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.

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.

Cheap international mobile calls are possible now

There is a new great service EQO which solves of most painful problems for mobile users - international long-distance calls on the go is very expensive. But we want calling for free or at least very cheap. Now we have a solution. This is new VoIP service EQO. What the EQO is? EQO is small Java midlet installed to your mobile phone by SMS text message for free. When you call somebody with EQO, the application automatically instructs the phone to call the local number, and EQO routes the call over its international calling network. This service available in almost 40 countries all over the world. Rates are very-very low. This service a little bit expensive than Fring, Truphone or other true VoIP SIP solutions, but it works on every modern Java-enabled phone. Other clients require smartphones with Symbian or Windows Mobile.

Symbian 9 Platform Security and capabilities hacked - copy any files and DRM content

Reading this post we can learn about the big security vulnerability of our Nokia and Sony Ericsson Symbian 9 smartphones. We need to do following steps:

• Take an update firmware package (currently supported only by Nokia for S60 smartphones).
• Edit some part of it, where all those capabilities are listed that a user can grant to a 3rd party application upon installation.
• Update these capabilities.
• Flash this modified firmware.

I think we all now can watch DRM content for free on S60 devices like N95 or N73. This will be the big surprise for all content providers. Also we can browse all files in our smartphones including Private folders!

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.

Free GPS map navigation for Nokia Symbian phone

There is only one free native Symbian option for your Nokia Symbian smartphone if you like to use free GPS maps navigation software. It is Nokia Maps, also known as Smart2go. The site where you can download this application is here. By the way it now officially has been updated for almost all of S60 3rd edition devices (including E61(i), E61i, E65, N73, N76, N93i, Nokia 6120 classic and the ones with Nokia Maps preinstalled - E90 Communicator, N95 and 6110 Navigator), not only N Series as before, but for E Series devices too. Most interesting thing that it is now available for Symbian Series 60 (S60) 2nd Edition devices Nokia N70 and N72. I hope we can install it on 6630, 6680, 6681, 6682 devices too. But this assumption should be proven.
There is more options on free GPS navigation for Symbian: amAze GPS for J2ME devices with Bluetooth GPS receiver which may run on Symbian too, Nav4All the Java-based voice-guided navigation system which supports Bluetooth GPS and integrated GPS in Nokia N95 and Nokia 6110 Navigator devices.

Reader of Adobe PDF texts on J2ME mobile phones

We have tried free PDF readers for Symbian smartphones recently. But there is a lot of J2ME enabled java phones. There are such devices from Sony Ericsson (models K750, K610, W610, V630, W710, Z610, Z710, K790, K800, W830, W850, W900, W810, S500, T650, Z750), Nokia (Series 40 system), Motorola, LG etc. People may want to read Adobe Acrobat PDF files on these devices. There is J2ME midlet for all these mobiles. It's not really free version, you should pay for this app. But if you really need to read PDF documents on the go you consider this offer. Direct link to download this app here. The homepage of this app here.

Where to download free e-book reader Mobipocket

Mobipocket is really interesting freeware for S60 Symbian device. But at this day the official site
Mobipocket is down so we need alternative direct download link for this application. You can try to download from this site. It contains mobipocket converter and can install mobile mobipocket reader.

Free Symbian text and e-book readers for S60 and UIQ

The most requesting Symbian software for S60 and UIQ devices is text and e-book readers. Obviously we want there readers for free. Let's look what we can get here. There are two options here: Mobipocket and QReader.
Mobipocket is an ebook reader. So it has page-by-page formatting option. The other features are bookmarks, highlights, annotations. It supports Open-eBook and XML/HTML/CSS format. Also it shows embedded BMP and GIF images in e-book.

QReader is a text reader. It supports wide range of formats like Plain text (.txt), Palm DOC (.prc and .pdb), TCR, FB2 and UMD files. Moreover it supports screen rotation (90, 180 and 270 degrees). Also great features are autoscrolling and text formating. You can select colors of text and background. There is available wide range of e-books for QReader. You can download some of them from these sources:
Project Gutenberg

Baen Free Library