14 DAY TRIAL // Three new mobile phones running under the new Symbian^3 operating system were unveiled on Tuesday at the Nokia World event in London, including the Nokia E7
, Nokia C7 and Nokia C6-01, all of which pack impressive smartphone features, some of which are powered by the new OS version itself, the Symbian Foundation announced.
As previously reported, the new mobile operating system flavor comes with a series of no less than 250 feature updates and improvements when compared to the previously available flavors on the platform, all of which work together to deliver a new, better user experience.
The Symbian Foundation welcomes the launch of these new devices, which add to the previously announced Nokia N8 smartphone, while noting that all of them come with more ways in which users can stay connected with their friends or family.
The new version of the OS should provide more personalization features than before, as well as more UI design flexibility, improved network management, and better support for applications.
But that is not all, it seems, as the new OS version also offers new capabilities to its users, including:
- HDMI support - Connect your Symbian^3 smartphone to your HD television to share HD videos or high resolution photos with friends as well as stream live TV, films and music over the Internet. Featured on the Nokia N8 and Nokia E7. - Multiple personalized home screens - Create different home screens to fit each aspect of your life and place applications, multiple instances of widgets and shortcuts, not to mention all your different email accounts and social media channels, where you want them. - Multipoint touch - Now you can swipe to scroll, pinch-to-zoom and tap once to open. - Real multitasking - Improved memory management means you can now run even more applications at once, using a visual task manager to switch seamlessly between them with a swipe and a tap. - Turbo charged graphics - The new, advanced 2D and 3D graphics architecture delivers a fast and responsive user interface, maximizing the visual enhancements and smooth transitions in Symbian^3. Personalize your phone to make it look the way you want.
According to Daniel Rubio, Leadership Team member for Technology and Delivery Management at Symbian, the Foundation is pleased to see that Nokia continues to see the Symbian platform as a great solution to power its new, high-end smartphones.
“It is very rewarding to see the Symbian^3 platform brought to life so faithfully on these devices, providing compelling experiences at a range of price points that will make them accessible and appealing to users around the world,” he added.
For the time being, Nokia is the only handset vendor to announce the launch of smartphones running under Symbian^3, though previous rumors suggested that other makers might also come to the market with such devices before the end of the ongoing year.