S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 gets broken down to the nitty gritty

by Chris Ziegler, posted Mar 3rd 2008 at 8:20PM

It'll be a little while yet before devices running S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 are expected to hit the market, but thanks to mobile-review, we have enough visual stimulation to hold us over for, oh, at least another 15 minutes, anyway. Little changes have proliferated throughout the entire user interface, but biggies appear to be the addition of a third soft key, a heavily reworked and more flexible home screen (thank goodness), and improved application management. We strongly recommend having a thorough look at all the screen shots -- those media player visualizers are bangin', are they not?

[Via MobileBurn]

Filed under: Software, Symbian

Tags: feature pack 2, FeaturePack2, fp2, s60, symbian

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AlphaTeam @ Mar 3rd 2008 9:01PM

Hopefully they will allow us FP1 customers to get those home screen features via firmware upgrade.

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Fernando @ Mar 3rd 2008 9:12PM

lol, I wish :P

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Randy @ Mar 3rd 2008 10:39PM

Fat chance of that happening, Nokia has stated numerous times that they don't provide upgrades, only bug fixes.

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Al @ Mar 3rd 2008 10:59PM

@Randy

Nokia added A2DP to the N73, demand paging to the N95, Flash video to the N95 8GB web browser and location tagging is coming to the N82 in its next firmware update.

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Anthony @ Mar 4th 2008 9:56AM

Pictures no worky. Me sad.

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youngcalihottie @ Mar 4th 2008 12:40PM

"those media player visualizers are bangin', are they not?"

the only new one i saw was "circles".

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WILLIAM @ Mar 4th 2008 3:48PM

there is no 'new' 3rd softkey....functionality has always been there. only now they decide to put a label to it.

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Chris Ziegler @ Mar 9th 2008 1:20PM

Not really true. If you read the developer documentation for Feature Pack 2, you'll notice that Nokia specifically calls out the middle soft key as being a new feature. I'll concede that it was previously possible to assign functionality besides "select" to the middle button within individual applications, but I think it can take on other functionalities at the core UI level now.

Chris

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