That's a big post:-)). Lots of work has be done (thanks Tommi) and lots of work MUST be done.
I should read this post again in September 7th, 2007. Curious about changes.
Anyway, it seems that you (i.e. Nokia) are on the good way. At least, the transparency of this blog was unconceivable two years ago for a corporate company like Nokia.
Thank you again!

Nice job to build this list. Let's hope that Nokia will listen.

Thanks for compiling this list, Tommi!

I'm curious what items have already been taken care of. Let's hope that at least some memory problems have been resolved and let's hope that the first update for 3rd edition devices will arrive sooner rather than later.

- Full in-device search (notes, calendar, contacts, to-do, etc) – 7 votes

No need to do this Nokia, there is already a great 3rd party application :-)

Err... some of these things are ALREADY in S60 and have been for some time....

e.g. Notes/descriptions on Contacts and Calendar entries (add 'Note' or 'Description' while editing), fast forward and rewind in RealPlayer (press and hold up/down), Notes syncing to PC, etc.

Those were just three off the top of my head - I'm sure there are others.

Steve Litchfield

Yeah, I also would like to see a version where improvements coming in 3rd Ed, FP1 are acknowledged.

I was talking about 2nd Edition FP3 for the Calendar/Contacts notes thing and Series 60 1st Edition (N-Gage) for the RealPlayer fast forward/rewind thing.

8-)

Steve

Hi,

Great list. Too bad i didn't see your orginal post, i would have had a few things to say that i didn't see here. There's one major flaw in Symbian though that i was very surprised not to see in this list and i feel that it's just to big to keep for myself:

The complete lack of visual feedback when pressing keys or the joystick.

This make the UI feel slow and slugish and often causes confusion.

Let me give an example:
suppose that you have installed Google Maps on your shiny new S60 3rd edition phone. Then you want to launch it so you go to the menu, select it and at time T, you press the joystick to start it. Nothing happens. Absolutely nothing.

Time T + 1 second: still nothing. What's wrong?

Time T + 2 seconds: still nothing. Oh no! Don't tell me that this thing crashed on me! So you move the joystick to see it it's frozen and no, it hasn't crashed.

Time T + 3 seconds: still nothing. What's wrong?

Time T + 4 seconds: still nothing. WTF is going on here?

Time T + 5 seconds: BOOOOOOM! Google Maps fill up the screen, seemigly coming out of nowhere.

Another example which has really pissed me off several times:
for some reason, in the menu, some folders open instantly while others sometimes take 1 second or more to open. So suppose that you had created a folder called "Web Apps" in the menu which contains Google Maps, Web and some other apps. You want to launch Web. So you go to the menu, select the "Web Apps" folder and press the joystick to open it. Nothing happens. Absolutely nothing. Mmm, the joystick press must not have been registered you think (the joystick on the E61 is so bad that you're sometimes not too sure whether you've pressed it or not). So you press the joystick again and this time the folder opens. But what you don't know is that your first press *has been registered* properly. It's just that it took 1 second for the folder to open but since there was no visual feedback when you pressed the joystick you couldn't know that. This means that the second press has actually caused Google Maps to be launched since it happened to be the default app in this folder. But since Google Maps takes 5 seconds to launch and there have been no visual feedback telling you that it had been launched, you don't know that either you're just thinking that all is well and proceed to select and launch Web. And suddently, BOOOOOOOOOM, Google Maps shows up on the screen even though you had never launched it (or so you thought)!

Remember your old Apple Mac Plus you had 10 years ago? This think was some 200 times slower than any modern smartphone. Applications sometimes took several minutes to launch on that. Yet, its UI felt comforting, reliable and responsive. Why? Because when you double clicked on an application, you had an immediate visual feedback of your action (via the rectangle zooming effect) which let you know that your double click had been registered. So you knew for sure that the application was starting and all you had to do was to wait for it to appear. You were not left wondering whether or not you should try to double click again.

So, for what it's worth, i think that Nokia should really start working on providing immediate visual feedback everytime the user presses a key or the joystick so that we know that our command has been registered and is being processed. This would be a massive improvement to the Symbian UI and immediately make it feel a lot faster and responsive (even though it wouln't actually be any faster, it's all psychological).

Ciao

just some addition to the Flash lite:
add support for wallpapers, standby and so on.

Alessandro

Yesterday, after I had already submitted my late list of improvements for build-in applications for S60 applications, I played around with the camera of my phone. The problem is not the camera or its features, but the infinite amount of applications from Nokia that do almost the same thing!

Gallery, Image mgr, Photo Editor, Img print, Lifeblog, Nokia Album... What the fcsk is up with all these things? Couldn't they all just be integrated into one small package? They all share almost all of the same features and none of them offers anything revolutionary over others. One application has rotate, one has categories, one has real folders, one has grouping by date, one has direct linkup to my blog. Those are all features that I would like to use, but none of applications offers all of them! I need two to three different applications taking space with almost the same feature set to do things.

This just seems like a very inefficient management of development resources, just maintaining all these must require several developer years.

Simplicity is the key to all success. Simplicity does not mean lack of features, it means consistent UI and predictable features for an application.

S60 is not simple, it is complicated, very complicated.

