The video and audio quality is DECENT at best. Thank my Canon Powershot A510 for that. It’s great at doing photos, never knew it would be this bad at video however.
All that aside now, I made a blog post earlier citing that the calculator built into S60v3 is quite bad. The UI is cumbersome. Mark from the Nokia Blog left a comment and told me to check out Calcium … I’m in love.
This application is user interface design at it’s finest. Screenshots couldn’t do it justice so I just made a quick little video. You can download the AVI (20 MB) directly or just watch this embedded flash:
I love their example, it really is something the guys at Nokia should strive for:
Try this simple example: start the standard calculator and do 2/3 x 7. It takes 13 clicks. Using Calcium it only takes 6!
I know for a fact that Palm had a tap counter working for them. His job was literally to count the number of taps it took to get something done. Nokia should get a similar expert for click counting.
Thanks for the recommendation Mark!
UPDATE: Message I’m trying to bring home with this video is that little interface modifications like this go a long way in to improving the user experience. The calculator built in to S60 sure does a lot more, but it looks like a Windows 3.1 application. mtvoid made calculations sexy, and using the joystick in this fashion, in my honest opinion, makes things easier.