First Glimpse of Nokia’s Symbian 4 Operating System [VIDEO]
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Now,
href="http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/checking-out-symbian-4-nokias-response-iphone/2010-02-24" target="_blank">Fierce Wireless has managed to briefly try out the upcoming iteration of Symbian, as well as a couple of videos and yes, it really does look like Android and iPhone OS UI. Two short videos (embedded below) show some Android-style widgets, sliding screens, a scrolling photo app – in a nutshell, it’s nothing that’ll make your heart skip a beat. But in terms of Symbian catching up with its younger competitors, it seems good enough.
Bear in mind that Symbian 4 is expected to be released in the second half of 2010, with actual devices shipping in 2011, so we can probably expect many changes before the final version comes out.
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