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S60 3rd & 5th EDITION DISCUSSION FORUMS - MOST RECENT TOPICS | |
Sat, 24.07.10
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[New] DvdToSymbian - VLC script to easily convert movies to nHD
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| DvdToSymbian from Malcolm Bryant / FreEPOC is a simple Windows batch script to convert widescreen (2.35:1) DVD films using the free VLC player for watching on a Symbian S60v5/S^3 phone with screen size 640x360 (nHD) - for example, the Nokia 5800/N97/N8, Sony Ericsson Satio/Vivaz. |
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Fri, 23.07.10
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[New] Shake Alarm - thief repellent for S60 phones
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 With Shake Alarm nobody will try to steal your phone. When someone tries to steal it and lifts the phone, you will hear a loud sound so you will notice the theft. If you are the owner, just shake it while you take to avoid the alarm. |
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Thu, 22.07.10
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Symbian ^3 not a short-lived step stone, says Nokia
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If you thought Symbian^3 is meant to be just a short-lived stepping stone in Nokia's smartphone evolution, then you'll be surprised. Starting with the upcoming N8, Nokia aims to ship more than 50 million Symbian^3 devices in the coming years, alongside devices using other versions of the Symbian OS, said Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo and CFO Timo Ihamuotila, talking with industry analysts today. They promised a whole "family" of Symbian^3 devices, reinforcing Nokia's strategy that Symbian will remain at the heart of its smartphones in the future.
"The feedback from operators on the N8 and Symbian^3 has been very good," they said. "The Nokia N8 will have a user experience superior to that of any smartphone Nokia has produced. I'm optimistic that the N8 will be the first step towards overcoming the challenges we face at the high end of our portfolio."
They explained that the N8 and Symbian^3 mark a change in the way Nokia creates smartphones. For one thing, the approach is a lot more software-centric, which should make product development easier. For another, Symbian^3 will also be much more uniform across different phones than has been the case with previous Symbian releases. This spells good news for developers (and the people that use their applications) since they will be able to more easily create apps that work across the whole family.
They also touched on the role of Symbian and MeeGo in Nokia's portfolio. "Symbian is about leveraging scale and expanding the smartphone category to cover a broad mass market footprint. In contrast, MeeGo is about leveraging speed and agility to create industry leading flagship solutions."
Source: Nokia Conversations. |
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Wed, 21.07.10
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[New] AutoHello for S60 - answer a call just by picking up the phone
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 AutoHello from SBSH Mobile Software is a freeware app that allows you to answer an incoming call simply by picking up the phone and putting it next to your ear. Save that extra tap-swipe! It doesn't use the accelerometer so the battery impact is minimal (it uses the proximity sensor). AutoHello runs in the background, and auto-starts with your phone. |
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[New] Daddy's Eye Pro - SPY PHONE application for S60
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 Daddy's Eye Pro is a two-in-one software/service wich allows you to monitor your Symbian 9 compatable smartphone in real time. This system can collect SMS, Call log, Conversation records, MMS, Network info (Cell ID), GPS Tracking and report all that activity through a web based interface you can access from anywhere. Thanks to this software you will be informed of each call, message, MMS attachment (e.g. image sent) of the monitored phone as well as its GPS and/or CellID location. Great for caring parents or jealous spouse :-) The software even supports making a spy call (hidden call to the phone) making it possible to hear what's happening. |
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[New] XBLOCKR for S60 5th Edition gets rid of unwanted calls
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 XBLOCKR is a mobile phone application designed to protect your privacy from unwanted calls. XBLOCKR has all the options that will help you screen the caller on the fly when the call arrives. It also helps you avoid unwanted calls or calls that you do not want to answer with great ease. You can DUCK, DROP or DIVERT calls you don't wish to answer. |
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[Upd] SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 - enjoy your Symbian smartphone's UI!
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 Enjoy Your Symbian Phone! Bored with the UI of your S60 phone? Now you can start enjoying it again with this new, even more powerful version 3.5 of SPB Mobile Shell from SPB Software. SPB Mobile Shell introduces the next generation user interface while keeping all advantages of a Symbian device. Enjoy your Symbian phone! SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 Features:
* Multipage home screen
* Widgets (Weather, Time, Wireless switches and others)
* 3D carousel
* Contacts
* Call log
* Ringtone management
* Navigation with gestures
* Now Screen: the most important information at one screen
* Photo speed dial
* Launcher. |
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[New] Call & SMS Filter for S60 - filter it all!
