vMenu For Symbian S60 5th Edition Review
wp-image-12921" title="vMenu review" src="http://www.n97i.info/sites/default/files/gms/2010/03/vMenu-review-01-300x300.jpg" alt="vMenu review" />Lets not beat about the bush. vMenu is designed to make your S60 5th Edition phone look and feel more like an Apple iPhone. Specifically, the iPhone’s default screen – an app launcher that lists all your available apps and can be paged through with the flick of a finger. Find out how we got on with our Vmenu For Symbian S60 5th Edition..
This is not the place for an in-depth look at the iPhone interface, but suffice to say that it has its good points and bad points just as the S60 interface does. One of the things that is fairly easy to like is the easy way you can flick between pages of apps – kinetic scrolling with a light stroke of the finger. Compare that to the often frustrating experience of using the tiny scroll bar at the screen’s edge to zip through a list of apps on (e.g.) an N97 and you could be forgiven for wanting to see how the other half lives.
With the app running the raised ‘apps’ key on your phone will take you straight into a multi-page listing of app icons which can be scrolled left and right with a single finger. vMenu does, it has to be said, have the kinetic scrolling absolutely down pat. Everything feels just like its iPhone inspiration, and the look is pretty much spot on too – even down to the tiny white dots that indicate the current page. We hope Apple don’t take too dim a view of this, for the developer’s sake.
Being a virtual clone of the iPhone’s UI menas that vMenu is also suscepotible to one of that interface’s major criticisms – the lack of organization and configurability. One of the great things about the standard Nokia apps menu is that it is easy to create subfolders to organise your apps. You can quickly create folders for games, communications apps, etc. and this can make trawling through a lot of apps much easier. Not so with vMenu which – just like the iPhone – chucks all your eggs in the same unwieldy basket. Apps are mixed up with system functions and games and it is often difficult to find what you are looking for. It is possible to rearrange and even hide icons, but the lack of any kind of sub folders or the ability to group apps together is a problem.
vMenu does have one trick up its sleeve though and it is one that the iPhone wouldn’t know what to do with if it fell over it – a task manager. Unlike the iPhone, your Nokia is quite happy to let you multitask your apps, and you need a way of managing them. If you hold down the apps button a task bar will glide out from the edge of the screen. You can tap the running app icons to switch tasks, or close tasks down by dragging their icons into a large red ‘Off’ switch in the middle of the screen.
We did have one major gripe with vMenu – after we installed it we noticed another app called ‘vApps’ had appeared on our application list. This appears to be an app installer with a catalogue of available programs. Unfortunately the titles and descriptions of the programs were garbled (possibly due to being in the Cyrillic alphabet) so we couldn’t tell what we would be installing. Either way, not a welcome addition and one that teeters on the edge of being malware.
Putting aside the problems with the distribution method, though, vMenu is a solid little app and one that does make navigating long lists of apps more pleasant, just as long as you don’t require too much organisation.
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Price: Free
Size: 0.286 MB
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