Sometimes you say something and it gets a bit out of hand, the reaction isn't what you expect. That happens in the All About Symbian (virtual) staff-room as well. So what happens when a new updated (and known controversial) app comes in such as MyPhone to be considered? Ewan lets loose on the pointlessness of making your phone look like one from a completely different platform, that's what...
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I have to admit I'm a victim of this...
... Both my n82 and n86 are using a theme to make them look like the 5800 blue wave theme
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I love to change the themes on my 5800, and I always did that in all my oldest phones, since the s40 one. I really appreciate this feature on Symbian phones, but I never put an Iphone's whatever thing, because If I liked something in the Iphone, I would have bought one. So why change my way to use the Symbian environment, if is exactly what I like?
the only reason I would add this is the fact you can scroll the screen sideways to access all your apps somethink that symbian ^3 has added or near to 😉 with multiple homescreens. I would never buy a dam Iphone why should I have to hack a smartphone to get it to multi task is beyond me.... this IMO dose not make the Iphone very smart atall :0
Themes are one thing, particularly because S60 is designed to use them, but running an emulator on top of the UI is pretty much a guaranteed way to slow things down and kill the battery.
So why are people doing it?
- The iPhone is expensive, but people want an iPhone.
- S60v5 is not seen as being anywhere close to the cutting edge of mobile OS UI. The Iphone OS UI is.
- The phone may be easier to use with the emulator switched on.
Irrespective of the right or wrongs in the arguments, I'd say that the fact that such an application can gather enough of a market to keep up development suggests that Nokia have been doing a lot very wrong.
I'm hoping Symbian fixes that.
Wall paper themes are one thing, but the reason people use a UI shell is due to a fault in the standard user interface software. Sorry, but that's the truth.
Why do you think SPB Mobile Shell was hugely popular on Windows Mobile for so long? It made the clunky, PC desktop-ish UI, bearable and usable. I'm glad to see Mobile Shell now supports Symbian, though I'm not sure how it'll run on 128 mb of RAM, the standard in Nokia smart phones.
Unregistered wrote:the only reason I would add this is the fact you can scroll the screen sideways to access all your apps somethink that symbian ^3 has added or near to 😉 with multiple homescreens. I would never buy a dam Iphone why should I have to hack a smartphone to get it to multi task is beyond me.... this IMO dose not make the Iphone very smart atall :0
Hunh. Well, don't many users hack their Symbian phones in order to be able to install unsigned applications?
Also, S60v3 phones, like the E71, multi-task fine. S60v5 phones with tiny amounts of RAM? Not so much. You're essentially forced to use, like an iPhone, one app at a time.
Jimmy1 wrote:Hunh. Well, don't many users hack their Symbian phones in order to be able to install unsigned applications?Also, S60v3 phones, like the E71, multi-task fine. S60v5 phones with tiny amounts of RAM? Not so much. You're essentially forced to use, like an iPhone, one app at a time.
1. Symbian phones are hacked to get around the app signing yes, but that is for different reasons and you have to do that on the iPhone anyway to avoid the app store route. It is not necessary to hack a Symbian phone to load unsigned apps because you can sign them yourself, using a hacked certificate.
You are NOT forced to use one app at a time on S60V5, I use many more. But that's not the point. On a Symbian phone, if you receive a text you just head into messaging, read it and and reply and then go back to your original task exactly where you were. On iPhone, you have spent some time in an app, done some stuff - or maybe you are in a game and got a score going. A text arrives, to reply you change to messaging, your original app is shut down and you have to restart from the beginning. That is the definition of shite.
Try going into an app with location services, when you have got location switched off (to try to reduce the ridiculous battery drain) the app will offer to switch on location, head off into settings and shut the original app down. That's just crap. Hopefully iPhone 4 will fix this.
No hanky panky for me here! frankly, I have never felt the urge of changing my themes from the default ones and if I do, it's only from the stored themes only. It actually saves RAM.
First of all, there is nothing terrible in trying to copy some features or looks or anything from one thing to another. It is done for hundreds years in any area of human activity - just look at cars, paintings, songs etc.
Second, any phone has its pluses and minuses, but if one can add some missing good feature to one's phone, why not. Mind you, it is irrelevant to argue, which interface is better. Again in my opinion Iphone homescreen with ability to flick between pages is great, but only if we have to see no less then 9 icones and no more then 27. In 1 case the native s60 menu is more then enough, in 2 case it is quicker to get to needed program via s60 structure, then flicking countless pages in Iphone like menu.
One thing, that I want is that Symbian never abandon is its s60`s folders of Menu System. I been Used it, and almost always have only 12 itens in each menu screen. My phone, my way, my paths.
Unregistered wrote:why should I have to hack a smartphone to get it to multi taskyou oviously have not explored the features of the 5800!!!
It ALREADY multi-tasks!! mine will play a music track, at the same time as ALL these! 😊
downloading a podcast and listing new ones.
surf the web using opera mobile.
check the webpage using the nokia browser.
compose a big txt message.
check file details using x-plore...
and many more... 😊