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As a Music device the 5800 performs brilliantly and 5th edition’s iteration of the S60 UI is surprisingly easy to understand and navigate, same thing can be expected for the soon-to-be-released N97. One thing that stands out though is the scrolling bar and the lack of scrolling arrows. On the 5800 XpressMusic, the scrolling bar is this thin bar placed at the edge of the screen: perfect for the included Plectrum or Stylus, but sadly isn’t as finger friendly.
Just as the on-screen keyboard can be switched to accommodate the input method, so should their be an option to change the scrolling bar to accommodate the good ol’ fingers. A wider scroll bar would not only help making scrolling a lot easier, but also alleviate the feeling of having to touch a very thin bar placed close to the screen’s edge. Another thing missing are scrolling arrows. Let’s take the Music Player as an example. Here, I sometimes like to use the scrolling bar to scroll through the various artist or songs, but with a library that consists of thousands of songs, a slight movement on the scrolling bar will have you flying through your list. Sure, you could always use the search function, but that beats the purpose of being able quickly browsing through your songs and finding something that you like. The scrolling bar is handy to quickly go through songs at speed, while arrows keys make it more easy narrow down your choice.
Would a wider scrolling bar and scrolling arrows make navigating the 5800’s menu much easier?
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I can’t say that i’ve ever had a problem getting ahold of the scroll bar with my finger, but the option to make it wider certainly would make sense for those that need it. As far as the scrolling arrows though, you can already tap above or below the bar to move up or down a screen at a time. I know there’s no visible arrows as such, but it does work
I think what the music list needs is something similar to the address book or contacts and that is a context driven or alphabetical search list. You type in the first letter or two of the name of the band or artist, or album title and it lists the next letters. It’s works really well in the contacts….
As for a wider scroll bar. I totally agree.
What about a page down button near the bottom that scrolls 9 lines as well?
First of all I have ordered N97 and I can’t wait to get it!!!!
Now that I got that out of way, forget scroll bar, Nokia has to implement touch interface in S60 not just (Duck tapped) build on top of it
Flicking between songs, kinetic scrolling and so on… More user friendly…
Where is innovation in S60 (maybe 5 years ago)