Mike Rowehl: This is Mobility

I have the WLAN Connection Manager that Steve mentioned at All About Symbian installed on my E61. I tried using it to connect to a secure access point that I hadn’t created an access point definition for, and a little dialog popped up asking me to enter the key and it created a definition for me. I thought that was nice, but the realized I have no idea if that’s the same as the built in connection manager or not. I created my secure access points while I had firmware 1 installed, under which creating access points with WPA enabled was a real chore. But I got used to that usage, and after firmware 2 just did it the way I knew worked without thinking to retest the more intuitive method.

So this has nothing to do with WLAN Manager really, just the overall concept. Sometimes when you screw something up in a product it doesn’t really mater if you fix it in the next version or not. Once the perception is out there that it’s broken, you have to create something new for no good reason other than to shift user behavior.

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