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 Filter it all: block, forward or reply by auto-SMS. In some situations you cannot or do not want to take a call: on a noisy street, at a relaxed dinner, in a crowded office. Call & SMS Filter from Melon Mobile will do everything for you: make it possible to receive only calls or only SMS, silently block calls and automatically send an SMS auto-reply, forward selected calls and let the remaining ones go through, block callers with hidden numbers, manage blacklists, whitelists and scheduled filtering, and more. It's extremely lightweight, yet powerful enough to fully protect you! |
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[New] CAllMYT for S60 - automatically launch applications during phone calls
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 With CAllMYT you can automatically launch an application during/after each phone call. You can choose any S60 application to launch: Voice recorder, Calculator, Calendar, Notes, etc. |
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[New] PocketLock S60 - automatically locks and unlocks your phone
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 PocketLock (freeware) locks your phone when inside your pocket or bag, and unlocks when taken out. No more need for the lock button on the phone. PocketLock runs in the background, and auto-starts with your phone (can be disabled from the options). |
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Tue, 20.07.10
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Nokia Siemens buys Motorola's networking branch
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 Nokia and Motorola have just made one of the biggest deal in the history of mobile phones business: Motorola gets badly needed $1.2b cash and Nokia gets its networking division, which will help it expands its mobile technology, especially on the US market. The part of Motorola acquired by Nokia is responsible for technology of wireless transmission of signals through GSM and CDMA networks around the planet, except for Motorola's "push to talk" technology now licenced to Sprint Nextel. Nokia will also gain some 7500 former Motorola employees.
Both companies benefit from the deal as Motorola was going to split into two separate companies anyway (and mainly focus on mobile phones) and was looking for funds to cover the process, while Nokia keeps trying to expand its presence on the US market. Acquiring Motorola's networking branch will give Nokia access to Verizon, the biggest US mobile operator. |
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Fri, 16.07.10
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Nokia 5233, 5230 and E75 got new firmware updates
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| New firmware updates have recently appeared for the following phones: the 5230 and 5233 got firmware update to version 21.1.004 (no official change log yet) and the Nokia E75 received firmware update to v211.12.01 including email client and contacts/calendar sync corrections, OMA DM remote configuration fixes, FOTA server profile fix, and device lock functionality improvements. Firmware updates are available via the NSU and should also soon appear via the OTA feature. |
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[New] HandyPaint - drawing/editing program for S60 touchscreen phones
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 HandyPaint from MobiVio Solutions is a powerful yet easy to use drawing tool for your UIQ3 mobile device. You can use it to create your own paintings, or edit pictures taken from your device's camera, even you can take a screenshot for editing. HandyPaint provides you pleasant and excellent drawing performance, antialiasing, and over 30 tools for drawing such as pencils, text, flood fill, color picker, eraser, and more. Other features include multiple pen and line sizes, unlimited undo/redo, image resizing and stretching, support for multiple image formats (PNG, BMP, GIF, JPG, etc.), text styles, and more. |
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[New] SQRXZ - mindblasting Jump'n'Run game for S60
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| SQRXZ is a free port by AnotherGuest of the 2010 remake of the game by sqrxz.de with both the "classic" and "deluxe" graphics modes. Sqrxz requires fast reflexes and is a simply mindblasting Jump'n'Run puzzle game with high frustration factor originally made in 1996. |
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[New] Touch Crypto - encryption tool for S60
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 Touch Crypto from Kenvast Software is a file encryption tool. It uses 128-bit AES algorithm to encrypt your documents, images, video, audio/voice files and all kinds of data on your device. Without password, no one can access your encrypted data. Separate versions are available for 5th Edition (touch screen) and 3rd Edition devices. |
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[New] Touch Hider for S60 5th Edition
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 Touch Hider from Kenvast Software is a smart tool for hiding files, designed for touch screen S60 devices. Do you have any images or videos that should not be watched by others? Have you been ever worried that someone may see some of your private documents? Touch Hider applies hidden attribute for files that you don't want to be seen by others. With hidden attribute, pictures, songs, videos and all your private documents will not list in Nokia integrated File Manager, Media Gallery Photo Browser, etc. Read more.... |
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Thu, 15.07.10
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[Upd] Beta version of Opera Mobile 10.1
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 Opera today released the first beta of Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian S60 phones. Opera Mobile 10.1 beta features accelerated speed and geolocation capabilities. Download the beta directly to your mobile phone from http://m.opera.com/next.
