I have over half of these on my E61, that’s a scary coincidence. The only reason I’m posting this is because everyone should know about free ways to expand the functionality of their device. One thing not on her list that I think you should check out: Opera Mini

10. PuTTY
PuTTY is a free SSH client. Especially if you own an E61/E62/E70 which
come with Qwerty keyboards, this software is a must have for all you
Unix guys reading this!

9. Screenshot 2
Screenshot
for Symbian OS is a free program to take screenshot on your Symbian OS
mobile phones. You can capture screenshot and save it to a file in
JPEG, BMP, PNG or MBM format.

8. Mobile Search
Search,
Find, Connect – the mobile search software for Nokia (NYSE: NOK) mobile phones is a
simple, convenient, and fast way to find and connect to local services,
websites, images, and mobile content via Yahoo!. It also supports
mapping via Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Local.

7. Nokia Podcasting
The
Nokia Podcasting application allows you to find, subscribe to and
download podcasts over the air with your Nokia N91. After downloading a
podcast, you can listen to or watch it when you want.

6. DivX Player
A
great DivX player, requires free registration. Can playback 320kbps
QVGA DivX video at 15fps without dropping any frames. Make sure you get
at least the 0.85 version or above.

5. QRreader
QReader
is a high quality ebook reader, easy and powerful. It supports plain
text (.txt), Palm (NSDQ: PALM) DOC (.prc and .pdb), TCR, FB2 and UMD files reading.
Alternatively, check the MobiPocket Reader.

4. Y-Browser
Y-Browser is a file manager for Symbian OS devices. It implements most
standard features on files (such as copy, cut, paste, etc) &
folders (create, remove, etc) and it allows you to work with "hidden,
system" folders. Its addons are very unique compared to other free file
managers (like SExplorer or SysExplorer), because they allow you to save to the filesystem files that were sent via Bluetooth and got stuck in Messaging.

3. Internet Radio
The application supports SHOUTcast streaming audio playback. Currently,
MP3 and AAC+ streams are supported. The application also supports local
playback of audio files in the following formats: MP3, AAC, eAAC+, MP4,
M4A, WMA, 3GPP, AMR, and WAV. Note that some formats may not be
supported on some S60 products.

2. Adobe PDF Reader
With
the application you can read PDF documents on the display of your
device. Documents can be accessed and opened in the following ways:
* Opening an email attachment from received e-mail messages (network service)
* Document sent using Bluetooth technology to your Inbox in Messgaing
* Using the File manager to browse and open documents stored in the phone memory and on memory card
* Browsing Web pages

1. Autolock
AutoLock is a free automatic key lock application. It will turn key
lock on after certain amount of time of inactivity. For some weird
reason, some of Nokia’s new phones don’t do that automatically.

Source: OS News

How nice of them. Leo truly is one of the influencers of our industry.

Source: Leo Laporte’s VOX

This reads just like Ewan’s rant from a few days back.

He really doesn’t think smart phones are ready for the masses:

I’ve just spent a long hour resinstalling my Nokia (NYSE: NOK) E61 phone.
Indeed, I’ve had it for a while now, and it never seemed to work for
me. I had reflashed / updated its firmware a couple of times already,
and the phone was still very buggy: I always got a "memory full" error.

Well, it seems it’s working this time:
* make sure you backup all of your data before updating your phone to the latest firmware.
The software from Nokia to update the phone will however only run from
a PC (I tried with a Windows Vista emulation on a Mac: it wouldn’t
recognize the phone
* set up all of your parameters the way you
like them (I like English on my phone, 24 hour format)… For instance,
since I use a SIM card for computers in my phone, I have to change the
APN from "orange" to "orange.fr"
* resync all of your contacts, agenda, etc. on your phone. On a Mac with iSync / Novamedia.de plugins, it takes only a moment
*
make sure you tell your phone what memory to use (extension card)
before setting up your email settings (otherwise it won’t read it.
Weird. In previous versions it just copied the data).
* setup your mobile email; one thing I haven’t tried yet are the SSL certificates that were not working in previous versions.
*
install your usual lot of apps. Among my favourites: Google (NSDQ: GOOG) earth
mobile, Opera Mini, and a couple of bookmarks for useful sites on the
road: vpod.tv mobile, pagesjaunes.fr, Flickr mobile…

And I’m all set now to be always connected again.

Remember, the E61 is also a Wifi phone. So as soon as my freebox
starts working again, I’ll reconfigure my SIP calls, so that I can call
for free from many places around the world.

All in all, using these smartphones is really a complicated task,
and a lot has to be done to make them work properly in a productive way.

Really not for the masses yet.

I agree.

Everyone on my feed list seems to be excited about this application. I’m not sharing their enthusiasm, but maybe you might:

I’m sure you all read E-series.org’s post last week about Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Team Suite being available on the E61/2 now, instead of only the E50. Well, it was only a matter of time before someone extracted the .Sisx file, and now here it is.

In case you’re not familiar, Nokia Team Suite is an app that better
facilitates group communications. You can setup groups, similar to the
Caller Groups in the regular contacts app, but from there you also have
a plethora of options, available in a customisable side bar. Once you
setup your group (and you can have as many as you wish), from the Nokia
Team Suite you can do the following:

1. Call all the members in a conference call (depending on how many your service provider supports)
2. Create a message (sms, mms, or email)
3. View their webpages
4. Initiate a PTT session
5.
Call a conference calling service. With this one also, you can preset
the service’s number and PIN and all that, making it easy if you
frequent sit in on a conference call with the same people.

