Those people are still there albeit significantly outnumbered by regular users and that means applications like Handy Shell are always going to be around as well. And it's a good thing too, because Handy Shell ups the flexibility of your S60 smartphone by a significant factor. It's not for everyone, and there will be a lot of you arguing that the S60 interface doesn't need changing. Split over three information screens, Handy Shell pulls S60 away from being a 'making calls and running applications' platform to 'making calls, organising your information, and running applications.
Handy Shell First up, and the screen that's effectively the main screen of Handy Shell, and replaces the active stand-by, is the 'today' view, with four main strips of info - Clock, application shortcuts, phone settings and Calendar.
The clock takes up most of the width of the screen, although by using a constant sized font all characters are the same width it makes it feel a little clunky, although it does hark back nicely to an old fashioned digital clock.
It's a pity there are no formatting options for the clock. It would be sensible to think that most people loading Handy Shell have done some customising on their own phone's desktop, so the inclusion of a standard set of six application short-cuts in the next strip is both welcome after all, it's something people are already used to in the customisation stakes but at the same time do I really need to put in my favourites again?
Is there no way to read what I already have during the first run of Handy Shell and populate this with my own picks? Handy Shell - The Today Screen. The next line is probably my favourite - the phone settings. A single tap on the Bluetooth icon will toggle your Bluetooth on or off or you can change this to launch the Bluetooth application if you so wish , and alongside this you have icons and numerical cues for your missed calls and unread SMS and emails, finally finishing on quick change icons to alter your chosen ringtone profile or overall phone theme.
All these strips and those in the other views as well have their own customisable settings, you just pop into the Settings dialog, choose the view, and then choose the part of the view to alter. I get the feeling that this modular approach runs through the entire program, so it would be an easy matter to add a view of another application to any screen.
In fact, Epocware have done exactly that in building a view of Handy Weather into Handy Shell's desktop and bundling a one year subscription to Handy Weather in the registration price of Handy Shell. It's important to realise that each element in Handy Shell might seem a bit 'is that it? Think of it like a multi-bladed Swiss Army knife - nobody carries just a pair of tweezers with them, but with that knife you'll always have one when you need it - just like some of the icons in Handy Shell.
Tapping on the right soft key lets you cycle through the three views of Handy Shell, and after the Today screen is the Applications view, a 3x4 grid of applications that you can set up and shuffle around. The one feature that's missing here is using the keypad to fast launch an icon. As the keypad is also 3x4, matching the matrix on the S60 home screen, pressing a number on the standard S60 applications menu launches the one whose icon is in the same relative place on the screen.
Handy Shell is missing this and I found my thumb erroneously hitting the keypad to launch something on numerous occasions.
Asking for folder support in this screen would be a step too far, even though I like the idea of ditching the S60 app launcher completely - the point here is to have your most used applications shortcutted, not all your applications.
You've got full control over what applications to add, and you can edit them or move them around as often as you wish. I did like the dialog screen to choose the applications - rather than the radio button screen that S60 uses, where you have to scroll a lot , you can just start typing the name of the application and Handy Shell will search as you start to type.
Just create in your built-in contacts application some groups like Family, Spammers, Co-workers, etc and add these groups to as many lists as you need without adding tons of contacts to every list. BlackList is a professionally made application and consists of configuration application that you can start like any other application and service module always-in-memory process.
When you have configured the settings you can activate the service and close the configuration application. The service will do all job using really small amount of memory, system resources and absolutely transparent to user. Just configure and turn it on one time and you can forget about it and forget about all unwanted callers as well. Flying Money Manager forexpress music Worldmate for s60 5th edition v7. Smartphoneware Best Reminder v1.
This is also due to make its way to the N, we've been informed, around the launch date in October. For the first time kinetic scrolling has come to Nokia handsets. It's on the N and the new N97 mini and in an upcoming firmware on the N This is where scrolling down a web page is performed by running a finger down the screen and then off of the handset, where the web page continues to keep scrolling.
