Video: Awesome Belle Skin for S60 Phones
Now that everyone is getting Belle (including the Nokia 500) why not S60 users on the 5800? Well here’s an app that can give you the full Belle experience, including up to six home screens, shortcuts & widgets, Belles pull down status bar and much more… Unfortunately similar to SPB shell this runs on top of the default ui as a separate application meaning it eats up alot of ram; up to you to decide if it’s worth it though.
If you have any install problems or the program does not start, please read here how to fix it: http://goo.gl/T7AGT
Application launcher with 3 to 6 home screens. You can place shortcuts (including folders) and widgets on the home screens. There is also a pull-down panel that allows quick access to the LED flashlight, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and silent profile. The widgets include digital and analogue clock, calendar, contact and profile widget. You can arrange widgets at will.
Note: get the free Nokia Evolve theme from the store for better icons.
Note: this IS NOT Symbian Belle – it just looks similar to it.Belle Shell app works on all Symbian 5th edition phones: Nokia 5800, Nokia 5230, Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia C6, Nokia X6, Nokia 5530
Get this app form the Nokia store here: http://store.ovi.com/content/251264
Thanks to Deep Space Bar for the tip.
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WoW! Cool… but a paid app
I would say… Looks amazing… and only 2 EUR!
free here:
http://www.nokiavnn.com/2012/02/belle-shell-1010-s60v5-symbian3-signed.html
it’s funny how Qt can run this so that means symbian be be light enough to run specially the addition of Qt..i also take it that Carla will be built heavily on Qt as well to reduce Code and usage of RAM and CPU speed and as well battery life
works well, smooth effect, but too bad it uses more than 25mb Ram… crashed three times for me already.. and pressing end key sends me back to original homescreen… perhaps a few updates might make it better maybe.. more optimized to eat less ram on these old 128mb ram devices.. atleast until we buy nokia 808
now you know what Qt is capable of doing for symbian
S60V5… I’ve never seen a worst mobile OS than that!
How could have Nokia developed something that bad?
THAT OS is the REAL responsable for Nokia strugling nowadays, that OS was the one that made people see Nokia as an outdated company, and that OS is the responsable for the fact that Symbian is dead nowadays. (Of course not the OS itself, but the ones who developed it and let it go to the market).
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That Nokia developed isn’t that bad, that they released it, and kept releasing it on more and more phones all on such bad HW, like resistive screens, underpowered CPU’s and generally too little RAM.
I truly believe that S60v5 is what has driven a lot of people away from Nokia. Especially around the time of the N97. People that jumped on that with a 2 year contract have only been free of that contract since june/july/september of last year!! No wonder Android and iOS have been on the rise.
Had an N97 Mini myself, eventhough it wasn’t the abomination that the N97 Classic was it still sucked bad. But still I bought an N8 after that, was a breath of fresh air compared to the N97, for a few months only though. Only the camera on the thing kept me satisfied until I decided to break my normal routine of 1 phone every year just to get a Lumia 800 on release date.
Eventhough the Lumia lacks some things I would like to have and battery life isn’t stellar, it is the best Nokia I’ve had. EVER! Eventhough the 3310 of yesteryear comes a very close second :p
This is so freaking true. Freaking. I have a gut feeling that everytime a Nokia official sees an S60 v5 device they’ll drop their head down in shame.
I get the worst migraines looking at S60V5 demoes. It’s worse when you see the context of the handsets available when this was released. It was and is an embarrassment. And yes, this is something we were saying LONG before Elop ever became CEO and WP was even a thought in the mind. The sheer fact that S^3 looked significantly similar didn’t help and gave a lot of wrong impressions (in addition to several things still not being fixed and up to standard.).
There were key important things smartphones needed to do. Good touch screen fluid interfaces as you’re using the phone ALL THE TIME.
Good keyboards as this is HOW YOU’RE GOING TO COMMUNICATE.
Good browser as this is HOW YOU WILL MOST LIKELY ACCESS THE INTERNET.
Good email as this is HOW MANY COMMUNICATE (in addition to needing a variety of good social clients).
Great stability is what people expect. No crashing, no slow down over time, no freezing.
All these things at launch of S^3 N8 was not fixed and some still aren’t.
Fix the basics first. The things people care about.
N900. Keyboard physical, on screen keyboard not a problem.
N900. Web browser amazing.
N900. Stable. Didn’t need as much resetting (only if you tinkered with unofficial apps really).
N900. Awesome UI. Fluid and fast for its time.
N900. Email – well it was ok until the last few months and I couldn’t access it anymore. Dunno what went wrong there.
So, N900 in 2009 was already the modern smartphone experience. And then we regressed in some ways back to S^3. What’s up with that? Yeah imaging was great, some multimedia features were awesome. But day to day, it was not as pleasant to use given the expectations Nokia had already given me with the N900, the first proper modern Nokia smartphone in a long time since the likes of 7650, 6600, N93, N95, N82.
Bro S60v5 is a UI and application platform not OS it runs on symbian OS releases (older versions not symbian ^3) However yeah this s60 v5 is the culprit that brought so much shame to symbian and also disgraced the legacy of s60 upto s60 v3 which was a not touch UI … they were the best UI but all changed with touch screenand s60 v5 rather than continuing with the glorious past brought a bag of shame.
guys, check out this website, u can download here free.
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You sure you can link to a warez site?
Cheers, link removed.
People just don’t know how to use a real Smartphone OS. I’ve been using S^1 from past 2.3 years and it even leaves Android 2.1 in the dust. I’ve got HTML5, good apps., games and everything that I need. Every year I get 2 SW updates and the performance has improved a lot. Even for S60v5 users…iOS and WP are a step back in usability(no sending of files over bluetooth, no file manager). But eyecandy is missing. WP is awesome! Just waiting for the missing features to be added.
I wonder how can you deal with those S^1 resistive screens! I mean, they are VERY VERY VERY BAD!
Well, it does look and feel awesome! I never should have guessed that something so Belle-like can run on S60v5 crappy phone so smoothly. Kudos for porting Qt components to S60v5 phones – Nokia refuses to do so!
That being said, the RAM consumed is about 25-30 MB. I guess this is the price for the smooth operation (and the reason why Nokia opted not to port the Belle interface to the older phones). If the developer wants, he probably could write it in C++ only instead of QML/C++ as it is obviously implemented now, and it will use a lot less RAM. However this is really hard to do and I doubt that anyone will spend 5-6 months on this for the dying out S60v5 devices.
Also, you have just to take a look at the reviews on Nokia Store to see that the huge problems with Qt libraries and Smart Installer is still there. In at least 20-30% or the tame the Smart Installer fails to install the Qt libraries when a Qt-based program is installed. And in the end, both the user and the developer are frustrated and angry. Nokia MUST have released one last firmware update for all S60v5 phones with integrated Qt libraries. This is especially big problem with the phones with small size of disk C: as the Qt libraries must be installed on disk C:.
QtMobility and Qt libraries should be installed on phone memory not Memory card….
You need 20mb free space on C\ to do the installation.
Why my Nokia 5800 can’t search it on Nokia Store? I’m in Indonesia
If this is Qt-based…I guess there is no enough space for me to install Qt in my legacy N97…
Download this belle shell and see screen shots here