Firmware and user-end variables
Written by Des
I’m on my second Cocoon, the first wasn’t much cop to be honest. the battery kept going flat if I used the ‘phone for more than three minutes - hardly the five hours talk time as promised. O2 were really cool about this and dispatched a new one instantly so I didn’t loose any time.
My new Cocoon however, is brilliant. I love it. I love the look, feel and usablitiy of it, almost the usability, actually. Here’s why it’s an almost…
The LED display is nice, but I’m the sort of bloke who wants to be able to turn it off, and certainly want to have a greater sense of control over the brightness of the lights when using it as my bedside clock. Even turned right down, it’s still way too bright.
The music player. It would be good if you could disable that from time to time, rather than have to go through the rigmarole of choosing the FM Radio through the menu without a headset connected to turn it off.
I’d like louder speakers and different skins for the UI. I’d like to have the option of setting the vibrtae to a much firmer setting and to be able to turn the ring tunes up to be audible when out and about, or sitting in a quite room…
I’d really like to know if there are plans for a firmware updates? Will we be able to upgrade our software during the life of our contracts? I do hope so.
All in all, a truely cracking phone, but it has some issues that need ironing out.
Des
PS - During the installation of the software, I was adviced to install Windows Media Player 11 as it’ll be the only way I can get music on my phone. What rot. Scrap the deal with Microsoft and give us firmware updates and software applications to really make this design icon outshine the iPhone
- 1 votes, average: 4 out of 5
Hi Des,
I am part of the team that launched the Cocoon at O2. I am pleased to read that you love the phone – it makes our jobs at worthwhile and it was our vision for Cocoon
Also thanks for your feedback on the phone and its usability, we will certainly take this on board.
Unfortunately there are no plans to update the firmware at the present time, the phone was not developed with the capability in mind – however this is certainly something we will look into for future phones.
In relation to advice given in the user manual to install Windows Media Player 11, this is merely so that users can get the most out of the Cocoon – we specifically developed the phone to utilise the very best of the WMP11 release. However it still works perfectly fine with other releases and the phone can also be used as storage device so that you could ‘drag and drop’ music on the phone. You could always try MediaMonkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/) which is a WMP replacement and should work with Cocoon.
I trust this answers your questions.
Thanks again.
Stuart