It's a very useful feature of handsets and saves running a finger down the screen, then repeating the action for the next page and the next.
In Short When the N was first announced back in there weren't many devices around that could claim the full multimedia experience of video, music playing and web browsing and it stood out. Now, the world is full of these handsets and perhaps Nokia is entering a market it doesn't have much space in anymore. We feel Nokia has made large strides since the N, although we can't help wondering why it has taken so long to include the functionality of a phone in these products when, after all, Nokia is a phone company.
Despite its improvements from the previous generation we really don't think many will notice, as Nokia hasn't seemed to market these products very well in the past. We're hard pressed to find any of our early tech adopter colleagues that actually own any of these Nokia Internet tablets and they are the target market. The Bad Not a multi-touch screen, could have done with a bigger battery.
The Ugly Not very well marketed and therefore might be hard to sell - despite its great qualities. Nokia are obviously getting more and more serious about their touchscreen portfolio. Hot on the heels of the Nokia XpressMusic, they have announced the Nokia - an entry-level touchscreen handset. The newcomer has the same dimensions as the Nokia XpressMusic but looses the Wi-Fi and has only a 2 megapixel camera.
Much like the Nokia , the Nokia sports a 3. The camera has been downgraded to 2 megapixel resolution but manages the decent VGA 30fps video recording. Nokia runs the latest Symbian S60 5th edition and is powered by the same battery as - a mAh one, which is good mAh larger that that of the Nokia XpressMusic.
According to the manufacturer the will be capable of 33 hours of non-stop music playback. The available inbox colors for the Nokia are black and white for the front panel and red, pink, blue, yellow, silver and dark silver for the rear covers.
Nokia The available inbox colors The handset will be available in Q4 this year for a recommended price of euro before taxes or subsides. It will also be distributed in a Comes With Music package in certain markets, priced at euro before subsides and taxes. The long rumored and pictured in the wild N97 mini has been officially announced today with no surprises.
Besides Nokia presented the first two X series devices - the touch-based X6 and the cheaper slider X3. Nokia N97 mini The Nokia N97 mini leaked a long time ago and it was about time it got officially announced. The official announcement brought no surprises - the N97 mini sports a smaller 3.
It will ship in October on euro price. The Nokia X6 is a spiritual successor of the popular XpressMusic packing 3. Yes, that's right - there is no card slot, but the Nokia Nokia X6 The connectivity options are as full as the N97 mini and there is nothing missed.
Even more, the Nokia X6 comes with the Nokia WH - a headband-style stereo headset with all kind of control options and integrated handsfree. The X6 will launch in the end of this year on euro price before taxes and subsidies and will be a Comes-With-Music device only, allowing you to download as many music track you want for free. Both Nokia N97 mini and X6 are powered by the latest Symbian S60 5th edition with all kind of social networks integration.
Transparent screens that have so far been the stuff of concept renderings are now coming to a store near you. We've seen the concepts take the Nokia Morph for example , but at best we see them in some new techno-thriller.
With its transparent screen and sleek, minimalistic design, it's set to tackle luxury phones, while its XPERIA X2 and X3 cousins take aim at high-end have-it-all phones.
It's not all bad however, from the photos it seems that it has pretty good contrast and viewing angles. We don't know what the screen resolution is and how it fares under direct sunlight is also a mystery. In the next iteration, the problem of size will probably be solved and figuring out how to add color support shouldn't be too hard, should it? From there, adding touch input capabilities is a piece of cake, since the technology has been around for quite a while now.
Oops, sorry! We got carried away daydreaming, but we're keeping our fingers crossed. In the same time Toshiba promises a free WinMo 6. Search web. Four more swine flu deaths; India's toll at Krishna, Tharoor leave 5-star hotels on Sonia's intervention. Obama exhorts kids to pay attention in school. One death, 52 positive cases of swine flu in Delhi today.
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