Video: Cool Nokia Asha 311 Swipey Lock Screen/notifications, N9 like gesture for Asha Touch S40
In this short video we take a quick look at the lock screen. In particular the N9 like swiping of the notifications.
In our other demoes, you saw that you can swipe the whole screen away. But you can also swipe directly to your notification, as shown here we went to a message or missed calls.
Pretty neat, no?
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- Nokia 311: swipe in stile N9 per SMS e chiamate perse | June 12, 2012
- Asha 311: S40, le “swipe to unlock” du Nokia N9 | Nokia Day | June 12, 2012
after tried at nokia store
i must say…. the UI of this S40 touch is more advanced and more beautiful than belle!!!!
just try it yourself
i wonder why symbian still hard to make intuitive UI just like this phone…
Cool – in Nokia Stores already? Which one is that?
They’ve managed to cover quite significant amount of ground with S40.
As shown by the N900 in 2009 and N9 in 2011, and the myriad of Nokia concepts in 2006 and before that, Nokia knew what a nice looking UI was and how essential it is to User experience. For whatever reason, it’s taking them a long time to deliver those changes into Symbian. I’ve read some accounts before saying it’s because in Symbian, the focus was first on fixing the bugs or words to that effect. There were very many devices, different types of Symbian to work with, making it difficult for Nokia’s innovators to do as much as they could potentially do.
Hopefully we’ll see even more progression from S40 or whatever Qt for Next Billion will be
Well don’t fret, this feature is coming for belle fp2 phones.
http://unleashthephones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Nokia-Belle-Feature-Pack-2-Donna-Lockscreen-3.png
Belle fp2 phones getting the camera ui of 808 as well.
Check it out:
http://unleashthephones.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Nokia-Belle-Feature-Pack-2-Donna-7.png
From unleashthephones.com
http://unleashthephones.com/2012/06/08/nokia-belle-feature-pack-2-screenshot-tour/
Quite satisfied that Nokia is somehow unifying the user experience at least from the low-end to the mid-end and lumia being the focus with a completely different ui.
At least swipe asha touch devices offer a similar ui with belle phones (fp2) showing consistency with the Nokia brand. It would be awesome though if Nokia would also include the Nokia purefont.
yeah… of course nokia will unifying at least squircle icon and other common things to all other nokia phones (except wp)
but here i said
the UI or UX structure in this asha touch is different from belle
and surprisingly outperform belle in terms of simplicity, functionality, and nicer animation..
i think meltemi…( if exsist) will use this UI structure
well i hope Nokia decides to use a similar ui. We need more consistency from Nokia to compete.
thats just prototype to attract ppl… actual product will come iat late jully they said…
nokia 306 and 311..
but there no multitasking button or swipe for mutitask
just some app i tried have “Hide” option..(browser, music, radio)
maybe if this asha phone have multitask…. or maybe later… symbian will be end…
ppl in this store already enthusias wth this asha touch and didn’t even see belle phone in other desk
Asha phones cannot multitask 3rd party (and even most of built-in) apps. You should lower your standards when asking for a sub 100€ device. Now, if Nokia is missing multitasking in their expensive devices you’d be right to complain… Oh, wait…
are u talk about WP then? gggggg
Well, the parallels are self-obvious. When it comes to features, those two are quite similar, when it comes to things that matter to me Asha actually has the edge… Apart from strikingly different visual style, there is a little that WP phones can do which Asha 311 cannot. It goes the other way around as well, when you subtract a hundred or two euros from the price.
can this S40 mulit-task?
I think Nokia have to overcome this first. It’s a nightmare when you’re doing something (like browsing) and have to close everything just to make a short phone call or sms…
It can run things in the background. The browser can continue loading and resume whilst you’re doing other things. Music will still play etc. I read that ‘multitasking’ at least with the browser, is part of Nokia Browser 2.0 so it should be the same on older Asha I guess.
I’m not sure what the full list of things that can run in the background is. There’s no multitasking UI as such to show you what is running.
So we don’t have to close everything like in X3-02 just to make a single phone call anymore?
That’s great!
AFAIK earlier Nokia S40 phones like 5130, 7210 etc had have call and sms option in their default browser. Don’t know why they have removed such things in latest browser.
Also I’m wondering if this phones have marking, copy , paste text option?
Would like to see a video showing multitasking with the browser for the 311.
No technically S40 5th series and 6th series phones do multitasking but Nokia disables it in stock firmware. Apart from Music and Video Player and file transfer.
Meltemi
Hope they eliminate the flashing of the menu screen in between. Looks a little amateurish for lack of a better term.
This is just my own speculation, but from an engineering point of view this seems like a limitation in current version of Symbian itself: When an event is triggered from the lockscreen it actually has to unlock the device first before an application can be launched. Correct me if I’m wrong!
well, at least in one part you are: its not Symbian.
but you may otherwise be right – still, one would hope they could e.g. some how disguise it with some transition effect or something. right now it looks really ugly.
lock screen on FP2 is very similar.
Jay did you tried lock screen when there is no notifications?
I have seen a Nokia Bubble style on 305 when you press and hold for a moment.
Hi, I didn’t notice that, but that would be very interesting if that was there. If I see it in demoes I’ll make a new post about it because that’s quite significant too.
Yes, I would be great. And I had seen on proto device and it can open dialer or create message option directly.
wonder whether we can use the end call button to unlock instead of the side button like in X3-02
In what way is that UI more advanced than Belle??? Do you use a belle phone? Or you just feel like blabbing?
