Symbian^3 demoed, promises to deliver what users expect

11 March, 2010
Symbian^3 is due this year, in fact we've heard that S^3 devices should arrive in Q3, but we hadn't seen a live demo of it. One just hit the Internet - it runs on a laptop rather than a phone but still, the UI...

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  • Anonymous
  • n7f
  • 11 Mar 2010

vish, 11 Mar 2010same old boring icons????? ewww change them nokia..thats th... moreI think you don't know anything about symbians.
Nokia have hundreds of themes to change icons in different looks!

Isheep icons are boring, but not symbian... eeek you got it wrong!

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    • damian
    • LGW
    • 11 Mar 2010

    Come on nokia, upgrade older phones too with this os!!!!

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      • vish
      • PU7
      • 11 Mar 2010

      same old boring icons????? ewww change them nokia..thats the only thing I hate in symbian..errrrr

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        • Anonymous
        • n7f
        • 11 Mar 2010

        Anonymous, 11 Mar 2010Of course there will not be an S3 update for the 5800. When... moreIt will be update for existing nokia touch screens to symbian3, because is software and not hardware....lego-groid!

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          • Anonymous
          • 0Um
          • 11 Mar 2010

          Of course there will not be an S3 update for the 5800. When the symbian3 will be released the 5800 wil already be a 2 yers old phone. Don`t get me wrong i would love to get the symbian3 on my nokia 5800 but there is no chance we will see it on our "Tubes". From the video i have to say i was not very impresed. To me it just looks like the current symbian on the N97 but with a few new things but a little more polished.We won`t know what it can and can`t do until it`s released so i relly hope Nokia will bring some good competition with the Symbian^3.

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            • Zaheed
            • uNV
            • 11 Mar 2010

            if i read it right then they stated multi touch for resistive too. well guess what nokia and statnum may have been cooking this for a while. well please just send this tech to my n900(via fw u) and it will be perfect.

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              • Yasser
              • teu
              • 11 Mar 2010

              Symbian rulz!!!!! this looks quire awsome, hope they'lll send da upd8 to 5800 as well,and also hope theyd make another affordable mobile like 5800, with S3 by Q3. Keep it up nokia!!!

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                • Anonymous
                • pqB
                • 11 Mar 2010

                Not that android is bad or anything, but it's just too raw. They barely have openGL drivers working on a few devices while symbian has it since 2006.

                Another thing about symbian was the power/cpu management:
                -symbian achieved with omap1 features that other devices only had with omap3
                -real power management, since it's an OS built from the ground up for phones and not some dumbed down debian.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • LgN
                  • 11 Mar 2010

                  Anonymous, 11 Mar 2010why wait for this til q3 when android's already getting 2.2... moreAndroid is not symbian!
                  android has way to go, to get better than symbian, other than front home jungle screen.

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                    • 5800 user
                    • Tj@
                    • 11 Mar 2010

                    Will this work on Nokia 5800???

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                      • wexr
                      • MTV
                      • 11 Mar 2010

                      Anonymous, 11 Mar 2010Symbian is 10 years ahead of Android in terms of sales..hahahasymbian is also alot older than Android.
                      just wait - won¨t be long before android gets em all.

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                        • welovesymbian
                        • PFx
                        • 11 Mar 2010

                        Symbian Rulez

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                          • Anonymous
                          • uSN
                          • 11 Mar 2010

                          why wait for this til q3 when android's already getting 2.2 and is sooo much better.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • tt1
                            • 11 Mar 2010

                            Anonymous, 11 Mar 2010Symbian is 10 years ahead of Android in terms of sales..hahahaAndroid is a very young platform, while Symbian has been around for ages.

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                              • Bradley
                              • RHb
                              • 11 Mar 2010

                              this is why i love symbian. that is why nokia is the number 1. symbian^3 looks gorgeous, let's see what ^4 will bring.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • Ma9
                                • 11 Mar 2010

                                My, God.
                                Cover flow is direct ripoff of Ipod touch...and you wonder why they are getting sued by Apple

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                                  • Anonymous
                                  • 0pe
                                  • 11 Mar 2010

                                  But it looks exactly the same as S60v5, but with a bit of polish. I honestly don't know where Nokia are going with Symbian, but each new iteration just looks older and more tired than the previous version.

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • t7w
                                    • 11 Mar 2010

                                    i think s3 will not come to mini. but you can expect some features like threaded sms, multiple homescreens and some new ui in photo and music. Or we can shout out loud to make nokia hear our sorrow just like 5800 users cry for kinetic scrolling

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • uKb
                                      • 11 Mar 2010

                                      It said in the article that Symbian^3 was for resistive displays as well. Does that mean that the N97 mini will get the update as well?

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • t7w
                                        • 11 Mar 2010

                                        there is nothing nokia is not capable of doing. nokia always make phone the perfect way, that is why we love them,

                                        meego s4 my favourite