No, nobody has ported Maemo 5 to our 5800s (yet!) but symbian theme designer Mandeep and FoneArena have released Maemo Arena, a symbian theme heavily inspired by the UI elements of Maemo 5.

Now only if some hacker would port the Maemo 5 OS to the 5800s, would we get the features like kinetic scrolling and skype integration on our 5800s but till then we have to be happy with this Maemo Arena theme, which we have to confess is as close as symbian UI can ever get to the Maemo UI, that is at the time being. Check out screenshots and a brief review after the break. Read more »

source: tube5800.com

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has changed the way we have our mobile experience. Before, it was just making phone calls and text messages. Today, it is about being connected 24/7.

These past few years, Social Networking has bitten the world. Everyone has extended his or her life offline to the world online. From simple websites that aim to connect people, now these web 2.0 worlds make more things happen. From sharing of pictures to video to comments and having online meetings, social networking is here to stay as long as people want to be connected with each other.

There is plenty of software out there for the Nokia 5800 phone. You can check some of them at the Ovi Store. Some may not be in Ovi but have individual websites that sell their software. However, not all applications are essential.

I’m going to share to two essential applications that I recommend for Social Networking.

Facebook App

Facebook has overtaken MySpace and Friendster in leaps and bounds. I have been able to connect with a lot of people from long lost relatives to high school and college friends to celebrities. Facebook has a cool application for the Nokia 5800 phone.

The standards apply. You can type in your status using the application. You can check the news feeds or statuses of your network of friends and comment. What I think would be the coolest feature is to upload a photo from your gallery or an instantly taken photo to your Facebook account. Unfortunately, you cannot create a new photo album using thisapplication. But nevertheless, this beats the mobile version anytime.

Gravity

Twitter has revolutionized the way we communicate. With just 140 characters under your arsenal, people have typed in their location, what they are doing or what is on their mind. This is not just happening via desktop computers but via mobile phones. For the Nokia 5800, the best Twitter application would be Gravity. Gravity has a sleek interface and does more than just read tweets. It can post tweets, comment or respond to tweets and search for new friends to follow.

As a bonus, you can add your Facebook account in Gravity so you can update your status as well. And it also displays the statuses of your Facebook network of friends. How cool is that?

Of course, there are other applications out there depending on your need. If you are a MySpace user, there is an application for that. And so do Photobucket and Flickr.

Nokia 5800 works with Macbooks

Not everyone who owns Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone has a PC. There are some who use a Mac. Of course, it also goes that those who own an iPhone do not necessarily have a Macbook but use a PC.

Apple continues to increase its market share with its newest and slickest desktop (i.e. iMacs) and mobile computers (i.e. macbook and macbook pros) and their very stable Mac OS X operating software. And their presence is rapidly increasing in spite of the hefty price tag that comes with a unit. Nevertheless, their presence should not be denied.

Many Nokia users do have Macbooks. Unfortunately, Nokia has not release a Mac version of their proprietary software called PC Suite, which will enable your PC computer to access your phone, and do all sorts of things such as send text messages, edit your contacts and upload your music.

On a Mac, you can use PC Suite if you either boot up in Windows (Yes. You can run Windows on a Mac) or use a virtual software such as Parallels to run Windows while in a Mac OS X environment.

Even though you do not have a PC Suite running in your Mac, this does not mean you cannot do anything with your Nokia 5800. You can use your Mac with your Nokia 5800 phone.

Connecting to your phone

Though you may not be able to use the USB cable that comes with your Nokia 5800 phone, you can still use the Bluetooth device that is built-in the phone with your Macbook. To me, this is much more beneficial since you do not have to worry about cables or drivers. Bluetooth is pretty much straight forward and can easily connect to any Bluetooth enabled device. Good thing that Mac comes with Bluetooth right off the box.

You can use the built-in Bluetooth device in your Macbook to connect wirelessly to your Nokia 5800 phone. All you need to do is turn on the Bluetooth from your taskbar or from the System Preferences. Also activate your Nokia 5800 phone’s Bluetooth. Make sure you set it to “Discoverable” mode or else your Mac won’t find it.

