Nokia Ovi Guide magazine - Top apps and games reviewed

Nokia releases first issue of its new Nokia Ovi Guide magazine. In this release you will read about:

• Ovi features like Mail, Share, Contacts, Music, Files
• App reviews
• Game reviews
• Nokia recommendations
• Social networking and location-based apps which you can find in Ovi Store

Some apps which were covered:
Social networking - Gravity a mobile twitter client, Fring - a VoIP app, BuddyCloud, ShoZu - mobile content uploader and Nimbuzz - multi IM networks client.
Location-based apps - PinPoints, Endomondo Tracker, Dad's Cab, Near Here, I Parked Here.
Also were covered MobNotes, Vringo, Qik, Shazam, Twittle and much more. So, don't wait, rush to read this guide in Ovi world.

Where to find Ovi store app and games reviews

Today Ovi Store is the great place to find free apps, games and multimedia content for your Nokia devices. But description of apps in store is really short, and you can't get enough screenshots. Don't worry, Nokia now has a blog with reviews of the best content in Ovi store. MyDailyApp blog publish every day a new review of app or game or other store content. They mostly pick free and the best content in the store. Go there and start browsing for new free apps and games for your Nokia device.

How to use Ovi store on Nokia phone

Today Ovi Store has officially opened for users worldwide. Millions of people with Nokia devices now can benefit from tons of free and premium content. This service available for more than 50 Nokia S60 and Series 40 devices right now. But how to open and use Ovi Store on your phone? This is really easy - just select the Ovi Store icon in the Download folder on your device and open the Ovi Store page. Or you can get to the Ovi Store by visiting store.ovi.com with your phone web browser. There you can login to your account and start downloading apps to your phone. I will post my first impressions of this service soon.

Free Skype VoIP client in Nokia phones

Finally Skype will embed its VoIP application to the Nokia mobile phones running Symbian S60. The first one will be the new N97 device. Moreover Skype software will be available to download onto other Nokia Symbian S60 models. But standalone version is less integrated into address books, messaging and other phone's built-in features. Integrated version of Skype client in Nokia N97 will be able to show when Skype contacts are online, send messages to them, launch free Skype-to-Skype voice calls, and use native phone client to make Skype Out calls.

Looks like we move to Skype availability on all Nokia Symbian smartphones.

Symbian freeware in Ovi Store

Today at MWC 2009 Nokia has announced its new great service for smartphone consumers. This is a new Ovi Store - an application and content download service that will be launched in early May of this year. I've reviewed existing Nokia MOSH freeware download service which will be part of new Nokia Ovi Store. This means that Ovi Store will have a lot of free applications, games, themes, ringtones and other rich and free audio-video content. Supported Nokia devices contains a wide range of new and existing Symbian S60 smartphones and Series 40 devices. Since this service will be launched in May we doesn't have link to it yet, but we still can go to Nokia MOSH and enjoy free stuff.

Nokia S60 Symbian Windows Live client available in Europe

Mail and IM application for Nokia S60 E50, E51, E61, E62 devices provide access to Microsoft's services as Hotmail, MSN IM, Windows Live Spaces and Live Search. Now you can download it for free in all Europe and US carriers. Just go to "Download!" tool in your device and get this great free symbian application.

New VoIP freeware for Symbian with SIP support - Talkonaut

Yesterday was presented a new great Symbian S60 VoIP application Talkonaut. The main feature of this app is messaging in Jabber, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN, AIM and Yahoo networks. But also this is a great free VoIP client which supports VoIP over GPRS including SIP stack. This means that you can freely call with such services as Voipstunt, VoipDiscount, NetAppel, VoipBuster, VoipCheap, SparVoip and other Finarea-Betamax. If you haven't a SIP account this app offer to you cheap voice calls over IP with help of GTalk 2 VoIP service. With help of Talkonaut you able to make free VoIP calls to Google Talk users, Yahoo, MSN, AIM and ICQ voice capable IM clients, as well as to other Talkonaut users.
This awesome application is available for most of all Nokia Symbian S60 smartphones 2nd and 3rd Editions: E50, E51, E60, E61, E61i, E62, E65, E70, E90, 3250, 5500, 5700, 6110, 6120, 6121, 6290, N71, N73, N75, N76, N80, N81, N82, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95. Direct download link for Symbian S60 v3 is here and for Symbian S60 v2 here. Delivery of download link via SMS message also is available. I will post my experience with Talkonaut app very soon.

