Thread: Bubble UI For Symbian - Qt Based
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2011-02-05 , 01:14
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Today at the Nokia betalabs a new application launching interface was released in their experimental section. "Nokia Bubbles" is exactly what it sounds like. You have an application launcher that is based on manipulating bubbles containing icons. I've loaded it into my N8 and it is every bit as interesting as any Android application launcher I've seen to date.

According to the application blurb supplied by Nokia "Bubbles is a fun and efficient way to take a shortcut to timely or useful things on your phone. Bubbles appears when you press the "Apps" key while your device is in sleep mode (instead of the black screen with clock and unlock button). Simply grab a bubble and drag it to one of the available drop points to initiate the corresponding action."

I've been using it today and find that even in this experimental and unconfigurable state it is a cool way to get the phone to do what you want. If this is Qt based, and I can not find anything that says it is or isn't, I imagine this might make an interesting overlay for a home screen in Maemo5. The one reference I did see to Qt was "Unfortunately we cannot change the bubble to use "Mobile" field by using the Qt Mobility API." in reference to selecting a contact.
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