Kik Messenger for Symbian and Win Phone 7 free in Nokia Store

Today you can download cool messaging app Kik from Nokia Store (Ovi) for free. Kik Messenger is available not only for Nokia Symbian N8, 701, 700, Nokia 603, 500 but for Windows Phone handsets too. This means you cat get it for your new shiny Nokia Lumia 800. Kik is the same cool messenger such as WhatsApp, which already has been available for Symbian Anna and WinPhone 7. With Kik's super easy to use UI you can fast text your friends for free. It has real-time notifications about message status and peer typing. Kik IM also allows you to send media files like photos to your friends.
Hurry up download it from the Nokia Store and the Win Phone Marketplace.

Nokia Store presents free premium apps and games

The Nokia Store application is currently inviting users to download a number of premium applications or games for free for next 30 days. This is another such event from Nokia Store added to same happened in the past. For different phone model and Symbian OS versions Nokia (OVI) Store presents a bunch of cool games and useful apps: Angry Birds, Moodagent, Nimbuzz, eBuddy, Worms, Blocks, Diamonds, Montezuma etc.

Ovi Store client for Symbian updated

Nokia sent user emails about Ovi Store servers down this Wednesday because of Nokia Ovi Store client received an update. Still no official update list available, but you can fell that the app is more smooth and quicker in navigating and actions.

Opera Mini 5.1 for Nokia Symbian phones now in sis installer

Opera Software finally ported it's superb web browser to native Symbian sis format. The main question now is - where to download this app to your Nokia phone? You can do it the same way as with regular J2ME version of Opera Mini app, just follow this link m.opera.com and scroll down web page until you see link to Opera Mini for Symbian sisx installer. This version supports all modern Symbian S60 versions from 3rd edition to 5th and Symbian^3.
The Opera Mini 5.1 native app got some improvements to the J2ME version of Opera Mini:
- Significantly faster (2x-3x) loading time
- Support for more Nokia devices
- Faster page-load and scrolling
- Native device text input and FEP support, including narrative like Talks
- Symbian clipboard integration for copy & paste, email, web browser
In wrap-up I can say that the new, optimized native version has excellent performance and is better integrated with native applications and Symbian OS. I waited this release a long time, now I'm happy to use it in my phone.
Today Opera Software released Beta 2 version of Opera Mini for Symbian. It has improved stability and FEP input support.

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.