Multimedia, summary
The platform is powerful in music. The built-in music player can filter the tracks by artist, album, genre and artist and it supports playlists. The application runs in the background too, and if active standby is turned on, we can access basic functions from there. We can seek tracks and set shuffle or repeat modes. The most important is that all Series 40 Nokia phones have an equalizer in which we can use our own presets. There is no separate bass boost function on all models.
The situation is not that good when talking about movies. We shouldn’t even be dreaming about DivX avi files, we have 3GP/MP4 and conversion to be done if we really want to watch films. Or we should rather buy a Pocket PC, it’s a much better choice for ultra-small screen pleasures than S40. There is an FM radio in most models; the newer ones have automatic channel search and RDS.
The camera’s software is also static; we have only some basic settings to change. These include white balance and jpeg compression, there is a night mode and delayed self timer, we can choose from some effects, but there is usually no chance to set exposure correction, in turn we have the completely meaningless digital zoom, something that really looks better on billboards. Recordable movie size is limited by free space.
Summary: it might be old, it might look patched at first, but the thing is that the Series 40 platform is something usable, fast, customizable and feature-full until the present day. It has its deficiencies, the greatest being that it looks dumb on low-res screens, but of course this is not the system’s fault. It doesn’t have any exceptional faults, but it could be further developed, just like anything else.
Bocha
Translated by Szaszati
The Nokia 6300 used for writing the article has been provided by XXL GSM. The device can be bought at:
Budapest VI. Jókai tér 6.
Budapest VI. Teréz körút 18.
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