Reviewed: Nokia 700, Symbian Belle

With Nokia's latest Symbian smartphones selling like hot cakes I thought it was high time we reviewed the hottest selling smartphone of the year - the Nokia 700 and tips for it's associated OS, the Symbian Belle.

How to Speed your way around Symbian Belle

It's somewhat ironic that, having had hierarchical folder for so many years and with iOS and Android just starting to copy the concept, Symbian has now abandoned folders. Well, not quite. The idea of a flat list was to help new users find apps they are looking for. And, to be honest, even as experienced Symbian die-hards, I bet we've all scratched our heads once in a while looking for 'Recorder' or 'Connection manager'.

The first thing to note is how easy it is to toggle between 'Arrange - A to Z' and 'Arrange - as it was'. Tap the 'More' icon (three stacked lines) and you'll see it on the menu. This alone makes it easy to find an application.

Homescreens

This is going to sound radical, but the very first thing you should do is remove almost all the widgets and shortcuts put on the homescreens by default. In fact, delete most of the homescreens provided. Far better to build up homescreens with bits that you find you need rather than fill the homescreens just 'because you can'. You'll see slightly faster device operation, slightly less data use and slightly better battery life if you keep homescreens and widgets down, especially if they're connected widgets that go online.

Multitasking

Not to be overlooked is the built-in Symbian multitasking - present since the beginnings of the OS, of course, but very visual since Symbian^3, with live 'previews' of what each running application is up to. When you need another app and you know it's running, it's often faster to press and hold the main 'home'/Menu key and simply pick from the carousel of running applications.

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3 Goodies for Nokia Users

First of all you have 5 free Symbian apps waiting for you by The Pundit. These have been selected from around the web and tested to make sure they work. Of course we can't guarantee anything but I hope you get your app without further ado.


Secondly there's a very interesting article here about Nokia. It has got to do with their rubbery history..


And finally we have a review of the latest and best Nokia Symbian Smartphone to be released - the Nokia 700 running Symbian Belle. If you're in the market for Symbian - this is the device that you have got to buy.


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