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Symbian Anna Impressions Thread

12 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/symbian-anna-impressions-thread.145676/

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tronman10 Original post #1
Aug 28, 2011 at 2:29 AM
Hi Guys,

Now that Symbian Anna is available widely , what are your impressions of the OS ? I think the split screen qwerty keyboard is quite good on my x7.

Lots of overall improvements everywhere. I really like the phone even more with the update.

How has your opinion been ?
Imperial_Raj
Aug 28, 2011 at 10:28 AM
Yeah, very true. This Anna update is really great. My brother has got it on his C7 and it has nearly transformed the whole device into something else. It's quite eye-pleasing and the performance has increased with this update. But, however, for some reasons the switching of homescreens has become a bit sluggish after the update. Otherwise this is overall a great update.
socrates
Aug 28, 2011 at 8:21 PM
@Imperial_Raj Has the battery life improved after the update for the C7?
S
Aug 29, 2011 at 1:39 AM
My experience has not been so good with anna
1. My phone restarts a lot nowadays. And its annoying to the core.
1. Battery life has reduced a little in my opinion.
3. nothing much really added other than the browser change and NFC. Email has changes only related to the colour of the background and a few terms
4. Mainly icon changes which were available before the anna update.

Overall not really happy with anna update. Expected a lot more.
RCuber
RCuber #5
Aug 29, 2011 at 12:33 PM
offtopic: I thought whats the relation of Symbian with Anna Hazare!! :lol:
coderunknown
Aug 29, 2011 at 6:35 PM
@sumit269, do a hard reset. else reinstall the entire OS.
socrates
Aug 29, 2011 at 10:41 PM
Heard that 'Belle' the successor to 'Anna' is due any time now
coderunknown
Aug 29, 2011 at 11:38 PM
^^ where you got that news? Belle was announced & everyone started cooking their own news about it. in realty, it'll be very much like Android in Nexus Series. Nexus S launched with Android 2.3 & N1 getting it after a few months.
S
Aug 30, 2011 at 1:14 AM
hard reset?? cant afford to lose any data now.. and no time for backup and restore at all... btw the hardreset would get my back to symbian^3 rite?
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tronman10 #10
Aug 30, 2011 at 2:03 AM
Keep the power button pressed down for a few seconds, it will buzz three times. Soft reset done. Should fix your problems.
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GERMZ #11
Sep 11, 2011 at 3:08 AM
Thanks for that advise Tronman , worked on my phone as well. Overall i'm quite loving the Anna update. It adds some much needed features improvements.
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GERMZ #12
Sep 14, 2011 at 6:19 PM
Have you guys tried out the splitscreen qwerty keyboard ? The prediction seems to have improved drastically ! I can type without even looking at the keyboard now !