One thing we appreciate on Symbian-Guru is software and hardware companies that are constantly seeking their user feedback and looking for ways to improve their products. Epocware, the well known software developer, have taken this to another level with their new contest that we’re launching today. They would like you to give them feedback regarding [...]
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 [...]
Courtesy of the S60.com Insider Newsletter, February edition, came to me the news today that S60.com have a limited number of Handy Shell licenses to give away for free to S60.com registered members. Handy Shell is an awesome standby replacement application that gives you a lot of functionality over the default standby on S60. Ricky [...]
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 [...]
