Nokia officially announces Carbide.ui

Published by Rafe Blandford at 6:17 UTC, October 17th 2006

Today at the Symbian Smartphone Show Nokia officially announed the availability of its new theme creation tool Carbide.ui. The tool allows for the easy creation of themes and other customisation elements for Nokia smartphones. The tool can be downloaded from the Forum Nokia website.

• Support for third-party graphics, audio and content editors, allowing linkage with graphics tools that support bitmap, SVG or Flash Lite editing and with audio editing tools that support multiple sound file formats;
• Multiple screen resolutions support, including 352 x 416 pixels, 240 x 320 pixels, and 176 x 208 pixels; and,
• Content import in multiple formats, including SVG, BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SWF and TIFF, allowing design artists to use their favorite creative suite.

"Nokia is very pleased to be offering this powerful yet simple mobile UI design tool to graphic artists and multimedia design professionals, enabling them to explore the creative possibilities in customization of rich and appealing user interfaces for S60-based smartphone devices," said Heikki Koivu, Director, Development Tools, Nokia. "Using Carbide.ui Theme Edition, individuals with no prior mobile design experience or knowledge of coding languages will now be able to direct their creativity toward creating unique user experiences for the millions of consumers using smartphone devices around the globe."

Nokia's Carbide brand of developer tools provides a single identity for all Nokia's mobile developer tool offerings. The new Carbide.ui Theme Edition joins other recently announced members of Nokia's tiered family of Carbide developer tools products, including Carbide.j for Java developers, Carbide.vs for C++ developers using Microsoft Visual Studio, and the Carbide.c++ family of tools for the Symbian ecosystem -- Carbide.c++ Express, Carbide.c++ Developer and Carbide.c++ Professional.