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I've just bought an e63 and cannot believe how bad the phonebook is. It is honestly the same application that I had on my Nokia phone 12 years ago, with a tiny extra bit of front end nailed on. Is there any alternative that works well? i.e. Will let me search by company name Will fit an entire contact card on a single screen Will let me view an address without having to go into edit mode Doesn't truncate the address after a few lines
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New screens for Symbian^4 released. http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/07/16/symbian4.to.have.pop.up.menus.easier.management/
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Jul 17, 2010 17:01
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spog posted:I've just bought an e63 and cannot believe how bad the phonebook is. Nope, S60v3fp1 is hosed up like that.
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Jul 17, 2010 17:06
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Dr Tran posted:Nope, S60v3fp1 is hosed up like that. It's appalling. I feel like I just bought a new family saloon, only to open the bonnet and find out that there's a steam engine there. Made of cardboard.
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Jul 18, 2010 11:35
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We're getting a new CEO! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720504575377750449338786.html
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Jul 20, 2010 03:27
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hoo ah Man Nokia just needs someone to tie together the awesome like the ovi stuff (unlimited pic and video uploads) into one good feels good man package.
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Jul 20, 2010 05:26
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Ovi store should be put in a gunny sack and thrown in the river. Also, whoever designed Nokia's text prediction system should be shot.
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Jul 20, 2010 06:05
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HPL posted:Ovi store should be put in a gunny sack and thrown in the river. Also, whoever designed Nokia's text prediction system should be shot.
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Jul 20, 2010 06:10
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It often makes strange choices for words. For instance for short words, like four or five letters long, it will sometimes opt for the beginning of a long word or some other thing instead of going to the entire short word. For instance, if you want to type "on" or "no", the default word choice is "nn". There also doesn't seem to be any accounting for frequency of use so if there are several choices for a key combo, it will always opt for the order programmed into it as opposed to whichever word you use most often. And then there's the way it forgets custom words after a while no matter how often you use them.
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Jul 20, 2010 06:27
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Which phone/version of symbian are you using? Because my very old E51 predicts text in the exact opposite way. Most frequently used words are first, and if you want to change the word, you just type it three times in a row. And I still have custom words stored from 3 years ago.
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Jul 21, 2010 09:52
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I recently retired my n82 in favor of a cheap Android phone and am blown away by how far behind S60 feels now. PC Suite/Ovi and infrequent updates exacerbate the disparity. I hope Nokia is supporting more recent devices better now. I miss the camera on my n82, but that's about it.
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Jul 21, 2010 18:00
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Disco Cat posted:Which phone/version of symbian are you using? Because my very old E51 predicts text in the exact opposite way. Most frequently used words are first, and if you want to change the word, you just type it three times in a row. And I still have custom words stored from 3 years ago. N82. And if you want to type "at", it defaults to "bt". Grrrr.
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Jul 21, 2010 19:23
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That's thoroughly broken. Certainly doesn't happen on my N82. I'd tell you where to look up prediction settings but trying to find a setting in S60... 
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Jul 21, 2010 19:52
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HPL posted:N82. And if you want to type "at", it defaults to "bt". Grrrr. Mine had the exact same problem you describe. Not the at/bt problem, but countless others. Forgetting words, trying obscure words prior to common ones, not recognizing common words I frequently used. Frustrating.
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Jul 21, 2010 19:59
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Here's an article on the matter: http://www.symbian-guru.com/welcome/2010/05/dear-nokia-what-the-hell-did-you-to-t9.html
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Jul 21, 2010 20:06
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Does the custom dictionary app from beta labs not help?
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Jul 22, 2010 04:00
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The cameras on symbian phones are awesome. Check out this photo taken with an E72. What other platform sports a camera anywhere as good? The new aye fone?
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Speaking of cameras, here's some N8 links Image samples from the N8 http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/09/nokia-n8-sample-images-untouched/ On one of the photos, you can see cobwebs Imaging of the N8 http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/08/nokia-n8-camera-2260-days-in-the-making-part-12/ Neat feature: the resolution is so high, they turned off edge enhancement Video on the N8 http://conversations.nokia.com/2010/07/09/nokia-n8-camera-2260-days-in-the-making-part-22/ H264 video at 12mbps, 48khz aac stereo audio at 128kbps
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Jul 22, 2010 06:09
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Great, I just updated the firmware on my xpressmusic, and I lost the option to type in full screen keyboard and have to use the mini keyboard, is there a way to get that back? edit: oh I see, now it hinges on the way the phone is facing, so I have ot turn it. That's pretty cool actually Guilty fucked around with this message at 12:32 on Jul 25, 2010 |
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Jul 25, 2010 12:30
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Septimus posted:The cameras on symbian phones are awesome. Check out this photo taken with an E72. There's no way that isn't heavily retouched, the cameras on E-Series phones are absolute loving garbage. My E71 has the worst camera in any phone ever.
