokia to use cheaper hardware (an ability that Nokia tends to abuse, but that is another debate) and is on the phones that “brings 720p to low price ranges”. I don’t see why Symbian shouldn’t get credit.
I think it is best to compare processors by DMIPs instead of clock for clock.
no. That will give him a measure of his trolling success.
Let him be.
why are we even talking about android here ? It is made by an advertising company with only one purpose, to sell adds to consumers and create one of the biggest databases based on their (us, the consumer) behavior and habits. It is running a Linux kernel, with a virtual machine slapped on top of it, running java applications.. good job. I rather use a real OS, like Windows CE, iOS, Sybmian, or Meego/maemo
Java applications?! Actually it’s symbian that has more of them, well, java apps are the only good symbian apps. And everyone knows android is better than symbian and iOS, probably equal with windows phone 7.