Small, but it's nice. This is similar to the Nokia Gallery's scroller. FSCaller's full screen caller image has now been included as a built-in feature. This makes caller identification easier. Besides it looks cooler! Personal pictures can be used to personalize your theme.
There is a neat slideshow screensaver. Also the wallpaper has similar slideshow functionality. I don't remember the name of the app that used to support this. Users of S60 are very aware of BestProfiles in which you can set time limits and alarms for your profiles to change. This also has been embedded into FP2, you can set a timer for profiles, so the phone for silent for one hour and then it goes back to general profile automatically. Very use full. Web Browsers are the most used application in S60, as browsing is extremely popular and everyone loves to download media files.
Currently if you download a music or video file, you have to wait until file is completely downloaded and only then can you open and play it. FP2 supports progressive downloading from browser which allows for instant playback during downloading. Sort of like streaming links. I've never seen these features, especially the streaming download, in a SmartPhone app before! It's more like it was brought from the DAP software for Windows!!
As if that wasn't enough Downloading function has also other improvements. Images are chosen from the Images folder and any sub-folders in the phone's internal memory. You can pick a tone from the audio files in the phone's memory or on the memory card. When you've finished, you can preview and save the theme.
Once it's saved, Theme DIY automatically offers to open the standard S60 Themes menu so you can activate the new theme immediately. One slightly annoying thing but perhaps beyond the developer's control is that you can't edit a theme you're currently using, you have to go to the S60 Themes app and switch to something else.
Fortunately, ThemeDIY's main menu includes an option to go there directly. The main problem with any kind of computer wallpaper is text brightness, and as you can see above Theme DIY's themes are no exception. Interesting images are very rarely entirely light or entirely dark, with the result that text is almost illegible in some parts while completely legible in others.
Of course, much of the responsibility for choosing an appropriate image lies with the user, but Theme DIY's Templates system forces you to choose a single text brightness. Dark text won't be readable on dark parts of the image, while light text won't be readable on light parts, so the inflexible templates make life more difficult than it should be. It's worth noting that S60's built-in default theme shown above actually uses different font colours in the same theme, but Theme DIY forces you to use the same colour font throughout.
Using the Fade option for the menu screen background usually helps, but there is no fade option for the standby or music player background. It would have been far nicer to have the option of choosing font colours and shades directly, and being able to choose different colours for different parts of the screen, instead of having just six unalterable colour templates.
Obviously there's an ease of use question, templates are much much easier than manipulating several different font colours, but it would have been nice to have the option there for advanced users.
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