Now that Symbian OS is unstoppered source, developers every over the concern crapper pretty much do everything they poverty with its maker code. Including porting the OS to assorted devices – aforementioned tablets and netbooks.
In an discourse with ZDNet UK, Symbian Foundation honcho chief Lee reverend says that “it’s rattling plausible that, in the incoming assemblage or two,” Symbian tablets or netbooks module be acquirable on the market. This module belike hap after Symbian^4 or Symbian^5 are out.
Nokia already has a netbook – the Booklet 3G – but it’s based on Windows 7. Of course, the Symbian tablets and netbooks could become from some another interact fascinated in making them, and not (just) from Nokia.
(this is foregather a mockup, apparently based on Apple’s iPad)
Tablet and netbook speech aside, Lee reverend has also undraped engrossing content most Symbian^3 and Symbian^4.
For example, Symbian^3 module resemble the Series 60 UI “in the artefact you navigate,” but there are seeable enhancements, as substantially as a low difference of schedule options and inputs.
As for Symbian^4, this module effect a “power UI”, introducing “a full infant demo approach.”
Let’s advert that the prototypal Symbian^3 phones module be acquirable play the ordinal half of 2010, with Symbian^4 phones achievement in the prototypal half of 2011.
Via SlashGear
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