Then, choose “Set-up Bluetooth device” from your Macbook and follow the wizard. There will be a special selection “Mobile Phone” that you can choose in the selection. Once you are able to detect the phone with your Macbook, then you can begin doing things with it.

For example, you can send files such as photos, notes and pictures to your Nokia 5800 and vice versa. Also, you can pair your Mac to your Nokia 5800 and access either the phone’s memory or the SD card. From here, you can copy files from the phone to your Mac and vice versa. This is perfect to transfer mp3 and movie files to your phone.

Mobile Codes are not anything new but still there is a large Nokia 5800 audience who may not be familiar with it. As per Nokia – “'Mobile codes' are codes in the same way as ordinary barcodes are, but their matrix structure can hold more information. The codes are also mobile in the sense that you can use the camera on your mobile device to scan and decode them.”

What you can do with a Mobile Code?

As per the definition above, a Mobile Code stores much more info than a regular bar code. Hence, you can use it to store your address and other important information. You can even use it as your business card. You can store upto 60 letter text as a mobile code and other links to websites. You can even publish it on your facebook profile, send as an MMS, print on your T-shirt.

Pre-requisites :-

There is nothing much really techie that you need. You just need a web browser to access the Mobile Codes website and the a decoder application installed on your phone which is available freely from a number of publishers. Yes, it comes free.

Visit http://www.i-nigma.mobi on your mobile handset to download the mobilecode reader.

Keep your Nokia 5800 in great shape. Update.

With all the applications installed in your Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Phone, it would be natural for you to get so pre-occupied. Sometimes, the developers of these applications roll out updates and bug fixes without even tell you. You would only know either your read it in a blog page just like what you are doing now or you heard it from a tech geek friend.

Your Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has a built-in updater that can check the applications that need updating. This feature is called the Applications Update.

This little known feature can easily be forgotten but it does serve its purpose well. This often forgettable feature will make life easier for you with a few simple taps on the screen.

First, you need to find it. The icon is located inside the Applications folder of your Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. When you choose it, the application starts refreshing the list of programs that need to be updated. Of course, to do this, your phone needs to be connected to the Internet via WI-FI or via your cellular network over-the-air Internet. Application Update will connect to the individual servers of these programs to check if they have any available updates or not. If there are, then it will all list on the display.

At the left side of the names of the application is a tick box. Check if you want to download the updates or uncheck if you just want it the way it is. When you are done with your selection, you can now start the update.

Now, depending on your applications and Internet connection, the time will vary. Nevertheless, your applications will be updated in no time. Maybe have some coffee or something.

When it is done, it might ask you to restart your phone just so that it can really implement the upgrade. Do this if only asked.

Just to be sure, you can run the Application Update again and check if there are updates left to be downloaded. We suggest you do this every week to check if some programs get a boost or bug fix from the developers.

Check out the previous updates.

If you want to know the previous updates, this little application has a log. Access it using the View Update History.

Sometimes, it is not just through the built-in Nokia Applications Update application that software updates their programs. Sometimes, when you run an individual application, it checks any updates for you. However, it should not stop you from making sure you have updated programs by checking them using the Applications Update.

We suggest that you make it part of your weekly Nokia 5800 phone diagnostics and check-up. This way, you can keep your phone in tip top shape.

Nokia took over Trolltech ASA in 2008 and renamed it to Qt Development Frameworks. We already know about Java which enables applications to run platform independent. Qt is a similar cross platform software. Nokia is set to target 80 million devices with Nokia Qt 4.6.0. This new framework for Symbian devices will provide better UI designs and applications.

To give the Nokia Symbian users a preview of what Qt is capable of, they have released a demo app for Nokia S60 5^th Edition device. You can download the same here. The demo application is called Fluidlauncher. It demonstrates the kinetic scrolling and drill down features among other spectacular features.

Still Google around on how to get a free navigation system for your Nokia5800? besides Nokia ovi maps.

TIRED of searching around google and yahoo and found other related searches that still can't help you in that?

TIRED of waiting for Nokia 5800 navigation yet to announce for the Free navigation license?

Felt expensive for the current ovi maps navigation price?

