24 December 2008

Nokia 5800 To Gets Update
Unconfirmed Change Log Is In The House!

Well, to be completely honest with you Nokia 5800 is one of the buggiest phones that I have ever tested and it is not really a surprise that Nokia is working on the quick update for their first touchscreen device.

OK, I understand that developing a new platform and first S60 touch device presents a significant challenge for Nokia. Increasing demands for better and intuitive user interface coupled with growing competition has put Nokia in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between quality and aggressive time to market goals and I’m afraid they chose to trade off quality to meet aggressive schedules for new products which is totally wrong way if you ask me!

Anyway, the change log that I got earlier this morning is not from my usual source so I can’t say how reliable is this information but some of the most annoying issue that I discovered so far aren’t listed there so hopefully this is not a final change log.

I also tried to reach some of my insider moles but Christmas is just around the corner and it is hard to reach anybody, everyone seems to be in a hurry these days and unfortunately I can’t give you anything more but the change log listed below.

The software is not available on the Nokia Software Updater and is not available at Nokia Service Points (confirmed 100%) so this is more like internal tester’s log.

Oh yes, thanks to 'anonymous' tipster ;)

New features:

• No new features

List of Changes/Fixes:

General:

• Last word disappears when selecting receiver in SMS
• My Nokia: phone displays “#” in front of Application name.
• During BackUp & Restore operation, calendar entries are not restored
• Operator menu link within Welcome application
• Invalid message pops up before playing the file received via Bluetooth.
• Input Method, VKB just display number when selecting a WLAN access point which contains a password.
• Chinese box HWR control buttons and FS HWR control bar are too small.
• Unable to add image to Contact bar from Gallery when there is about 5 GB of data in memory card
• In Arabic UI, in calendar, the arrows on the top are reversed in week view and day view
• Phone drops from service when both A5/3 +GEA3 used simultaneously with WLAN
• UIrotation is too sensitive
• Non stop Music Player “Library update”
• Clock, Alarm is inactive when phone is power off.
• APN Configuration Settings Update to be used for the Setting Wizard
• UE unable to open Setting Wizard
• StartUpSettings version updated.
• Phone lost correct time during power off
• USSD “Call Control Send USSD” command
• UE drops from 3G, then cannot sync to 3G cells

Search:

• Google search service is missing in Search.

 

Nokia Maps:

• License Manager for Maps is not integrated to SW
• Wrong layout of the strings in the Maps search and favorites views

Messaging

• Could not send new email if user name and password is not predefined
• The Messaging application crashes a lot specially when replying or trying to send SMS you have to remove battery to be able to use the device again

5.0 Touch UI:

• Phonebook crashing when adding detail: Birthday, Anniversary

Browser:

• Flash objects causes problems while browsing
• Web screen is messed up in portrait mode

Operators specific:

• Homepage is not defined for Vodafone Live!
• Contact could not display when switch numbers in Singtel 2in1 SIM card