Notices

Part of Lee Williams’ keynote at SEE 2009, the Symbian Foundation produced a demo video of future UI for the platform. Unfortunately, “this concept is not part of the Symbian UI Roadmap, but we hope some of the cool features and effects will make it into our reference UI and/or delivered handsets.”

According to Symbian Developer:

"In this video we demonstrate the following features:

* Kinetic scrolling (in Symbian^2)
* Location-based services (in Symbian^2)
* Different widget sizes (coming in Symbian^3)
* Animations and transitions (coming with NGA in Symbian^3)
* Compass and accelerator integration (coming in Symbian^3)
* Menu at the top of the screen (inspirational idea)
* Toolbar at the bottom of the screen, replacing soft keys (inspirational idea)
* Augmented reality integration (inspirational idea)"

If Maemo wants a killer app, this could be it.

http://developer.symbian.org/forum/s...ead.php?t=3551
http://www.slashgear.com/symbian-fou...video-0462696/

so symbian will be useless as a phone-OS, too? is that it? a touchscreen-only UI?