I hate to be a complainer about things and I tend to only be the squeaky wheel when it’s necessary. Well this is really annoying. I’m a huge fan of Nokia and they are good to me but there’s something about all their phones that drives me bonkers. Nokia S60 phones are little computers and that’s what I like, but they are computers and as computers go, need to be restarted every so often. Now I install all kinds of beta apps and sometimes even alpha apps. I do a lot of email and just use my phone a great deal, being a computer it freezes and crashes every so often. So what I need Nokia to do is add a restart option.
When I hit the power button to change profiles I would like to see a restart option. Dozens of times I’ve had to restart my phone and forget to turn it back on after shutting it down and putting it down. I can’t imagine that it’s a big deal to add this into the menu and for Nokia to include an app that will restart the phone. This is actually a really big deal for me having a child I have to be reachable all the time.
Does this bother anyone else? Do you ever shut your phone off but forget to turn it back on? I can’t be the only one…
10 responses so far ↓
1 mike macias // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:20 pm
jbak taskman my friend. Its free, signed, and has that feature. But yes, it shouldve came built it.
2 Jeb Brilliant // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Mike,
My point is that it should have been included in the built in software. It’s one of those things that should not have to be added, it’s so basic and so needed.
3 Carllton // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:35 pm
i think so too jeb, nokia should have added a restart option years ago, it really would be useful
4 Dominic Travers // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Hi Jeb.
I know you love Nokias, so do I, on the outside.
I currently have an E71 which I have to boot at least once a day when the hard and soft menu button simply fails to work any more. So it could be worse, you could have an *operator build*. I have this because I work for one.
Fortunately I have 2 Android phones that pretty much just work, and fairly elegantly too.
When you have finally had enough of S60, I’d recommend picking up the next Android Qwerty slider that HTC do.
5 Jeb Brilliant // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Dominic,
I could possibly see that happening but I doubt I will stray from Nokia though it doesn’t hurt to see what else is out there. I wish we had better blogger relations programs here in the States to make review units available to bloggers.
I keep hearing really great thing about Android but is there an E71 format phone available yet? I need QWERTY and don’t usually like the sliders.
Thanks so much for reading,
Jeb
6 Jonathan Jensen // Aug 27, 2009 at 9:17 am
Spot on Jeb! I invariably forget to turn the phone back on after turning it off & realise a while later when I wonder why I haven’t had any calls or messages!
7 Jeb Brilliant // Aug 27, 2009 at 12:23 pm
I’m right there with you Jonathan. I wonder why my phone isn’t beeping to tell me I have new mail after I realize it’s on my computer. What a pain.
8 Merlin // Aug 29, 2009 at 8:30 am
You’re right with the restart option omission.
I personnaly use SmartSettings by Mobifunsoft. It helps me create a start menu (so my left softkey becomes WAY MORE usable), it suppresses the lag on the right softkey AND you can enable a restart option in its start menu. It’s not free, but considering everything it brings to the table, it worth any peny you’ll pay for it.
And then again, going to Android (or anything else) because of all the small omissions in S60 is stupid in my opinion. You will just be trading S60’s “downsides” for the “other OS’s” downsides. ‘Cause there’s nothing like a perfect OS you know…the real question is “what do you really need ?”, plus Nokia is evolving its product line. See the N900 ? It’s just a hint a the future…
The company able to make products as balanced and well built as the Nokia E71 for instance isn’t “born” yet. Plus Nokia is putting some serious mony where it matters: hardware ingeeniring, service creation, open source technology and many more, ALLTOGETHER.
Better stay with Nokia dude…
9 suyog // Oct 25, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Good point, Happens with me so many times.
10 Jeb Brilliant // Oct 26, 2009 at 11:38 am
It happened to me just the other day again while I was driving.
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