We are very glad to announce that now we have our official Symbian belle theme, titled Symbian Developers and currently only available at Symbian Developers’s forum.
This theme is designed by theme master Blade and is based on the Web-theme of this blog with elements used from his popular theme series Elegance and icons improved with his S40 series icon pack. The theme is exceptionally beautiful and we promise that you will enjoy it. Let me guide you towards the features of the theme and try to mention why will you love it!
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Primary Features
- 650+ icons added
- full vector graphics
- beautiful combination of colours
- Clean and Fast UI
-Available for Belle and Belle FP1 devices
Installation
The SD theme is about 3.6 MB in size when downloading, and takes about 11 MB of your phone memory/memory card space to install. It can be independently installed to any drive of your phone, as all the themes can be.
First Look
It’s said, “the first impression is the last impression”. And in its first impression the theme amazes you with its quality and color. Shiney blue color and inspirational Symbian Developers tagline may lead you to explore for more. Blade has implemented Menu/Back/Options buttons in form of cool angled symbols instead of using the classical square tabs. And icons are just fabulous.
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Performance
Theme was brilliantly fast, as far as my phone (an FP1 device) was concerned. However, if you are using a belle device then you may need to restart your phone to make sure that all elements of the theme is applied. After applying the theme you will experience that the theme is damn fast and tabs are as smooth as default Nokia Evolve theme.
Major Elements
The dialer is is pretty nice and the color is little dim, still blue, in comparison to homescreen.
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The belle top bar is highely customized with two colors combination of Blue and White.
Contacts and Calendar
As I said, the theme is very fast, you won’t feel any problem while scrolling an index like contacts, what ever the number of contacts you have.
Calendar looks cool with black and blue combination.
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The blue background is everywhere!
Web Browsing
We all know that the default nokia browser is not very good in look but few themes like this improves its UI a little bit. SD theme does the same.
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The navigation bar in the web browser is not customized and there is not even a single pixel of blue color in navigation. I think it is very good for long term usage of Web Browser. However the bookmarks menu is again full of sky blue.
Keyboards
The most important elements of Symbian devices are the keyboards used at various places. And here this theme goes a little down. Color is very nice and tabs are totally flat, but you need to take care of brightness of screen while writing on the screen. The keyboard was updated and now feels convenient to eyes.
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If you text/IM a lot then take care of your eyes, while using this theme. It was a painful experience to type messages last night. By the way, the keyboard is very fast and even in very sharp daylight, you will be able to use this without any eyevision problem.
Music Elements
Browsing albums and changing songs were the fun. Nicely customized music player is a huge plus point for the theme.
Here is the landscape mode of music player, browsing and listening songs.
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Now the portrait mode:
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Others
I test each theme keyboard with Microsoft apps, since I found some keyboards buggy and closing One Note randomly. Thanks to the developer, this didn’t happen with this theme within half hour usage of One Note. But as I said earlier, typing was a painful experience.
Other screenshots include Task Manager, Nokia web-browser and Marking Mode!
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Overall, this theme is highly recommended for all symbian lovers but must for SD members and will be lovely to all of those who love blue color.
You can download this theme from our forum. Use this theme and tell us how much you like this.
We would like to respect Salman’s Work too for creating first Symbian-Developers theme. Thank you for the theme Blade.
Update: Anyone facing installation issues? It will be available in Nokia Store soon
Stay tuned. More updates coming!
Update 2: Theme updated just now (signed), new keyboard added and 3 new icons added. Head over to forum and redownload!
Update 3: Dark variant available. Download now.
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Download Symbian Developers theme by Blade (1.0 Light version)
Download Symbian Developers theme by Blade (2.0 Dark version)
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