Why not try this? Garmin Xt navigation.

- Free from third party resources

- Used by Onlynokia5800.blogspot.com

- Tested by Onlynokia5800.blogspot.com

- Proven by Onlynokia5800.blogspot.com

Below is the full and correct instruction from a blogger in Malaysia.

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It turns out, it is pretty tough considering my lack of expertise when it comes to Symbian OS phones. I spent 3 days experimenting all possibilities to make it work on my phone. Since it took a lot of my time, I’m going to save yours by teaching you.

Before you do anything, Download the file (80 mb ++) and read all the instructions before hand. It’ll help you to visualize the process.

Download file contains

• GarminMobileXTforSymbianS603rdEdition_50040.exe
• GarminMobileXTFreeBasemap_4xxxx.exe
• GarminMobileXTSupportFiles_4xxxx.exe
• gmapsupp.img (Malaysian Map, with DUKE highway)
• garmin_kgen.exe
• 5800_manual.pdf
• GarminMobile20_GarminMobileXTOwnersManual.pdf

Note: You can skip part 1.

1. Setting up Apparatus, The Nokia 5800

1. Back up all data using PC Suite (go to Nokia website).
2. Soft reset by pressing *#7370#. Should take about 2-3 mins and you lose all your data (except on memory card). But don’t worry, you have back up remember?
3. On your Nokia 5800, go to Application > Location > Positioning > Positioning Methods. Enable “Assisted GPS” and “Integrated GPS” ONLY. This will ensure you don’t get charge using WAP or 3G network for Internet.
4. Go to Application > Location > GPS Data > Position > Options > Satellite status. This will show the satellite signals you’re receiving. Be sure you are outdoor in an open area. Balcony doesn’t work well, believe me I’ve tried. Once you’ve got AT LEAST 4 satellite signal, go back indoor, you don’t want people to think you’re crazy, waving your phone around.
5. Now you’re ready for GarminXT.

2. Installing GarminXT on Nokia 5800.

1. Once you’ve downloaded, unzip the files to someplace accessible preferably on your desktop. If you haven’t, please download it.
2. Connect your phone via USB and select ‘Mass storage mode’.
3. From you PC, double click “GarminMobileXTforSymbianS603rdEdition_50040.exe” to install and wait.
4. Double click “GarminMobileXTFreeBasemap_4xxxx.exe” to install. Wait..
5. Double click “GarminMobileXTSupportFiles_4xxxx.exe” to install.
6. Remove USB connection between PC and phone. When prompted ‘Launch GarminXT’ do not click Yes, just Cancel.
7. From your phone, go to Menu > Settings > Application Manager > Installation files. There should be GarminXT.sis file. Install it.

3. Cracking GarminXT on Nokia 5800.

1. Tell yourself and say “Yes, I’m a cheapskate”.
2. Run GarminXT from your phone at Menu > Application > Garmin. It will prompt you with some settings. Choose your preferable.
3. Select “Use other device” when it prompts you to buy or trial. You will get a screen, “Where To?” and “View map”
4. In GarminXT, go to Tools > Settings > About. Jot down “Card ID”, you will need it. Exit GarminXT
5. On your PC, run “garmin_kgen.exe” and enter the “Card ID” from previous steps.
6. Generate it and you will get a string of codes. Copy the codes to Notepad and save it as “sw.unl”. *Be sure you don’t save it as sw.unl.txt”*
7. Connect your phone to PC and select “Mass storage mode”.
8. Copy “sw.unl” to Garmin folder. Usually located at E:/Garmin.
9. Copy “gmapsupp.img” from downloaded file to Garmin folder. “gmapsupp.img” is the Malaysian map.
10. Disconnect your phone from PC.

4. Restore your Nokia 5800

1. Reconnect your phone via PC Suite.
2. Restore your settings through back up.

5. Setting up GarminXT on Nokia 5800

1. You don’t need your PC anymore. Shut down and conserve energy.
2. Run GarminXT on your phone.
3. Go to Tools > Settings > System > Remote GPS. Change to “Use Attached GPS” by disabling the “Bluetooth GPS”.
4. Go to Tools > Manage My Data > Map Sets > MapSource. Make sure all maps are enabled.

