2010 Symbian User Interface Gets Leaked

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Just the other day I told you about Nokia’s annual Capital Markets Day event where Nokia’s execs explained to anxious share holders what the Finnish manufacturer is going to be working on next year.

Besides numbers and financial prediction two important notes were made on Symbian and Maemo. We now know that Maemo will not take the place of Symbian as the latter will go through not one, but two important changes that are supposed to offer us a totally improved mobile OS.

In 2010 Nokia will work heavily on the user interface of Symbian and the company was kind enough to offer a whole PDF file filled with interesting information regarding the new OS changes. Mind you, the file at the read link is the official presentation from the Capital Markets Day event but it’s worth going through it.

From the pictures we’ve seen so far, the future versions of Symbian look very good and we expect the OS to live up to our expectations. Nokia wants to improve the UI in order to deliver a better surfing experience in which the end user will be able to navigate faster through menus in order to get to what he or she is looking for. New Symbian UI will come with multitouch support and from what we see in the screenshots, it looks like Nokia intends to build a few handsets with large capacitive displays. The new UI is supposed to be three times faster than the current and scrolling will go from 15fps to 60fps which is remarkable.

I can only say that while I am impressed by those good looking pics I want to actually see the end results. Symbian^3 is supposed to come in the first half of 2010 and it should deliver all the features mentioned above. Symbian^4 is also going to be launched next year and it should be even better than Symbian^3. We can only wish that Nokia will launch hot smartphones next year in order to put pressure on the competition. Because so far, Nokia has failed to really come up with a great smartphone.