5800 v40: Kudos to Nokia

They gave us the new homescreen!

We asked nicely, and today, V40 for the 5800 came out, with the new 5530 style homescreen and kinetic scrolling. Awesome?

Also as you can see, the transparency for it doesn’t work if you’re using the default Sound waves theme, so I suggest using Stripes Blue from the 5530.

Transparency where there should be.

Almost the same but better compatible with the new firmware. (Transparencies where there should be, darker blue for the “click” highlight. If you have no idea what that is, it looks like this with the default theme, instead of just blue like it should be.)

Other noteworthy things:

• Is it my impression or does waiting for the Click highlight causes operation to get just a little slower?
• New version of Software Update (Uses the toolbar for update, info and history buttons)
• On the dialer, the middle toolbar button, Contacts, has a ridiculously small icon when you haven’t typed anything.
• No landscape alphanum keypad anymore, and the qwerty option only appears on landscape, so they’re mutually exclusive and considered a single one options wise. Nice touch.
• Capslock now has its own icon on the *Pencil* Abc area.
• Hitting keys now shows the letter you hit over it, iPhone style.
• You know the image shown when the music player didn’t find album art if the theme doesn’t have any set up? They changed that from a pink jacket to a silver CD.
• New icons for Share Online, Accessory Config (that thing is still around wtf) and I think App Settings under Settings-Phone but can’t be sure.
• Data Transfer (phone switch whatever) now is in the root of settings.
• New zoom icon in the browser. (old was just a circled plus I think)

Also, it’s unhackeable with HelloOX 2.03!

Unfortunately I found that the hard way, updated it, it got super slow, formatted it and learned I couldn’t hack it anymore. orz. I can’t be bothered in signing most of the stuff I use, including SuperScreenshot. (notice I used SmartphoneWare’s Best Screen Snap for most of those (still no .png option and no way to disable the camera sound? wtf?) but I digress.) Maybe later. So yeah, kudos to Nokia, but why they got to hate teh hacking? :(

Also yeah will update the post if I notice anything else.

Update Jan 15:

• When you just recorded a video, the middle toolbar button is upload, not send anymore. Bad change.
• When the phone’s ringing with the screen locked, you get an interesting new screen. Not sure if I like it but it’s cool looking.

I think you're supposed to slide along the path, but dunno.

Also from what I’ve read, the same thing that happened on the N97 V20 happened here, so I doubt I’ll ever be able to hack the phone again D: