Symbian UI update awaited this year

 

Nokia is going for Windows Phone 7 and that means that their Symbian platform will die slowly in the following years. It seems that they are still going to release updates for it. Marc Driessen, Nokia Benelux product manager, brought up that we can anticipate a few Symbian updates coming in 2011.

There will not be any Symbian^4 descending from Nokia, but we'll see a few scheduled UI updates moved from the 4th into the 3rd. Concording to Driessen, Nokia is pointing a major UI overhaul in the autumn, an update reported to admit these features:

- a dedicated pull-down status bar up top
- new iconography
- new flexible widgets
- a simplified navigation bar below
- better menus

 I really hope they will release some updates for Nokia N8, because my phone is begging for it. High-Def Youtube playback would be great. It's frustrating that I can only watch youtube videos in 320x240.

Although Nokia HQ didn't specifically named a date, the autumn timeline does correspond other reports saying that a smaller update for N8 and E7 users could follow  this summer.

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Who do you like more?

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It has a glass screen and I have had it for a few months and not put any scratches on it whatsoever. I bought the verizon hard silicone "glossy" case. It is the best one I've seen and I am thrilled with it.

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This phone has some incredible features at this unlocked, off contract price. This is a 3G pentaband WORLD phone which will work on both AT&T and T-Mobile. It has a 12MP camera with a CCD sensor 3 times bigger than iPhone 4 and even larger than purpose built high quality camera's like the Panasonic LUMIX ZS-3. It has a Xenon flash for excellent night time shots. The N8 shoots HD 720p with HDMI and DOLBY Surround sound output! The camera's optics are specially designed and made by Carl Zeiss, and it has AutoFocus and a mechanical shutter for big camera capabilities in a compact form factor. The phones body is a single piece of Anodized, scratch resistant Aluminum, with Gorilla glass front. It has a new generation AMOLED display with anti-reflective layer. The N8 also sports Bluetooth 3.0, so you can use a wireless bluetooth keyboard and mouse simultaneously. It also has USB on-the-go, so you can directly use mass storage devices like a hard drive or USB flash memory. The phone has the latest Symbian^3 OS, with multi-touch, actual multi-tasking and avoids the double tapping of older Symbian versions. The software also includes on-board and robust photo and video editing. The N8 also uses a faster GPU than the iPhone 4 (SOC GPU), called the Broadcom BMC2727, for a great gaming experience which you can also pipe directly to an HD TV and play on the big screen. It also comes with free turn by turn navigation, available in 74 countries. Of course, its a Nokia so Video Call capability is a given. Battery life is exceptional.

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