Comments on: Handy Shell & Handy Weather Review

By: nokeiro

nokeiro — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:55:34 +0000

Please, my NOKIA E63 don’t working with handy shell v2.0, why?

By: payshum

payshum — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:35:17 +0000

Symbian software is massively overpriced compared to ipod touch/iphone apps. this one costs a bomb and you can’t even change the indicators (such as bluetooth, mail, messaging.

I say roll on Apple just to show up these Symbian gougers.

I don’t have an iphone but it’s something i’m seriously toying with, even though i love the smartphone aspect of my phone

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:09:07 +0000

First of all, Handy software is ridiculously priced. All told, Handy is asking for $125 for their entire suite – PLUS ANNUAL SERVICE FEES for their weather app. (Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. That’s funny pricing! Sell a lot of software, Handy?)

But hey, I like good software and gave it an install. For that price, it better be 100% integrated into the phone UI. And just as the reviewer says, it just doesn’t work.

Sure some things work, but there are always little issues here and there that you bump into.

I used to have a Windows Mobile phone and bought a UI update called SPB Shell ($30, plus much more functionality than Handy offers.) And you know what, I never could tell where the UI ended and SPB began. That just isn’t the case with Handy software.

By: oddsocks

oddsocks — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:23:09 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I appreciate it. There is a way to get a smaller font on the screen. I use Psiloc Font Magnified. I will post up a how to on it sometime coming. I’ve got some other stuff to review soon.

Thanks,

- Simon

By: Rayaz

Rayaz — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 04:22:10 +0000

Tried this software out but ended up removing it. A big negative was the HandyShell is that when you get a call and want to switch to loudspeaker, you cannot do that and have to switch back to the standard screen (pressing home 1-2 times depending on how you setup Handyshell). Now this is really annoying as you cannot do that if you are driving with a single press of a button.

Agree with the review that this app also makes your phone “laggy” and takes away the gains with the faster CPU in the E71 compared to th e61i, etc.

A very nice feature which i wish Nokia would do is to support a smaller font on the active standby screen as the E71 definitely can display more data, and the small font is very sharp. The HandyShell does have a small font which truly brings out the E71′s landscape display, but unfortunately it does not have a configuration to setup how many todo’s or tasks have to be shown, and seems limited to showing just one from each (Please correct me if i am wrong on this)

By: Brad Barbaza

Brad Barbaza — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:27:40 +0000

Thanks for writing this. I’ve been searching and searching for a weather app just like this and never found a result. The Calendar feature is a bonus too!

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