6. Toying GarminXT on Nokia 5800.

1. Switch off your fans and lights. Go out.
2. Run GarminXT, (duh!).
3. Select “View Map” and wait for a while. The satellite will find you. It took me 5 mins or so. Just have patience and faith.
4. Now you’ll see where you are.
5. Go back and select “Where To?”. If you’re at home and wants GarminXT to store you current location as home, then select “Home”
6. “Where To?” is rather confusing. I usually use “Where To?” > Point of interest. There’s lots of shopping malls, hospitals, banks, ATM machines etc. from there, you’d know where to go.
7. Pat yourself and say “Well done”. The rest is up to you.

Note: I will NOT be providing support. If it doesn’t work for you, you can leave a comment and hope someone will rescue you. Google it!

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source:

http://www.noktahhitam.com/how-to-install-garmin-xt-on-nokia-5800-symbian-s60-v3.html

Probably the name along with the title, let it away but just in case you have any second thoughts, let us deal with them straight away: Pico Fart makes your 5800s fart and no kidding, it’s as real as any human’s flatulence, only sans the stench though!

You may probably overlook this app is just another fart app in the ovi store, but we should tell you that this one is for real, atleast when it comes to fart! These are the kind of apps, that push the iPhone app tally to well pas that fancy 100k mark, but hey look iPhoners our 5800ers has a share of fart apps of its own too! Enough of iPhone bashing, let’s get back to Pico Fart on 5800, after the break though. Read more »

source:tube5800.com

Improvements?

Don’t get me wrong. I love my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. It took me five years to upgrade my phone simply because I have not found a phone suitable for my requirements. That is, until I saw theNokia 5800 on a blog post. I read it and it was quite unbelievable.

But just like any product, there are good things and shortcomings.

So we have developed a wish list of features that could still be part of an upcoming firmware update (fingers crossed) not only forNokia 5800 but also for other Nokia Phones. Here are some of the major cravings that I want to have in my Nokia 5800 phone.

Kinetic Scrolling

When Apple introduced the iPhone, the phone industry went crazy. When they debut this new piece of technology, we all salivated when we saw Steve Jobs swiped the touch screen and the display scrolled up with such fluid motion. I still remember the people cheering with astonishment. Folks, we have been introduced to the kinetic scrolling.

Kinetic scrolling is a phone feature where you flick the screen in the direction of choice and it will scroll continuously in a fluid motion. Image the “Price is Right” roulette moving up or down. Traditionally, we need to either press an “Up” or “Down” key and move one section at a time. Quite time consuming. Kinetic scrolling helps making things faster as you access your contacts or messages.

The Nokia 5800 has a touch screen similar to the iPhone. But it still uses the traditional section scrolling. Phone owners are hoping this will be part of a major upgrade soon. Why the folks in Nokia cannot include this in the update is still a mystery since they have been able to do it in the upcoming Nokia N900 phone.

Improved Camera

When I found out that this unit has a 3.2 megapixel camera with a Carl Zeiss lens, I said that it would be a great camera phone. This is the same lens used in video cameras. However, I was deeply disappointed at the picture quality of the Nokia 5800 phone. It was grainy and had problems in dim places. The photos have so much noise that it would be a sin to take them. The flash does help but not much. You can still see the imperfections.

Now, I do not know if a firmware upgrade will address this concern. Mostly, this is a hardware issue. Yet Nokia should also do something about it. Improve the camera software or tweak something inside that can influence better looking pictures.

Memory

Now, 81MB is not enough to run a lot of applications. Of course, a firmware update will not make the hardware memory increase in capacity. But could a firmware upgrade help in juggling the memory needs of the Nokia 5800 applications?

These are just some improvements I want to see in my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. With the highly anticipated debut of the Nokia N900, there is so much buzz on how it has improved hardware wise. But don’t leave the Nokia 5800 behind. It still has plenty to offer to those who bought the unit. I will also need to select from mobile phone deals a new one as mine is just finishing.