Re: the Google Maps thing - er.... this is a Java app (FX:spit), not a Symbian OS/S60 one. Java is a resource hungry system that should have been shot at birth. You can't use the performance of a Java app to benchmark how S60 is behaving - I bet Google Maps takes just as long to start on any other phone OS.....

In 99% of cases, S60 doesn't need visual indication or an hourglass because apps open/multitask so fast.

Steve

OMG It's Steve Litchfield, one of my hero's from the Psion 5MX time :) Cool :D

But in this case I'm afraid I have to disagree with you and concur with Vioccc. Google Maps (or Java apps) may be slow but that doesn't mean that S60 shouldn't take that into account. Vioccc has a _very_ good point. I'm starting to get used to the fact that I have to assume that I correctly pressed the joystick and wait but during the first few days I constantly pressed the joystick over and over just to discover that opening a folder just took ages and that I end up with the default app in a folder instead of the one that I wanted to open.

Just go to your menu, go to 'Installations'' and press the joystick. On my machine it takes more than 3 (!) seconds to just open that folder and show me some icons. This has nothing to do with Java, this is just S60 being really slow. Luckily S60 seems to cache those icons (or whatever) so the second time that I try this it's quite a bit faster but the point still stands.

Another nice example is the Camera app. You press the button and absolutely nothing happens for something like 2 seconds. This is indeed a major usability problemm in Symbian and it's so basic that I didn't even think of it while thinking about S60 improvements :)

So I would like it if Symbian (or Nokia) would add some indication that I did press that 'select' button on places where this is appropriate. This or making the system a hell of a lot faster but I don't think that's a feasible solution :) That camera app is probably just big/complicated so it's rather hard to start that in 0.2 seconds max.

Fixing this 'Installations' problem would be nice though and should be doable :)

You've got a point about the 'Installations' folder (on the Eseries at least, it's 'My own' on Nseries devices) the first time you open it. S60 does seem to take 4 or 5 seconds to build the icon display, which is disappointing.

However, as you note, subsequent openings of this folder are quite a lot quicker, less than a second, and other folder open for the first time in not much more than a second, so while taking your point I don't think you can say that there's a huge speed problem with S60 generally.

Steve

True, but I never said that there was a huge speed problem :) S60 is quite fast generally but there are some notable exceptions. Installations/My Own, Camera, Java apps, some games, Web (also takes somehwere between one and two seconds to start), etc.

So mostly things are pretty sweet but in those instances where you do have to wait for quite some time some kind of visual cue that Symbian did receive your input would be nice. That is all that we're saying, we're not claiming that S60 (as a whole) is slow :)

Something that existed on Series 40 but not on S60: quoted reply for messages!

Eh? When I reply to emails on any S60 device, the default is to quote the original message below my reply.....

Steve

Steve,

I agree with you in that symbian has very good multitasking abilities and also in that Java applications are slow to launch. However:

- no, not eveything in symbian is instant. Even basic things such as opening a folder in the menu is *not* always instant and can take several seconds. Saying otherwise would be lying. Please do not take this as a personal attack. I know for having read, watched and appreciated your work for several years now that you are most knowledgable in all smartphone things and that you are never talking bullshit. But i am just stating the facts here.

- actually, all this is irrelevant. This was not my point. Not at all. I was not complaining about how slow symbian was, i was not saying that there was any speed problem with symbian, i was not complaining about how slow a particular application was.

In fact, when i got my E61, i have been impressed by how *fast* this device was. Even Java application, once they've started, are quite fast in my opinion (Google Maps is a good example of that). And anyway, no matter how fast a device is, it will *never* be able to do everyting instantly. I know that.

But my point had nothing to do with how fast or slow the OS or the applications were. I was talking about the lack of *immediate* visual feedback when pressing a key or the joystick in symbian. When i'm talking about immediate visual feedback, i'm not talking about visual feedback after 2 seconds, 1 second or even half a second. I'm talking about *immediate* visual feedback, that is: when i press the joystick, i expect to see something that allows me to know *right away* that my command has been registered, regardless of how long it actually takes to process it.

At this point you might think that i've got some mental disorder and that my obsession in life is immediate visual feedback. It's not (or maybe it is, actually i don't know :-))

But this is in my opionion a major usability problem with Symbian as my real world examples have demonstrated. These examples were not some geeky stuff. They were examples that showed the problems posed by the lack of visual feedback to normal users in everyday use. I encounter these problems all the time and know that i'm far from being alone. Of course, after a while you learn to live without visual feedback and resignate to wait several seconds after having pressed a button before trying to press it again. But this is not acceptable to me. It makes for a frustrating user experience and does give the impression that the UI is slower than it actually is.

Note that i'm not inventing a revolutionary new way of designing user interfaces here. The importance of immediate visual feedback in graphical user interface has been recognized ever since the first UIs have been invented and has a very important part in just about every good UI design book you'll find.

It's not rocket science either. As i have said in my first comment, Apple had got it right on its very first Mac computer more than 10 years ago. This think was running on 128KB of RAM and on a 1MHz processor, yet felt in some ways more responsive than my E61. Not because it was faster but because you always immediately knew that it had understood your commands and was on its way to process it. And if i'm talking about Macs here, it's because i've experienced this first hand but i'm sure than even before them, other computers with graphical UIs had such mechanisms as well.

