Five great free S60v5 applications
With the fast increasing mobile applications for Iphones and Android, don’t be sad for your Symbian S60v5 phones. There are similar mind blowing applications for Symbian as well.
Here is a quick look at the 5 best applications for Symbian S60v5, and of-course all of them are free…
The first really huge third party S60 application to get a full touch makeover, this works superbly on S60 5th Edition, on all phones, in both landscape and portrait modes, and with touch-panning of maps and of the StreetView displays (in countries where this is supported). Version 3.2.1 is the latest and has built-in Latitude (friend-finding), Traffic and Wikipedia (layers) support. It’s also terrific as a general purpose location-centric search tool (e.g. find the nearest plumber or pizza or hairdresser). Ovi Maps is good, but I think Google Maps are better.
Get it at m.google.com
2. Opera Mini
Why on earth would you want another web browser? You have S60 Web, after all? Moreover, why would you want a mouldy, ol’ Java app? Because it’s faster, slicker and more frugal than Web, that’s why. Once you get past the initial Java hand-holding ‘Do you want to go online?’ question, Opera Mini, quite simply, rocks. Backed up by special proxy servers, even huge web pages like BoingBoing can be opened in just a few seconds and browsed around with full touch-panning. If you find S60 Web too slow for tradition text-based pages then Opera Mini is a definite candidate, especially if you’re not on a flat rate data plan. The new version 5 beta introduces multi-tab browsing and an integrated touchscreen keyboard to save you messing with the standard Java text box forms, but the production v4.2 is also well worth installing.
Get either version from mini.opera.com
3. Nokia Photo Browser
Download from http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-photo-browser
4. Fring
This is a great application, where you have a common use point of all your messengers. You name it and they have it. GTalk, Yahoo Messenger, MSN messenger, Skype, AIM, ICQ and others. You can also link your twitter and facebook with it to get the latest updates and post updates. The most important is you can even call using VOIP over Gtalk, Skype or ant SIP. The latest addition is to make video calls. You can use it to make video calls to your skype friends. The front camera is used for the video call. So this is a must for all S60v5 users.
Get Fring by going to m.fring.com in Web
5. JoikuSpot Light FREE Hotspot
Perhaps a pinnacle of modern software engineering, JoikuSpot turns your S60 phone and its data connection into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot for other devices (of yours) to hook into. The premium version has loads more functions and security, but for cheap, cheerful and ad-hoc use, the free ‘Light’ version does very well, letting you surf away on your laptop, for example, using (in this case) the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic as the hotspot. Yes, PC Suite also allows through-Internet connections, but isn’t is just so cool to be making your own Wi-Fi hotspot?
Get it from the Nokia Ovi Store or from Joiku’s download page.
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