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hey guys this is Adam Lee with pocket comm and Nokia just released Symbian Belle for the Nokia n8 it's a new operating system lots of little upgrades and we're going to check out first off we'll start with the lockscreen which has changed a bit got a different font there for the time and everything is left-aligned so that's a interesting change and we press switch to unlock and here's the new home screen now a lot has changed here we know I have three home screens we have an ability to choose up to six let me see the little dots at the bottom to indicate which home screen you're on so you can swipe and see all the home screens and it comes right back to the beginning if you go too far and this is a lot like Android we also have some updates no longer are your widgets on the Symbian screen limited to a specific size you can now have all sorts of different size widgets just like Android of course and tap and hold and the little X I can delete it remove that widget tap and hold again and we have a little menu come up I can add a widget or shortcut or change the wallpaper let's choose a widget here we can see all the ones that are available down here we have a marketplace button where you can choose some more widgets download which one was I going to choose music player there we go and of course you can add some more okay if you can hit it right and we can move them just the same as you would on Android if there's room alright and one thing he knows is this by default we're getting different background images for each home screen it's kind of weird but we can tap and hold and obviously change wallpaper and choose something from your image gallery or whatever another change is the buns at the bottom we no longer have text telling us what these do and they actually have different functions now this one is the menu this one is the phone and we have more cryptic hieroglyphs at the bottom kind of ambiguous buttons and this one is the app tray well the application listing and it's all one list now there's no longer the top list with an application button it's all one list that we can scroll through but there are still folders I just made that games folder now if I tap and hold on this I can move that to the folder and then I have a couple of them in there I also have a search button so you can find really easily filter through the applications okay so this button down here still does the same thing that also brings up the application launching interface there but tapping and holding on that button gives you the multitasking interface as usual one thing maybe a little bug into the marketplace at least today the ovie market store it was giving me some errors see we got unable to connect so at least for today I'm not able to download anymore programs one thing I noticed that was new launching the camera seems to be very very quick you just saw how quick that was seems to be a little bit improved we have a slightly different interface here others the back button there's a menu there's another menu and these scene settings is under that a and there's your flash options and your shutter has moved to the right side and there's your switch for changing to movie mode of course the top button will still work and it seems to do pretty quickly it felt a little bit quicker than that before but I'm just going by memory because I only have one n8 here I can't compare ok so now let's look at the browser this I was a little bit disappointed in so I will show you now let's start with some html5 tests this is our standard fish ie tank and you can see it does not do very well not not good at all let's do another one and here's something something interesting the browser is identifying itself as Apple Safari and well it doesn't do too well with the html5 let's go to a regular web site here we're loading pocket now this is the desktop view which I've bookmarked and it is occasionally unresponsive so we can see how slow that is if you want to read a webpage it is a bit difficult to say the least ok not terribly smooth at all other apps have been updated a little bit with the new interface the new buttons at the bottom there's your maps and something I liked in the calendar it kind of scrolls through these appointments so you see that there's more they're nice little touch now don't forget about the new notification bar this upper area has changed a lot from previous versions of Symbian and we now can pull it down and see your notifications missed reminders new messages we also have controls toggle controls for Wi-Fi mobile data Bluetooth and the profile silent mode which is good because you know previously it was kind of complicated to shut off Wi-Fi so that's just like Android and iOS 5 now one thing that was annoying I couldn't find the option to turn on the power saver mode it doesn't seem to be available anymore normally I could go tap the battery and turn on power saving mode and would get a lot more battery life out of the device that seems to be gone anyway overall I really like this sameen bail upgrade it's very familiar a lot like Android but some of the widgets I'm not so sure that they need to have all sorts of different sizes it's kind of messy everything looks out of place each which it has a different design but it's a little faster I love that the camera is a little faster so that's Symbian Belle give us a thumbs up if you enjoyed this video and that's it for now you