Messaging, office
Handling SMS and MMS messages is no big deal with the QWERTY keyboard. Which might be a bit annoying is that we can define a subject when writing a text message, even though it’s completely pointless. All it does that it inserts it in parentheses to the beginning of the message, well, it’s great. I’ve already mentioned the keypad, if we use the phone keypad then there is of course T9 as well.
Email account management has been improved. There is a wizard which helps us set them up, but if were not working with a standard and known POP3 server, then we will have to work quite a lot to make things work, as it really wants to guess how do we handle our emails. It keeps searching on the web, tries to guess the parameters (this can’t even be disabled) and then it finally offers us to manually edit the connection, and probably I won’t be the only one who knows in advance that this will be the end of all the magic, so I’d rather omit the wizardry.
After this the whole thing works great, we can set all kinds of small things, what should it download, how much, how frequently should it update, what kind of data connection it should use. These were already featured on E series phones, but it’s now more emphasized, so they can brag about having an “ultimate messaging device”, even though Nokia doesn’t have much to do with the BlackBerry system, as they have chosen to use Microsoft’s push email technology, and since then many professionals have said that it’s all fine and good, but it’s no walk in the bushes to configure a Nokia phone to use a company Exchange server, and we didn’t even mention security. If all things work fine than I can only applaud the user interface, the new application announced in Barcelona looks really nice and it can even be downloaded for E71, I thin it’s worth it.
As for other office applications I should mention the always perfect calendar, the alarm clock that works when the phone is off and the QuickOffice suite, which now comes in full version, so we cannot only view, but also edit and create new documents. Besides these there is a PDF reader, a Zip packer, a basic calculator, a converter, a multilingual dictionary (English-English only by default, other languages have to be downloaded), and we also have active notes. This is an interface where we can type text, attach images, voice clips, files, name cards. The pile of data we get can be assigned to contacts and then it’s displayed during incoming calls, and we can also forward it (all packed up in a zip file).
A cikk még nem ért véget, kérlek, lapozz!
