Nokia blows bubbles over your display

Hello all! Do you remember that song – “I’m forever blowing bubbles in the wind”? Even if you don’t, that still reminds me of this application I want to talk to you a bit about: the  bubbles new application developed by Nokia. Pino told me the other week that the ...

Hello all! Do you remember that song – “I’m forever blowing bubbles in the wind”? Even if you don’t, that still reminds me of this application I want to talk to you a bit about: the  bubbles new application developed by Nokia.

Pino told me the other week that the bubbles are creating some buzz around the blogosphere and I decided to add up to it. I’ll present you in the next few lines my so far relationship to these little soap-like rings.

Before anything else, you should know that the app is an experimental version, therefore many things will go wrong: the installation, sudden crashing, weird colour display at times (at sudden moves it happened to me) or the crash of other apps opened in the background.

I installed the core kit + additionals on my Nokia N8, but for some reason I didn’t get all the bubbles that I should according to these guys: my circles are Key, Speedometer, Flashlight, Friends, Profile and Maps.

The intention of the app is very nice: speeding up your access to whatever interests you. This worked for me only when it came to Maps and the Profile changes.

The Maps bubble gives you two options: either go to the Maps Menu or directly to My Position. This comes in handy when you need to find out quickly where you are, find an important place nearby or set the navigation for your destination.

The Profile bubble is useful when you’re in between meetings or different environments and you need to swap fast between Silent, General or Meeting. It saves you from all the other steps, you just swing the bubble on the screen.

I’m happy to be able to see my position on the map by selecting the corresponding bubble or to switch between different profiles only by a bubble-tap

The bubbles I enjoyed less were again two of them. Contacts, because I can’t decide for which favourites to show up in the bubbles. I’m still traditional on this matter and I prefer going through the agenda and selecting my own. I would have liked the New Message bubble from the core kit to appear on my phone, though!

The other bubble I liked less was Unlock, I’m still quicker unlocking the phone using the slide on the side than going to the bubbles, selecting the key and bringing it to the lock.

There are two more bubbles from a “lighter” category; one of them is completely useless, but catchy: the Speedometer bubble. Made just for fun, to track the speed of your bubbles, it can be a cool little tool when you need some competition with your friends. My top speed is 55.31, anyone beating that?

The other one is the Flashlight bubble: I pleasantly discovered while playing with it how much light my Nokia N8 can shed (I had no idea how to do this before) and it proved already pretty handy when climbing to the high bed at night.

I wish the app could offer me more bubbles though, among which: my music, my photos, the Store, my bookmarked websites, connectivity.

Last and maybe least, the bubbles app gives more character to the phone and it’s good for breaking awkward silence – “Hey, check out my bubbles”, “Wow, what do they do?”.

Did anyone else around try them?



Source : http://blog.ovi.com/2011/02/16/nokia-blows-bubbles...