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.

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.

Free VoIP Symbian app Fring now on Nokia E71

Free VoIP Symbian application now is available for Nokia E71. This is Fring. Nokia E71 smartphone is another new device supported by this great free VoIP application. A few days ago Fring team also announced support of Samsung i550w smartphone. More information about Fring features you can find in previous post about Symbian VoIP SIP applications.

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.

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 VoIP SIP applications

There is a lof of free and not really free VoIP clients for Symbian Nokia and Sony Ericsson devices like BaraBlu, AQL, Mobiboo, Skype, RebTel, Jajah, Truphone and possibly others. But we talk now about really free software clients that allows to use SIP gateways on Symbian 9 and Symbian 8 smartphones. You always can use special edition of Nokia smartphones Ineternet Edition - N80 IE and others. These devices have embedded SIP client that can be configured to work with any SIP gateway server. But what to do with other Symbian smarphones? We need to install some free SIP client on the smartphone. One of these applications is Fring. Since version 3.0 it allows you to call not only to Skype contacts, but configure a SIP service and directly use it. Now you can call for free to many countries with SIP services like Gizmo, Free World Dialup or bunch of Betamax services like VoipStunt, VoipDiscount, VoipCheap, NetAppel, Voipbuster, SparVoIP etc.
Update: Read about new Free Skype VoIP client in Nokia phones, it's ready to be released in Nokia N97 phone

Native Skype VoIP client application on Symbian phones - not until real HSxPA

If you are waiting for Skype client on Symbian you probably should suspend your hopes until arrival HSxPA or other next-generating networks. Skype still not release it's client for Symbian. As we know only phones run Symbian so Skype don't ready to play on this field. In the meantime there are a bunch of third-party solutions that transfer voice over current cell networks to the Skype network. Such well-known solution is Fring free VoIP client software that actually encode voice with AMR codec and transfer it to its server.
But I think Skype is losing to traditional VoIP clients in consumer phones. There is a lot of free SIP VoIP clients for Symbian even embedded into phones like in Nokia Internet Edition devices N80, N73 etc. If Skype will waiting too long it might completely lose this battle to companies like Betamax (VoipDiscount, VoipCheap brands).

Free Symbian software application - VoIP service Symmy

I've recently found an interesting free app for S60 devices - Symmy. Symmy is a VoIP communication service on Symbian S60 v2 and v3 phones. It is completely free application like Skype or other VoIP . You can call user of Symmy for free and send them instant messages.

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