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Fonts: The most under rated smartphone feature

Categories: Ideas and rants
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, March 26th, 2007 at 3:07 AM

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I went to my local Fry’s (massive electronics store) today and bumped into a friend of mine. He just got a new phone, a BlackBerry Pearl.

The very first thing I noticed was how ugly his fonts were.

S60 and Palm fonts have to be, hands down, the best on the market right now. When you’re staring at a device for hours everyday you kind of want things to be crisp, sharp and pleasing to the eye.

Who is the guy in charge of fonts at S60? Are we going to see any new rendering technologies in later feature packs or versions?

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • JJ

    I find Blackberry font management much more advanced than Nokia S60´s. Blackberry OS supports fonts and font sizes changes. With the Nokia you are stuck with the default (and IMHO too large)font.
    That´s one of the reasons I sold my E61 and got a Blackberry 8800.

  • pavle

    I love fonts on 3rd edition devices :)

  • JonnyBruha

    As it was kinda mentioned by R2, you can change the fonts on the BB Pearl. Granted, none of them are all too different from one another, though having an option to change them at all is better than nothing. The new N-series font that was made available on all screens greater than 176×208 is still as gorgeous as it gets.