The best features in Opera Mobile 10.1 beta all reside under the hood, with the powerful Presto rendering engine, Vega graphics library and Carakan JavaScript engine bringing the same engine power to mobile as on desktop.
Support for geolocation puts you and your mobile on the map, so that web services such as maps and travel applications can offer you tailored, relevant content. Your privacy is important, and you decide if and when Opera Mobile will share your location.
Beat the summer heat with these cool features:
* Opera desktop features, like Speed Dial, Opera Link, password manager, make it easier for you to surf on the go, by reducing the time and effort it takes to get to a website.
* Tabbed browsing, a virtual keyboard, kinetic scrolling and auto-rotation to landscape make browsing with Opera Mobile easier and a lot more fun.
* When the network speed makes browsing tough, turn on Opera Turbo. Use our servers to compress webpages on the fly and more than double your browsing speed.
Opera Mobile 10.1 beta is available for smartphones based on Symbian/S60, 3rd and 5th Editions. The beta is free to download directly to your mobile phone from http://m.opera.com/next. To find out more about Opera Mobile, go to http://www.opera.com/mobile/. |
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Wed, 14.07.10
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Kimi Premium Pack - 6 nice Symbian certified SVG themes
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 Kimi Premium Pack consists of six high quality, Symbian certified SVG themes for S60 3rd and 5th Edition devices. All themes are also available separately.
Features include:
* Six themes included (Love Heart, Grid, Red, Shade, Shade 2, Wave's)
* Full SVG with HQ 9 Pieces SVG Elements
* Compatible with S60 3rd & 5th Edition phones
* Works in both landscape and portrait modes
* Full set of OS icons, 50 special folders and 101+ 3rd party icons
* 800+ light weight Redish Icons By Kimi. |
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Mon, 14.06.10
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Nokia X5 announced - unique, square slider
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 Nokia has announced the Nokia X5, the social jukebox on the move, full QWERTY music device which makes messaging, social networking and listening to your favourite music fun and easy when on the move. The unique, square slider design makes it a perfect device for teens who enjoy Facebook, chatting, games, music and staying in touch with their peers in unlimited ways.
Favourite contacts, emails and social networking sites can be accessed directly from the home screen which makes sending messages and status updates a breeze. Thousands of games and other social networking, entertainment and personalisation apps can be downloaded. On top of that, the Nokia X5 has a great music player with excellent sound quality and loud speakers, offering easy access to the device's music collection with space for up to 1000 tracks with a 2 GB in-box memory card, expandable up to 32GB. In select markets, the Nokia X5 will include Nokia's Comes With Music, the unlimited music download service with access to millions of tracks. With the fun "Surprise Me" feature, you can spin the phone when playing music to jump to a random track.
Available in a variety of cool colours, the Nokia X5 is expected to begin shipping during the third quarter of 2010 with an estimated retail price of EUR 165 before taxes and subsidies.
Key features include:
* unique square slider design
* 2.36" QVGA (320x240) 18-bit display
* full QWERTY keyboard
* 5 Megapixel camera with LED flash
* quad-band GSM / tri-band WCDMA
* 200 MB internal memory, microSD card slot (up to 32 GB)
* 128 MB operating (RAM) memory
* 74.3 x 66.4 x 16.8 mm (113.4 cc), 129g
* Wi-Fi (B/G)
* Bluetooth 2.1 +EDR with A2DP/AVRCP
* Accelerometer (with spin-to-skip feature)
* 3.5 mm audio jack
* FM radio with RDS
* 950 mAh BL-5F battery
* S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2
* Symbian OS 9.3
* ARM11 processor @ 600 MHz
Read more: Full technical specifications, Press release, Picture gallery, Nokia Conversations. Discuss this new model on our S60 Discussion Forum. |
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Thu, 29.04.10
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[New] Best Secretary for S60
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 Best Secretary from Smartphoneware is a full-scale voice calls and SMS processing application. It can automatically answer a call and play a predefined voice message to a specified person or group of persons. It can block unwanted calls and automatically answer your incoming messages. There are custom responses for your contacts, for groups of contacts, for custom phone numbers, default response ("for others"), black list, etc. A complete log is also available: everything that the Secretary does is logged and can be browsed easily. |
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[New] Speereo Voice Launcher for S60
