SBSH SafeWallet 1.2 for S60 5th edition

by Suraj on October 29, 2009

in Business, Mini Review, Utilities

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Mini Review

We reviewed SafeWallet 1.1 a few months back. A new version is available with many improved features and support for Symbian S60 5th edition touch devices. Lets see how it is.

SafeWallet lets you create and maintain private information in multiple Wallets and each Wallet can be protected by different passwords. You can create several Folders in each Wallet with each folder carrying many Cards.

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In the earlier version, if a Wallet is open and you send the application to the background, it doesn’t auto-lock. The new version locks automatically when its pushed to the background. It also locks up after a few minutes, which can be configured. This is not an issue if if only the application is open but all Wallets are closed.

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SafeWallet lets you create custom templates of Cards so that they can be used again later.

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The PC Companion now has a quick search panel and windows-like shortcuts that’s very useful. The PC Companion now allows to import a simple CSV file. Now I can see a confirmation from the PC Companion that the sync process has been successful. The lack of it was a weakness which I pointed out in the earlier review.

Single-tap all the way

What I liked most was that the SafeWallet developers have almost eliminated the infamous single tap-double tap issue of S60 5th edition. Every operation within SafeWallet can be achieved with a single click. It took me a while to get used to but I really appreciate this. That’s a great design decision.

It seems to me that the developers have added the code that does the “second tap” where ever the OS needs it, preempting the user from having to do it. But the second tap becomes one too many in one situation. When SafeWallet is open and a you enter a password to open a Wallet, the OK to set the password causes a double tap, I guess and this also opens the first folder inside the Wallet, which is Favorites.  I can live with it :)

But all is not well with version 1.2.

SafeWallet crashed on me a few times when I was editing a Card. In the edit mode, selecting the option to edit a field caused SafeWallet to crash, consistently. Initially I though it was due to lack of RAM and closed all applications. But the crash persisted. I observed this on both my S60 5th edition device and the S60 3rd edition FP 1 device, a Nokia E71.

Creating custom templates on the mobile is good but I didn’t understand why the card has to be in edit mode to save it as a template. The “Save as Template” option was never available in the read mode.  Though the custom templates were available on the mobile, they were never synced back to the PC Companion.

Finally, I could never edit a Card on the Nokia 5800, the S60 5th device with SafeWallet 1.2!! When I selected a Card and pressed edit, I got into the edit mode but was not able to open up any of the handwriting modes. But on the  E71, I could edit existing Cards and create new Cards.

Every operation inevitably caused the “Loading” page to come up. It was too annoying to observe this page even for minor operations like navigation.

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Download

SBSH SafeWallet can be downloaded here.

Conclusion

If you already have SafeWallet, I’d suggest you want until all these issues are fixed before upgrading to version 1.2 even though you get a free upgrade. I didn’t find many improvements to be implemented well.

SafeWallet is ideally suited for kinetic scrolling. Navigation through th Wallet-Folders-Card structure would have been much easier with kinetic scrolling.

With quite a few hiccups, my experience with version 1.2 wasn’t great. This version is worth a look but I’ll wait for the next version. I’ll give it 3 of 5.

Rating 3.00 out of 5

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