So i'm hoping that some consideration will be given to that by the guys at symbian and Nokia and that things will improve in this matter. I am 100% certain that getting this right would make for a much better user experience. Of course, that's not the only thing that could be improved in Symbian. Most of the other suggestions made here make perfect sense to me as well and some of them would also provide a major improvement of usability.

Yes, you certainly raise an interesting question that hasn't been voiced before. To take the opening of the 'Installations' folder as a good example, I'm guessing you're asking for some kind of animation or reverse highlighting of the icon to happen immediately, followed by the opening of the folder? It's a good idea, and as long as it could be implemented without taking too much resources from the task the action was supposed to kick off....

There's also the key click system, turned on by default, giving audible feedback that the keypress has been registered. Then there's the mechanical feedback through feeling the navigator key click down.

So there's already quite a bit of feedback going on, with comparatively few places in the interface where some kind of 'doing it now, please hang on' indication would be appropriate. Still it's another idea for the above wish list 8-)

Cheers
Steve

Hmm, indeed, there are already two feedback systems. Hadn't really thought of that. Problem is that feedback of the (less than great) E70 joystick is minimal. I never feel if I actually pressed the thing or managed to push it a bit too much to the left. The keyboard beep is _really_ annoying and it's literally the first thing that I changed when I switched on the phone :)

But indeed, some visual feedback like a border around the icon, an hourglass, a small animation like in OS X, doesn't matter that much what it is. Just some sort of visual confirmation of the input.

Mechanical feedback is very poor with the E61's joystick so you can't rely on that. As for the system beeps when you press a key, is there anybody on this planet who leaves that on? This is the very first thing that i disable whenever i buy a phone. These constant beeps when you press the keys would sure make you turn mad in a matter of hours. I haven't yet met any symbian user who had the key beeps left switched on (but i suppose that there are).

So as it stands now, there is pretty much no feedback at all when pressing keys.

Oh, I agree about the beeps, it's just if someone really wanted feedback they could always turn these on 8-)

Steve

I agree about the feedback and beeps too!!!

I hope Nokia will listen to their customers/developers and make S60 the best open source software!

Get to work NOKIA!!!

- Landscape veiw as standard in the web browsers
- MORE RAM
- Please make all s60 v3 applications compatible with all s60 v3 handsets, regardless of the type. Dont cripple the phones deliberately.

Many of teh suggestion as so obvious its amazing to think we are paying big money to these people in the Nokia labs. Is it a Finland thing??? I hope not.

Its no crime seeing what is popular on you competitors and implememntin it in yours...this happens veryday in business and has happened since human beings began doing business.

So please Nokia, listen to some of these, use your discretion and know that we just want you to be far far better than you are now.

Thank you.

I have an N93. This is about the camera.

- I would like the camera compression and sharpening settings to be settable. In other words, I want to be able to write LARGE files with ALL the captured detail in them. This is why I bought the N93.

- I would like to be able to memorize my favorite settings with a name. And when I switch on the camera I would like the lst settings to come back. The camera app now has a single custom settings mode but it keeps defaulting back to the defaults.

- I would like decent imagery from the camera in future hardware. The resolution is ok but the hardware is really noisy. Could Nokia please pay $1 more per phone and put in a decent 3MP sensor ? Something as good as the cheapest available dedicated consumer digicam would be perfectly ok. Surely at the N93 price that would be possible ? It's logical, when people buy an ipod phone they want good sound, when they buy a cameraphone they want decent imagery. And some of us simply want good stills but don't care about the video so much.

I have correct some mistakes and enriched it...
(this one is final, I'm very very sorry if I bored you!!! :-) delete previous post)

- Scientific Calculator (with plot graphs and functions, see BCalc for S60 2nd Ed.-very simple and powerful)
- At least 5 alarm clocks and option to put Subject so we can remember why is the alarm on & Reputation Days(In Subject Mode option to add from contacts,messaging,calendar..., in Reputation Days the ability to put a diffirent alarm each day)
- Sms Counter(New Tab in Log after "Call Duration", like in S40 - counting all the possilble messages,see below in Messages the Create Message, option to set duration for 1 week/month 3/6/9/12 months and user defined, also be able to save a month's log)
- Unlimited Recording only depending on the free space of the device-memorycard and choose format(AMR,WMA,AAC), also option where to save (e.g. Memory Card and when i open Gallery->Recordings put them in my selected Folder)
- ScreenShot (PrintScreen with dedicated button)
- Wireless Presenter
- Lock Keypad not with code after some time that we decide
- In start-up screen ability to set a video
- ScreenSaver with image(slideshow option) or video (S40 phones)
- Settings->Phone->General->T9 Language except Writing Language
- Ability to lock phone with SMS by distance if is stolen
- Software Upgrade from Home
- Error Reporting from the phone
- Screen Exporter(e.g. for PDF or XLS files) and Screen Sharing with other mobile(see what i see in my phone)
- Fonts in Contacts/Messages/Browser/Calendar/Notes/Menu (Settings-> Phone-> Fonts)
- A program like Paint in Windows and Music Editor(like MusicDJ in SE phones)
- Stopwatch - Lap,Split times, 99 times
- CountDown Timer - Countdown/Forward time and to set the start time (e.g. at 19:45 start the countdown for 15 minutes)
- Wallet
- Zip Manager with rar extensive support
- Make "Go To" app. as S40 phones
- Embody some apps into others (e.g. IM in Messages, Create a new icon and put in Bluetooth/Infrared/Data cbl./Wi-Fi, Another icon and put in everything that is relevant to Voice - Voice Commands/Dialing... in that way when we put a shortcut we will have them alltogether and the menu won't have too many icons)

