19 July 2010

First Screenshots Of The New But Not Greatly Improved Symbian S^4 Homescreen Interface

Couple of months after Nokia has submitted a proposal for a new framework for Symbian-powered UIs to the Foundation’s open community, we finally got the first screenshots of the new but not greatly improved Symbian S^4 homescreen application, mainly thanks to the folks from Symbian Developer Wiki.

Screenshots show a nice array of eye candy and some actually useful bits, like minimalistic status bar with a quite small, battery, reception indicator and clock in the middle.

Also it seems that home screen now support continuous wallpapers implemented on pretty much the same way as to the Nokia N900 and to make the switching between this multiple screens there are more than welcome dots at the bottom that indicate current position as well as number of homescreens.

Below the slim top status bar are positioned two drop-down menus and small icon on the right side of the main bar that is supposed to be Menu launcher button. Of course, same as on current version of the Symbian OS, homerscreen comes is very customizable and comes with well implemented widgets support.