Nokia Bubbles Beta Trial Ended

Nokia Bubbles, one of the Symbian applications that users have been enjoying for the past several months in a beta flavor has seen its trial period concluded.

The app was made available as a fun and efficient manner to take shortcuts to various applications or services on a Nokia phone running under Symbian.

Apparently, the application has seen increased interest from users, as well as impressive feedback, yet the development team decided not to include it in products.

“We are happy that so many of you have downloaded and used Nokia Bubbles and we are grateful for all the feedback,”Keijo Virtanen, Symbian Smartphones, notes in a post on Nokia Beta Labs.

“This project was a fun innovation exercise alongside regular R&D development that carried surprisingly far.

“With a unique idea to access key content and functionality quickly and utilizing powerful visual capabilities of Qt we were able to present something totally new in Nokia products.”

Those who already downloaded the application know that Bubbles appears when pressing the “Apps” key when the handset is in sleep mode. Then users can grab a bubble and drag it to a drop point to initiate an action.

Those who did not gave the app a try will be able to learn more on it via the various YouTube videos that have been published to demonstrate its capabilities. The app is available on Softpedia here.

“We are happy about the positive feedback and suggestions we received and acknowledged also good criticism,” Keijo Virtanen continues.

“To demonstrate the visual power of Bubbles, various YouTube videos demonstrating Bubbles received almost a million views and it was used in marketing events to show new ways of accessing key functionality.”

However, as stated above, Bubbles will not be integrated into products. The application is capable of offering the required features, but there still are usability, performance and stability challenges that will need further work.