- In Calendar put options like:
View > 1)All entries 2)Meetings 3)Memos 4)Anniversaries 5)Birthdays (and after in options the common functions-send,print,delete, mark...)
Cut/Copy/Paste of an event to another date
Show the age of a person in his/her birthday as in S40 phones (also show how may days left until birthday and horoscope-see sBirthday or 2nd Ed. )
Add detail from Contacts & Messaging
Put automatically the Birthday From Contacts To Calendar
Change easily the Subject of an Entry e.g. From Meeting to To-Do List or Anniversary
The To-Do Entry not disappear after it's done
Option to add an image of a person in Anniversaries/Birthdays
In Settings an option to change the background image for every month or whole year
In Settings the option to choose the working days
2 Tabs - One professional Cal. and one Everyday Cal.
Fonts

- In Phonebook:
Set a graphic in a group
Set a Video to a group
Set a Video to a contact(videotone)
Black list- Messages + Calls + E-mails
Change icon fast and easy in edit mode at contact as S40 phones (e.g. From Phone (Home) to Business)
Option how to view Contacts like Contact with Number
Fonts
Contacts info to show how much numbers,e-mails... we have in PhoneBook
2 Tabs - Prof. Phbook and Everyday Phbook

- In Messages:
Options->Send Later(Time/Date customize) - sms timer
Smilies
Text Editor (Bold,Colour,In center,Bullet,Paragraph... etc.)
Save to sim messages we want to save and not what the mobile wants
Preview Mode
Clear Text - If we have written a big message and we want to erase it with 2 clicks, Options->Clear
In Options->Insert->Template,Image(like the old 6210,7110 - NokiaImageSMS),Note,Calendar Entry,Contact info
Effects
Create Message-> SMS,MMS,E-MAIL,Postacard,Flash Message,Audio Message
In INBOX the abilities of locking(put locked msgs into another folder) & Sending an SMS via Bluetooth
A new TAB called Trash Can so when delete some messages by mistake to retrieve them and put them to a Folder or back to Inbox or Sent Mes.
In Other Settings an alert for new e-mails with light indicator & Fonts
In Messaging put options to view SmsCounter & Details(Show how many messages-SMS,MMS... each folder has and KBs)
In MMS when we put a sound from Gallery the ability to listen before insert
In MMS option to put when the inserted file want to be shown in presentation... time for all files(e.g. like SE phones)
Switch between Sms-MMs-Email-Postcard-Flash-Sound Editors when we are inside one of these (e.g. From SMS to MMS)
Option to select from where we want to put the number in "TO" Field (Contacts,Log)
Keep the 10 last names that we send them a message (Recently Used)
When i'm putting a number in "TO" field from Contacts show me what number is the default (in that case i don't have to put to all the names a default number for sms because then it won't let me change it in SMS editor if i want to)
Show me the "i" letter in Message icon into Sent messages after i've deleted the Reports so i can know whether is delevered or not after sometime (like S40 and SE phones)

- In Profiles:
Timed profiles
Auto setting of ringing profiles based on calendar entries
Switching profiles based on connect or disconnect to a specific bluetooth device or wifi access point and/or location based switching based on cell tower
Ability to set on ringtone both to headearings and phone when we connect to pop-port the headphones
Customize everything as in S40 phones
When we create a new Profile ask if we want to use default settings or another's Profile
Musical profile except Flight mode (in order to listen to MP3 player & Radio only)

- In Themes:
Ability to send via infrared or bluetooth
Ability to delete with "C" (not from app. manager-too difficult)
Ability to change in every single Theme-> Wallpaper in StandBy Screen(slideshow), Wallpaper in Main Menu view, ScreenSaver/PowerSaver(slideshow images), Text/Image/Video in Start up Screen, Default Ringing Tone

- In Radio:
RDS function
AutoSave
Sound can be recorded both from a linear input and intergrated radio in several formats (MP3,WMA,AAC)

- In Gallery:
The Images & Videos in seperate Folders or put Sort By->Type
Put Set As->Wallpaper, ScreenSaver, 3G Image, Contact, Start up screen... like S40 phones (all the options included both photos/videos & Sounds)
More options in Edit mode for pics and vids (more effects like mirror etc.)
Option to create folders in Tracks/Recordings... Tabs
Option to change quick and easy a photo's album (e.g. if a photo is in Album Friends we select "Options->Move to" and show the other albums and select where we want to transfer it)
Quicklanch of Zoom in/out, FullScreen, Rotate clockwise/counterclockwise, Edit with 5/0, *, 1/3, 7 as 7610/6630/6680 did in view mode
When we put an image to an Album the image must dissapear from Images/Video view mode
An icon indicating what type is it (e.g. MP3 or midi/amr, WMV or 3GP/Realplayer, see SE phones)

