I just upgraded to a Nokia N70 yesterday. Is it me, or does pressing the red STOP key when you're running a Java app kill said app? It used to be that this would place it into the background where it would continue running - nowadays you can only background such an app by manually switching back to "phone" using the menu key.

Slightly annoying if so. We've done a couple of Java apps this year that benefit from being run in-the-background...

Other impressions of the phone:

Camera and image management are both more complicated, and the keypad shortcodes I used to use ("1" to activate night mode, etc.) no longer work. Not sure why - it's not like those keys are used for anything else instead.

The gallery app is awful. I *loved* the old "image viewer" on my 6680, it made scanning through pictures a joy (using full-screen mode). The current gallery seems to insist that I set up a slideshow and choose some accompanying music before I can view my pictures - yuck.

The Orange-supplied icons are too spindly, not solid and clear enough.

Fonts are weird, particularly in J2ME and the browser.

The handset seems faster, and memory issues on the 6680 (made worse by Orange Homescreen and iSync Agent) don't seem to have recurred yet, I appear to have about 30mb of RAM to play with which should keep the pressure off for a while.

Comments

[Antti]

N70 is first handset to implement this feature, pressing call termination key will kill application, instead of putting it to background. Same goes for native symbian applications also. Feature is documented in Nokia's S60 platform known issues document http://sw.nokia.com/id/26e4a401-cedd-443f-b2d7-c6e366e396b6/2nd_Edition_Platforms_Known_Issues_v2_8_en.pdf

[charlie]

ugh, took me a while to unlearn such a cool feature (press red key to easily go to idle, leaving app in background) that i picked up while using the 7650, 3650, 660, 7610, and 6680.

thing is, why did they change that?

thing is, not all apps quit - i think the browser, the radio (but not the music player), and some others inconsistently go to the background.

i just don't get it.

[Gaz]

Yeah, red button terminates the app... Rather anoying. The Java implementation isn't fantastic either as large sourcecode segments cause the app to pause while they are compiled by the JIT :/

[Antti]

I agree. It is really annoying. Maybe it is so that most of "normal" users don't understand that app goes to background on red key instead of terminating. But now they have really made the situation even worse, changing the behaviour after years.

Well, this is not the first weird issue on S60 :)

[Jean-Baptiste]

Hi, just got my n70 back from Nokia factory: looks like the extra settings added by Orange (in France) messes up with the screen saver and iSync (for Macs). Any echoes of this (sounds similar to what happened on 6680)?

[tony]

Hi to all, I found the fonts on the N70 too small. Is there any kind soul out there who knows how to change the size of the font? Thanks in advance

[jase]

well i love my n70

[hash]

well, the n70 has been a boon to me in this part of the world(India). I've used most of the phones that are mentioned here but this is the first time I've got the whole package, it's a dream come true.