Video: Symbian^4 will offer a new user experience and new developer tools
Friday, August 7, 2009 11:20In a nutshell, what I said over a month ago about the current S60 UI being scrapped, and then expanded on a week later during an interview with Scott Weiss, User Interface Technology Manager at Symbian Foundation, has been confirmed on video by Ian Hutton in the video below. We’re not going to see any radically new Symbian user interfaces for at least another 2 years. Minimum. That leaves Nokia (NYSE: NOK) fanbois and shareholders in between a rock and a hard place. Whatever market share Nokia will lose in the high end segment of the smartphone space, which they will thanks to Android and the iPhone, they’ll make up for in volume when they drive the price points of Symbian handsets into new territories such as the €150 and even sub €100 market.
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