- In Bluetooth menu:
Possibility to put an image to a Paired Device in Bleutooth Menu to identify which is who
Bluetooth "auto off" after file send complete (if "auto on" was used)

- In Log:
Show the time we've talked in Incomings/Outgoings near time/date
Put the S40 mode in calls so when we call somebody in mobile and in his office/home to put the two numbers in one entry
Put Print option and In Packet Data show "Last Send/received Data"

- In Notes:
Create folders-Notes categorization
Ability to attach a note to message/phonebook/calendar... when we received it via Bluetooth or write it ourselves
Fonts

- In Menu:
Change View-> Tab,Roll
Mark - in order to move several progs to a folder or remove them from phone(also in App.Manager to remove or send)
Select from several Folder icons for the new Folders we create
Put in Options small icons to all Functions to be more user friendly (e.g. scissor in Cut and a stamp in Paste)
Show time/date in menu until we open an application like Explorer (second line under the line with signal/battery indicators)
Show Selectable Choice (e.g. when Phonebook is highlighted and we press the button to get in then the perimetric light gets darker so we know we pressed it)
Put a status bar when sending/receiving a file (showing percentage,size of file,estimated time during sending/receiving)
Fonts

- Power Button:
Create Categories e.g. Lock|Phone,Keypad , Profiles|General,Meeting... , MMC|Remove Safely,Password , TurnOff|Shut Down,StandBy,Restart (see SE phones)

- In StandBy screen:
When we have a missed call or a new message, show the picture of the person
Slide Show from Wallpapers (S40 phones)
FullScreen Wallpapers (S40 phones)
FullScreen Caller id and Message id

I would vote for fixing RAM management (CONSTANTLY runs out of memory on any E-series device)

And I can't switch the language if I use MIPD2 app, I was able to do it in S80 with Nokia 9500/9300i.

I would vote for making switch languages work when pressing both shifts.

Switch the active language when by pressing '#' when the E70 in the phone mode and not in qwerty mode, just like in 9500/9300.

Make the E-series browsers supports full AJAX.

Wow, impressive list Tommi - well done! I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with almost all of the suggestions as I scanned the list.

One general one to highlight:
- Continue to make S60 more configurable (at the user level) and more customisable/extendible (at the developer level / APIs). Case in point - facilitating third party plugins for the 'today' screen.

An extra one:
- Palm OS emulation! It seems many new S60 users are (like myself) Palm OS refugees. Something that would allow the use of exclusive palm os apps would really smooth the transition. I have a heap of essential medical apps on my Palm that because many Palm developers are still blind to the growing S60 user-base, will probably never be ported. Sure an emulated palm app is less than ideal, but it may help facilitate user migration when that last only-on-my-palm app can run sucessfully on my N80...

...one can only hope!

[OT] Of course, in my previous comments, when i was talking about the first Macs, i meant more than 20 years ago, not 10 years (don't know why i had this 10 years stuck in my mind).

Vioccc: Excellent point. Just excellent.

Hi Tommi,

This is a great list and a great service that you are doing for Nokia! One more to add to the list in addition to my vote for MORE FREE RAM ;-)

Add a user definable function for the voice recording button on the E70. I never use any of the voice functions, but what I would really like to have is to be able to hold that button down for 2 seconds and have it activate the camera application. One of the things that I miss the most about the 6680 is the "instant on" availability of the camera by sliding down the shutter cover. The voice recorder button could serve that function for me (it would never be pressed accidentally for 2 seconds...).

Thanks again. I look forward to tracking the developments from this list.

I have to agree with the most of the comments posted above. But I have one addition, because I'm Dutch I would like to have the posibility to add the label 'Tussenvoegsel' to a Contact. This field is very common in Duth, e.g. Ruud VAN Nistelrooy. Now I constantly lose the van, de, van der etc on my phone while it is in Outlook.

I have been very very late , but i feel good stuff wont go unnoticed.

I have been lazy to report my suggestions , otherwise maybe it would have made some effects.

here are my suggestions -

1 . As people have said , a "REAL" active display like SE . where you have moving stuff. I saw an excellent theme on my friend SE K750i. it had a sort of yellow flame doing rounds on a jet black display. It was looking stunning!!! We would certainly like that.

2. Why have we got just numbers for speed dialing? Why not email and open apps using the keypad?
Like suppose 2 has somebody's number , 3 has somebody's email - which will start the create a new email app with that persons address prefed, 4 will start an app. Maybe we can double the speeddial with extra shortcut using the Pencil + Numpad.

these are 2 of the many wishes i have. hopefully they make there way into the Nokia phones sometime hopefully :)

Thanks, Tommi! Very useful collection of suggestions. We prepared an initial response from the Multimedia side, and still have more review to do.

Voice dialing needs lot of improvement. Voice tag can be associated with one of the phone numbers only per contact. I am surprised why Nokia isn't implementing a better way.

If possible this needs to be part of the software/firmware update. This is my wish.

Sony Ericsson uses a much better of voice dialing.

All this suggestions are great, especially old-school setting for red button, but I think that czech users would appreciate t9 without graphic accents, e. g. č=> c, ř=>r etc. Because when I write SMS with czech T9 one message can have only 70 characters instead of 160 because of graphic accents. T9 of S40 phones also uses graphic accents, but before sending phone automatically removes them (in czech language is possible to understand message withnout graphic accents) and message has full 160 chracters.