That’s really it. For most people, I think that using the Caller
Groups function will be good enough, but still, it’s another fun app
for your phone. I personally will be using it, as I have a core group
of friends I frequently text in order to set plans and whatnot.

Download TeamSuite_1.0_EMEA.SISX

Source: Symbian Guru

Steve asks a very important question: Why isn’t this made available as a separate download officially from Nokia?

This guy really doesn’t care about his warranty. We are now reaping the benefits:

Direct link to video

Check out his picture gallery of the dissection

Source: ThoughtFix

All About Symbian just posted an article titled "The Perfect S60 3rd Edition Alarm"

The biline reads: There are many features that S60’s own Clock application lacks, but what are these features exactly, and are there any third party apps that can provide a better alternative?

The S60 clock application is pitted against the S60 calander, Alarm Pro, and BestAlarms. I was very disappointed to see Handy Clock left out of this comparison.

I highly recommend you guys check out that article if your are as serious about setting yourself reminders as I am. I also recommend the guys at Nokia (NYSE: NOK) to take a look at this.

3rd party clock applications were created because there are deficits in the feature set of S60. I’m not saying you should put developers out of business by taking away their ideas, but some things really are just common sense and make you go "Why wasn’t this built in?!"

Here are some things that Krisse and the All About Symbian community think should be added:

S60’s "Clock" does need beefing up, however. Here’s what’s needed to turn Clock into the perfect alarm app:

• Alarms that let you choose whether to use sound, vibration or a flashing screen to alert you, or a combination of two or three.
• Repeated alarms (for example the same alarm every day, or a work profile where you get woken at a particular time every weekday but not at weekends)
• Allow alarms to go off on particular times on particular dates, at particular intervals (weekly, fortnightly, monthly), and in patterns that have no set interval (for example the first monday of each month).
• Multiple alarms
• An optional more active alarm system which makes sure the user is 100% awake before it stops ringing. This could be done by forcing the user to enter a particular code, or a particular name, or even solve a simple mathematical problem. This would put an end to the phenomenon of users switching their alarms off while half-asleep, then waking up hours later with no memory of the alarm even going off.
• An optional much more soothing alarm which eases the user awake by activating the radio or MP3 player with a particular station or playlist. The proper alarm could also then go off a certain amount of time later, once the music has done its work.
• Have a default snooze time, but also allow the user to set how long the snooze time is for each alarm, in terms of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and months. This setting should be accessible both when the alarm is set and when the snooze button is first pressed.
• An optional "nanny" alarm where you tell the alarm application how much sleep you need that night, and when you wish to wake up in the morning. It will then alert you when it’s time to go to bed, based on all this data. This feature could also be set to activate over an entire working week, with a graph at the end of the week displaying how much sleep you’ve had compared to how much you should have been getting (based on your age, etc).

I’ll say it once, I’ll say it again: The Palm (NSDQ: PALM) PIM is liquid gold. Learn from it.

This video was uploaded to youtube on September 26, 2006. I just happened to bump in to it right now. Enjoy:

Direct link to video

Do all the N95’s sound that British? I would love it if it were true.

To all of you bloggers who got a Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95: Can you do a video review of the GPS functionality?

I thought I told you guys about this a long time ago, apparently it was one of those posts I just happened to leave as a draft instead of hitting the publish button. Anyways: my home girl Darla Mack is giving away her Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N73 (and she’s about to get jumped for her N95 wink wink) on her site.

Here are the details for entering the contest:

I know this it a bit old, but as promised I will now start the contest.  Back in December I reached 1000 posts.
To me that was an achievement, even though it took me some years to get
there.  The way the blogosphere is going now one can reach 1000 posts
in a month! 

Since I’ve become a fan of YouTube I would like the entrant to
dedicate a video, especially for me, congratulating me on my 1000th
post!!  Consider it an honor!  Who knows where that video might end
up!! 

Now the catch is this… this contest will run until the 100th video
link is posted.  Please no obscenities or vulgarity, but do be
creative!!  Oh come on… that doesn’t sound too bad does it?

The winning video will be posted here and the N73 will be shipped
out by me.  Once received please send me a pic of yourself and your new
N73! 

Remember to please include your email address in your comments.

Good luck!

EDIT:  Videos from Blip or Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will also be accepted.

Source: Darla Mack

Good Luck everyone!

Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, told the FT that, "Our latest results are an illustration that if there was a price war, we were not participating."

Funny, then, that Mobile magazine has just reported that in the UK Nokia has just cut the prices on 43 different handsets and the typical reduction is around 10 per cent.

A source told Mobile, "In the eight years I have been working with Nokia, I have never known them to drop the price on much more than ten handsets at a time."

Sound like the action of a vendor involved in a price war, doesn’t it?

Nokia’s figures for the emerging markets show that its strategy is paying off there too. It is competing hard at the low end and enjoying upgrades to its latest products as a result.

Source: The Inquirer

Competition = we [consumers] win!

Some snippets:

[Global] In a virtual tie for fifth place are perennial favorites Starbucks and Nokia (NYSE: NOK), proving caffeine and cellphones haven’t gone out of style.

[Europe and Africa] IKEA wrestled the top spot from Nokia, which slipped to third behind Skype.

Source: Brand Channel

With a over one third of the cell phone market share, how am I not surprised?