Symbian Belle review.

- First Impression. Nice. Nokia changed their loading screen during boot-up. A little animation there.

- During the first initialization, I noticed the Fsecure is preinstalled in the phone. I didn't really like it as it would use some resources on the phone. Personal preference.

- Home screen looks way different compared to the previous Anna or even PR 1.0. The clock is HTC-like and I really like the pull down menu. I'll go over it in a bit.


- Lockscreen wise, a little change, I prefer this look over the previous versions of Symbian 3. Nice background integration and it could show your SMS, missed calls, alarms, etc. in a neater way.


- The pulldown menu is my favourite part of Belle. No more going through a few steps trying to activate/deactivate your wifi with that miserable side menu. It gives you a lot more control over your device; You could block mobile data from coming in very easily with just a single touch on the button. It also gives you notifications, like the previous Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 but in a better layout.


- The menu screen changed quite a lot. The scrollbar on the side has become smaller and hence does not eat too much of space. The top status bar has now been minimized  . That really give more breathing space around your phone rather than wasting so much unnecessary space in the previous versions. Nokia has taken away the folders like we had previously. I'm still not used to it as everything is put into one menu screen. But we could still manually create folders to sort out our applications.


- There's no problem with me using Ovi Maps, although my phone freezed while I was using it in the afternoon. The actual cause of it is still unknown as my phone was very warm that time due to exposure to direct sunlight + gps.

- Call function, nothing much changed, we still have the regular smart dial. They've just added the extra buttons on the bottom part, which is useful especially when you want to check your call logs/phonebook.


- Camera wise, not much of change. But I do feel that the response time is a little faster.

- I noticed that Nokia installer has a new feature; where you can stop your installation halfway and continue it by pressing on a newly created icon on your menu screen.

- Some apps are still incompatible with the leaked Symbian Belle, ie. Opera browser. If you are really attached to it, this might turn you off from using the leaked Belle.

I had trouble with Fmobi as well, but I fixed it by reinstalling my QT.