Are still find is there screensaver on the Nokia 5800? Screensaver is such a nice function for phone, but how pitty 5800 not include this. However our dedicated app reviewing partner, MMMOOO, the developer of the rocketing MyPhone-turn Nokia phones into iPhone, provides a very special .sis installer file which called Slide Show, actually i former know this function under theme section, but when my real life photos goes in the the homescreen with S60 frame ui, the background is so ugly.

However, this slide show is very unique, it meet seamlessly well with my 5800 as you can see from the photo above. The slide show has a very nice content targeting, it's called: 9 Fruits: Equip yourself with the ultra wisdom & inspirational 9 Fruits from Bible. Each motto word will slideshow according to your own setting in homescreen. It hints people keep in wisdom and holly, really impressive!

How t o apply slide show? Actually, you can use any photos of yours to apply in slideshow, but normally the photos will be display well on the homescreen just as i mentioned above. However you can ps your photos to achieve a nice fit. And MMMOOO 9 Fruits slide just is a good case. They even done this in .sis installer, not messed .jpg images, very convenient for your installation. The method from 9 Fruits:

• Choose the right resolution file to install
• Go: Setting-General-Personalisation-Theme-Wallpaper-Slide Show choose '9Fruits' related images

You can download this nice slide show in directly FREE from Ovi Store with easy installation. And to match this slideshow well you may use a dark style theme, and you can get it at Ovi as well. So the last tip of using slide show, you shall find a theme match with your slide show images style.

Maybe it slipped passed you but Nokia just recently updated the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic’s firmware to version 31.0.101. This has been a long time coming since it’s last firmware update dated July 2009.

Currently only available in Europe and Asia, this newest firmware update has included updates on your phone including an advanced e-mail application, a better version of Ovi Maps 3.0, an easier navigation experience, and bug fixes.

Frankly, there aren’t much graphical changes on this update unlike the previous update. It is claimed that there are bug fixes done which should always be part of any firmware update. Now to which bug fixes were resolved, Nokia did not specify it.

Also, it was mentioned that there is a more advanced e-mail application and Ovi Maps 3.0. Upon checking Ovi Maps, the interface does look cleaner and has great looking icons.

Update your Nokia 5800 XM firmware

This is not the update everyone is waiting for. For months, Nokia 5800 users have been teased with the kinetic scrolling found in other Nokia units, which should have been part of the normal features of the Nokia 5800. Until now, we have not seen any trace of this kind on the updates.

Another feature we are waiting for is the appearance of widgets on the Nokia 5800’s main display, which is similar to the upcoming Nokia N900 phone due November 2009. What these widgets will do is similar to desktop widgets in Windows or Mac OS X. They will display different information such as time, dates and RSS feeds. However, with the 81MB internal memory of the Nokia 5800, this may be hard to pull. Having widgets present will eat up memory space and will affect the performance of your phone.

We are still in a wait and see mode. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that Nokia didn’t forget one of their most sought after devices.

source:nokia5800.net

Have you ever played a game called Bulls and Cow, a classical number deduction game? This game was really hard to me in my childhood. And later there was a board game called Mastermind which replace the number with color ball. It's also very hot when I was young. Now you can be the hero, in your brain storm or kill time as the smart & brave snow leopard in the background.

MMMOOO brings this game to your mobile phone! It's called Memo Deduction. You have to figure out what color each memo is with the hint of pin.

Game logic:

Deductive out the all the memos' color according to the hints; Click each memo to select a color or leave blanks, click done; Red pushpin numbers means the 'color & position are both right' numbers, the black means the 'color is right but position is wrong' ones.

3 levels:

• Easy: 4 memos, 4 colors, 12 chances
• Normal: 5 memos, 5 colors, 10 chances
• Difficult: 5 memos, 6 colors, 8 chances

the 3rd level is really hard to figure out!

The game now is on commercial mode as MMMOOO's regular method, and cost 2.99 usd, not too expensive or cheap, but it's really a playable mini game. You can buy it with our trusted link here. We will also hold a contest days later, kindly keep an eye on our blog

At the current “Nokia: The Way We Live Next” event, a video of the future of Nokia devices was shown to all and its now all over the net.

