Download! - Still broken on S60 5th Edition

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The sad state of Download! has been a topic of discussion in Symbian S60 circles for quite some time. Other consumer device platforms from Nintendo's Wii to Apple's iPhone have managed to show how successful software and content download shops can be if they're easy to use, so why can't this happen on Nokia's Symbian devices? Tzer2 has taken a look at the latest version of Download! on S60 5th Edition, on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, to see if it's any improvement...

"One of the main complaints about the S60 3rd Edition platform is the built-in "Download!" service on Nokia S60 models, which is supposed to provide a way to download free and commercial software straight onto the phone.

All About Symbian has written about this in the past but some of us had harboured a hope that the new S60 platform version would go some way to tackling Download's problems. Download in S60 5th Edition is slightly better in some ways, faster and more reliable, but the essential problems remain and it's worth going over them again so that (hopefully!) someone at Nokia notices how unhappy its users are with the service."

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