- Nokia Series 90
Nokia Series 90 is a platform for
mobile phone s that useSymbian OS . It is developed primarily byNokia and currently used only on theNokia 7710 .Essentially, Series 90 is a development of the
Psion Eikon GUI as used on the Series 5, Series 5mx, Series 7 and netBook machines. It has been modified to be controlled entirely through the touchscreen, supplemented by the 77x0's seven hardware buttons and rocker-dial. TheNokia 7700 , which was never released, had only an on-screen keyboard for text input; the 7710 added basic handwriting recognition. Applications now have only a single menu tree, accessible from the title bar at the top of the screen; there is no Exit or Quit option in most apps; and a button bar has been added to the right hand side of the screen, resembling that of the Nokia Communicator smartphones.Unfortunately, Series 90 is completely incompatible with
Series 60 andUIQ , the most popular platforms for Symbian smartphones. However, some applications from NokiaSeries 80 Communicator devices -- such as theNokia 9300 andNokia 9500 -- will function under Series 90.Although no new Series 90 devices are expected, a form of the GUI lives on as Nokia's "Hildon" user interface in the
Internet Tablet OS shipped with theNokia 770 , N800 and N810 Internet Tablets.
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