Sneak-Preview of F70 (F60 Beta 5)

First of all you might wonder why I still prefer calling F70 as F60 beta 5. Well that's quite simple, F70 is basically built upon the latest stable version of F60. That explains why it still has the same version number.

Anyway, that's the not the big news. The big news is that there are lots of new features coming to F70 and here is a sneak preview to keep you guys occupied for a while.

 

Changelog

• Multiple homescreens
• Lockscreen has been implemented
• Updated application UI
• New clock widget
• Various number of bugfixes
• Code clean-up

I'll probably release F60 beta 5 later this evening or tommorow. Stay tuned and leave a comment below.

A new start

I've rewritten F70 from scratch, so it's not built upon the F60 core which was my first idea. However, to keep you guys updated. These are the very first screenshots from the F70 build.

 

Changelog

This is probably the latest changelog for Beta 3. After this I will release Beta 3 and start working on Beta 4. Here's a list of bugfixes/new features.

• Alarm notification
• Shut down button (click 'OFFLINE')
• When you have no contacts you can instantly create one by clicking 'Add contact'
• Click the weather widget to switch between Fahrenheit / Celcius
• Much sharper welcome screen

Beware of Fantulous!

I decided to give F60 a more "user-centric" feel. I want to give the users a comfortable feeling when using F60, this starts when you turn on your Nokia with F60. I designed a brand-new welcome screen. I hope you like it.

Despite the previous announcement of Phonebook, there's some bad news though. I removed the news widget in order to gain speed/improve loading times. I noticed that the news widget was the cause of major slowdowns. The good news is that you'll barely notice slowdowns anymore and I added a new wallpaper!

Changelog

What's happening guys, here's some more information on the upcoming beta.

• Phonebook has been finished
• Alarms bug has been fixed (the time did not display in the 'Alarms' view)
• Fixed some other bugs

Edit: Bug report - removing contacts is unstable yet

   

Rolling out Beta 2!

A little unexpected? Good, here is beta 2. Please report bugs/suggestions.

• Multiple alarms are supported
• Alarm bug has been fixed (fully operational now, except 'World Clock')
• Speed improvements (the weather widget no longer reloads everytime)
• Ability to between Fahrenheit and Celcius
• Wallpaper bug fixed
• Minor graphic fix in 'Welcome'
• Symbian Anna icons
• Application shortcuts widget
• Kernel has been pushed to version 0.2
  - Booting hierarchy has changed
  - Backgrounding has been improved
• The default wallpaper has been changed

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Mirror: (Google Projects)

Requested: Fahrenheit/Celcius

Thanks to an F60 fan Jone who mentioned me to add the option to choose between Fahrenheit/Celcius. Please keep supporting and posting comments, this will make F60 better.

Changelog

Hope you guys had fun with the beta. I noticed there was a bug that the wallpaper didn't load. But that's fixed already. It'll be shipped with the next beta release. Anyway, here's the next changelog.

• Wallpaper bug fixed
• Minor graphic fix in 'Welcome'
• Symbian Anna will be slightly integrated
• Application shortcuts have been introduced again
• Kernel has been pushed to version 0.2
  - Booting hierarchy has changed
  - Backgrounding has been improved
• The default wallpaper has been changed to bring some life

As it's summer vacation, more updates will come! So stay tuned.

Minor Changelog

Hello folks! No release yet, I'm still working on the "new feature", but I have some other cool news. I'm very glad to announce that the Alarms is almost finished. This was the most complex feature yet. I managed to get all the repeat modes to work!

• Repeat modes have been completed.
• Weather has been fixed.

Beta will be rolled out this weekend.

Flicking through news articles.

I wanted to improve the 'news reading' experience on your Nokia, so I added a new feature called 'Flick Through'. It allows you to literally flick through the latest news articles. I also changed the font to the open-source DroidSans.

Yahoo! Integration. (Updated)

Yahoo integration has been added throughout F60. I'm using an implementation of XPath by Ryan Lovelett to load RSS data with the official RSS 2.0 specifications (read more).

So anyway, here it is:

Changelog

Hello guys, the F60 development is back on track again. I recovered the source files and I'll continue where I left off.

• Font has been updated to the less extensive 'Arial', this will increase overall speed.
• Application transitions have been removed to reduce the loading times drastically.

 

Changelog

• RSS widget has been introduced

Changelog

• Kinetic scrolling API has been introduced *
• Menu has been added

Known bugs & issues:

• Kinetic scrolling is still a bit laggy, it'll be fixed in a future release *
• The scrollbar is not yet relative, however developers can have a container with a max height of 680 pixels, and reload their content when the latest item is reached

Changelog

• Animations have been added throughout F60
• Notification icon is shown when an alarm is active
• 'Swipe' to show the menu has been introduced
• Minor bugs have been fixed
• Menu has been added, QuickBar has been removed
• DS-Digital font has been added under Alarms
• Reorganized file directories

Bugs & known issues:

• Many repeat modes don't work yet, except 'Daily'
• 'Options' menu haven't been implemented yet
• Special characters haven't been implemented yet in the keyboard

Introducing 'Quickbar'

• Quickbar has been added: 5 shortcuts to the menu & applications

Changelog

• Fixed the 'AM/PM' issue in Alarms
• Keyboard has been written from scratch, up to 70% faster
• Switching from uppercase to lowercase goes faster now
• Added 'Repeat' in Alarms
• Minor bugfixes

Today's changelog + First glimpse!

• Keyboard has been added
• Alarm application is almost finished
• Minor bugfixes
• Overall speed improvements

Changelog

Hello folks. I finished some more things today, let's have a look to see what's changed:

• 'Phone' has been added, you can now make calls
• Call logs
• Tooltips on the homescreen
• Improved UI
• Working clock & date

Tomorrow I'll be working on 'Contacts', 'Alarm' and perhaps a few other features.

This is the phone app