If you’ve been in the Symbian world for any length of time, you’re familiar with the Handy applications from our friends at Epocware. We’ve certainly covered them quite a bit in the past here, and feature them in our Symbian-Guru Software Store, too. One of my personal favorites, particularly on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, is [...]
I’ve pointed you to Martin Sauter’s blog before, he’s usually got some great articles. One of his frequently-recurring themes involves chatting with normobs about their phone, to see what things frustrate them, and what things come as obvious. The latest, Martin recommended that a friend pick up a Nokia N78, which they did. The friend [...]
One of the things that bothers me about the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is the Active Standby screen. Coming from the Nseries and Eseries families, it’s surprisingly bare. You have 4 application shortcuts, which is less than I’m used to, but I can deal with, since they’re larger and therefore more finger-friendly. There are also a [...]
We let you know about the new Handy Shell application a few weeks ago. Handy Shell completely replaces the Active Standby screen on your S60v3-powered cell phone with its own, featuring user-configurable plugins and the inclusion of Handy Weather 6, which has also been updated and now is able to show weather right on your [...]
I’ve been using the beta version of Handy Shell now for several days, and after some initial tweaking, I’ve come across several rather annoying bugs, and also come up with several things that I hope get added before the full version is made available, which should be later this month. Read along, and if you’ve [...]
Earlier tonite I found a thread on Howard Forums, which led me to a thread on My-Symbian, revealing a new beta application from Epocware, who make the popular Handy line of S60 applications. The new application is called Handy Shell, and from what I can tell, it’s designed to replace the entire S60 Active Standby [...]
As you know, I recently reviewed the Sony Ericsson W960i, a Symbian-based UIQ handset with a touchscreen display and 8GB internal flash memory. It’s a Walkman-branded device, which somewhat compares to Nokia’s Nseries product line, being more consumer-oriented. You can imagine how elated I was to discover that the W960i sports an Active Standby mode, [...]
