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Be able to tell the time wherever you are in S60: TimeBar

Categories: Ideas and rants, Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 2:03 PM

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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!

About The Author

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.

  • Ricky

    I’m interested to know about this GrooveLab icon you’ve got there.

  • Mr-X

    Ricky, that’s groove labyrinth.

    BTW, this is a screeny from Bery’s phone :wink:

  • Darla

    This is great!! Lol and I thought I was the only dunce that would go back to the standby screen to check the time. :mrgreen:

  • Fernando

    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

  • Jouni

    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.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    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.

  • Jouni

    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.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    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.

  • NZtechfreak

    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…