Tip: Make your 5800 slick like an iPhone — Nokia Numbered S60 5.0 (Nokia 5800, Nokia 5230, Nokia 5530)

MrMandrake 06 Mar 2009, 17:24

I've been lurking and benefiting from the helpful people on this board for a while now, since getting my 5800. I thought I would "give something back" by letting you know about something I stumbled over on the 5800.

The phone is great, but I've always thought it seemed to lack some of the glitz of the iPhone UI. But while messing about after upgrading to v20, I found that if you go to:

Settings -> Personal -> Themes -> General

There is one theme listed on my phone "Sound Waves". Select it and press:

Options -> Theme effects -> On

Now the phone uses all sorts of nice animated transitions between screens, animated menu pop-ups and so on. Very nice, and I have no idea why Nokia didn't enable it by default.

Of course, it might just be that my phone had it disabled and everyone else gets this already...

Cheers,

Simon

mrochester 06 Mar 2009, 18:39

These are just the standard menu transitions that have been present since S60 3rd Edition FP2.

EvenOlder 06 Mar 2009, 20:31

Well I certainly didn't know about it.
Thanks!
steve

mafty 06 Mar 2009, 22:13

EvenOlder wrote:Well I certainly didn't know about it.
Thanks!
steve

Me neither - thanks!!

srikat 07 Mar 2009, 04:52

Mandrake: Thank you..didn't know about this.

roger347 18 Apr 2009, 10:14

There is an application called Myphone which will turn Nokia 5800 into Apple IPhone.... you can check this application with Nokia 5800 Applications.

biggruss 20 Apr 2009, 13:12

cheers, my black and silver from orange i've had for about a month didn't have it turned on, cool. it runs a little jerky somethimes though