Not a rumor anymore,an official announcement is there on tat(The Astonishing Tribe) website,confirming the S60′s secret affair with tat’s UI.If they end up in a marriage that would be best point for s60,when it comes to beat the iphone graphics.Now after several generations of s60 versions have released,still the UI changes are not at a visually effective level,though there were so much improvements,still there is a hole in the Graphically Ilustrated User Friendliness,So there is plenty of space for the tat’s Kastor UI to play a big role in the S60 UI.
Rumor has become Official now,so we gotta keep our fingers crossed,the baby might born soon.
The official tat site announcement on July 7th says,
“TAT’s technology enables S60 developers to push UI boundaries to even greater heights. Developers can now easily add advanced graphics such as 3D, change effects and also add skins without having to change existing software or add expensive hardware.
TAT Kastor, the next generation UI rendering platform, is now available on the S60 mobile platform. The benefits from TAT Kastor address the need to render advanced graphics on any type of color screens. This allows handset vendors to offer devices with sophisticated and graphically animated user interfaces, without major changes to the software or need for advanced hardware. By pushing graphics to advanced screens more efficiently than traditional software, TAT Kastor on the S60 mobile platform makes the user interface look more advanced than the hardware normally would allow. And importantly, it does so without extensive changes to existing software.”