Rumours: Some info on Symbian Belle
Image above via Tarik I think.
I got an email yesterday from someone who preffered names not mentioned . They seem to provide some details on Symbian Belle.
A lot of the bits we know about and “confirm” what we know and others are new:
- Symbian Belle in 5 months. October. In time for Nokia World 2011 EH (Supposedly in October. We have no dates, unlike last year where we knew already in February. This is most likely, things are being LAUNCHED at Nokia World 2011. If we know that, we know when phones might be coming out and that’s all hush hush for now. But yeah, October was the rumoured date.)
- Anna is next Month. June. That’s what twitterverse thinks too.
- Belle to have tabbed browsing (I don’t know if this means actual tabs as seen in regular desktop browsers or that recent Qt browser or just that slow Anna style multi window)
- Widgets non-resizable but of different size (as seen in first screenshots) look much better than what we’ve seen so far.
- No more apps folder, just a long list of apps.
I just thought i’d share with you what I know about Symbian Belle and what Nokia will be doing in the near future at least with Symbian.I was lucky enough to get to have a go on a test device running Symbian Belle and it was actually very stable and I would say almost in a form where it would be quite usable on a commercial phone.Looking over the website you do seem to know a lot about Belle already but I think i have a few things you don’t know.Here are some things i noted down about the system and some of the answers I received from the Nokia employee.
- Firstly the screen shots you posted about Belle are correct. The icons at the bottom have changed to those that are on the screenshots.
- All Symbian updates will be girls names and in alphabetical order from now on.
- There will either be 5 or 6 home screens (the employee wasn’t 100% sure on this)
- The new Nokia Pure font was definitely being used on the device.
- It will be around 5 months before we see the update. Next month Symbian Anna will make it’s way to the N8 and E7.
- The browser is much improved in usability and in function. Much improved load times, multi-touch and a better menu system with tabs, visualised history etc. (Only got to play on it for a limited amount of time)
- Maps will be improved yet again. I didn’t get a chance to try it out though
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- The applications folder is now removed and theres just a big list of apps.
- And the widgets that have been circulating the web are indeed what will be in Belle. It looked sooo much better. The widgets were NOT resizable but each widget was a different size. E.g the clock was smaller but the social widget was still pretty large. All of the first party apps I tried had been updated and the look and feel had been changed. However all of the third part apps were still the same. The all worked in both portrait and landscape.
All of those things I’ve just said above are 100% correct as I got to use it myself, the employee didn’t even seem to want to keep it overly secret….
I know Nokia is removing the folders to get everyone used to WP7 but
yuck no thanks ..
I know Nokia is removing the folders to get everyone used to WP7 but I’d rather not have one huge long list when I press the menu button. Folders better be an option and by that I mean I do not want to update the firmware and find everything that’s so nicely organised right now dumped into one huge long list.
This screenshot I’ve seen loads of times, why is everything suddenly black and white? I would prefer some colour Nokia. My phone is capable.
Widgets – what if I want a larger clock? Making it so that the widget sizes can’t be changed is stupid because we’re stuck with whatever size the developer wants their widget to be.
Also the screenshot looks fake – notice there is no new Nokia font? The bottom bar looks the same as the one now even though rumours point to a new one. The gap between the new top bar and New Message is where the photoshopper removed the current top bar and didn’t move the menu up to fill the gap.
The image and the person providing the information are two different people. I put the image there as it was related to the post so there is a possibility that image is not real.
im sorry to ruin the party but this “miracle” that u see here is just an “vhome voyager home screen”
just install it and see that they matched!
[...] Fonte: My Nokia Blog [...]
[...] Fonte: My Nokia Blog [...]
[...] : MyNokiaBlog Partager tweetmeme_url = "http://aroundme.fr/2011/05/21/lapres-symbian-anna/"; Mots clés: [...]
the pic is 200% fake. i play with images in photoshop and this blog is sooo misleading. the top status bar has been made up of individual elements, my alalysis tells me. so sad that many dumbheads believe this LOL
Jay Montano says:
May 20, 2011 at 4:25 pm
The image and the person providing the information are two different people. I put the image there as it was related to the post so there is a possibility that image is not real.
Thanks for the update Jay…….:)
[...] fuente de esta información es MyNokiaBlog, por lo que no tenemos que tomarla como 100% segura, pero muchos de los datos que ya se habían [...]
Why do i get the feeling that Belle is most probably not going to make it by October….
no way if nokia says it’s october this year then it’ll be october next year or sometime like that. I mean we all have seen nokia to make big promises and roll out surprises to buy the crowd but they never provide us with the date and they love to play with quarters of the year. And when the time comes they pass it onto next quarter Q2 to Q3. We’ve been using this disgusting browser(shame of s^3) for almost half an year yet they promised to deliver a new browser by the end of 2010 and they still are making promises.
[...] : MyNokiaBlog Partager tweetmeme_url = "http://aroundme.fr/2011/05/21/lapres-symbian-anna-pr3/"; Mots [...]
[...] Ale to już dobrze obsługuje Symbian^3/Symbian Anna, wystarczy mu zamienić UI na oparty na Qt, co obiecuje Nokia od dłuższego czasu … Poczekamy – [...]
[...] Many anticipated enhancements, such as tabbed browsing and more varied home screen widgets (different sizes) don’t come with this updates, but instead now we hear rumours about Symbian Belle, as reported by for example My Nokia Blog. [...]
Thanks , I have just been looking for info about this subject for ages and yours is the greatest I have discovered till now. But, what about the conclusion? Are you sure concerning the supply?