Maybe he meant that it’s smoother and advanced in a sense that the lockscreen on asha touch has that feature while current belle phones don’t have that.
i used n8 for 2 years now with belle 111.040.0904 ( some belle FP 1 goddies)
its different structure in UI /UX in belle and asha touch
and i think UI structure in asha is more advanced than belle
just try yourself and u’ll notice difference
i would recommend this to my gf but the requirement would be is that it has to have fruit ninja ;D
Buy her sony xperia walkman phone it’s with ics
Galaxy Y smokes this ‘Dumb phone’
Technically not a dumphone, but smartphone ‘like’. Though you have a point in that Galaxy Y looks like a very decent offering for the price.
311 does have:
+More pixels on the screen
+faster processor
+better camera
+VGA video at 25fps vs QVGA video at 15FPS
+Gorilla Glass
So the 311 does have merits.
all of these is useless because even low end phone buyers nowadays look for number of apps/games and customization options.
Customisable themes? Yeah it has that.
Apps and Games? Yeah I think it has that too. Perhaps not to the same quantity but it has them.
+1000000
May be but I would not be surprised if Nokia was still able to sell millions of these. I guess to useless people…
… most of which cannot or will run like crap on a Galaxy Y. Asha 311 for its price range is quite a strong contender. Buying a cheap Android is something I wouldn’t recommend to the worst of my enemies – hell, I’d even take a cheap WP over a cheap Android any time, and people around here know my sentiment about the WP.
The phones comes with 40 games from EA. So it’s not that bad on that perspective either.
this phone is an iphone for less money. It lacks probably some features, but its running well.
It’s just an N9 rip-off, and it’s transitions are appalling to me… But itz ok for a dumbfone.
You call it a rip-off, I call it a homage to the device that could’ve been so much more were it not strangled at birth by its own mother. At least there are some people left in Nokia that could recognize the potential and implement some good ideas from it.
Well.. Skillman is still there as far as I know, and I don’t see him working on their Lumia range… so he must be on the S40/Maltemi team
no swipe to go back to homescreen, period
hello blackbeery 10
Galaxy Y has a horrible user experience… There’s lag everywhere, and it feels & looks cheap. Dunno why samsung is putting Android on a hardware like that… They’ll soon learn their lesson the nokia way.
you are right about the Galaxy Y, but if you went to a store and ask the salesman what does he recommend he will tell you without even thinking the Galaxy Y is better than any S40 because of “ANDROID”
That’s probably true, for now.
There is a certain latency for a change of mind to spread. But in my opinion by the time more and more people will be annoyed by the laggy and unstable low cost smartphone surrogate androids and will understand the reasons for simpler but effective for their purpose Asha phones.
Because not everybody can afford 300€+ for a decent device? Nokia didn’t die because they were putting out devices for all price ranges, but because they at some point rested on their laurels for too long for the competition to catch and overrun them, which made Nokia enter the panic mode and practically destroy itself.
If anything, Samsung has been following Nokia’s strategy to the letter, sans the mistakes Nokia made. No reason to think they’ll continue operating on some other way, although without Nokia to pave the road Samsung will now have far more risks than they used to.
Blackberry 10??? You’ll be APPless and sorry for yourself…
Pls I would like to know if the asha 311 would support skype or not. Thank you
Pls I would like to know if the asha 311 would support skype or not. Thank you.
I’m not sure about Skype but this phone support various VoIP codecs like
G.711, G.726, G.729, iLBC etc. So it’s sure that phone has support for VoIP.
Its like the N9 had a child and its the beautiful 311. Bring it to ATT and Walmart as a pay go phone nokiausa.
really thats a long way the s40 has come up, i still remember the first s40 but this thing really challenges all the high end mobiles, really cool UI that too for mid range obiles!!!
Very nice for a basic phone.
Couldn’t they have just used Harmattan and ‘dumb it down’, or lock certain parts of it/amend it?
Also, one downside is that it (the screen) looks ‘blocky’ – so it does look retain that dumbphone look. Even to a tech noob. The resolution needs improving.
The ‘kids’ on the street aren’t going to be impressed by that when their mates have slicker and more technically advanced looking ‘dumb’ phones, such as the Galaxy Y as mentioned earlier.
Blocky? It has almost the same pixel density as the iPhone 3GS, and better pixel density than the Galaxy Y! If that is blocky, then what Galaxy Y is? Windows Phone without the Windows Phone OS?
No, i’m talking about the actual font/graphics design of the screen, not pixel density. For example – the size of the texting interface looks like it is designed for the elderly.
In what way do you feel the font/graphics look like it’s designed for the elderly?
You mean the way it’s readable without having to stare and squint too much?
Heh, the wonders of “retina” graphics
Where everything onscreen is so tiny you’re forced to hold the phone an inch off your nose to see anything. I for one welcome larger fonts and cleaner layouts which can be seen with the phone an arm’s length away.
Ahh well, it seems I was actually referring to the Asha 302 clip – and the text interface that is on that – my mistake, I should have posted on the other article.
But anyway assuming it is the same interface, (or is that because the 302 is a smaller screen?) the text is just big and blocky and looks like a ‘dumbphone’, which I suppose it is classed as.
Reminds me, I want to pick up an N9.
my my my… s40 sure has grown up. If the price is right, I wouldn’t hesitate in considering picking up one of these as a backup.
This is what my 5800XM should have been like right from the start… Light, not too big, not too fancy, performant, simple UI, etc. etc. and (hopefully) a long-lasting battery (no everyday charging…)! In fact, reading through all these points, the 5800 with a better UI (+ e.g. portrait qwerty built in!) and some more apps would have been my winner.
Can’t wait to hold the 311 in my hands and try it!
will the apps have to be downloaded by purchasing with money or will they be for free?and will the 311 support these apps: meme generator,fruit ninja,flick football and talking tom?and when will it be released?
hey!!!will this user interface be available on other s40 phones too later??
This 311 supports S40 web apps? Can somebody explain what’s that web apps is? o_0