F60 Beta 6

It'll be announced this weekend. I didn't have time to release it yet as I had to work on a project for college. Just to let you guys know I'm still actively working on this.

F60 Beta 5 released!

   

Changelog

• Multiple homescreens with snap and animations
• Notification panel (drag the statusbar all the way down)
• Some applications have the updated Symbian Belle UI
• Official Symbian Belle wallpapers have been included
• Various number of bugfixes

This is the most exciting version of F60 yet. It looks great, it's fast and it runs on any Nokia/Samsung/Sony Ericsson device with Flash Lite. The application launcher doesn't show any applications yet, so you can't run the apps from F60 at the moment. The next beta will have the finished launcher. Enjoy and spread the word!

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Sneak-Preview of F70 (F60 Beta 5)

First of all you might wonder why I still prefer calling F70 as F60 beta 5. Well that's quite simple, F70 is basically built upon the latest stable version of F60. That explains why it still has the same version number.

Anyway, that's the not the big news. The big news is that there are lots of new features coming to F70 and here is a sneak preview to keep you guys occupied for a while.

 

Changelog

• Multiple homescreens
• Lockscreen has been implemented
• Updated application UI
• New clock widget
• Various number of bugfixes
• Code clean-up

I'll probably release F60 beta 5 later this evening or tommorow. Stay tuned and leave a comment below.

F70 (build F60 beta 4) ready for download!

 

Changelog

• Updated the welcome screen
• Changed default wallpaper to the one Symbian Belle has
• Updated the homescreen
• Fixed a few graphical bugs

Bugs & issues

• I did not update the applications yet
• At the moment I've only updated the homescreen to the Symbian Belle UI

So yeah, it's very promising. It's built upon F60 beta 3 with a lot a lot of bugfixes and tweaks. The next beta will contain updated applications and much more!

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I'd suggest you to wait until the next beta which will probably contain a lot more (new) features. This version basically has an updated homescreen and welcome splash.

Mirror (Google Projects)

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Heads up everyone!

I'm very busy these days now I'm going to college, but don't worry this project still has my attention. However some things are about to change drastically!

Rewriting updating the core
Yes, we're not going to rewrite F70 from scratch. Instead we'll build upon the latest F60 build as it was pretty stable. It's also a benefit because we've finished a ton of features in F60 which we could easily tweak or update. Just like Apple does with their iOS updates (keeping old applications but updating them now and then).

Focussing on UI and minor fixes
Now we already have a stable F60 version to build upon it's very exciting to think of all the possibilities we can do with it. We can update the graphics, add some animations, redesign applications while keeping the same code. It'll be fun to see what your good old Nokia is capable of!

When will you actually start this time?
Right now. Downloads will be made availlable at (http://code.google.com/p/sphere-dev/downloads/list) as usually. So check it out now and then!

I'd suggest all of you guys to download or try out the latest F60 build once more and tell me what to improve. All suggestions are welcome!