New Symbian UI is smoking hot!

….well at least in comparison to S60V5.

A month ago, Symbian’s CEO gave a rather vague presentation on the new Symbian UI. On Thursday, Engadget posted up a sneak preview of the upcoming Symbian UI which no longer resembles the murky confusion that is S60. With the new Symbian UI users will have:

• Reduced clutter
• Improved input methods
• Capacitive Screen (death to resistive on high end!)
• Multitouch
• Pinch and Zoom
• Single touch improved (less taps to get to places- would be fantastic if we can get to everything with 3 taps or under)
• Better website compatibility,
• Quicker flash
• UI will be faster – 3x faster than our high end (which one, N97 or N900?)
• Scrolling will be 60FPS vs current 15fps
• Optimized graphics – more responsive, beautiful
• Drastically reduce complexity and bring new fresh appeal – when Nokia does, many people will take a new look at Symbian to achieve what no other manufacturer can.

Without ranting too much as I have to go, all I can say is – finally! Although I know the whole Qt thing will help with the cross compatibility of applications, I can’t help but be perplexed still with Nokia being pulled at two directions, with Maemo on one and Symbian on the other. Is Maemo just a testing ground for Symbian? Would Nokia put this much effort into a Symbian device and not make it one of the high ends (remember the rumours that Nokia denied of dropping Symbian at the high end?)

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Engadget via MickyFin

Tags: Hot, Improved, Nokia, Nseries, Sneak Peek, Symbian, UI

Category: Maemo, Nokia, Symbian, Video