Thread: Nokia 7700, Nokia 7710 great touch smartphones
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2007-11-27 , 17:50
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
Exactly. You might also add that Symbian Series 90 was almost painfully slow on the 7700 and 7710 (I think the 7700 was an "extended prototype" -- a bit like the Zaurus 5000 -- and not even meant for sale to the general public).
There was, in fact, one thing that did make it from the 7710 to the 770: Hildon. The user interface on the 7710 is an early version of Hildon on the Internet Tablets.
I have one 7710: the speed is acceptable in some use cases, but not so much in others. Going back to its browser for instance serves as a really good reminder on how much progress there has actually been made since that device.

The story of Hildon is interesting. Having been involved in its design I can certainly say that yes the initial baseline has bases on the Series 90 UI, but then again, the end result that is right now in the device - or that was even in the 770 timeframe - isn't really so closely the same.

To be specific, Task launching is different, portraying applications as running is different, task switching is different, task closing is different, the Home view is different, status access, text input methods, connectivity behaviour, main applications are all really different from the Series 90 UI style...

There are some elements that have currently remained: menus, overall style of dialogs etc., but really it's not as big of a list as you might assume. Also there are some things that if you create UI's on touch screen devices that rather naturally form into certain design patterns. Still, it's not invalid to point out the Hildon roots.