19 August 2007
New Application from Beta Labs
Enhanced Calculator for S60
What a nice surprise from the Nokia Beta Lab, default S60 Calc has received a more than welcome update.
Jarmo Lahtinen from the S60 Java organization team, just released the long awaited update for the Stone Age default S60 calculator.
Default S60 calculator hasn't been updated since the very first S60 phone, oldie Nokia 7650 and its functionality has remained more or less the same through all this years!! After years of waiting, S60 functionality is finally extended with powerful and freeware calculator.
'Enhanced Calculator for S60' is unfortunately developed in Java and isn't native Symbian application but it is still huge upgrade over the existing S60 calculatro!
Anyway, I'm just leaving my office and I am really short with time so so here is the little copy paste from the Nokia Beta Labs blog:
Have you noticed that even in the latest S60 devices the calculator application is very simple and limited in features? And have you noticed that in Series 40 devices there is a much better calculator application?
The calculator in Series 40 devices is a Java application, and we started to think here about replacing the current S60 native calculator with this one. So, I took the source codes of the original Series 40 application and updated it a little bit. The end result is here, Java calculator application for S60 devices!
The original application was made for certain devices with certain screen sizes. So, I have made changes mainly to the UI of the application. Currently there are some limitations in using this application.
It runs properly only in devices with QVGA screen (240×320 or 320×240 pixels), in other cases you should get an error message and the application will be closed. I have tested this in several S60 3rd Edition, 3rd Edition FP1 and 3rd Edition FP2 devices, those with QVGA screen should be ok for this application. However, if you have any problems with the application, post your comments here!
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