First Symbian^4 demo videos spotted, innovations missing

26 February, 2010
A few weeks back there were some speculations about Symbian's future but as it seems, Nokia aren't keen on leaving the most popular smartpone OS in the mud. Instead, Symbian OS is on its way to a total...

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  • Marc
  • fwa
  • 28 Feb 2010

Totally off topic comment, but it's odd that the city of choice for the weather app is Cape Town, all the way down in South Africa.

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    • Anonymous
    • 2SM
    • 28 Feb 2010

    Grow up Nokia!

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      • Anonymous
      • vj1
      • 28 Feb 2010

      Anonymous, 28 Feb 2010Do you think a great ui make a phone good? well duh! great ui means awesome user experience. phones could have all features but still deliver the worst user experience because of the lame ui. its not all about features.

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        • Anonymous
        • t7w
        • 28 Feb 2010

        Do you think a great ui make a phone good?

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          • k4ce
          • vGC
          • 28 Feb 2010

          That is symbian^4 ??? I guess even the Samsung Star can do all this ... lame ...

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            • Anonymous
            • w7n
            • 28 Feb 2010

            [deleted post]becusr android is not made by nokia

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              • Anonymous
              • uSN
              • 28 Feb 2010

              Too late! And Eeew! Nokia is so trying hard to copy android. LOL! HAHA Nokia's os is ugly as hell! No wonder they just dropped 5.5% market share! That's HUGE! With Nokia continuing to drop os share and maemo being a fail, nokia is so gonna die soon! ROFL!!

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                • Anonymous
                • t7X
                • 28 Feb 2010

                Anonymous, 28 Feb 2010Did you watch the video? An exact copy of Android, right... moreHow sure r u that this video shows symbian^4 in the works?atleast nokia made benchmark in mobile technology specially in gsm/3g and other mobile fones maker copied and emulate wat nokia had made and made huge amount of royalty fees to nokia patented products..

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                  • Anonymous
                  • vaf
                  • 28 Feb 2010

                  deep space bar, 28 Feb 2010ok guys you watched the video but did you even think why no... moreDid you watch the video?

                  An exact copy of Android, right down to the 3 dots down the bottom indicating the homescreen.

                  The phone even looked like a HTC Magic with the ball replaced by two buttons.

                  Nokia connecting people...

                  ...to copied ideas!

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                    • Anonymous
                    • t7X
                    • 28 Feb 2010

                    deep space bar, 27 Feb 2010you know why cause the phone is not bricked by apple that's... moreI agreed with you.they also say that symbian will be dead but it jaz evolving.they r so jealous wat can symbian do..Jealousy is basically one of 7 deadly sin..they have so much bitterness in their lives.but we should understand them nokia topics are the only place where they can out pour their hatred bcoz their phone OSes cant do symbian way.they r deprived on things wat symbian users r savouring..

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                      • Julius
                      • Lmt
                      • 28 Feb 2010

                      Anonymous, 28 Feb 2010If any of you have good ides to make symbian 4 a greatest o... more@Marius and wow: That's the problem. It's 1:30 of nothing. A widget that goes back and forth and a gallery that makes flickr feels like Minority Report. And by the way, what's the point of apples? Fruits should NOT be following the apples, they should be going past them. It's like saying that if apples grow on trees, watermelons should, too. Finally, I hope Symbian makes it, since I'm a fan of competition. :)

                      @deepspacebar: That actually makes sense. If they keep the hopes low enough, they may even surprise us... if you (them) got something to show us, do it at once.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • w7n
                        • 28 Feb 2010

                        If any of you have good ides to make symbian 4 a greatest os, then head over to developer.symbian.org

                        there is some thread discussing how to improve the new ui!!!
                        All ideas are welcomed

                        btw
                        this video is just a concept video which nokia sent to symbian at 15 Jan 2010
                        stop judging symbian 4 until it is out at 2011

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                          • deep space bar
                          • kDi
                          • 28 Feb 2010

                          ok guys you watched the video but did you even think why nokia did that on purpose

                          BadaOS is coming WINmo7 and the so called new iphoneOS

                          so why would nokia show everyone their ideas

                          think people please......think for once

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                            • Marius
                            • 0U6
                            • 28 Feb 2010

                            Let's not be too harsh regarding this , it's only a Demo after all. I think not so long ago there was a thing about Symbian taking input from people about how ^4 should look like. So if you have anything constructive to say and have some innovative about the UI then do it.

                            I think Qt being used is great and will offer lots of possibilities for innovation and customization. Let's not forget that mobile phone operators do customize the UI.

                            Also correct me if I'm wrong here but Apple didn't really make any innovations since they launched the iPhone either so I dunno about this.

                            I for one think Symbian is a great mobile OS, better even than Linux even though I'm a fan of Linux. Symbian allows for cheaper smartphones for the masses and with a Qt based UI in ^4 it will be competitive with iPhone , Android and the likes.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • pTx
                              • 28 Feb 2010

                              wow, 28 Feb 2010Funny how you put 1:30 seconds of a prototype OS out and ev... moreIts 1:30 of nothing special. Should have been 1:30 of something cool.

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                                • wow
                                • xka
                                • 28 Feb 2010

                                Funny how you put 1:30 seconds of a prototype OS out and everyone sandbags you for it.

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • 0U@
                                  • 28 Feb 2010

                                  shame on nokia nothing new :(

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                                    • ramin
                                    • njB
                                    • 27 Feb 2010

                                    android will take the world in 2010

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • wr6
                                      • 27 Feb 2010

                                      i hope nokia will get better with this new os symbian
                                      i'm looking forward to see this gud news

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • fvT
                                        • 27 Feb 2010

                                        It doesn't make sense, when symbian 3 offer many homepages while symbian 4 offer 3 homepages only as seen in the video!