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 Speereo Voice Launcher enables you to set voice dial to any contact in your address book; to start dozens of applications; to launch bookmarks and all of that with press of predefined button and a voice command. Now you can call any of your friends without looking for them in long list of addresses. Set your command and from now on press a button and say. Select the button you hold for speech recognition and tag all your programs and favorite bookmarks with custom tags. You can tag any program in the way you want and then just say "Weather Forecast" or transliterate the pronunciation in your native language. With Speereo Voice Launcher you can free your Today screen from icons to display the information you rally need (phone calls, appointments, weather, etc). |
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[New] Time Chime for S60
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 Time Chime from CellPhoneSoft is a clock application that plays audible signals at specified times. The program provides hourly and quarter-hourly chimes. You can select from pre-defined sounds (like beep effects and bird songs), or choose from your own sound files. You can even instruct the program to say the current time via speech synthesizer. The application also offers many further customization possibilities, like vibration, sound volume, and playing times. Compatible with all Symbian/S60 phones. |
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Tue, 27.04.10
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Nokia N8 - the first Symbian ^3 with 12 MPix and HD 720p
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The Nokia N8, Nokia's latest smartphone, intuitively connects to the people, places and services that matter most. With the Nokia N8, people can create compelling content, connect to their favorite social networks and enjoy on-demand Web TV programs and Ovi Store apps. Available in select markets during the third quarter of 2010, the estimated retail price of the Nokia N8 is EUR 370, before applicable taxes or subsidies.
The Nokia N8 introduces a 12 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash and a large sensor that rivals those found in compact digital cameras. Additionally, the Nokia N8 offers the ability to make HD-quality videos and edit them with an intuitive built-in editing suite. Doubling as a portable entertainment center, people can enjoy HD-quality video with Dolby Digital Plus surround sound by plugging into their home theatre system. The Nokia N8 enables access to Web TV services that deliver programs, news and entertainment from channels like CNN, E! Entertainment, Paramount and National Geographic. Additional local Web TV content is also available from the Ovi Store.
Social networking is second nature to the Nokia N8. People can update their status, share location and photos, and view live feeds from Facebook and Twitter in a single app directly on the home screen. Calendar events from social networks can also be transferred to the device calendar.
The Nokia N8 comes with free global Ovi Maps walk and drive navigation, guiding people to places and points of interest in more than 70 countries worldwide.
Powering the Nokia N8 is Symbian ^3, the latest edition of the world's most used smartphone software, which introduces several major advances, including support for gestures such as multi touch, flick scrolling and pinch-zoom. The Nokia N8 also offers multiple, personalizable homescreens which can be loaded with apps and widgets. The new 2D and 3D graphics architecture in the platform takes full advantage of the Nokia N8's hardware acceleration to deliver a faster and more responsive user interface. Symbian^3 also raises the bar in performance by delivering greater memory management allowing more applications to run in parallel for a faster multi-tasking experience.
The Nokia N8 is Nokia's first device to be integrated with Qt, a software development environment that simplifies the development and makes it possible to build applications once and deploy across Symbian and other software platforms. Nokia has also made the powerful and simple to use Nokia Qt SDK available, in its initial beta, to enable developers to start realizing the potential of Qt.
Features:
* 360x640 nHD 24-bit OLED 3.5" display
* 113.5x59x12.9 mm, 86 cc, 135 g
* Touch screen with multitouch, pinch-zoom, flick-scrolling
* 12 Megapixel (4000 x 3000) Carl Zeiss camera with Xenon flash
* large sensor like on compact digicams
* HD 720p (1280 x 720) video recording @ 25 fps
* 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM
* 850/900/1700/1900/2100 WCDMA
* HSDPA 10 Mbps, HSUPA 2 Mbps
* WLAN 802.11 b/g
* ARM11 CPU @ 680 MHz
* 3D Graphics HW Accelerator with OpenGL-ES 2.0 support
* Sensors: accelerometer, ambient light, proximity, compass / magnetometer
* Stereo FM RDS Radio
* A-GPS
* TV Out via HDMI and composite
* Dolby Digital Plus audio
* Mass storage: 16 GB, microSD memory cards up to 32 GB
* Operating memory (RAM): 256 MB
* Bluetooth 3.0
* USB 2.0 Full speed
* Battery: BL-4D 3.7V 1200mAh
Read more: Press release, Photo gallery, Nokia Conversations, Product pages, Technical specifications. |
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