Upgrade your Nokia 5800 with free apps

6 April Nokia has released a new TV commercial with its first touch-screen device Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. This video shows what a cool things you can do with your 5800 device like Internet messaging and browsing with web video support, GPS navigation, picture and video uploading to Flickr and YouTube.

I wonder how we can extend these rich capabilities of this perfect device with freeware applications? The first thing I thought was extended messaging to many IM networks with Nimbuzz, Octrotalk, Palringo, Yeigo, Bombus and other such applications. The second thing would be free and low-cost VoIP telephony with great VoIP clients like Fring or Truphone. Other interesting option would be making from your phone a wireless webcam or microphone for your laptop which is possible with help of WWIGO or Mobiola Webcam and Mobiola Headset application.

My question to readers: how else we can upgrade our 5800 touch devices with Symbian freeware?

Java (J2ME) mobile YouTube player now available

A few days ago there was presented a great freeware Symbian S60 YouTube video player EmTube. Today we got an official YouTube J2ME mobile video player. This player can be started on wide variety of mobile phones and smartphones supporting mobile Java. This list contains Nokia Symbian S60 devices like 6120, N82, N95, N73, E65, E51, 5500, SonyEricsson UIQ smartphones like P1 and mobile phones like W880 and K800 and many others. Here the home page of Java Mobile YouTube player. This jar applet allows you to access the YouTube library, watch videos and even upload your video to YouTube service! Download of this application from home page can be executed with Nokia N95 device, but using this direct link you can download and try this J2ME applet on your mobile phone no matter if it made by Samsung, HTC or Motorola.

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.

Mobiola Web Camera J2ME released in addition to Symbian version

I've reviewed previous USB and Bluetooth versions of Mobiola Web Camera for Symbian. Now Warelex has released a new version - for J2ME phones. This give you functionality that you can't expect from your phone. Mobiola makes from your phone a wireless PC web camera. A client J2ME midlet resides on the phone and a webcam driver is installed on PC. Now you phone will be compatible with any Windows application like messengers Skype, Yahoo!, AOL IM, ICQ, and Flash sites YouTube etc. Mobiola Webcam J2ME has only Bluetooth version.