DISQUS

Rita El Khoury · 2 years ago

This time you went before me, Zach. I have been searching for a great profiles application for quite a while now, tried all of them (there are 4 i think: bestprofiles, autoprofiles, handyprofiles and smartprofiles). Each has its good and its bad.

But after I while, I decided it was going to be between the simplicity of autoprofiles or the usability of handyprofiles. I finally fell for the 2nd because of one little flaw: auto profiles doesn't allow activation of profiles overnight (i already made this same comment on ricky's blog when he posted his review). You cannot set a profile (like silent) to activate between 10pm and 7am, it always tells you the deactivate time is before the activate time. Quite stupid if you ask me.

plus handy profiles is much more integrated: you can create new profiles and customize ur profiles through it, without switching to Nokia's original profiles application.

give it a go, zach, it's not bells and whistles (unless u use its location based profile changes, which i don't), it's simple and efficient :D i know you'll like it.

zach · 2 years ago

Thanks for the comment Rita! :)

Definitely check out the latest version of Auto Profiles (2.00). My guess is that you might have tested an older version because I have a bunch of profile change scheduled between those times with no problem. Or maybe it was the device you were using?

I'll still check out the Handy app but this one is working so well for me and takes up such a tiny amount of RAM that I'll likely just stick with it.

Darren · 2 years ago

Hi, iv switched over from Best Profiles, and love Auto Profiles!
By the way, what theme are the above screen used in?

Best regards from Belfast.
Darren.

zach · 2 years ago

Welcome from Belfast and thanks for your comment Darren! :)

The theme pictured above is called Reflect by Psiloc - definitely one of my all-time favs!

merlin · 2 years ago

Not convince by this one... Far too basic I think. One feature I really like in BestProfiles is all "one time timed activation" menu. I mean you can activate at a certain time, or activate now for a certain amount of time. I looked at Epocware's Handy Profiles and you can only activate now for a certain time, and that's essentially what's keeping me from switching from BestProfiles.

But I reckon HandyProfiles is better integrated into the phone than BestProfiles seems to... Oh well, I will just give it another try and perphaps switch this time...
If only there was an in HandyProfile option to turn it off too...

zach · 2 years ago

Thanks for the comment merlin :)

It's definitely a matter of preference and I love that there are a bunch of apps to choose from. For me, I wasn't using any of the added functionality of Best Profiles anymore so this is right up my alley - VERY simple to setup and works with no issues. I'll still check out Handy Profiles at some point but all I need is schedule-based changing and calendar-based changing so Auto Profiles is perfect.

merlin · 2 years ago

I understand and respect your choice, as always. In fact I'm glad you're here to give impressions of apps you try. You made me actually re-think about my choice of using BestProfiles (that one I bought after reading a review here ;-)).
I'm now using Handy Profiles, it feels less "overkill", and I can cope with the few features I left behind in the transition.
You're on AutoProfiles and that's okay; the more choice, the better...and I'm not even thinking about the "the more choice, the more SiMo reviews" cause to effect relation :-D

Long life to SiMo, keep it up Zach !

zach · 2 years ago

:) Thanks merlin - I'm definitely going to have to
check out Handy Profiles! I'm glad that you found an
app you're enjoying though; S60 is all about
versatility and options!