E50. Speed up apps? — Nokia Eseries S60 3.0 phones (E50, E60, E62, E61, E61i, E70)

DavidA 18 Sep 2006, 23:28

I recently bought an E50. I like the form factor, weight and build quality even if the buttons are a little more fiddly than other Nokias I've owned.

The thing that bugs me most is the unresponsive operating system. The customer service guy in the phone shop told me a) that it's because it's a 'thinking phone' and b) that things speed up after a while.

My main question is whether there's anything I can do to speed it up? I usually just use SMS and Contacts although I also use the e-mail functions. I'm not sure I believe the customer service guy when he says it speeds up, unless it does some clever caching? I was thinking that maybe I could background-load some of the features on bootup which would improve responsiveness. Is there a way to do that?

A couple of other things while I'm here:

1) I've got the phone hooked up to my Exchange server and it's syncing every 30 minutes. Is that going to cost me a lot of money on my phone bill?

2) The screensaver/idle graphics are quite hard to read. I use my phone as a clock, so a more visible idle-mode clock graphic would be more useful.

Thanks in advance.

David

Rafe 19 Sep 2006, 00:27

The speed issue is interesting - I can't say I've noticed it being particuarly slow. I don't think there's anything major you can do. You can try changing the length of the log file (default 30 days, anything shorter is quicker).

Your questions

1) Depends how much info is being transferred. Just having an active connection wont do much its the pulling down of data that eats up money.

2) There's nothing available by defaullt afaik for the screensaver - you might look at the thid party handy clock which includes a screnesaver option. Also use the digital clock for the idle screen - much more readable than the analog one.

DavidA 03 Oct 2006, 11:45

Thanks for your response.

Now that I've got my work mail coming down I'm really pleased with it. It still seems a little slow to me in that it takes a second or two to get to e-mails or text, but I'm getting used to it. I think the processor is a little underspecced for the code that runs on it.

I'll take a look at Handy Clock. Are there any other apps which I should look into? I don't feel there's anything missing, but if there's anything you recommend then I'd be interested in taking a look.