FlipSilent - mute your phone by flip it over

With new 2008 year we got new awesome free applications for our Symbian S60 mobile phones. The first one is a Flip Silent application. Do you know what FlipSilent is? This is freeware app which makes phone to be muted off with one simple gesture - flip over. This is really helpful when you are in a meeting and a call starts ringing all of the sudden. You just can quickly flipover your smartphone to mute the ringer or hang up the phone call or make it go into the silent profile. You don't need to find those small buttons, lose your attention - just flip it over and your smartphone will go into silence! The app supports this Symbian S60 3rd Edition and 3rd Edition FP1 phones with an accelerometer: Phones N95, N95 8GB, N82, N93i, 5500. The app supports 10 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Dutch, Romanian etc.

S60 freeware YouTube video player

Today we all got a new great freeware application for our S60 devices. This is a freeware YouTube player which is most wanted app of this year. Its name is emTube. This is standalone S60 application allows you to Search, List and Watch YouTube video clips directly on your mobile. It can play videos while they downloading to your device. Also you can store downloaded videos to device's memory. I'm not sure if it supports YouTube authentication to access to restricted content, but anyway functionality of this app is just awesome. Here more screenshots of this app:

Thanks for the review to Allabout.

S60 and UIQ PC remote file manager and backup

Sometimes we need to transfer a huge amount of files to or from the phone (often to the MMC card). Also we need to transfer a whole directory structure or do backup operations for phone's memory card in case if we what to change it to a new one without losing all the data and without using PC card-reader. Here the solutions I've found at some "PC phone tools" forum thread. The first one is PC File Manager. This application from Epocware gives you an opportunity to manage files on your phone from your PC. It works only for old versions of Nokia and SE devices like Nokia 7650, 3650, 6600 ans SE UIQ P800, P900. Moreover this is shareware application.

The second application was Symbian FileExplorer. This is just devices sis app. Symbian FileExplorer gives you full access to your Symbian phone file system from your PC over Bluetooth (OBEX). Using this application you can access via BT to the all content of your phone memory and do all file operations in bulk mode. This is also a shareware application.

There is also Oxygen Phone Manager but it can't transfer plain files. The only freeware solution for this task for Nokia S60 is the original Nokia PC Suite application, but backup and file transfer in this application doesn't copy all files. For UIQ there is free Symbianware DesktopFileMan.

New GPS freeware navigation - Google Maps for Symbian 9

Google Maps is now available for Symbian 9. Unfortunately it's available only for Symbian S60 version. But still this is another great free native GPS navigation application for Nokia S60 phones. It supports both external BT and integrated N95 6110 GPS receivers. You can download it with mobile browser from google.com/gmm/.

Free themes and games for Nokia - 5 ways to download

Everybody wants to get some free stuff for mobile phone. The most popular content for mobile phones are ringtones. But there are other high demanded content for mobiles including Nokia Symbian S60 devices. This is themes and games. Platform Nokia Symbian S60 allows to developers to make very rich and high-quality themes for S60 devices. Many of PC and game console games can be ported to Nokia Symbian S60 mobile phones. This gives us thousands of themes and hundreds of game titles for S60 devices. How we can download all of them freely?

The first way is to check dedicated forums and look what they can give to us. The most well-known forums dedicated to Nokia S60 software and freeware are imserba.com, noeman.org, symbian-freak.com, gsmarena.com, allaboutsymbian.com etc.

The second way is to check mobile portals like Imserba, My-Symbian.com. This portals has huge collections of free themes and games for a lot of mobile phone models including Nokia S60 devices. Go there and start downloading.

