What should happen the first time your Nokia boots?
By Stefan Constantinescu on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 at 9:39 PM PST In Ideas and rants
Tommi is asking that question right now:
In March 2006, I proudly wrote an overview post titled Taking a new Nokia S60 device into use – not a pain it used to be, describing what we had done for making it easy to take a new Nokia (NYSE: NOK) S60 device into use.
Your collective feedback was neatly summarized in May 2006, by Rafe in his Nokia N91 review:
One thing Nokia, especially with its S60 devices, is
starting to get really good at is the out of the box experience for the
new user. … These tools have received incremental improvement over
the last year or so and I would now rate them as excellent. … I think
the emphasis should now be on building awareness of these tools. For
the Data Transfer application it is especially important since it
should be one of the first thing a new user takes advantage of. Perhaps
a similar message to the Tutorial application could be shown the first
time the device starts?Exactly.
Now, latest Nokia S60 devices have a dedicated Welcome application,
which provides a visible launching place for first-use applications,
such as Setting Wizard, Data Transfer, and Tutorial. This "umbrella
application" is automatically launched at the first bootup of the
device.How do you like this new approach? What would you like to have in
the Welcome application? How could we keep it simple and smooth, while
providing all the relevant stuff?As always, I’ll make sure that the team will hear your feedback. As
always, they are 100% free to implement or not to implement whatever
you suggest here. As always, many thanks in advance for your comments.
Let Tommi know how he can make the "Welcome application" better!
As long as I can close it with the push of one button then I’m happy.
I do have one request: When you first turn on your device you are asked to enter in your city, then the time, then the date.
Why not make the first question: "Get date and time automatically from operator?"
If the user hits yes then they don’t have to fiddle with it anymore for the life of their device. If the user hits no then they can enter it in the old fashioned, manual way.
Network Operator Time is quite literally the first option I enable on a new S60 device. I love not having to worry about daylight savings time or landing in a new time zone.
The only problem with Network Operator Time is when changing time zones the calendar information changes. I got burned when I didn’t put my airline flight times in the subject portion of the calendar entry, but only in the start and end times. By not using Network Operator Time and manually changing the time when moving between time zones my calendar entries don’t get screwed up.