Nokia's MWC Showing (impressions + feedback)

[romikhan57]

Over at MWC Barcelona , Nokia had a pretty exciting showing even though they did not announce any device. The exciting bit being the software strategies unveiled by them.

Nokia revealed screenshots and videos of the upcoming Symbian^3 OS. It also announced at least some of the highlighting features of Symbian^3-Symbian^4.
Symbian^3 specifications have been confirmed during MWC after the initial announcement last month.
HDMI output is supported up to 1080p , the music store is now embedded within the radio and will allow identification of a song and additional information searches along with the addition of a purchase button, which links with a chosen music store.
More efficient memory management due to what the Foundation calls Writeable Data Paging allows more applications to run in parallel for improved multi-tasking with a focus on mid-range hardware.
New 2D and 3D graphics architecture takes full advantage of the hardware acceleration available with OpenGL ES, the new architecture is suited for games without slowing the phone down.
One-click connectivity for all applications and new global settings allow the user to configure platform-wide behavior, ensuring the device automatically switches from cellular to WLAN when a free WLAN network is available as an example.
Usability enhancements across the user interface include a direct “single tap” interaction model, making it easier to complete common tasks on a device. Multi-touch support for gestures such as “pinch-to-zoom” forms a gesture framework that can be extended by developers.
The Homescreen now supports multiple pages of widgets and a simple flick gesture to move between them, with the widget manager now supporting multiple instances of a native widget allowing multiple weather forecasts, news feeds, social networking accounts or multiple email accounts simultaneously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdGyZYrix9g

This places upcoming Nokia Symbian^3 based devices right at the top of the specification ring. Even full featured multi-tasking with visual multitasking (think aero) is now probably only a Symbian feature as Windows Mobile 7 too seems to have foregone it for application state pausing.

Another new software aspect shown off was the MeeGo collaboration between Intel and Maemo. The collaboration has led to the merger of Maemo and Moblin resulting in an OS which will be platform agnostic, running on both x86 and ARM processors. This OS may very well be what will become Maemo 6.

What do you guys think about it ?