Friday, April 26, 2013

Software update for Symbian Belle FP1 and FP2 smartphones rolling, brings new homescreen widgets

MXCapture 1 Software update for Symbian Belle FP1 and FP2 smartphones rolling, brings new homescreen widgets
Nokia has rolled-out a new software update for the Nokia 808 PureView and other Symbian Belle Feature Pack 1 and FP2 smartphones that bring some great new homscreen widgets.
  • Webview widget (as featured most recently here, during its Beta Labs outing), showing a window onto any live web site of your choice. And yes, you can have multiple Webview widgets on multiple pages, if needed - they refresh whenever that homescreen is viewed. The version here is just one minor build on from the last beta version, by the way (21.00 build 35)
  • Mirror widget, designed for people to check their faces (etc.), effectively a shortcut to an embedded 'front camera' utility, with QVGA 'capture' (yes, yes, low. The hardware supports VGA on most devices, but for some reason software for the front camera only has access to the lower resolution). Note that this doesn't work on the Nokia 700, as it doesn't have a front facing camera...
  • Toggle Flashlight - as it sounds, turns the LED flash light on as a torch - presumably for those who haven't discovered the keylock toggle long press shortcut for this - or who want to get the torch on NOW and not in five seconds time 8-)
  • Stopwatch - as it sounds, a quick and useful 'instant stopwatch', with just pause and stop controls
  • Contacts Communication - a one-touch way to phone or message a favourite contact - tapping on the body of the thumbnail brings up the contact record in the usual way
Did you update your Symbian Belle smartphone? To get the .sis files visit our Symbian^3 Firmware Discussion forum.
Thanks @Allstar12345

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