Nokia E70 tips

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The E70 has lots to recommend it, from the quite useable QWERTY thumb keyboard and switchable portrait/landscape screen to the very latest Symbian OS and Series 60 versions, and with multimedia and Office functionality thrown in by the bucketload.

Get up to date!
Hopefully this won’t apply to you, but if your E70 is quite an early model, check its firmware (*#0000# on the standby screen) - if the top number starts with ‘1.’ something, then you’ve got a very old version of the internal software and need to upgrade it. Do the usual full sync and backup of anything important on the internal disk and then pay a visit to Nokia Software Updater, which will bring your firmware up to ‘2.’ something and bring a faster and more efficient device. Really.

Ignore those ‘Exit’ buttons! Usually…
You can have many of your Series 60 apps running at the same time, which means no delays while applications are launched/switched to, with the usual trick being to ignore the ‘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.
However: don’t do this for Camera or Web or games or Java programs or sat-nav suites, any of which can hog RAM and cause your other main programs to close down. In other words, DO use Exit for these specific programs to make sure memory is freed up.

Open up your device
By default, the E70 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 ‘Symbian Signing’ process. But there are hundreds of other great applications, many of them free, that are ‘untrusted’ (although under S60 3rd Edition, untrusted 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 a spurious security warning!

Use those shortcuts!
As befits a communicator with a proper keyboard (in landscape mode), Nokia have outfitted the E70 with lots of shortcuts. Here are a few of my favourites: 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. Ctrl-left/right moves the cursor back/forwards a word, Ctrl-up/down moves back/forwards a paragraph.
With keypad closed again now, 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.
In Calendar, ‘#’ moves you immediately to the current day, while ‘*’ toggles between the different views.

Pump up the brightness
Make sure you increase the screen from the default brightness to its maximum. Yes, there’s a 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.

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