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How people really use the iPhone

full I found this facinating slide presentation from Create with Context. They took a bunch of iPhone users of different levels of technology experience, and had them navigate the iPhone UI. The report brings up some great usability questions, but mostly shows why navigating the iPhone is easy...

Symbian releases roadmap for OS

Posted by matthew bennett | Posted in Blogosphere, News, Nokia | Posted on 13-03-2009

Tags: News, Nokia

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The newly reformed Symbian Foundation, after being purchased by Nokia in 2008, have announced the roadmap for thier OS release schedule. They’re aiming for a first release of the new Symbian Foundation OS V2 to deveolpers in 1H09, with devices on the market by 4Q09. Subsiquent releases will be rolled out every six months, bringing consummers V4 devices towards the end of 2010.

The Sony Ericson Idou, shown at Mobile World Congress, is the first device announced that will run Symbian Foundation V2 software. Developers itching to try the software, it’s based heavily on S60V5.1, which the current SDK supports. Download from dev.nokia.com/forum