Based on Nokia’s research and development, the video paints a picture of life in 2015 and how people communicate with the device.

Check out the video below to have a peek into the future of Nokia.

What do you think of the video? What are your thoughts on the Nokia in 2015?

source:http://symbian.smashpop.net/

Seems like Nokia realised that many users are not clear on the direction and the app availability for email, social network and messaging on Nokia devices.

That’s why the company launches a new portal that features all the messaging options and ambitions.

The portal is divided into 3 main sections: Email, Instant Messaging and Social Networking.

Each section tells users what they can do on their phone in messaging and how it helps them to communicate better.

Once the user has selected the device, the graphic changes to match messaging options for the selected model.

Here’s a video overview of Nokia Messaging.

Check out the new Messaging site now!

source: http://symbian.smashpop.net/

If you are looking for the game for exercising your quick thinking and finger skill, so this game is for you. Zum Zum is developed by innerActive for Nokia 5800 XM.

The game will display the Egypt ancient city with the pyramid and pharaoh. A game board will be shown along with the carved pathway. One of the holes will release multi colored balls that move to the other hole at the path end. You need to shoot those multiple color balls in order to form the 3 balls with same color. Those similar color balls then will disappear and it will help you to maintain the game. If your balls are stacked up, the game will over.

The up and down arrows at the left side will guide you shooter. Just press the target like icon when you are ready to shoot. To check out what color you will shoot, just see the lower right screen.
Read more

source:nokiafanboy.com

Continuing on their efforts of synchronising all their symbian services under the Ovi hood, Nokia have rechristened their Nokia Music application to Nokia Ovi Player.

The latest update to the Nokia Music application, brings the new name along with several other improvements over the previous application. We gotta admit, there is nothing new in the Ovi player to get us all excited about but just the Ovi branding now gives the application a new identity and blends well with the Ovi suite, which was made public recently. Read more »

source:tube5800.com

Confused? Spare us a minute and we will tell you how to get an eyeful and earful of Rihanna as she performs live in London, all from your living room. As you may have heard, Rihanna is all set to launch her new album on 23rd of this month and she will be performing a few tracks from her new album in a concert in London, this Monday, the 16th of November and Nokia will be beaming it live on the web for free.

Unless you have been living under the rock over the last couple of weeks, you would know that the latest single from Rihanna goes by the name of “Wait for Your Turn” and can now be bought exclusively fromNokia Music stores worldwide (except in the UK where it will be available 15th November onwards). And yeah you don’t have to “wait for your turn” wait till the 23rd to get a glimpse of thenew album. Register with Nokia Music here and you are all set for the exclusive preview performance of Rihanna’s latest album. Sounds too good to be true? Hear it from Rihanna herself, after the break though. Read more »

source:tube5800.com

With Nokia turning to its latest flagship device, the N900 to get some foothold in the smartphone segment, Maemo 5 is the talk of the town. Being 5800 fans, if you are feeling left out on one of the most happening events in the world of smartphones today, you can sit back and relax for we have some Maemo goodies for you.

One of the best known theme developers, TehkSeven is back and back with a bang, we must say for his latest theme maemo 5 is such a beauty! We can see our readers drooling over this theme and you know what to do? Just hit on the read button! Read more »

source:tube5800.com

Just when you thought Symbian user interface is getting old since the new touchscreen devices are currently using S60v5 (which was ported from S60v3 with touch capability added), don scat!

The people at Symbian Foundation are actually working on new Symbian platforms namely Symbian^3 and Symbian^4

Check out the timeline above to find out when these new n good looking Symbian versions are coming.

According to Symbian.org:

Symbian^3

The second open version of the Symbian platform. It extends Symbian^2 in many ways, including graphics support for advanced layering and effects, full HDMI support for a great television playback experience and improving data performance - ideal for streaming high definition audio and video.

Symbian^4

Symbian^4 is expected in 2010. It will feature Direct UI - a complete makeover of the touch UI, Qt as the primary runtime and the majority of SHAI in place, making hardware adaptation easier than ever before.

Check out this video showing off the Symbian UI Concept posted by Symbian Foundation.