Hello, I would like to enhance SMS messaging. If you use Unicode characters with T9 text input, the SMS is shortened to 70 characters (I know why this happens, so no need to explain).

While it is quite good to use accented characters in Contacts, Calendar or Notepad application, it is quite bad for SMS - aside from shortening messages, there is another problem: I never know if addressee's phone can handle Unicode properly. So the solution could be some setting like "Strip accents while sending SMS messages YES/NO"

And of course, greatly enhanced alarms and real filemanager (it's a must for all smartphone users)...

yeah that's absolutely right ! ^^^ messages... And some repair need also themes...

Please - allow saving sent email messages in Sent (or any chosen folder/subfolder) while working with IMAP protocol. I can't understand why such critical feature is missing... :(

+1 for Jabber as IM

Viocc writes: "But my point had nothing to do with how fast or slow the OS or the applications were. I was talking about the lack of *immediate* visual feedback when pressing a key or the joystick in symbian. "

=> Aside from confusing Symbian with Nokia here, this is _not_ a general Symbian OS problem. Its an application issue.

I agree with your point in general - applications should be responsive to user interaction. However, this boils down to the way the application is implemented. For Java apps, they are generally slow to start and therefore something could (perhaps) be done by the java framework to reduce confusion (after all, we can't expect midlet authors to re-write their code just for Symbian OS).

For "native" applications, the onus is on the application author(s) to implement a responsive UI by not trying to do too much during startup or providing notification to the user that a task has been started (but will take some time). If the "built in" applications suffer from this problem then these should be addressed on a case-by-case basis.

Generally, I think this is an app issue, not a platform one (beit Symbian or S60). However, perhaps something can be done here at the framework level as a bodge around poor UI experiences.

Hi,

I haven't read all but I really do have some ideas (based on *heavy* usage of Nokia N70 and Panasonic X700):

General:
- when running app2 from app1 (e.g. Messaging from Contacts), ensure that app2 appears on the list of running apps (e.g. to be able to return to app1 without finishing work with app2)
- do not truncate any menu items (e.g. Browser - Options - Settings - Show images and ob...)

Bluetooth:
- allow choosing from paired devices *before* searching for available ones

Messages:
- easier way of displaying message details than "Options - Message details"

Gallery:
- add lossless JPEG transform, at least rotation
- faster creation of thumbs

streaming in RealPlayer:
- do not disconnect Internet on Stop (what if I want to continue streaming soon?)
- allow Pause, so as no streamed data are lost (similar as in WinAmp)

Browser:
- allow deletion of "... downloads" folders
- faster rendering of long pages
- add shortcuts

Contacts:
- when inside a group, allow deletion of contact (not only removal from the group)
- add "Group details" field to menu, showing e.g. number of contacts in a group

Notes:
- add support for the Title field

Calculator:
- move 4 basic operations to arrows and "=" to OK

Oh well, that's all I could think about at the moment. Hope to see some of these in future models...

Thanks.

Tommi, please send this to the right person...

When we are going to receive a file to our phone show a dialog box giving us info about how many Mb is the file we are going to receive and how many free space in Mbs we have (depends where we have choose in Messages to store the new files... Phone/Mem.Card)!!!

In that way we know if something must be deleted to get free space in order to accept the file!!!

See SonyEricsson phones (since K700 has this useful feature)!!!

Please put it in the new N95!!!

GTM Clock: clock on idle screen should be able to show second time from different timezone.

current 'timezone' features are fantastic when travveling, but to view time for a different timezon e it currently takes +10 clicks to reach closk application and open right screen, GMT feature would enable to see second timezone directly from idle screen.

Video player: add fast/slow forward & rewind, possibility to restart playback form last position.

After some suggestions from my friends and from older people (father/uncle) here is the updated list (delete previous post)...

- Scientific Calculator (with plot graphs and functions, see BCalc for S60 2nd Ed.-very simple and powerful)
- At least 5 alarm clocks and option to put Subject so we can remember why is the alarm on & Repeatation Days(In Subject Mode option to add from contacts,messaging,calendar..., in Repeatation Days the ability to put a diffirent alarm each day), also show the time of alarm in StandByScreen along with the belt icon (like SE phones)
- Show the time of the alarm in Standby screen
- Sms Counter(New Tab in Log after "Call Duration", like in S40 - counting all the possilble messages,see below in Messages the Create Message, option to set duration for 1 week/month 3/6/9/12 months and user defined, also be able to save a month's log)
- ScreenShot (PrintScreen with dedicated button)
- Wireless Presenter
- Lock Keypad not with code after some time that we decide
- In start-up screen ability to set a video
- ScreenSaver with image(slideshow option) or video (S40 phones)
- Settings->Phone->General->T9 Language except Writing Language
- Ability to lock phone with SMS by distance if is stolen
- Software Upgrade from Home
- Error Reporting from the phone
- Screen Exporter(e.g. for PDF or XLS files) and Screen Sharing with other mobile(see what i see in my phone)
- Fonts in Contacts/Messages/Browser/Calendar/Notes/Menu (Settings-> Phone-> Fonts)
- A program like Paint in Windows and Music Editor(like MusicDJ in SE phones)
- Stopwatch - Lap,Split times, 99 times
- CountDown Timer - Countdown/Forward time and to set the start time (e.g. at 19:45 start the countdown for 15 minutes)
- Wallet
- Zip Manager with rar extensive support
- Make "Go To" app. as S40 phones
- Embody some apps into others (e.g. IM/Voice Mail in Messages, Create a new icon and put in Bluetooth/Infrared/Data cbl./Wi-Fi, Another icon and put in everything that is relevant to Voice - Voice Commands/Dialing... in that way when we put a shortcut we will have them alltogether and the menu won't have too many icons)
- Lock option in several apps (Phonebook, Calendar, Messages, Notes, Gallery...)
- When we connect the phone with the PC via usb/pop port, start charging the device (as SE phones, in that way we can use it as removable disk wherever we go and we don't have to mind about battery)
- Support for multiple multimedia codecs - video: wmv/avi/mov/divx, music: ogg

