Leaked Screenshots and tour of Symbian Belle from Nokia 700 Zeta
A bunch of Symbian-Belle screenshots have appeared (taken presumably from a Nokia 700/RM-670) on a Romanian Nokia Blog (via zCJ).
1) BROWSER:
1) Looks similar to Anna. However look at the bar at the bottom. You now have persistent/quick access to bookmarks, back/forward button and tab/window switching. Hurrah! Those were the issues I noted in my Anna/E6 review and seems at least to have been fixed on that front with Belle.
2. The Homescreen
This is slightly interesting. Check out the free icons. No more being trapped in a shortcut widget.
Further more, we have widgets of differing size.
Also note at the bottom, homescreen switching, call and options.
Apparently it seems you might be able to overlap. Now with a clock/signal always on show, you save much more space than the previous Symbian view.
3) Call Screen
Minor change just to the toolbar at the bottom (instead of options and exit) . Green call button is bigger and phonebook button is now in toolbar.
4) Gallery view.
Again instead of options and back, you have back, share, slideshow? and options.
I guess it’s picture view and album at the top?
5) Email view.
Subject bar is now quite small, giving all the space to your message. Toolbar is just back and options. Where’s delete?
6) The notification bar.
We’ve had a preview of this before. Here it is not in black and white.
7. Calendar
The calenda view is also cleaner. Mostly similar to Anna except the toolbar at the bottom
8. The OS details:
- Nokia 700, RM-670, browser version 7.4 (Belle)
There are many more screenshots so check out that Romanian Nokia Blog. The keyboard seems to have stayed the same. The browser scores 130 in the HTML5 test.
Nokia Blog.ro via zomgitsCJ
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Well, nice to know thats for real, but what about anna update?
this belle seens very android-like, not so cool at all, too much freedon for a dumb user will defnelly be problematic, any ordinary android user is problably feeling it, i cant even use SPB mob Shell for more than 1 week without getting crazy
No No No No No!!
How can we see this? Noooo! Now I must haaaaave it!
Seriously, it looks quite good. Room for improvement, sure, but I love the new bottom bar, as well as status bar.
Homescreen looks like Android, but who cares, it works.
These can’t be final, can they? Will we ever see a Nokia which actually uses Nokia Pure? And how awesome would it be if they just threw Social in the bin, and used fMobi and Different Tack…
Oh, and might I add, I am extremely happy the keyboard seems to stay the same! Maybe Belle might not be as shy as Anna was/is…
By löoking at that Menu icon (4 small circle placed together) Apple will sue for mac menu logo design. LOL
Nokia 7700 and 7710 did that first in 2004!!!!
That looks good! But by the time this comes out to the n8, I’ll hopefully have the N9
This is amaizing… The only thing i do not like are the “random” home widgets…
Aaargh still no QTWebKit or WebKit2 Browser :-/ The rest is nice, as we can already see in the new Symbian UI Guidelines…
They should switch to Nokia pure. that font makes want to puke.
Belle looks promising, and the standard back layout is what I like. In fact, I think Nokia is aiming for the ”keyless” concept of the N9 for future Symbian phones here don’t you think? That said, I hope they continue using the Letter-system for naming these phones, it’s easier for me to differentiate. C for budget, N for all-in-one, X for entertainment and E for business.
@MoritzJT
The browser webkit is 2.1.* in the webrowser screenshot and it is also same webkit version which is in Anna.
It was forked from webkit source tree and they made almost one year work to fix all the bugs, they were no hurry with that. That also tells me that Anna wasn’t being developed actively, same goes for Belle.
Qtwebkit is now using webkit 2.2 and it scores over 250 points in html5test, and one thing is that theres symbian port of the webkit.
They are going to publish the new Qtwebkit in July/august into internal use, so we can see the webkit 2.2 in Belle phones.
Last words: Theres no guarantee for Qtwebkit 2.2 for older S^3 phones…
I’m going mad then…
Because it’s not a technical issue…
And I’ll hate them for not partitioning firmwares like I told them would be optimal for all Symbian^3+ phones.
They still wanna do all the firmware cooking stuff. I really hate them for it.
Nice
Looks good. But this too little too late…and it isn’t even released yet! Welcome to 2009 Symbian. Sorry about the negativity, but this would have been nice to have when Symbian^3 was released late last year!
Exactly, the whole Symbian Foundation fiasco (a great idea though, but about 2-3 years too late and then botched in execution to boot) set them back about 2 years probably… Probably for the best as its so evident that Symbian has become a fickle old man/lady that collapses or gets all kinds of weird bugs from the slightest of change.
Someone at the Nokia factory in Romania will lose their job over this
If the Chinese leaked it, I would already have it on my N8 by now just like Anna :–———D
Thats the only way you are going to anything now..Leaks, So learn how to flash fw guys..
flash 4.0?same old symbian..
For Email, I guess now the title bar is scaled together with body so they look so small in this picture
I like it. n8 should get everyupdate it deserves including webkit 2.2…i already have nokia pure and its really nice. i wonder when it will be released…..
check this link guys
http://forum.dailymobile.se/index.php?topic=51832.0
Check the browser picture, seems to be different than here.
Symbian seem to get better…!
How can i get hands on that FWare, than I’ll port it to few other existing phones!:)
Android is now better than Belle on screenshots , by the time it comes out to N8-C7-E7 , robot will be far far away and even much better !
But how much of a fair comparison is this? N8, C7 and so on are existing phones. How many updates will existing Android phones get? Just thinking of the HTC Desire or Motorola Milestone. They might get Android 2.2 maybe 2.3 but most likely nothing afterwards, at least from official sources.
I just Nokia won’t drop the plans to bring Belle to existing S^3 phones!
Will this run on N8? Does it need a 1GHz processor to run? If yes then how will N8 support it?
hey guys.. have you notice that the status bar at the top is the same with the status bar in fMobi?
QT interface?
Yes, Jiikoo states that he used the symbian belle standards when making the app.
By the way, it seems that, from the picture of notification bar, Symbian does not support turning GPS off as ever.
do you know how MS used to “unintentionally” leak development builds of Windows 7? Nokia should do things like that; take a page from the MS book. users will stick around more…
Can I get that in my life?
Why wouldn’t they just use Meego Harmattan 1.2? It can run on a 1GHZ processor and it looks way better. Why would I want Symbian knowing that Meego Harmattan is way better, this doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.
There’s always been an internal conflict between the Symbian/MeeGo departments.
That’s the single biggest reason Maemo/MeeGo didn’t make it’s original deadline of Dec. 2010.
It also didn’t make it because a major UI re-write was decided upon.
But they wouldn’t have been making that decision so late in the game.
If far more resources had been diverted to Maemo/MeeGo way earlier.
I wanted Symbian’s gradual death to be announced ‘way earlier’ than Feb. this yr.
If it had, we would never have had the ‘Elopalypse’.
We should not forget that this update is still Anno 2010. I’m going to buy just a new Symbian phone, because I still am a fan of the brand.
Only Windows Phone can still achieve significant successes …
Why everytime I look at the calling menu, there is these words “Enter number or name” or something similar but mine is just a white filed for typing number..
calling menu or other symbian^3 device…
“of other symbian^3 device” i mean…. sorry for the excessive posts
press call and go to option, contact search, change to on
I flash my phone to Belle beta just now.. I now have that option by default.
My previous PR1.3 do not have access to that option at all.