Nokia E61 Tips
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The E61 has lots to recommend it, from the quite useable QWERTY thumb keyboard and landscape screen to the very latest Symbian OS and Series 60 versions, and with multimedia and Office functionality thrown in by the bucketload.
1. Open up your device
By default, the E61 and other modern Series 60 smartphones come ‘locked down’ in terms of the applications they’ll accept, installing only those that have large companies behind them, able to afford the expensive ’signing’ process. But there are hundreds of other great applications, many of them free, that are ‘unsigned’ (although under S60 3rd Edition, totally unsigned applications are slightly restricted in what they can do). Don’t worry about this (see my malware article to put your mind at rest). Just go to ‘Tools | App manager | Options | Settings’ and set ‘Software installation’ to “All”. and ‘Online certif check’ to “Off”. You can now install any compatible program without being blocked by spurious security warnings!
2. Use those shortcuts!
As befits a communicator with a proper keyboard, Nokia have outfitted the E61 with lots of shortcuts, although it still falls far short of those in the full 9500 clamshell. Here are a few of my favourites, some obvious (as they’re similar to those in non-keyboard S60 devices) and some not so obvious:
In any text-entry application, Ctrl-C copies highlighted text, Ctrl-X cuts it and Ctrl-V pastes it, just as in any desktop application.
In Web, the ‘#’ key zooms out to show more of a web page, up to a zoom level of 50%, while ‘*’ zooms back in again. ‘8′ brings up the mini-Map, of course. ‘1′ gives you bookmarks, while ‘5′ switches windows.
Web on the E61, zoomed out with ‘#’
In Gallery/Images, ‘3′ rotates images, ‘*’ toggles full-screen on/off, while ‘5′ zooms in and ‘0′ zooms out.
In Gallery/Video clips, ‘2′ toggles full-screen playback and navigator-up fast forwards within a clip.
3. Pump up the brightness
Make sure you increase the screen from the default brightness to its maximum. Yes, there’s a tiny hit on the time between battery recharges, but in the meantime you’ll see some glorious colours. Go to ‘Tools | Settings | Phone | Display | Light sensor’ and adjust away. Of course, for night-time use, your smartphone can double as an emergency torch or, if you’re actually reading from the screen, you can use the same setting to turn the brightness right down to save being dazzled.
4. A cleaner, brighter standby screen
You can do a lot to make your active standby screen brighter, cleaner and more useful. See my tutorial over on AllAboutSymbian.
5. Clearing up the trash
It seems that in S60 3rd Edition, the entire install SIS files from third party applications get stored on your internal flash disk (C:), completely unnecessarily. If you’ve installed several meaty games or applications, you can easily lose 10 to 20MB in this way. Use the built-in File manager to navigate into ‘Installed files’ and delete the SIS files, to reclaim the space. (It won’t hamper removal of the applications later, don’t worry)
6. Ignore those ‘Exit’ buttons!
Because the E61 has oodles of execution memory (i.e. RAM), but you can still have most of your Series 60 apps running at the same time, which means no delays while applications are launched. The trick is to ignore those ‘Exit’ buttons. When you need to switch to a different application, press the Menu (’Applications’) button and select it from there, leaving the current app running. Or use the tip below to switch between running programs directly.
[Caveat: watch out for intensive apps like navigation programs, games or music players, which can eventually drain your battery if left running all the time. For these, you definitely should press Exit!]
7. The latest and best
Make sure you keep up to date with PC Suite. Yes, there’s a version on the CD that came with your smartphone, but Nokia are fixing bugs and adding bits and pieces all the time. Most useful is the way you can explore your smartphone’s folders (including your text Inbox) from within Windows Explorer. Very cool. Keep an eye on the PC Suite home page and stay current!
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