Be able to tell the time wherever you are in S60: TimeBar
By Stefan Constantinescu on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 2:03 PM PST In Ideas and rants, Symbian
S60 3.2 fixes a fault that all other previous versions of S60 has: you can’t tell what time it is unless you switch to the standby screen. I present you with TimeBar. Looks like this application gives you a clock where you expect it to be, plus has the ability to notify you on the hour, every hour, of the time. For those of you who miss digital watches that beeped twice at the start of every hour, consider this one way to relive those long forgotten years.
I haven’t tried it yet, but the Symbian Weblog says it’s good to go, let me know!
I’m interested to know about this GrooveLab icon you’ve got there.
Ricky, that’s groove labyrinth.
BTW, this is a screeny from Bery’s phone
This is great!! Lol and I thought I was the only dunce that would go back to the standby screen to check the time.
nice idea but poor realisation, it gets in the way of things way too much, right now on the browser there isnt one place that i can put it that doesnt block an indicator
Be able to tell the time wherever you are. Let’s drop “in S60″ from the end of the sentence. Then it would be an interesting feature. Device Checks GPS or Cell ID and changes time of the device to match local time.
Go and write IPR:-) jounis.free.tips.com or maybe this is already inside 60% of the phones on the market.
Jouni: That is actually called Network Operator time. It is already in S60, S40 and many other mobile phone operating systems. Ussually it is turned off by default, no idea why, I love turning on my phone after landing and having the right time set, not to mention I don’t have to worry about turning the clock back an hour or forward an hour depending on the season.
Darla: I usually just hit and hold the Symbian key and use HandyTaskman to get the time and date. You should try that too.
Stefan, Is that network based system really working? Sorry to skeptic about telco stuff. There is millions of rows telco requirement code which is not used anywhere. Think about those people and their wasted lives. Writing code for nothing:-(
I remember seen those settings somewhere. Somewhere between WV IM, OMA PoC, Bar code reader, home media, internet tel, 3D tones, voice comms, device manager, welcome and help icons. Somewhere there lost in the middle of functions I have never needed and never will.
Jouni: been using it for several years all over the states and it has worked on my Eurotrips too! it’s in the time and date menu settings, last option.
Does this app support 2nd Edition?
Wow, this functionality is well overdue.
This has been bothering me a lot lately when I’m using the productivity side of things in stolen moments at the hospital…