The iNdT team, thorough Marcelo Oliveira’s (aka handful) blog, posted some good news on the development of the next vesion of Canola. Expect an improved interface, new character input methods (ala the iPhone), and major optimizations.

UPDATE: Marcelo replies with more specifics!

“…this is just the tip of (I hope) our best iceberg =) we have a lot of improvements on multitask, gps, pvr, mplayer / other players support, web configuration going inside canola (at least the most usable part of it) and a lot more.”

Videos and more images after the jump.

Videos:

New keyboard similar to the iPhone (YouTube)
Exclusive Canola New Interface Sneak Peek (mov)

Images:

Interface sketches

Home screen sketches

New input method

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