Operating system, speed, software
The handset runs the third generation Symbian Series 60 platform’s Feature Pack 2 edition we have seen on N78 and E75 without Home Screen 1.0, as there’s no use of it on a musical phone. Let’s see the new and interesting features of the system:
- Running programs: the list of currently running programs cannot be accessed only by long-pressing the menu key, as there is a software called active applications, which displays them. This feature is mainly for developers.
- Active standby: this cannot be only vertical, but horizontal as well, and there is a separate area for RSS/Atom feeds.
- Caller image: there’s no need for external utilities any more, images are displayed fullscreen, both at incoming and outgoing calls.
- Wallpaper and screensaver: we can select multiple images, which will be displayed as a slideshow
- Animated menu: although it has been deactivated on the first models (on 5630 as well), but now we can see animations when switching from one menu element to another
- Multimedia menu: the multimedia menu from N95 will be available on most FP2 handsets
- Wizards: GPRS/MMS/etc. are easy to configure with simple wizards
- Tags: we can assign tags to images and other multimedia content
- Nokia Maps 2.0: the free software comes preinstalled on most FP2 phones
- Applications: there are lots of programs installed by default. Of course the list can change, but most handsets will include the following: QuickOffice, Adobe PDF, ZIP, Converted, Downloads!, Nokia Music Store, Search 4.0
- WiFi: with the help of WiFi (supporting WEP, WPA, WPA2) and UPnP we can print via a network and we can access our desktop computer through Home Media Server
- OVI and N-Gage: it depends on the handset, but usually both of them are available
On top of the standby screen there is a large speed dial interface, if we select a contact we cannot just see information about her, but also the time of the last call – to put it clear: the call log and the contact list have been united. Active standby is perfect, we can access everything important with a couple of key presses. We can access the main menu with the left softkey, here are there are a dozen of icons, which means that everything fits on a page, we don’t have to scroll. We can freely select the menu layout, we can create new folders even in the main menu – although we will need to scroll to access these.
The handset’s speed is astonishing. I won’t give you any JBenchmark results, as they wouldn’t show how fast the new system is – although it received 15X the score of N96 in JBenchmark 1, but we shouldn’t compare it to a one-legged competitor – but you should believe me: it’s incredibly fast. I don’t say we never have to wait for an application to load, but browsing the menu and screen changes are shockingly fast, just like zooming and browsing in the image viewer, the 600 MHz CPU does a great job. By the way we have 128 MB RAM and 256 MB ROM, and we can use 56 MB for storing date, and there is 3 GB free space on the memory card by default.
I’d rather not start analyzing all the software, we’ll find every program on 5630 that we would ever need. PIM functions are flawless – even though it’s strange that we can only access the calendar from the main menu, the calculator is in the applications/organizer menu – there is N-Gage support with a lot of preinstalled demo games and two “green” apps as well, one of these displays Nokia’s vision of environment protection. All the software I’ve mentioned above (with the exception of OVI and Nokia Maps) are installed on the phone – I see why the second one has been omitted, there’s no GPS inside – and we can also find nine other programs like the English-Chinese dictionary, or the half-Chinese Nokia Avatar SMS.
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