I've had it for a day now.
Pros:
- - Noticeably faster UI
- -Noticeably faster browser
- -great phone searcher. Used it loads already to find music.
- -Drop down notifications is fantastic
- -Love the new photobrowser.. I like how you can finally zoom in further on photos
- -Music player "JAZZ" equaliser settings makes the music sound fantastic
- -Email client is MUCH faster at loading emails
- -Map client is much smoother when zooming and scrolling around
- -I like the new load out with just one menu system that you scroll down
- -The Fsecure for free? fantastic! worked great and doesn't slow the phone down at all
Cons:
- -I know i don't have mobile data 'on' so stop giving me warning messeges!
- -Music player doesn't show the track number. I have podcasts with 100-200 songs and with belle I have to go into "song details" everytime I want to check the track number which is a pain
- -Music player doesn't automatically go to "now playing" when you click on the music widget. It takes you straight to the album flow list, so if I want to re-listen to a part of a song I have to "click widget>click menu>click now playing".. just 2 extra clicks than there should be
- -Some widgets are too big yes. I don't need half of the screen taken up by the album cover for instance. The email widget is huge but only shows 3 emails at a time, I mean if you are going to make it huge at least show MORE.
- -Map widget still doesn't support rotation with fingers
- -Phone doesn't show wither headphones are connected. (even though they are and work)Small greif but it is nice to know before you start blasting your tunes in the middle of a lecture.
Summary
As you can see, more pros than cons. Great update and deffinately worth it. The issue of battery hasn't affected me, neither has the flv files not working.. all my videos still work. Got another year left with my N8 and i'm looking forward to it now. I was dreading it with anna.
i had the same opinion 4 one week after installation of belle, but now im .it is makes trouble to some of the software. EG. Nimbuzz.) now fon getting hang frequently, anna was reliable, belle made my fon more attractive but now i really want to replace the soft ware with old one, if not possible need to adjust with belle!!!!
zaus wrote:
Well Said bumblebirra..!!!
But people always complain and complain no matter what...!!!
They just never get satisfied..!!!
I simply love Nokia Belle..!!!
zaus wrote:
Well Said bumblebirra..!!!
But people always complain and complain no matter what...!!!
They just never get satisfied..!!!
I simply love Nokia Belle..!!!
zaus wrote:
Well Said bumblebirra..!!!
But people always complain and complain no matter what...!!!
They just never get satisfied..!!!
I simply love Nokia Belle..!!!
Overall I'm pretty happy with Belle. But after a few weeks of use the first problems appear:
-first and to me the most important thing is that the phone has significant lags and additionally always then when you NEED the phone (e.g. need to call some1 quick and exactly in that moment its lagging like hell). This wasn't a problem at all with Anna.
-second problem are the lags when you want to edit a contact. it just doesn't work at the moment on my device. just lagging when i enter contacts. everything else is just fine...strange.
-music player as some1 mentioned is really annoying when you have to click 3 times or so just to get from the homescreen to the song which is played atm... i mean everything in the system is pretty much easier to reach or to adjust. why did the devs stop thinking here?! just put some sort of settings in the music player where the user can chose what he/she wants to see when tapping on the music player widget...
-did i mention the laqs 
?
-widget size also already mentioned...
-headphone problem i didn't encounter, btw there appears a symbol in the top bar when you plug in your headphones...so to me it is pretty clear that my headphones are plugged in
-marking contacts/files/fotos in a list throughout the whole system: why do i have to click 2 or 3 times to mark an item? why not making it simple like they do in the x-plore file explorer or profimail where you just tap on the outer right side of the file you want to mark and then it's marked. simple as that...
-as they advertised that there will be more free screen real estate i can not confirm. whether the implemented email system nor the widgets are making real use of the available space. email widget: great when you have a slimmer top bar but why is the bottom navigation and update bar so damn fat?! or when you place the digital clock, calendar widget and 3 rows of apps/contacts on one homescreen there's almost 1cm of space which can't be used even for small widgets like say the profile widget...
-still not possible to set another browser as standard browser (maybe possible with the normal opera but the opera mini isn't recognized as such)
as a matter of fact its pretty useless to put any other programm as standard because it won't be recognized throughout the whole system. so it will work with some apps whereas it won't with the rest...
-lagging yeah right...
and btw i did a decent hard reset and format of my sd card and mass memory before installing belle so this shouldn't be the problem.
and btw why do i have to go all the way through the forum again when i log in?!
Greetings
Installed Belle last night and so far so good.
Organised all my frequently used bits in portrait mode then organised them in landscape mode (don't know if you could do this in anna, I never tried)
Yes the music app is still **bleep**, I have filed a ticket with tunewiki as it doesn't support Belle yet.
I would say it's slightly quicker but not a huge improvement. More of a Anna V3. There may be more 'behind the scenes' stuff thats been done that we can't see to warrant a major change (anna-belle)
List of programs does not scroll smoothly it stops and jerks about. Had to get a picture off my wifes HTC desire and that is sooooo much slicker and smooth. I think the N8 has had it's day, the processor is too slow.
Allow at least 2 hrs to update and get your phone to somewhere near where it was before, updating widgets, connection settings, wireless keys, organising and finding stuff.
But hey were here now and I'm not going back to Anna, that is just software that shouldn't have happened. I'll try it over the next month and if I'm not happy I'll get it flashed back to Symbian^3 (prior to Anna).
Oh, I like scrolling the mail apps without having to go into them, but they are HUGE. Glad I only check 2 accounts on my phone.
And people, stop winging about the clock, the time is in the top right, if you cant see it, go and get your eyes checked.
oh and only 80mb left on C:
edit. one niggle still there is the amount of time it takes to display an image in full quality when you are showing someone. I guess it may be a 12mp 600mhz processor -Vs- 5mp 1Ghz processor thing in other phones? I dont remember it being that slow in the original symbian^3.
