Ewan starts a new series of personal articles looking at how different people set up their S60 smartphones. Specifically, looking at what's on their active standby ('Home'😉 screen. He kicks off with mobile cyber celeb James Whatley. You can comment on James' choices below, or indeed on the article series as a whole.
Read on in the full article.
Who?
James ofcourse
I love this idea. I would really enjoy seeing how others configure a given device. Will more developers use active standby plugins in the future?
i don't know about the n95 but on the n82 a long press of the 0 button launches the web browser,
also if you install jbak taskman you can have an additional 8 or more shortcuts at the pres of a button.
and a long press on * button launches bluetooth.
Never heard of Whately, and I get around 😊
Is he some ZZZ list "celeb"?
Here's my follow up
http://www.mobileroyale.co.cc/applications/my-active-standby/
How could he get Flickr and Google Search added on the Active screen like this?
Seems, Vodafone reception is poor wherever he was there!
i don't know about the n95 but on the n82 a long press of the 0 button launches the web browser,
A long press of 0 on any Nokia phone launches the web browser, even on Series 40 models. I think that's why they've all got that blue "i" logo.
Why do you need 'profiles' in the left soft key when its so easily accessible from the power key.
Also, does the long press of the # key on the home screen still change the profile to silent on phones without pencil key ?
It will be interesting to see if there is any significant variation to this. I have almost exactly the same set up.
Why do you need 'profiles' in the left soft key when its so easily accessible from the power key.
It depends on the phone, some models (for example the E51) have very awkward-to-press power buttons.
Great article Ewan, and a worthy subject too.! You picked the one person I would of picked too for such a quest.!
Hey guys, thanks for the comments - and thanks to Ewan for asking me to take part in this fantastic new feature...
All he asked me for was the screenshot and a brief description of why etc... I had no idea he'd do such an awesome analysis. Seriously, it's like having someone read my palm! 😃
In answer to some of the questions that have been thrown about:
@janptr - The Google Search App is available from http://google.com from your mobile. But it's only really worth downloading if your handset has the 'pencil' key.
Also - the flickr icon you can see is from Share Online v3. If you update your firmware this should appear on your desktop.
@arcade - I don't *need* 'profiles' on the left soft key at all. In fact, I don't need *anything* there. Because of the short half second delay on that particular key in standby mode (you push it, and it waits for you to push the right key to lock it before it does anything else) I don't like using it. It isn't instantaneous, so I don't bother.
I actually use the power key more often than the left soft key, so you're right in that.
Regarding the 'Zero key launches the browser' - again, I know this. But, similarly to the left soft key 'issue' - I have to hold the zero key down for a long press for the browser to kick in. For me, this is too slow and I can click over and into my bookmarks quicker from my active standby screen than I could by simply holding down the zero key.
It's all about doing stuff *now* - waiting around for the phone to catch up with what I want it to do is not an option.
AAAAAAAAAAND Finally - the 'mobile cyber celeb' moniker came from Ewan, not me!
(and I'm flattered - really)
😊
if you have jbak taskman installed you can set it up so that jbak launches instantaneously on pressing the s60 menu key and you can assign the standard s60 menu to the left soft key which strangely has no half second delay with menu as the shortcut