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Finally!
One of my biggest bugbears with my Nokia N95 is that all the lovely apps I use to access the internet constantly ask me if I am really sure that I want them to access the ‘net via wifi or 3G.
How many times do you need to be told?!?! I can understand the security [...]
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At the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, Red Five Labs have announced the latest iteration of their .NET compact framework, the Net60 version 2.0 for S60 devices.
The Net60 framework, along with Microsoft’s Visual Studio provide you with a powerful platform to develop apps for the S60 platform...
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Dashwire, a web-based phone manager app we first covered back in 2007, lets you manage all your phone’s data - contacts, texts, etc. - over the web.
We were quite impressed with the app but a little disappointed that it was only available for Windows Mobile devices. Dashwire (the company) has just...
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We first covered this back in December, but it has been stuck in beta for some time. Now, at long last, Macintosh users are able to properly sync their Nokia phones with OS X.
The Missing Sync for Symbian will synchronize Contacts, Calendar and To-Do items on a Symbian device with the equivalent apps...
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A beta version of the promising new we browser Skyfire has been released for s60 phones.
The browser first surfaced as a Windows Mobile app. The Symbian version is available as a private beta to people signed up via the Skyfire website.
The browser claims to offer a full ‘desktop’ browsing...
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Using your phone’s built-in GPS receiver can make urban navigation a breeze, assuming you have an up to date street map loaded onto the handset, or can access something like Google Maps for Mobile.
Step off the beaten track, though, and you might run into some trouble, Most of the maps you are...
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Just as expected, Sling Media has released updates to its SlingPlayer Mobile for all Windows Mobile (that includes both touchscreen and non-touchscreen; Professional and Standard) version as well as S60. Following on the announcement that SlingPlayer Mobile will be coming to UIQ, SlingPlayer Mobile for...
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Clever S60 programming nerd over at the Symbian Freak forums have cooked up an app called ROMPatcher which is able to modify the ROM containing the operating system itslef - allowing fundamental changes and interesting tweaks to be made in the way your phone works.
The app uses a technique where a cpy...
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ShakeLock is Yet Another Accelerometer app for S6o 3rd Edition. Unlike some of its more frivolous brethren, this might actually be some use.
With the app running in the background, just give your phone a shake and it will lock the keypad. To unlock it, just give it another shake. Easy!
Because this is...
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Mouse-shy Mac users have been enjoying an app called Quicksilver, which allows fast access to applications and files via the keyboard and has become something of a cult among productivity geeks.
SkyeQuikKey from SkyeStream is a reasonable stab at a Symbian 60 3rdEdition version of the same idea.
Once...
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Last week we posted about an app called WMWifi that turns a Windows Mobile 6 device into a portable wifi hotspot.
As if in response to the wailing and gnashing of teeth from jealous Symbian users, free ware developer Joikusoft has released JoikuSpot - a 3rd Edition S60 app that performs much the same...
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You know when you have found a good mobile app when you start wishing it was part of a phone’s standard user interface.
TextQuick, an S60 app from Mind Flip software is such a simple, useful idea that I’m amazed that Nokia hasn’t incorporated it into the S60 Contacts function as an...