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admin [Member] in response to: My biggest gripe, by far, with Symbian OS

admin [Member] — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:01:52 +0000

At this point it is something that should be "resolved" (I am sure Symbian/Nokia thought/thinks this is a feature, not a bug) by the open source community, as Symbian doesn't belong to Nokia anymore.

Either way, this issue was one of the reasons why I sold my Nokia E72, as I explained in my last post.

I don't see myself buying another Symbian device until this is changed.

bbs [Visitor] in response to: My biggest gripe, by far, with Symbian OS

bbs [Visitor] — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:11:14 +0000

Same for me. I am really annoyed by this. While lost phone calls are displayed when you unlock the phone, alarms are simply gone.

I am also not very confident that Nokia will remove any bugs from Symbian. They simply ignored my comments in the past already.

JS [Visitor] in response to: My biggest gripe, by far, with Symbian OS

JS [Visitor] — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:25:38 +0000

@ Shak
My reminders are in silent, but I keep the vibrating alert. This is just as annoying, as it keeps going off whenever a calender entry comes up.
@Nokia
One vibration, as for an sms or an email, would be enough. Why can't this be changed as a setting?

admin [Member] in response to: My biggest gripe, by far, with Symbian OS

admin [Member] — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:30:56 +0000

I can only agree. PIM in general is plain awful on current Symbian devices, and light years away from appropriate for a smartphone.

Hopefully things will get better [much much] better with Symbian^4.

Greg [Visitor] in response to: My biggest gripe, by far, with Symbian OS

Greg [Visitor] — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:19:42 +0000

I completely agree! This is THE most infuriating thing about my E71.

I use Outlook 2007 and enter hundreds of all day events which become memos when synced with my E71. I normally attach an alarm zero minutes before the all day event, so that when I turn my PC on in the morning, any missed events pop up.

Unfortunately, if I am away with work and switch my phone on after a good night's sleep, I get no reminder alarms for any of those all day events. What's worse is that I normally don't see a display of the all day events/memos on my E71 until all my timed appointments for the day have ended!

It is like adding insult to injury; not telling me about an event in the morning, and then letting me know once the day is done!

This is a shocking flaw for a 'smartphone'.

admin [Member] in response to: My biggest gripe, by far, with Symbian OS

admin [Member] — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:29:01 +0000

I did not mention it in my post, but I am not sure if this is a Nokia or a Symbian issue.

But if, as you say, it is a Nokia "feature" then the request should be done to Nokia, not Symbian, shouldn't it?

Brendan [Visitor] in response to: My biggest gripe, by far, with Symbian OS

Brendan [Visitor] — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:36:02 +0000

Symbian does not have an 'inability' to display alarm notifications, that's just preposterous. It's a design decision made by Nokia. The best thing for you to do would be put this on ideas.symbian.org, I suspect it will get great support.

admin [Member] in response to: My biggest gripe, by far, with Symbian OS

admin [Member] — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:16:44 +0000

@Shak: you are absolutely right in that even most featurephones leave a dialog open informing you of any missed alarms/appointments, which of course makes Symbian's inability to do so even more aggravating.
I have mentioned this issue in several forums, starting from several years ago, and have never received a response of any kind from S60 users that would indicate that this is a problem for them, which makes me think that most of them have either a) never used another platform or b) only use their S60 phones for calling, playing games, and listening to music (but you don't need to a buy a smartphone for that, do you?).
But Symbian/Nokia(?) should know better. Much better, if they truly want to be in the "smartphone" league.

@Olbow: like you I tried all 3rd party apps but to no avail.
Let's hope Nokia fixes this.
But, to be honest, after all these years I am not very optimistic about it; if they have not changed it until now there is little reason to think they consider it to be problem to begin with, which makes you wonder if they depend on their own phones at all for PIM related tasks...