Making best use from your E61 active standby screen

[slitchfield]

Anecdotally, the Nokia E61 is selling like the proverbial hot cakes, and it's easy to see why, with its extra large screen and keyboard. Here's my handy 'How to' on getting the most out of the E61's extra-capable active standby screen.

Read on in the full article.

[LordDeath]

i don't believe, that a 4kb theme will free up some ram-memory.
when i use one of them, the most of the interface still has parts from the original theme. for example on my 6630 it uses parts of the built in theme which is 501kb big.
so there is no difference for the phone's ram if the default icon for the webbrowser is loaded or if an other webbrowser icon was in the +~300kb theme file.

ps: my english sucks

[slitchfield]

Yes, it does make a difference. See my article linked to from this one. Honest!

Steve

[fmeister]

Dear Steve, you tell us that the Nokia E61 is selling like hot cakes. And what about the Nokia communicator 9300i ? In my office in Switzerland (sollicitor), I am starting to see a lot of 9300i and I have seen quite a few 9500. Frank

[slitchfield]

Yes, the 9300i is selling well, too. The E61's doing particularly well, I think, because of its low price. £300 inc VAT for a S60 3rd edition 'multimedia computer'(!) is pretty good value all round.

Steve

[bjarke]

Is the "2 last mails" possible on an N80 or any other 3rd edition device?

[slitchfield]

I'll let you know when my N80 arrives.... [FX: peers at Nokia PR] Anyone else able to try on something other than an N91 (which doesn't have it) and an E61?

Steve

[profh]

Thanks for these great tips. How did you get those battery and signal icons with the orange theme? Mine are just corrupted versions of the regular ones.

[epo.fm]

The 'Two Last Messages" on the standby screen is a cruel joke of a feature.

Surely it should show the last two unread messages (emails AND txts) like on the Sony P series. Instead it just leaves the contents of your private messages on the front of your phone for all to see.


(btw I think the calender feature mentioned in this article will show the *next* event you have booked, even if it's further in the future than 48hrs. Mine is showing events at the end of next week).

[slitchfield]

Originally Posted by epo.fm

Surely it should show the last two unread messages (emails AND txts) like on the Sony P series. Instead it just leaves the contents of your private messages on the front of your phone for all to see.

Re: the Orange themes - there are actually two different versions on Symbian Themes, just use the one you like best - the only difference I can see is the slightly different battery icon.

Re: messages, yes 100% agree. I suspect that the feature was something of a last minute thing and would expect the S60 guys to expand this with more options and capabilities, perhaps in a firmware update. Here's hoping.

Steve Litchfield

[timsalmon]

Make sure you tell Symbian Themes what handset you have during registration, otherwise you'll download the wrong file for the E61.

Tim

[epo.fm]

BTW Thank you for two INVALUABLE tips that have transformed my E61 experience:

- Using the keyboard shortcut 8 to bring up the web's mini map! Makes this feature a lot more usable than just scrolling to the edge of the page (where the mini map disappears if you pause for just a micro-second)

- Using the menu button to return to the home screen. Applications now stay in the state I last left them in! Email stays connected & my contacts view stays in my home group! (Only thing is, I am now in constant dread of pressing that red button by mistake)!

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Talking of things staying the way they were... has anyone else noticed settings changing all by them self? A couple of times I've had to go back into internet & re-change the Access Point back to my 'Access Point Group'. I've also had to reset the download time for the podcast application a few times. It keeps returning to 7am today.