The third way is to check some blogs which collects freeware and downloaded content for mobile phones. Most of them hosted on blogspot servers. The examples of such blogs are Symbian-Freeware and my blog.

The fourth way is to subscribe on one of Yahoo! Groups dedicated to Symbian software. Examples of such groups are SymbianSeries60 and MOBILEMEDIA_SIS.

And the fifth way is just google for these content and you can find all other sites not mentioned in this post! For example there is a lot of free applications, games and themes on content store sites like Handango.

S60 Symbian freeware Autolock

AutoLock is a "must have" freeware for all Symbian S60 devices (Nokia, Siemens, Motorola). Because it is automatic keylock application for S60 1st, 2nd and 3rd Edition smartphones. It turns key lock on after some of time of user inactivity. It automatic starts up when the device is turned on. You can change inactivity time. It run invisible to the user. And it's free because it's freeware. Download this application for your Nokia 7650, 3230, 3650, 6260, 6600, 6620, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, 6682, 7610, N-Gage, N70, N72, N90, 3250, 5500, 5700, 6110, 6120, 6290, E50, E61, E70, E90, N71, N73, N75, N76, N77, N80, N91, N92, N93, N93i, N95 or Siemens SX1 mobile phone here.

Another Symbian S60 free application - Screenshot

This application is not only free but also is open source. It works on S60 3rd Edition but there is version for UIQ. It captures screenshot on Symbian OS mobile phones. It supports 31 languages. The screenshot can be sent directly to a PC via Bluetooth or infrared and another mobile phone. You can download it here.

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Samsung i550 - GPS Symbian S60 smartphone

There was some posts in different sources about new Samsung i550 that would be a first GPS enabled phone from Samsung. Moreover - it has Symbian OS S60 which is great for all of us. Connectivity is the GSM/HSDPA and Bluetooth 2.0. Sources claims that maps and routing info are downloaded over-the-air and on-the-fly. Other not official specs are:

• 2,6-inch display
• 128Mb RAM
• 150Mb flash
• micro SD-slot
• 3,2 Mpix camera with autofocus and flash
• FM-radio
• MicroUSB
• Size - 115x53x13,8 mm

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Three new classic phones from Nokia - 6267, 3500 and Symbian S60 Nokia 6121

Here some features of new phones. Two first phones are Series 40 5th Edition (I hope). The first one is a clamshell Nokia 6267 device. It has quadband GSM with WCDMA 850/2100, 2 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom, secondary VGA camera 320 x 240 pixels display, FM Radio, microSD card slot, wireless Bluetooth and miniUSB cable connectivity. Product datasheet here.

The second device is also Series 40 but has classic monoblock design. This is Nokia 3500 classic. It's features are just GSM, 2 megapixels camera with 8x digital zoom, FM Radio, microSD card slot, wireless Bluetooth and miniUSB cable connectivity.Product datasheet here.

The thidr device is a Symbian S60 smartphone in classic design. Nokia 6121 also supports GSM with EDGE, WCDMA 850/2100 and HSPDA 900/2100 with is Ok for smartphone. It has 2 megapixels camera with 4x digital zoom which is little not modern but because this smartphone is from middle range it would be Ok. Also there is VGA front camera. Symbian is S60, 3rd Edition SP1 which gis a lot of features. 320 x 240 pixels display, FM Radio, microSD card slot. It has both wireless Bluetooth and cable miniUSB connectivity. Product datasheet here.

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Samsung has presented the Symbian smartphone SGH-i400

At S60 summit Samsung today showcased its latest Symbian OS smartphone SGH-i400. The smartphone SGH-i400 is based on Symbian OS and S60 which offer extensive languagesupports and multitasking features.The Samsung i400 is created for users who want to have advanced features of a smartphone in slider design. The slider phone supports full web browsing and Bluetooth connectivity for active business users. Samsung i400 also includes 2 Megapixel camera, music key and stereo dual speaker. The SGH-i400 has a 2.3-inch bright display.