In our latest video Ian Hutton (Technology Management at the Symbian Foundation and chair of the Feature and Roadmap Council) explains how the Symbian Foundation's roadmap is put together. We learn about how its community driven nature is directed and driven through external package owners and internal technology managers. Ian also talks us through some of the big themes for the next few releases of the Symbian platform including improvements to the user, developer and device manufacturer experiences. Watched as a whole it is also a great introduction to how Symbian is seeking to shape the future of mobile.
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It is all nice what Ian Hutton says. BUT: I'm an Owner of the E90 Communicator since 2 1/2 years...
I have no chance to buy a new Nokia Phone: My E90 has a display with a resolution of 800 x 352, all newer Nokia Devices have a maximum of 640 x 360 - arrggghhhh! I don't want to downgrade when I buy a new phone. I want have at least the same resolution as the N900 (but of course with Symbian - I don't want to have a phone with an outdated Unix OS, developped for Mini Computers. I want to have an ultra modern Microkernel OS, with excellent calendar functions integrated, perfect multitasking AND: Specially designed for small devices [Psion Series 5]).
When the E90 came out, it had have the highest horizontal resolution of all phones. So I hope, there will be another exciting Symbian phone with 1024 pixels horizontally (480 vertically at most) AND a touchscreen (as the Psion 5).
Please note: It must not be a clamshell device. Especially for a touchscreen device the format of e. g. the N97 would be better. BUT IT SHOULD HAVE A FULL KEYBOARD WITH: Extra digits row, "Umlaute" (like "�", "�","�", ...) on e. g. German versions.
@Unregistered E90 Owner.
Ian Hutton is talking about the work of the Symbian Foundation, the organisation that, along with open source community contributors, are responsible for a smartphone OS. They are a software foundation.
Although it will be necessary for Symbian OS to support high display resolutions etc, they are not a device maker and are not the people that you need to be directing your wishes at regarding screensize, form factor, keyboard hardware etc. Symbian Foundation don't make phones.
@Unregistered
Next you'll be getting on the Mozilla for not having a fast enough processor in your netbook.