if you haven't been following my experience with the Nokia 6500 Classic, I recommend checking out the preview and start from there. For those of you who did read that, I've followed up and rounded up my take on the OS and overall performance of the phone and will go into detail of some of its strengths and weaknesses.
Active Standby
when active standby is turned on
There are four rows that can be selected and each row is highly customizable, giving you a vast freedom and control over what you want to see on the default page. Also it's relatively simple to customize the feel of this home page directly from there by not more than 2 clicks, which is great in the sense that doesn't require the user to go digging in the menus to try to find the appropriate settings.
Most likely one of the these rows is set to be the shortcut bar, which is equivalent to the s60 active standby apps. The small screen can only fit 5 shortcuts at a time, but this standby is dynamic, meaning that if you keep pressing left or right, they well scroll accordingly and you can select a 6th shortcut in there as well, which is a great feature. This is a significant omission on S60 phones (most notoriously the E90 with its internal screen) that don't utilize the space they have for adding additional shortcuts to the active standby, and yet S40 in general allows you to have scrollable shortcuts for applications in their smaller screens.
When active standby is turned off
Pressing any direction will directly take you to designated operations or applications when the shortcuts are disabled and can be accessed indirectly when the active standby is on. This can be setup in the settings of the phone.
The left and right softkeys are also customizable.
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