Yesterday the screen shots of Nokia upcoming Symbian 4 UI leaked and they were all over the Internet. Nokia had already showed some of the 2010 improvements that would be coming to Symbian as a Smart phone OS in December 2009. The improvements talk about a capacitive OS, multi-touch capabilities. Less efforts to open up common apps related to music, messaging, e-mail etc. For Symbian 4's development will be complete by Q3 2010 and Nokia will be churning out Symbain 4 based devices in 2011. For Symbian 4 nokia has focused on enhanced navigation capabilities, optimization of applications to support next generation graphics with transparency and transitions. As promised by Nokia last year, the UI will be simplified, graphically appealing, faster than its predecessors and yeah there will be multi-touch gesture support. In the images above you can see some changes like the transparent bars, enhanced widgets. The changes are subtle but they are appealing and give the UI a new look. I guess now Nokia is talking about taking its competition, especially in the touch screen space, head-on. If you check out the "User Interface Concept Proposal" of Symbian 4, you will realize that Nokia talks about HTC Hero, Moto Droid, Palm Pre and iPhone's existing features (few of them) and how this new Symbian UI is better than the ones running on these phones. It shows that Nokia has taken into consideration the minute flaws of these touch screen marvels and made sure they give the user what these guys missed!!
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