- In Calendar put options like:
View -> 1)All entries 2)Meetings 3)Memos 4)Anniversaries 5)Birthdays (and after in options the common functions-send,print,delete, mark...)
Cut/Copy/Paste of an event to another date
Show the age of a person in his/her birthday as in S40 phones (also show how may days left until birthday and horoscope-see sBirthday or 2nd Ed. or BBirthday for 3rd. Ed. )
Add detail from Contacts & Messaging
Put automatically the Birthday From Contacts To Calendar not as Anniversary entry but as a new Birthday entry (make new icon/entry)
Change easily the Subject of an Entry e.g. From Meeting to To-Do List or Anniversary
The To-Do Entry not disappear after it's done
Option to add an image of a person in Anniversaries/Birthdays
In Settings an option to change the background image for every month or whole year
In Settings the option to choose the working days
2 Tabs - One professional Cal. and one Everyday Cal.
Missed alarm notifications
Assign a time and a phone contact to reminder: possibility to call in calendar alarm
Support for multi-day events. Currently multi-day events are shown only in first day
Fonts

- In Phonebook:
Set a graphic in a group
Set a Video to a group
Set a Video to a contact(videotone)
Black list- Messages + Calls + E-mails
Change icon fast and easy in edit mode at contact as S40 phones (e.g. From Phone (Home) to Business)
Option how to view Contacts like Contact with Number
Fonts
Contacts info to show how much numbers,e-mails... we have in PhoneBook
Sim Contacts TAB
Lock option
2 Categories - Prof. Phbook and Everyday Phbook

- In Messages:
Options->Send Later(Time/Date customize) - sms timer
Smilies
Text Editor (Bold,Colour,In center,Bullet,Paragraph... etc.)
Save to sim messages we want to save and not what the mobile wants
Preview Mode
Clear Text - If we have written a big message and we want to erase it with 2 clicks, Options->Clear
In Options->Insert->Template,Image(like the old 6210,7110 - NokiaImageSMS),Note,Calendar Entry,Contact info
Effects
Create Message-> SMS,MMS,E-MAIL,Postcard,Flash Message,Audio Message
In INBOX the abilities of locking(put locked msgs into another folder) & Sending an SMS via Bluetooth
Filter->All, SMS, MMS, E-mail...
Save a message as text file
A new TAB called Trash Can so when delete some messages by mistake to retrieve them and put them to a Folder or back to Inbox or Sent Mes.
In Other Settings an alert for new e-mails with light indicator & Fonts
In Messaging put options to view SmsCounter & Details(Show how many messages-SMS,MMS... each folder has and KBs)
In MMS when we put a sound from Gallery the ability to listen before insert
In MMS option to put when the inserted file want to be shown in presentation... time for all files(e.g. like SE phones)
Switch between Sms-MMs-Email-Postcard-Flash-Sound Editors when we are inside one of these (e.g. From SMS to MMS)
Option to select from where we want to put the number in "TO" Field (Contacts,Log)
Keep the 10 last names that we send them a message (Recently Used)
When i'm putting a number in "TO" field from Contacts show me what number is the default (in that case i don't have to put to all the names a default number for sms because then it won't let me change it in SMS editor if i want to)
Show me the "i" letter in Message icon into Sent messages after i've deleted the Reports so i can know whether is delevered or not after sometime (like S40 and SE phones)
Ability to set incoming messages show on screen automatically, instead of "You have 1 new message".
Ability to configure blinking light on unread sms / missed call (not just email)
Have a "Number of Inbox Messages" option, like for Sent Items, so that once the number is reached, the oldest gets deleted automatically
Show the picture of the sender up and left like in Phonebook

- In Profiles:
Timed profiles
Auto setting of ringing profiles based on calendar entries
Switching profiles based on connect or disconnect to a specific bluetooth device or wifi access point and/or location based switching based on cell tower
Ability to set on ringtone both to headearings and phone when we connect to pop-port the headphones
Customize everything as in S40 phones
When we create a new Profile ask if we want to use default settings or another's Profile
Musical profile except Flight mode (in order to listen to MP3 player & Radio only)

