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I know that the privacy screen is their intent but I question the usefulness of it.
As it stands you only get 5 widgets on the main homescreen. If you include e-mail, shortcuts and calendar, that only leaves 2 widgets. If you include weather (which I assume most people would), that leaves 1 widget of functionality compared to regular Active Standby on other Nokias.
In fact, using widgets to recreate Active Standby (shortcuts, email, calendar, etc) is actually less useful than active standby because the widgets take up so much room, you don't get access to as many shortcuts or multiple e-mail inboxes. Sure you can add a second shortcut box, or a second e-mail widget (actually can you ? It is not in the emulator, nor have I seen it in the "Add Content" popup in any of these videos) to replicate Active Standby but then you have one less widget space (i.e. no room for facebook, or bloomberg or ap news).
It would make MUCH more sense (IMO), to allow for two screens of widgets, that way I can have my core stuff on one page and the other stuff (FB, Twitter, whatever) on the second page.
If my boss is that interested in my phone (I mean really - how often is this going to be an issue) and I don't want him to see my facebook or OVI contacts, I just keep him on my "shorcuts/email/calendar/weather" screen.
I used to criticize Active Standby because you didn't really as many options as Windows Mobile and until Handy Shell there was little to NO third party support for plugins. However, this widget based homescreen with just space for 5 widgets is a step back in my eyes. I actually yearn for Active Standby.
As it stands you only get 5 widgets on the main homescreen. If you include e-mail, shortcuts and calendar, that only leaves 2 widgets. If you include weather (which I assume most people would), that leaves 1 widget of functionality compared to regular Active Standby on other Nokias.
In fact, using widgets to recreate Active Standby (shortcuts, email, calendar, etc) is actually less useful than active standby because the widgets take up so much room, you don't get access to as many shortcuts or multiple e-mail inboxes. Sure you can add a second shortcut box, or a second e-mail widget (actually can you ? It is not in the emulator, nor have I seen it in the "Add Content" popup in any of these videos) to replicate Active Standby but then you have one less widget space (i.e. no room for facebook, or bloomberg or ap news).
It would make MUCH more sense (IMO), to allow for two screens of widgets, that way I can have my core stuff on one page and the other stuff (FB, Twitter, whatever) on the second page.
If my boss is that interested in my phone (I mean really - how often is this going to be an issue) and I don't want him to see my facebook or OVI contacts, I just keep him on my "shorcuts/email/calendar/weather" screen.
I used to criticize Active Standby because you didn't really as many options as Windows Mobile and until Handy Shell there was little to NO third party support for plugins. However, this widget based homescreen with just space for 5 widgets is a step back in my eyes. I actually yearn for Active Standby.
