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Communicator (Nokia 9210 Emulator) Screenshots Feature: Emulator Notes

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Click on the image to get a bigger picture of the emulator running. From this we can study the keyboard. It is not as good as the Psion keyboard which seems a shame, but then the Nokia is intended (it seems) more as a personal organiser. The arrow keys are a rocker and this is important because they themselves are more important since they are used to navigate around the screen in absence of a touchscreen.

On the left here is a picture of the hard buttons used to indicate which toolbar action you want. In this example by pressing the top button you would activate the Open command (in this case word - see above screenshot). I think this action could become quite inconvenient for a left hander.

On the right is the toolbat/ information screen that appears on the left of all applications. It can be resized (see later screenhots and removed completely in full screen mode in some instances). As you can see it provides an icon and the name of the current application or application group. There is an IR indicator (on/off/connected). There is also a status display for the phone (signal strength), as well as a respresnetation of the battery strength.

The image below are the buttons along the top of the keyboard. These are used to quickly switch to the different application groups and applications. Some of them lead to application groups (such as Office), whil other lead staright to an application (such as messaging).

 


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