- In Themes:
Ability to send via infrared or bluetooth
Ability to delete with "C" (not from app. manager-too difficult)
Ability to change in every single Theme-> Wallpaper in StandBy Screen(slideshow), Wallpaper in Main Menu view, ScreenSaver/PowerSaver(slideshow images), Text/Image/Video in Start up Screen, Default Ringing Tone
Sort By option

- In Radio:
RDS function
AutoSave
Sound can be recorded both from a linear input and intergrated radio in several formats (MP3,WMA,AAC)
Play without earphones - standalone Radio

- In Gallery:
The Images & Videos in seperate Folders or put Sort By->Type
Put Set As->Wallpaper, ScreenSaver, 3G Image, Contact, Start up screen... like S40 phones (all the options included both photos/videos & Sounds)
More options in Edit mode for pics and vids (more effects like mirror etc.)
Option to create folders in Tracks/Recordings... Tabs
Option to change quick and easy a photo's album (e.g. if a photo is in Album Friends we select "Options->Move to" and show the other albums and select where we want to transfer it)
Quicklanch of Zoom in/out, FullScreen, Rotate clockwise/counterclockwise, Edit with 5/0, *, 1/3, 7 as 7610/6630/6680 did in view mode
When we put an image to an Album the image must dissapear from Images/Video view mode
An icon indicating what type is it (e.g. MP3 or midi/amr, WMV or 3GP/Realplayer, see SE phones)
Lock option

- Voice Recorder:
Unlimited Recording only depending on the free space of the device-memorycard
Option to turn off the beep-sound when voice recording a call
Fastkey to make a voice recording and make a calendar or task from the recording
Choose in what format the recording should be saved(AMR,WMA,AAC,MP3)
Option where to save (e.g. Memory Card and when i open Gallery->Recordings put them in my selected Folder)

- In Bluetooth menu:
Possibility to put an image to a Paired Device in Bleutooth Menu to identify which is who
Bluetooth "auto off/on" after/before file send complete or after/before play a multiplayer game (if "auto on" was used)
Auto pair with other device
Scan for nearby enabled Bluetooth device - ability to send a note

- In Log:
Show the time we've talked in Incomings/Outgoings TABS, near time/date
Put the S40 mode in calls so when we call somebody in mobile and in his office/home to put the two numbers in one entry
Put Print option and In Packet Data show "Last Send/Received Data"
Sms Counter(New Tab in Log after "Call Duration", like in S40 - counting all the possilble messages,see above in Messages the Create Message, option to set duration for 1 week/month 3/6/9/12 months and user defined, also be able to save a month's log)

- In Notes:
Create folders-Notes categorization
Ability to attach a note to message/phonebook/calendar... when we received it via Bluetooth or write it ourselves
Lock option
Exporting Notepad to PC
Fonts
When writing a new NOTE, Options->Insert Date & Time (like S40 phones)
Ability to attach a small icon in front of a note like in TO-DO function that has a lot of small icons for everything

- In Menu:
Change View-> Tab,Roll,V-shape
Mark - in order to move several progs to a folder or remove them from phone(also in App.Manager to remove or send)
Select from several Folder icons for the new Folders we create
Put in Options small icons to all Functions to be more user friendly (e.g. scissor in Cut and a stamp in Paste)
Show time/date in menu until we open an application like Explorer (second line under the line with signal/battery indicators)
Show Selectable Choice (e.g. when Phonebook is highlighted and we press the button to get in then the perimetric light/indicator gets darker so we know we pressed it)
Put a status bar when sending/receiving a file (showing percentage,size of file,estimated time during sending/receiving)
Fonts

- Power Button:
Create Categories e.g. Lock|Phone,Keypad , Profiles|General,Meeting... , MMC|Remove Safely,Password , TurnOff|Shut Down,StandBy,Restart (see SE phones)

- In StandBy screen:
When we have a missed call or a new message, show the picture of the person
Slide Show from Wallpapers (S40 phones)
FullScreen Wallpapers (S40 phones) and ability to change letters colours
FullScreen Caller ID and Message ID

In my opinion these are the lacks of a mobile that costs a lot and is in the Hihg-End class!!!
It's not appropriate to search for 3rd party apllications to do these simple thinks!!!!
Not if you want to call them "Multimedia Computers"!!
It's a shame that S60 phones in the box aren't so "clever" (because it doesn't give attention to the details of the menu... see above how many thinks it lacks a S60 device against Nokia S40/SE/Motorola) as simple phones!!!
I think it has a lot to be done (and NOKIA since 6600 doesn't improve the PIM functions and they are still call the PIM "Advanced" in DataSheets) to tell S60 devices "very clever" and to call them COMPUTERS!!!

Thanks for your time (I hope i haven't bored you!!!)

Also in Themes:
-Move/Copy to phone memory/memory card (as in S60 2nd Ed.)

1. EMS - it's on the ETSI specs, after all.
2. Multiple alarms.
3. Birthdays being set from Addressbook, too.
4. Time shown in every menu - why else the big header - for an icon!!!
5. SMS contents viewable in Delivery reports.
6. Ability to see number in Out/In/Missed calls.
7. All those nasty emails *gone* from the phone when deleted.
8. Phonebook search ONLY by first name letters as shown, and not searching on family name, when set last.
9. Ability to install that FP1 with half the wanted features on my N73!!!

Suggestion for PIM:

- Field for hide/display CallerID