Nokia N78 – for a SUV

Feature Pack 2

My colleague Bocha wrote a superb article about Series 60 systems, but back then we could only review things up until Feature Pack 1. Now we have the second upgrade pack, which really changed some well-known features, so it takes some time to get used to it, but after a while one can get used to things and can see that this is good, it’s very good. We can see that the Finnish designers have taken users’ needs into consideration and they didn’t develop the platform by emphasizing shiny graphics and wonderful animations, but they have made some rational, up to date improvements.

I would like to tell in advance that Feature Pack 2 cannot be installed on earlier phones, but the army of Finnish smartphones that come after N78, will have this software. We’ll try to mention all functional changes at the appropriate menus, but in the near future we’ll have to publish a separate article about these, as there are so many improvements that it will be easy to assemble a 4-5 page long review about them. Until then take a look at a 6+ minute long video:

One of the most important new features is that before FP2 labels have been in the bottom part on the two sides in all menus, and these were to show the functions of the keys below them, but now there is one more element, as there are now three labels on almost every screen. The center of the navigation key still has the OK function, but there are applications where it behaves differently.

The screen which displays tasks running in the background has been improved too. Now there is no vertically divided window popping up from the left after long-pressing the menu key, but we can see application icons in the bottom row. The menu’s customizability has been extended with new elements, the multimedia features have changed a lot, along with messaging and lots of other minor stuff which we’ll detail later. Under N78’s hood there is a 369 MHz ARM11 CPU doing its job, which is more than enough to keep the phone running without any slowdowns.

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