Development
New Screenshots of Symbian^4 UI Concept
Feb 14th
1. Symbian^4 is not yet ready and they are working hard to bring it feature complete towards the end of this year.
2. Symbian^4 will bring a new DirectUI user interface. A whole new experience of smart mobile operating system.
3. The new UI will stand head to head with other modern smartphone operating system (iPhone, webOS, [...]
Gig Finder – Is it using the next-gen Symbian UI already?
Feb 8th
1. I listened to one of AAS Podcasts (number 165 I think), and I think Ewan did a good observation regarding the proposed Symbian^4 UI by Nokia.
2. Ewan mentioned about an application called Gig Finder which is using a different UI from the standard Symbian^1 (S60 5th Edition) UI.
3. For the sake of excitment and [...]
vMenu version 1.51 adds more functions
Jan 25th
1. I wrote about vMenu last week.
2. Frankly, it’s a very cool application and I never ued the built-in Menu / Launcher anymore.
3. A new version, 1.51 has been released and adds the following enhancements :-
- You can add / remove applications
- There’s a new status-bar on top of the screen displaying network signal, date, [...]
Skyfire – Coming To Symbian S60 5th Edition
Nov 11th
1. The Skyfire team is working hard to make it available to as many platforms as possible.
2. According to a tweet by the Skyfire team, which links to a post at Skyfire Forums by the Community Manager, Dave Burchell, they are looking for serious users of Symbian S60 5th Edition to help them testing [...]
A Symbian UI Concept Demonstrating The Power of Qt
Nov 11th
1. Just enjoy this video 
2. Bear in mind that this is NOT the final or official Symbian UI developed by Symbian Foundation that uses Qt. This is just a concept from developers.
3. The company developing this concept is Tieto. They also attended SEE09 to demonstrate their techonologies.
4. The concept UI is running on an [...]
Symbian Updates It’s Release Plan
Nov 3rd
1. According to Victor Palau’s Blog, the release plan for Symbian has been updated. Here is the Landing Page for Symbian’s Platform Release Plan.
2. Just in case that you are wondering, the Release Council is formed by representatives of the following member companies: Samsung, Nokia, Texas Instruments, ST Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, DoCoMo, Fujitsu, Digia, Elektrobit [...]
Video – Qt 4.6 Demo on Samsung i8910 and Nokia 5800
Oct 29th
1. The video above shows Qt 4.6 demos running on Samsung i8910 OmniaHD and Nokia 5800 XM.
2. Qt (“CUTE”) is a multi-platform application and development framework that is rapidly developed to be the framework for Symbian OS in the future.
3. Qt will replace the current AVKON framework that is powering S60.
4. Qt will [...]
