Hirdetés
Speed, design
Before discussing the functions, I would like to attract everyone’s attention that those written here cannot be considered as permanent facts, that are device-independent, as there can be great differences in terms of speed and features between different Series 60 systems. For writing the test I have used a 6290, running Series 60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1, which is a pretty fast machine, as besides 6700, 6120 Classic, E51 and N76 this is the only phone to have a 369 MHz CPU – it’s interesting that the multimedia monster N95 has only a 330 MHz processor. By the way there are no problems with the speed of the 9.1 system; we might even say that S60 is generally faster than S40.
Active standby on the standby screen, customizable menu view
In terms of usability and design, Series 60 is much like Series 40, so this time I will mostly emphasize the differences. We can enable active standby on the standby screen, this is again very useful. The menu cannot have only grid and list views, but we can also choose horseshoe and V-shaped views too; I think these are more spectacular than easy to use.
Grid, list...
These layouts can be used independently of the theme, but icons can be changed only with them. Nokia usually puts very spectacular files on the phones, but we can easily download new themes matching our personality. Text size can be set in three steps.
...horseshoe and V-shaped layout
In the menu system we cannot only set the sequence of icons, but the whole structure is freely changeable, we can put menu items in different subfolders, so there are no problems with customizability. We can only assign programs to the four directions of the d-pad if active standby is turned off, but I think this won’t be a problem, mostly because we can start programs with voice commands too.
Changing between running programs
Symbian is a multi-tasking operating system, so it can run many programs at the same time. Running programs are signaled by the small blue circle near the icon in the menu, and this is not only visible at the icon itself, but also at the folder containing it. We can change between active tasks after keeping the menu button depressed; we can even close them with the C key, without switching to them.
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