Can’t wait to see this being implemented! Come on Symbian! Speed it up!

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No, we didn’t mis-spell the app name nor or we referring to the Roger Moore starer 1981 Bond movie “For Your Eyes Only”. Infact we are talking about a symbian application, which couldn’t have been named any better! For Your Ears Only brings that iPod like functionality of auto-pause of music player when the ear/headphones is disconnected from the phone.

While there are motion controlled bluetooth headsets from Sony Ericsson (MH907) today, that can auto-play music when they are unplugged from the ears, it will probably cost you flesh and bone to get this feature on your 5800. So instead, let’s take the easy way around and see how “For Your Ears Only” fares on our 5800s. Read more »

source:tube5800.com

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to design a 5800 application for yourself? Looks like you are in luck for Eyemags have come up with an application which lets you do just that on your 5800s.

In case you were wondering if you need to know to code in C, C# or any of these scary machine languages to design an application; No you don’t have to. Thanks to the sleek graphical user interface of Eyemags, designing or customizing a content generator is a walk in the park. Screenshots and more details after the break. Read more »

source:tube5800.com

Now that we are done with Halloween, its time to dump that Halloween theme and wallpaper from your 5800 and give it a new lease of life with our latest collection of wallpapers for Nokia 5800s.

All set in 360×640 resolution, we have compiled one of the best set of wallpapers for 5800s. Cars, Bikes, Nature, Soccer, Hot Girls.. you name it, we have it! We even have a couple of backgrounds for the upcoming Christmas season as well. Hit on the jump button for wallpaper collage and download link. Read more »

source:tube5800.com

Whats My IP ?

Recently I published a few posts which required the user to know the phone’s IP address while on the WLAN network and I did happen to go through a number of comments where people were asking about how to determine your phone's IP on WLAN. I tried working on that and I found no solution to such a problem. Moreover, if you are not a very techie person, it is a real big deal logging in to your routers admin page on your PC and finding out the phone’s IP. I did have a little bit of knowledge in writing simple programs so I thought about writing an application that tells your IP when you launch it.

I have written a small Python based application that actually tells you your IP when you are connected to a WiFi access point. It is called WhatsMyIP. You just need to launch the application and it pops up a menu where you need to select your access point. Here you need to select your WiFi access point. As soon as you select it, the application prints your IP address that is assigned to your phone on the network.

Even if you wish you to know the IP assigned to your phone by your data connection (NOT WiFi), simply select your data connection access point from the pop-up menu and it will print your IP address.

Pre-requisites:-

Python Runtime 1.9.7 – Download (Unsigned)
WhatsMyIP – Download
(You may have to sign WhatsMyIP)

Important Note: Please restart your phone once you complete all the installation. This is required for the completion of the installation of the Python Runtime.

source:nokia5800.net

We are again going to do some experimentation with our Nokia 5800 phone, don’t worry it will mess your phone. I have seen a large number FM transmitters being sold on eBay and Amazon for hefty prices. How would it sound if I actually save all your cost? Of course, it sounds nice. But, how are we going to do it? I believe most of us have WiFi routers installed and even Nokia 5800 has a WiFi and we connect our laptops/PC over WiFi. So, do you see the connection – ‘WiFi’? Yes, we will use WiFi to broadcast our music to our Nokia 5800.

Benefits of using WiFi over FM?

1) The audio quality is purely digital. No possible distortions as in FM transmission.
2) The audio transmission over WiFi is purely secure and no one else can listen to it unless you allow it. However, this depends on your WiFi network security i.e. it is not an open network. Even if it is open, it would be quite difficult to connect as you need the link for the audio stream.

In this guide, the instructions are provided where you will be able to transmit whatever audio you will play on your Winamp player to your Nokia 5800. The audio will automatically play on the Real Player in Nokia 5800.

Before we proceed further with the instructions, there are a few pre-requisites that we need –
Icecast Streaming Server – Download
Edcast Winamp Plug-in – Download
Note: Download the mp3 encoder here , unzip it and place it in “C:\Program Files\Winamp” folder.
Winamp Player v5.56 - Download [This is version that I have tested this on.]
Note: Allow access to these applications when prompted by the Firewall.

