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jnwi is offline jnwi
2010-04-22 , 18:02
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Originally Posted by jsa View Post
Symbian^4 is the first to have the whizzbang HW accelerated animated UI and a new application suite. Symbian^3 provides a lot of important under the hood stuff, but UI wise I think it's just patchwork for the same old S60 UI.
Ah, but you're wrong. That's what I thought too, but S^3 includes GUI hardware acceleration, multitouch, a new tapping philosophy, swap support, zeroconf, and many simplified user interfaces.

For developers, S^3 will ship with Qt support even though Avkon won't be removed until S^4. There's no question S^4 will be more complete, but even S60 isn't lacking in *features*, and simplification is more critical than an entirely new application suite.
Last edited by jnwi; 2010-04-22 at 18:05.