Video: Nokia E6, X7 and Symbian Anna demoes
Here’s a couple of videos showing the Nokia X7 and E6 – the first batch of phones to come with Symbian Anna.
The date on the phone says 24th May so it’s relatively a recent demo.
In the video below the NOKIA guy shows how to demo removal of a memory card. In this he suggests turning the phone OFF. Why? The phone has an option to “remove memory card” where it shuts down anything requiring memory card use to prevent corruption of data. Or maybe he got mixed up that’s why he took out the SIM as well.
Another thing this Nokia guy says is that the 3.5mm jack is purely for headset (after being asked can it do video out, I couldn’t hear well if he said you can or can’t do video output, but the following comment about purely headset confused me). No TV out on a Symbian touch device?
I might have some amnesia about this feature but the power button is also a lock phone button? In the video it looks like your normal profile button/power button.
Now below looks at Anna in more depth. Where’s the split screen keyboard? And also when he compares browsers, doesn’t Symbian^3 already have those quick options icons? He clicked on options on the C6-01 not the three lined thing.
The new changes to the browser are very welcome. However, I don’t understand what took them so long but I’m not going to rant on Symbian for this now. Sliding on multiple browser windows seems much faster (though the animation that brings up a new tab is horrendously slow).. I think as another suggestion (though I’m not sure how open Symbian is any more to improvements) is to put the window switch button as something always visible. That way you just have two taps instead of three (make it somewhat translucent so that pages aren’t obstructed)
video from http://www.tech65.org/
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- Nokia E6 and X7 demos | WOMWorld/Nokia | June 5, 2011
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If Apple announce there new iPhone before Symbian Anna is released – Doesn’t that kind of make Symbian 3^ a bit of a mess?
As Symbian in general has been around for many years before iOS and yet Apple can have a new device and updated os launched within that time?
Symbian^3 has been around since october of last year (and gone from 1.0 to 1.2) so it was released after iOS 4 and the iPhone 4.
And you can’t compare Nokias and Apples update cycles since Apple have been on a one year update cycle with their OS while Nokia has been updating their OS when ever it’s needed. A Nokia phone gets several updates a year, both major and minor while Apple has one big update per year and then bug/security fixes in the coming months.
If Nokia would have kept doing their updates like before then we would have seen 2-3 more updates by now since instead of waiting for the Anna update, it would have been split into smaller updates when ever the features are done.
This way is worse for the consumer since you have to wait but better from a PR point of view since they can put a PR spin on it and point to it being a “whole new experiense”.
ios 5 goib to be announced next week
Split screen is there in final version which probably will start shipping in 1-2 weeks, I hope.
http://twitter.com/#!/camb078
Got a link to the relevant tweet? I see nothing there…
From the timeline of camb078 (blog n8-fr):
I’m testing the final FW via Nokia RDA right now
Just checked and there is split screen.
browser yes, sms yes, email yes.
Ninja, we saw split screen on the Astound, when Anna was introduced back in April there was no doubt that split screen was part of the deal. Wouldn’t it, to say the least, be very strange if it disappeared two months later?
I know this comment may sound strange cause there’s no ‘f#ck Nokia’ or ‘I’ll buy a Samsung SII’ in it but I’m confident that Anna will bring split screen text input to our beloved N8.
Absolutely terrible!
Watching that takes you back 10 years…
Have you noticed that the keyboard is not split screen anymore like they promised and showed in couple of demos? It opens up in it’s own window like in current Symbian^3.
Why are Nokia’s presentations of new(lol “new”, 3 year old hardware) phones done in cafeterias? Unprofessional.
Nokia you can’t manage anything. Who are these incompetent, talentless people working at Nokia? How did so many gather at one place?
Better hope WP7 saves you Nokia, it’s you only chance.
i agree its all nokia’s fault
Uh, wtf happened to the split screen keyboard? They didn’t fix that *at all*. It’s still the same old mess where you have a separate keyboard window that opens up.
Epic. Fail.
How unsatisfying. Still has two large menus when you hit home screen, one with all the settings and another for applications… And no way of knowing visually what is a folder and what is an app launcher. No split screen keyboard, Ovi maps is still clunky as fuck (Qt rewrite for fucks sake!!). Slowdowns were seen during the whole presentation on E6 and X7, so basically nothing much has changed — but the icons are matte and rounded!
I’m over Symbian, too bad, but its official. Nothing can save it, and I’m glad Nokia will be a part of Windows world.
Slow old processor as always,why can’t Nokia use more modern processor for symbian. If symbian with modern and faster processor still slow,then i see the reason why Nokia choose wp7 as their primary os.
Will there be updates on it’s Music Player? Hope it will allow users to update Album Art/ Cover and Music Details as well just like the old Symbian s50 v5 devices…. We haven’t heard any of this update on the Music Player since the Anna announcement came…
Still waiting for Anna… haaayy…