How does the idea of having some chrome on our 5800 sound like? We know that the navigation edition of our 5800 has that chrome rim which we covered earlier when it was launched. T-Mobile UK is all set to launch the chrome edition of Nokia’s best selling device-Nokia 5800 (Comes With Music) to its customers in the UK.

In the absence of any images being released to the media, we can only speculate on the possibilities of this chrome edition of Nokia 5800. We must say the T-Mobile personnel have done an amazing job at keeping things locked up for we haven’t seen any leaks in the blogosphere either. Now coming to the possibilities of this “chrome” version, a 5800 navigation edition sans the lifetime navigation license may be a possibility and so is an all chromeNokia 5800 (Not many would like that though). Read more »

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When we visited the Ovi store recently, major applications and games have sprouted out. One of the most noticeable in the roster is a game title I would not have thought would be dipping its fingers in the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic realm. Today, we talk about Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed.

What is Assassin’s Creed?

Assassin's Creed is a third-person action-adventure video game created and developed by Ubisoft and was released worldwide on different gaming platforms such as the Playstation and Xbox 360. In the game, you take the role of Altaïr as experienced by Desmond. You are a trained assassin and are given different missions to kill different people of influence in the city.

You will be going from different stages, jumping across obstacles and walls, obtaining items along the way and solving some puzzles. You are armed with a sword, which you use to veer away your enemies.

To navigate your character in the game, there is a typical gamepad placed on the lower left corner of the screen. Then, the action button is found on the lower left corner of the screen. At the upper left corner, you will see your life meter and the type of weapon you are using currently. Opposite this (the upper right corner), you will find the universal symbol for “Home”, which will take you to different optionsin the game such as quitting or adjusting the sound.

My Take on Assassin’s Creed

Assassin’s Creed truly blew away everyone when it first came out and I was excited to try this game on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone.

Don’t expect 3D graphics here. Unfortunately, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone does not have the 3D capabilities of a Playstation Portable. So Ubisoft went for the traditional 2D sideways reminiscent of the old game portals such as Nintendo Super Family Computer. Graphics are quite jagged but it does try to do it’s best to bring the fluidity of the game into the phone.

The sound is pretty much 8-bit style. Frankly, you do feel like playing an old-school game but with the new generation titles.

I do have some problems with the control system. Since the game displays the controls on the Nokia 5800’s flat surface, it doesn’t feel as responsive as I had hope it would me. The control keys are small and sometimes your character does not follow your commands because you touched the wrong direction button. Plus, I was quite cautious because I might be putting too much pressure on the screen and it might break. It does take some getting used to and you will take some retrials before you get the hang of it.

Get instructions from your master.

Game play wise is pretty basic but admirable. It has a mixture of puzzles to solve, enemies to battle and walls and chains to climb. It’s not just a hack-and-slash game buta game it does require some skill and some common sense. I like games like this.

My Verdict on Assassin’s Creed

Assassin’s Creed is a wonderful addition to your game roster. Just make sure you take it easy on the controls because you might break your Nokia 5800 screen from too much intense playing. Though it is FREE to download, one cannot but help to think if this is just a demo or a full game. I have played about three levels and I have not received any hints of a demo.

The Assassin’s Creed game can be downloaded for FREE at the Ovi Store (http://store.ovi.com). Just register to access the site. You can also download this application straight to your Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone by installing the Ovi Store Application.

There is a new update available for the email client Mail For Exchange. You can install this update using the Application Update which is a inbuilt feature of Nokia 5800 and you can find it in the Applications menu. To know more about using the Application Update Feature, please visit this post. The latest version is Mail For Exchange v2.09(188) which is an update to the older version For Exchange v2.09(162).

Previous version

Latest version

Another important note about the update - you can update to the latest version without any worry. All your data and contacts remain intact and nothing is missing. The update by the internal Application Update utility is a silent one and OS managed. It is somewhat similar to Windows Update feature.

Last update was in August

To know more about Mail For Exchange, please follow this post. Please post your comments and views if you faced any issues with the latest update.