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It's also duller than ditchwater. And, apparently, growth has now stopped and sales are in decline With IFA just over in Germany, where yet another batch of almost identical 5" touch slabs were announced, I'm tempted to suggest that now really is the time to look for character in our smartphones. Where are the USPs? Are they now relegated to older, almost retro, devices, while new products fall over themselves to stay anonymous?

Posted by Steve in Features Comments , Sep 6th. Despite the various pros and cons for 'touch' over the years, we're firmly in a mode in the tech world now where touch makes the most sense, in terms of text input, controls and general interaction. So why haven't we seen screen sizes increase to fill most of the front area of our phones?

I examine the history of the form factor, in terms of screen-to-body ratio, and wonder whether we can't have our cake and eat it, in terms of phones that are manageable yet with monster displays Posted by Steve in Features Comments , Jul 21st. One of the elements of the Symbian 'experience' that broke recently was the email set-up process, with the shutting down of Nokia's email configuration server.

Effectively, if a new user or an existing Symbian user re-setting up an old device after a reset tried to set up a new mailbox then only Exchange was offered - if your email host only offered IMAP4 or POP3 then you're now out of luck.

It's disappointing that this was turned off before the original '' deadline for support, but hey, I've been pointed to a workaround that can be used without relying on external configurators. Posted by Steve in Features Comments , Aug 3rd. Look, I get it, there are plenty of Symbian enthusiasts here - I'm one of them.

But every single time something breaks in terms of compatibility with a particular Internet service, we see the same comment from multiple people: "But Nokia promised us support until ! But then you have to look at both what the word means and what's happened to the company itself since then. Nokia Xpress Music. The OS is also the enabler for many of the technologies described below.

Adds touch enablers and tactile feedback to S The UI is designed to be used with finger touch or a stylus. The UI and base applications have been optimised for touch usage. Standard S60 applications have been extended and optimised to take advantage of touch interactions.

In order to help enable touchscreen devices there is enhanced support for higher resolution displays and a new 'widescreen' mode. Adds a framework to enable the use of sensors in the UI and by third parties.

Such sensors might include accelerometers, which enable functionality such as 'flip to silence' or 'shake to unlock'. Third party access is enable by APIs which are available in the software development kit. Enhanced support for Internet technologies, including an updated Web browser more recent version of WebKit and Flash Lite 3.

The browser has been optimised for touch usage, including the ability to scroll around the screen using a finger and finger touch-friendly toolbars and controls. Because they don't know they're Symbian S60 users, there's no reason why they should know that they can use Symbian S60 software either. All a potential Symbian software user has to do is notice the Download! If the Download!

Such a connection would make it so much easier to find and purchase Symbian software, it could have potentially massive benefits to the Symbian ecosystem, and this has been proven to happen on other platforms with well-designed on-device software shops. We've seen an explosion in download purchases happen on many other types of devices, why can't it happen on Symbian devices too? Nokia Music offers a reasonably comprehensive range of audio content direct to phones, why can't Nokia Download!

Download is still broken How Download should work Again, AAS has covered this ground, but as Nokia don't seem to have learned their lessons , maybe the lessons are worth repeating: Download!

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Purchase methods should include paying by phone bill or phone credit. People spend a lot of money on calls and texting because they can use these services on their phone at the touch of a button.

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