I think it is time to introduce a little tool I have been using very often on my phone, especially for the reviews you can read here. ScreenSnap is a small helper application for taking screenshots of your smartphone display. Since there are so many screenshot utilities I just tried out some of them. The one I sticked to was ScreenSnap.
Review conditions
For this review I have been using ScreenSnap Version 1.00 on my Nokia E65.
Installation
ScreenSnap is as usually very easy to install, there is no need to sign it or set up anything special. Just download the file and follow the installation wizard.
Main features
Because ScreenSnap has pretty limited features I will skip the first view and walk over to the main features chapter of our reviews directly. The program does exactly what it is supposed to do. It just
consists of one screen for setting up everything to your needs. Once the app ist started just push the right soft key to hide it. Now you can begin taking screenshots. But before doing that you should set up
a proper shortcut. For my needs the combination of the keys “pencil” and “Ok” does it best. That may be different on other devices than the E65. Some keys like the direction keys cannot be used as a shortcut. You can also choose between different image formats and quality types.
Instead of saving images in a specified path of the phone or the memory card, ScreenSnap also offers the possibility of sending the image directly via bluetooth or email. If you choose this action, you will get asked for the way to send the image directly after taking a screenshot. Furthermore you can enter a prefix for the output files to ident them easily as screenshots in your directory.
Handling
ScreenSnap is very easy and intuitive to use. Since there is just one main screen there is nothing negative to say about that. I don’t know if this could be done better.
Weaknesses
Hard to say something about weaknesses. One thing that I don’t like is that I couldn’t get rid of the sound when taking screenshots. Maybe that issue is paired with the global system sound of the camera. Another weakness could be the few image formats you can choose out of. Jpeg was my choice, but png would be useful.
Conclusion
I don’t know if ScreenSnap is the best software for that purpose, because I didn’t try out too many. But ScreenSnap is free, very lightweight, makes good quality pictures and is easy to use, so I can recommend it without any doubts. 4 of 5 stars.
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& download it from where ? Thank you.
The link is smartphoneware.com
Of course, what a shameful for your boss and your team about poor creation of SHIFT & OK as we (everyone) got FREE download and of course, anyone in team got shameful which you created it for your customers’s sake. I personally got frustrated to try it out for many times. That’s awful for that, so PLEASE make the user’s guide for SCREENSNAP.PDF for your all customers, so that of course, we (everyone) will be happy. Thank you.
Hi mcupert,
I meant that this combination is quite handy for me. You have to hold the pencil key and then press the central-key – I don’t know how to call it – for taking a screenshot. But you will need to set up this shortcut first.
I am using Nokia E51, but i dont understand with your “combination betwen pencil and ok”. I have tried so many times to find out but no result, please help me so…
Thank you..
good