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Symbian platform: UIQ
Review first published in:
Palmtop User magazine, issue
6
 You have to hand it to them, the folks at
SplashData turn out some pretty polished applications. This is their first for
Symbian, a port of their well known SplashPhoto for UIQ devices such as the
P800. It's true that UIQ comes with a basic image browser, Pictures, but it's
inflexible, slow and large images can't be panned around at full zoom
(especially annoying for scanned-in maps).
SplashPhoto sorts out everything that's wrong or missing
in Pictures. There's a choice of no less than four browsing modes (file list,
small thumbnails with details, large thumbnails and '12 to a page'), all of
which work well. Viewing a photo always happens full-screen and tapping and
holding gives full control, including a 'Zoom to 100%' function. With this last
activated, panning around million pixel maps is made fast and easy. Perhaps
most importantly of all, the decoding of JPG images is much faster than
Pictures and you can navigate a full-screen slide-show almost as fast as you
can turn the Jog Dial.
About the only downside is the way that extra photos added
by the supplied SplashPhoto Desktop end up in a different folder to those for
Pictures, but both are scanned by SplashPhoto and most users will perceive
their albums as seamless. Usefully, registered users of the Palm OS version can
switch platforms and use their existing registration codes. $30, from
www.splashdata.com |
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