Belle Menu on Nokia N8/E7
I know N8 and E7 users haven’t even got Anna yet to be looking too far ahead into Belle but more pics have appeared, this one a little clearer than before, showing Belle (or whatever B girl name) on the E7 and N8.
There seems to be an odd use of Pure font for Menu but Nokia Sans in the icons. Early days yet, no? The toolbar at the bottom (back, search and options) as you see just stretches out.As noted before by comments/twitter, these buttons do somewhat resemble Windows Phone – though that’s pretty standard (Android has back/search/menu too).
In a blogger event at Switzerland, this new update (after Anna) was said to be coming at end of 2011 or beginning of 2012. Being Nokia there is of course no specific time-frame, especially as the vague “end/early” mean next to nothing as we all know from our early 50+ 2011 update. Having said that, my N8 is chugging along just ‘fine’ without Anna, though it would be better with it. It could be a nice new experience again with Belle, though I think by the time that’s available I may have moved onto a new fresh princely Belle device.
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At this rate Symbian belle wont be here until next year.
Q2/2012
My N8 does everything I want it to. what’s more, it does it well; why the hell would I get rid of it??? Full Flash? who gives a stuff whether pointless advertisements are animated ??
People who criticize the N8 and/or Symbian are just looking for a reason justify their move to another platform such as android. Most of the time their assumptions are baseless or built upon ignorance.
Rubbish. Flash provides more than just adds. I will concede that adds are annoying, but what about watching embedded videos? Can you easilu watch them through your “smartphone”? What about the unreliable e-mail client? Symbian definitely has potential, but it isn’t living up to it.
My friend has an Iphone 4(I didnt take that route, N8 FTW!) we were talking about the cricket world cup and stuff, when he asked me where i go to watch the matches online. i told him the websites that i go to on my phone. He asked OMG HOW DID YOU DO THAT!!!,
I simply told him ” I have Flash”.
best thing EVER!
Flash is very useful, you can watch videos on websites that have flash, you can download things from places like megaupload, hotfile, and stuff. It is one thing that pushes me away from the Opera browser and to the Clunky Nokia default browser.
Well.. I can’t view video in BBC website
Nokia is the greatest, the N8 just proves that they can still compete. I asked a iPhone user “say something you phone do that mine cant” all he could is say app after function. i named 10 different features and all he could say is iPhone is still better.
Name them. Just curious. I’m not an iPhone fan (AT ALL).
HD playback through HDMI, FM radio without accessories,usb-OTG,edit pics after taken without apps assistance,Theme with out hacks, native offline mapping service….Google maps is not theirs so that’s even out
Nokia can do lots of things but none of them well.
Same thing with a friend of mine XD the Ifanboys are soooo obsessed
Why dose every one get a pic from time 2.18?
http://www.mobiiliblogi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Symbian_Belle_hh2.jpg lal
because thats a proto ui desing from nokian.
that time is a release date plan on 18 feb and the time is passed because elop kill symbian and made anna to make sure that symbian update is slow and people consider wp
BS!
Nokia had 3 years to develop Symbian before Elop came to Nokia and what did they do? Nothing. Just changed the menu colors and added threaded SMS.
3 years waiting for qwerty and a decent web browser.
+1 For whatever reason the updates (or lack off) are Nokias own fault, not a new CEO.
elop should have pushed Maemo 5 while getting meego ready and still worked on symbian’s UI since ANNA was done from time
They couldn’t do threaded msgs properly. The conversation in Messaging is a separate app and its not full integrated into the messaging…
+1
Why do we only see screen shots of the Menu?
How about the home screen widgets please.
For now I am shelving my N8 and use it when I travel and need good camera until I got the Anna update. I am using my Samsung Gio (entry level Android) for the day to day task which I found surprisingly good (performance wise).
Hi, this are not fakes, are the actuall way that symbian Belle looks like.
I’m already running symbian Belle on my N8, anyone that has a N8 can run Belle right now, there’s a leaked version going around, I had been running Anna (leaked) since July 17th, and one day before the official anna release, the same website where I got anna from, released the leaked Belle firmware, It’s an amazing upgrafe from all other previous symbian versions, it still has some minor bugs, but once you try it, you don’t want to go back, even to anna.
For those of you that can’t wait to try it, go to n8fanclub . com, and search for belle, you’ll find the download links to the firmware files and the tutorial on how to flash your N8, and have Belle running in a few minutes, it’s well worth it!!!
Don’t be afraid to try it, if you don’t like it, there’s also a tutorial on a way to downgrade your N8 (very simple) all the way to pr 1.0, and from there you can go to any other firmware version you like.
So, n8fanclub . com, try if you want, IMO it’s worth it.
Salutes!!!
i need belle for my N8 Pls. help me out…