The New Concept of Nokia Phone After the Symbian Acquisition

Perhaps you still remember when Symbian decided to join Nokia to build a new foundation. As a reminder, in 2008 Nokia took Symbian’s acquisition and introduced the operating system to be an open source OS that offered great chances for single application developer to modify their applications. Application developers are free to contribute and fix the code for better improvement. And lately, Nokia has given a proposal of the next Symbian^4 UI Concept to Symbian Foundation. As additional information, Symbian Foundation members are mostly come from Nokia former employees.

Certainly, Symbian^4 UI will be improved especially in providing the users new experience of interaction and layout pattern that apply the applications. This new device is hopefully giving new look for Symbian users and let them stay responding to any changes made by Nokia. Since operating system is important thing, this development would need serious effort from Nokia as the proof of its seriousness in exploring the new Symbian Touch UI.

The details described in the proposal contains some lists of features and several screenshots that let you to observe new layouts, Music, Photos, user-facing libraries for Contacts, Applications and more other new features that will give new interaction for users. These modifications are the process to invent the new model and functionality of this new phone which is still under concepts. Besides, there are also former features modifications which are control panel redesigning and tunneling Options commands elimination.

The purpose of this new design leads to the idea that Nokia attempts to place Symbian into the race with Android, PalmOS, and iPhone by presenting a highly competitive UI framework proposal. It is obvious that those reputable and superb operating systems win many users’ heart with the impressive capabilities. However, the proposal seems like a way for Nokia to regain responses from users earlier and this seems a good step.

Symbian^4 is predicted to complete in Q3 2010. However this OS will not be shipped on devices till the first half of 2011.

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