Symbian now have a new version. All these days iPhone and Android devs were all over the news, doing something and Symbian & Nokia people were standing by just watching whats going on. The wait is over today as the newest verion of Symbian was revealed at the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Well this is not the only good news. The good news is the features of this new operating system.
UI that’s three times faster.
UI which runs at a super smooth 60fps.
Better multitasking.
Added support for multitouch on capacitive screens.
Integrated online music store support.
HDMI output capabilities at full HD (1080p) resolution.
A new graphics architecture which takes advantage of hardware acceleration.
All these feature may make symbian to match up with the iPhone Os and Android. The latest version is named Symbian^3, or S^3 for short and is expected to be completed by the end of March. The first devices featuring S^3 should start shipping from Nokia in the third quarter of this year.
Simply the most complete smartphon ever created.Yes Nokia N97 is just the complete smartphone. Lets see what the features are.
Feature List:
Slide-n-tilt 3.5″ 16M-color resistive touchscreen of 640 x 360 pixel resolution
5 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and lens cover (VGA@30fps video recording)
Symbian OS 9.4 with S60 5th edition UI
Slide-out three-row full QWERTY keyboard
ARM 11 434MHz CPU and 128 MB of RAM
Quad-band GSM support and 3G with HSDPA support
Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS (plus 3 months of free voice-guided navigation via Ovi Maps)
Digital compass
Class-leading 32GB onboard storage
microSD card slot with microSDHC support
Built-in accelerometer
3.5 mm audio jack
TV out
Stereo FM Radio with RDS, FM transmitter
microUSB port and stereo Bluetooth v2.0
Web browser has full Flash and Java support
Nice audio reproduction quality
Obviously there is nothing new on this list.But still nokia made a great try on fitting all top features under one hood. This certainly is an ambitious task by itself but the ever-expectant Nseries fans, who always want something new on their next handset, make it even harder.