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Qik to Be Included in Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Phone

Kim Poh Liaw — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:59:17 +0000

Qik, a free live video streaming service for users to stream live video to the Internet with their mobile phone camera, will be included with the new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. Their application will not be pre-installed to the list of applications, but can be easily activated in the Download! folder. Check out the announcement video here.

New S60 5th Edition Now with touch user interfaces and sensor technologies

Kim Poh Liaw — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:50:30 +0000

Today sees the introduction of S60 5th Edition, which introduces Touch UI to Symbian S60 platform with full support for tactile feedback. Enhanced display resolution support and a new Widescreen mode further compliments the touch UI. The new platform also includes a framework for the use of advanced sensor technology. This allows S60 device manufacturers to create innovative new device concepts for a wider range of user segments, while preserving the rich capabilities of the existing software platform.

Sensors enable smart usability for the key S60 applications. For example, silence the phone ringing by turning the phone upside down. The sensor framework in S60 5th Edition provides easy integration for wide range of sensors into vendor’s devices, and enables them and developers to take advantage of sensor data to create new exiting and intuitive applications and features.

New image and video editors in the S60 5th Edition make it simple to capture and edit pictures and videos directly on the device, before sharing them with others. Users can for example decrease red eye, crop image highlights, adjust image quality or add text and graphics to pictures. With the video editor, users can quickly cut and merge videos and sound directly on the device.

“S60 5th Edition’s new features and added functionality significantly enhances the products that intend to provide rich multimedia and Internet experiences for consumers. Intuitive sensor technologies, interactions via touch, and tactile feedback creates delight and excitement for consumers and unparalleled innovation opportunities for developers and internet content providers,” said Lee Williams, Senior Vice President, S60 Software, Nokia. “With this release we will see manufacturers create and extend their portfolio of products with new types of devices addressing a broader range of consumer needs.”

The implementation of the S60 Web Runtime in S60 5th Edition adds support for S60 Platform Services, which enables creation of personal and context aware Web widgets. Platform Services gives these Web standards based applications access to numerous applications and features of the S60 platform, such as calendar, contacts, GPS, messaging, audio, and video. Widgets can also mash-up information from the Internet together with selected information from the user’s mobile device. These Platform Services are easily accessible to Web content developers and service providers via new JavaScript and Adobe Flash Actionscript extensions.

Developers are encouraged to leverage touch UI functionality in application design to get the full consumer advantage of touch in their solutions and create the best possible user experience. From today, S60 5th Edition SDK and tools are available to download via Forum Nokia.

“The S60 5th Edition SDK presents an exciting opportunity for mobile application development,” said Erik Abair, senior vice president of engineering and co-founder of Kyte. “Development on this new platform will advance touch technology, provide more flexibility to create new user interfaces for our mobile application, Kyte Mobile Producer, and improve the overall user experience for consumers.”

New S60 Touch UI Video Available on YouTube

Kim Poh Liaw — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:43:32 +0000

New version of the S60 video available! More examples added such as accessing Internet services that know your location, rich graphical effects and browsing photos easily with gestures.

Is the Nokia touch screen phone for real? Yes, it was reported in early April this year.

Click here to view the embedded video.

The XpressMedia Nokia 5800 in a clearer picture

Kim Poh Liaw — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:13:03 +0000

Base on the spy picture provided by symbian freak, nokiaport.de has done a rendering image for the upcoming Nokia XpressMedia phone. The phone will feature a next generation S60 touch user interface, which has a codename called “Tube”.

Since it is carrying the XpressMedia branding, nokiaport.de is expecting it to be named as Nokia 5800 with the following specification:

GSM QuadBand (850/900/1800/1900 Mhz)
16M colors, 3.2″ Touch screen with 640 x 360 resolution
3.2 Megapixel camera, autofocus
EDGE / UMTS / HSDPA
Bluetooth 2.0
Built in WiFi , GPS
TV-Out
140 MB built in memory
111 x 52 x 14.5 mm
Weight: 104 grams
to be announced by the end of 2008

Source [nokiaport.de]

The next big thing after YouTube: The Nokia Tube S60 Phone

Kim Poh Liaw — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:06:55 +0000

Just one day after Nokia unveiled their new S60 touch UI at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference, Symbian-Freak has decided to release what they knew about this “Tube” project. Nokia first S60 phone with the new touch user interface is coming in year 2009, according to the source.

While a series of the Tube devices will be announced, the first S60 touch UI phone from Nokia will be featuring a wide screen with 16:9 ratio. It will support quad band network, come with built in bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, HSDPA/UTMS to give you a complete wireless package. The touch UI in this prototype do not support multitouch, but does have haptic feedback when you touch the screen.

Source [Symbian-freak]

Nokia Working on Tube Touch Interface

Kim Poh Liaw — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:28:19 +0000

Codename as “Tube”, Nokia has presented some info on its upcoming touch interface at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference. According to the report, the Tube looks similar to the iPhone interface but with added features such as flash support and file uploading.

Check out the videos about the S60 touch UI below, which was presented at MWC and December 2007. Nokia did not unveil its plan on the released date at the moment.

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S60 Touch UI live demo at MWC

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S60 Touch UI introduction by Nokia staff Minna Karvonen

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Nokia S60 Touch UI video at MWC

Additional info can be found at symbian-freak and phonemag

Source [yahoo news] via [cellformer]