Hi guys,
Long time reader here on the forum, really awesome place!
My current nokia 6600 slowly dieing. Almost 6years old, so I'ts time for me to put it on the shelves as a backup phone if something goes wrong with the new one... That I'm planning to buy. I'm contemplating about the nokia xpressmusic 5800. I constantly listening to music as well and radio so its important for me to have that function. All in all for the next phone that I buy I would like to have some special functions that *should have* worked on nokia 6600 as well (however its just way to small as a display to make it work). Such as:
-Reading documentation, PDF and DOC files
-Browse the internet. On the go, not only for just some info when you need to find a restaurant or whats in the movies. Serious browsing, watching youtube videos, checking out stockmarket news, etc, etc...
-Can you work the phone with fingers completelly? Or for some applications/areas you just cant handle it, because... dunno the technology not there yet to notice your thumb pushes like that pen you got with the phone?
I'm sure the rest, like playing on the phone (5800 of course) and listening to music and even capturing a nice shot could be achievable with this baby. I need sincere answers for the above two question. For my next phon I want to spent alot of money (this phone for me is also *alot*) so I have to be sure I can read as much and everything I want on this phone.
Side questions (not as important, just curious):
-Whats the latest model version to go for, like 5800b, j or whatever. I read about some issues with the phones and you know some shop do sell the old stock out before they sell the new models. In that case the old(er) models could have some problems that I would just struggle and have to take the phone to nokia to replace parts for instance immediatelly (shops in my country just like that... Don't really care about you).
-Whats the latest symbian version and is it possible to update freely now, or its the same as on my old nokia phone? I have to pay a LOT of money for a company to update and they can even screw up my phone? (Symbian is definitelly not a linux if you know what I mean :S)
Thanks for reading and thanks for the answers. 😊
H0PE wrote:
-Reading documentation, PDF and DOC files
Quickoffice is built in and should be able to display (but not edit!) PDF and DOC files.
H0PE wrote:
-Browse the internet. On the go, not only for just some info when you need to find a restaurant or whats in the movies. Serious browsing, watching youtube videos, checking out stockmarket news, etc, etc...
The WEB app works fine on the vast majority of web pages. You can zoom in and out if the text is too small. You Tube vidoes display fine in the WEB app, but there are S60 You-Tube apps (free) which make searching quicker and easier than using the Nokia WEB app. BBC iPlayer is also supported (needs the free app installed). I strongly recommend you get an unlimited internet bolt on from your network if you are going to stream videos to the device!
H0PE wrote:
-Can you work the phone with fingers completelly? Or for some applications/areas you just cant handle it, because...
You can't cut and paste text (AFAIK) - neither with fingers or with the stylus. Apart from that you should be able to do everything with your fingers. If a link on a web page is too small, either zoom in and use your finger or leave the page small and use the styles. That's about it for touch-screen use.
H0PE wrote:
Side questions (not as important, just curious):
-Whats the latest model version to go for, like 5800b, j or whatever.
I am not aware of any hardware/model revisions as yet, but I could be wrong.
H0PE wrote:
-Whats the latest symbian version and is it possible to update freely now, or its the same as on my old nokia phone?
If you mean the Symbian OS, that's v9 5th Edition. You can't update it as most of it is on a ROM chip that cannot be written to.
If you mean the Nokia firmware, the latest is V30, which is very fast & stable. However, unless you buy a sim-free unbranded handset, then your network may limit you to an older firmware version. Whilst you can easily de-brand to V30 FW, please be aware de-branding invalidates the 2yr Nokia warranty and the engineers KNOW when a handset has been de-branded - there is no way to hide de-branding completely.
Hope these answers are helpful?
you can copy and paste from anywhere throughout the OS as long as you are in a text field editor. you cannot for example copy text from a web page. but if you make a post on a web page, you can copy all the text you are writing, then go to any other app in the OS and paste it somewhere else, like a note or word document or calendar etc.
for example, i go to allaboutsymbian to add theri web feeds to my bookmarks, then i edit the bookmark and copy the link address. then i go to the podcasting app and paste it as a new podcast. its pretty handy actually.
RogerPodacter wrote:you can copy and paste from anywhere throughout the OS as long as you are in a text field editor.
Hi Roger,
I stand corrected (happily in this case!). How do you copy and paste? Is it in the options menu in the text editor?
Appreciate the answers guys.
No, no hacking for me this would be an expensive mobile I wouldnt wanna loose the warranty especially 2years.
I'm confused about the operating system. You mentioned something like v9, but I see that the tech details says s60 v5. What is the number you referring to? s60v5 is the firmware? What else is there then? 😃
I dont see the office program on the list of the apps though on website (nokia.com), maybe its not in the basic kit?
H0PE wrote:Appreciate the answers guys.No, no hacking for me this would be an expensive mobile I wouldnt wanna loose the warranty especially 2years.
I'm confused about the operating system. You mentioned something like v9, but I see that the tech details says s60 v5. What is the number you referring to? s60v5 is the firmware? What else is there then? 😃
I dont see the office program on the list of the apps though on website (nokia.com), maybe its not in the basic kit?
As far as I know, all the Nokia smartphones (starting with N-Series 4 yrs ago) use S60 v9.x OS. The x in the case of 5800XM is 5, which we shorten to S60 5th edition.
(However, if the above information is wrong, someone please correct me!)
dez_borders wrote:Hi Roger,I stand corrected (happily in this case!). How do you copy and paste? Is it in the options menu in the text editor?
Whatever you are typing you just drag your finger and highlight it, then press the button with 3 horizontal lines which brings up the menu with copy and paste. I constantly copy an rss feed address from the web browser and paste it into the podcasting app.
RogerPodacter wrote:Whatever you are typing you just drag your finger and highlight it, then press the button with 3 horizontal lines which brings up the menu with copy and paste. I constantly copy an rss feed address from the web browser and paste it into the podcasting app.
cheers m8! I thought the touch screen Nokias didnt' have copy & paste.