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Jul 28, 2010 03:55
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The E72 camera isn't the greatest but it's not bad for a cell phone, especially compared to my LG VX8550. This is a picture from our tomato garden. 
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Jul 28, 2010 05:04
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VERTiG0 posted:There's no way that isn't heavily retouched, the cameras on E-Series phones are absolute loving garbage. My E71 has the worst camera in any phone ever. Doesn't the E72 have a significantly better camera then the E71? Here's a flickr album that has more decent images taken with the E72
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Jul 28, 2010 06:33
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Okay it's definitely better.
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Jul 28, 2010 10:27
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Hi Symbian thread, long time no see. I'm here to announce that my N82 must go!
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Peven Stan posted:The E72 camera isn't the greatest but it's not bad for a cell phone, especially compared to my LG VX8550. That's a really nice picture actually. I had the e72 for a couple months... guess I took its camera for granted.
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Aug 4, 2010 11:00
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Goddamn, Is there any way to access your Ovi Files without having to install the stupid files connector app in every PC you use? That's probably the most stupid design decision I've seen nokia make after the NGage. I sent some pictures to my Ovi account from my phone, and decided to open them from my linux pc at work, and I can't access them without installing the app. Besides that, I'm loving my new E72 (and i'm using flickr instead)
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Aug 4, 2010 18:30
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nerdz posted:(and i'm using flickr instead) Worth every penny
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nerdz posted:Goddamn, Is there any way to access your Ovi Files without having to install the stupid files connector app in every PC you use? That's probably the most stupid design decision I've seen nokia make after the NGage. I sent some pictures to my Ovi account from my phone, and decided to open them from my linux pc at work, and I can't access them without installing the app.
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Aug 4, 2010 18:45
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Peven Stan posted:I can get my pics off share.ovi.com using the web browser. I have it set up so that it uploads the pics I take to my private media hoard on ovi. Yesssss that's it! I'm dumb as hell, thanks. Ovi Files and Ovi Sharing are two completely different services.
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Aug 4, 2010 18:54
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nerdz posted:Goddamn, Is there any way to access your Ovi Files without having to install the stupid files connector app in every PC you use? That's probably the most stupid design decision I've seen nokia make after the NGage. I sent some pictures to my Ovi account from my phone, and decided to open them from my linux pc at work, and I can't access them without installing the app. You could just browse for the images in mass storage mode. There should be an "images" directory on your SD card or phone memory. No need to use OVI suite really.
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Anyone use Opera Mobile for S60v5? It's great but every once in a while it decides to delete either my speed dial sites, everything else I've saved (browsing history, saved passwords, etc) or both seemingly at random. I thought it was because I had it installed on the tiny amount of phone memory but after installed it to a half-empty SD card it still does this poo poo sometimes.
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Septimus posted:You could just browse for the images in mass storage mode. There should be an "images" directory on your SD card or phone memory. No need to use OVI suite really. The E72 USB port is not the same as the hundreds of mini-usb cables I have lying around at the office, and I forgot to bring it with me.
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Aug 4, 2010 18:56
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Is this what it looks like? WTF Nokia
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I've been using Opera 10.1 a lot lately. Haven't lost any customizations like speed dial or passwords yet.Septimus posted:Is this what it looks like? WTF Nokia Bad angle, but it is a micro USB cable. I probably have 10 of them around the house right now.
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Aug 4, 2010 19:57
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nerdz posted:The E72 USB port is not the same as the hundreds of mini-usb cables I have lying around at the office, and I forgot to bring it with me.
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Peven Stan posted:The E72 port is micro-USB, which is an official standard. It may be but it hasn't been accepted all that widely because it's not much of an improvement over mini-USB. Which I guess makes it a perfect match for Nokia.
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HPL posted:It may be but it hasn't been accepted all that widely because it's not much of an improvement over mini-USB. Which I guess makes it a perfect match for Nokia.
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HPL posted:Which I guess makes it a perfect match for Nokia. The only phones using mini-usb nowadays are cheap Chinese knockoffs.
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Peven Stan posted:Oh I concur completely, and I think it's a dick move on Nokia's part not to use mini-USB which is basically the same size. That's what gets me. There's barely any improvement compared to the difference between USB and mini-USB. If it were something the size of a 3.5mm plug, that would be pretty cool though.
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HPL posted:That's what gets me. There's barely any improvement compared to the difference between USB and mini-USB. If it were something the size of a 3.5mm plug, that would be pretty cool though. micro-USB handles 10x more connections over it's lifetime. Its also part of the USB 3.0 connector.
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