Yes, Ewan's heading off (Twitter feed here) for a three week your of the USA, taking in social media and gaming events. To try and add a little Symbian spice to proceedings, we insisted he take the Nokia 5800 with him, to really try it out 'on the road'. This is the second of his regular video reports, letting us know how he's getting on with S60 5th Edition and the 5800. Embedded below is part 2 of this series.
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Hmm ... you're a bit on the fast lane for non native speakers ... if my aging ear lobes got you right, Mobipocket needs to be updated for s60 touch screen devices. - Have you tried bookworm: bookworm.oreilly.com ?
Scots English actually evolved from Anglo-Saxon in parallel with but separately from English English. These days they use mostly an English English vocabulary, but their pronunciation and accent can still be somewhat inpenetrable, even to English English speakers. Given that most non-native English speakers effectively speak American English, I can understand your difficulties and symphathise.
I had to laugh when support call centres started moving to Bangalore and Calcutta. I heard somebody complain that they could never understand what the person was saying, which I thought was ironic because, prior to that, most call centres had been in Scotland and I could never follow a word of what was being said to me.
Again, please can this be part of your All About Symbian Videocast?
agree with you on the volume part, i like to listen to my music in bed (small sleep playlist) and even on the lowest volume its still too loud sometimes.
another think i find kinda annoying is: i have almost 8gigs of music on my phone (5800) so whenever im looking for a certain song i "have" to (the scroll bar is rather inprecise when using a large music collection, whenever you release the bar it flicks up or down from where you wanted to stop) use the search function. So i have to go to options -> search and then click on the search dialog to type. Why not always leave the search dialog there so you can directly access it when you need it...
with my old n95 i just started typing and it started searching, doesnt get any simpler than that
The search thing is an interesting one. I have Search v4.00 on my N95, and really didn't see the point of it until you start having a large music collection, when it becomes really useful. However, I've still to find an equivalent of Search for my wife's new 5800. It's quite bizarre, because only a couple of years ago, it seems, everybody was blabbing on about Search and the fact that it was going to be the most important thing in the whole of technology.
However, I've still to find an equivalent of Search for my wife's new 5800.
Unregistered wrote:There is a Search in v20 firmware.
Great. Unfortunately, though, that's not available for her handset. It was sim-free, red, bought direct from the Nokia shop, but is still on 11.09 or something like that. There seems to be little information available, but I get the impression that the v20 firmware was flawed somehow and withdrawn?
@david: I hear you, but I don't think it's going to happen. It's not worth it just for a handful of Ewan pieces - podcasts involve re-encoding the video, reuploading via fiddly FTP etc.
Sorry, with the Omnia HD preview to work on (ooh, you'll never guess where Rafe and I were today!) in text, photos and video, doing a separate podcast version of the Ewan USA vids is low down on my to-do list. Sorry again.
Also, video podcasts tend to be longer 8-)
Steve