PocketLock- AutoLock Application for Nokia 5800

The battle of Resistive vs Capactive technologies for touchscreens is here to last with each having their own share of advantages and disadvantages. While the capacitive boasts of multi-touch capability, the resistive screen boasts of response from any kind of surface, adding easy stylus support among other things. This responsiveness to any surface proves to be bothersome at times, especially when you happen to be forgetful as us. It just slips our mind to lock the screen before slipping into our pockets and our coins and keys start doing all sort of crazy things like calling up random contacts and changing soundtracks. So we thought, there should be a way out of this misery and that’s when we came across PocketLock.

What PocketLock aims to do is to lock your phone everytime you slip it into your pocket, thus keeping you away from random calls among other things. That’s what it’s supposed to do, but how well does it actually fare on our 5800s? Let’s find out.

Screenshots-

What do all those squares and rectangles mean? That’s exactly what we asked ourselves, but as it turns out the meaning of these squares and rectangles is of little significance (though we will come back to what they mean later). The app works just as great for there is very little you have to do to make it work. The only thing you can do is “Disable Autostart”, which you can readily access by tapping on the options button.

So how the app works is simple: it autostarts (unless you disable it) and locks the phone everytime you slip your 5800 into your pocket (or just cover the proximity sensor for that matter). That’s definitely a boon, especially for the absent minded 5800ers like us. Now coming to the meaning of those gibberish squares, we did a little bounty hunt on the web and unearthed a screenshot from NP of DailyMobile, which is the last screenshot we have pulled up here. The screenshot shows that the main screen of the app is just a description of the app and has no functionality what so ever. Why it didn’t show up on our 5800? Honeslty, we have no idea and since the app works just as great, we don’t care to bother. If any of our readers have an explanation or better, have a fix, we would love to hear from you.

What we like?

1. App light on memory usage and provides great functionality
2. A no non-sense interface works just great (even when we weren’t able to read the contents of the main screen)

What we don’t like?

1. The squares and rectangles on our app main screen (Kidding, this is not much of an issue for us but we have nothing else to fill-up this section)

Verdict

PocketLock does a great job at what it proclaims to do: to lock your 5800s when you slip it into your pockets. While there may be some concerns about the app draining the battery and hogging the phone memory due to its background functioning, we didn’t notice any considerable drop in either the battery or memory of our 5800s. So leave all your doubts behind and download this app for free, for its a great catch, especially if you are absent minded.

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