If you are gearing up for the holiday season ahead and are wondering how to give that Xmas look to your 5800s; you are in luck for ThinkChange-developers of popular 5800 apps like UnLock and FingerPrint have released two amazing XMas themed app- XMasAvatar and XMasGift.

If you thought XMasAvatar has anything to do with the recent James Cameroon movie-Avatar, we are sorry to tell you that its not. But you don’t have to be disappointed as XMasAvatar will definitely put a smile on your face with that cute little Santa hovering all over your 5800 screen. Coming to XMasGift, its another innovative feature from the folks of ThinkChange, allowing users to send Xmas gifts directly from their 5800s. Wondering how? Hit on that jump button to find out. Read more »

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Offscreen Technologies, one of the best known developers for the symbian fifth edition platform have been doling out christmas giveaways on the ovi store for a while now. If you have been following closely on the development over at the ovi store, you would have noticed that Offscreen has been dishing out one paid app after another, sans the price tag.

The latest to join the bandwagon of paid to free apps/games from Offscreen Technologies is the Airport Touch, a fun little game, wherein the gamer has to direct the incoming flights to the landing strip of a virtual airport. Sounds interesting? Hit on the jump button for more tid-bits of this game on our 5800s. Read more »

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Nokia Image Space is an experimental research project and currently in the beta phase. It allows you to link your Flickr account and view all your pictures as well as those from your friends to which you have access. To use Image Space, it is required that you have a Yahoo account because it only integrates with Flickr currently.

Nokia Image Space actually allows you to create a snapshot of the area around you. As per Beta Labs, when you have enough photos for a particular area, Nokia Image Space will create a 3D presentation of the area. However, this particular feature is still under development and will be implemented in a couple of phases.

The supported browsers include IE, Safari and Firefox and you must have Adobe Flash 10 plugin for these browsers. Nokia Image Space has not been tested with Nokia 5800 however, it is known to support S60 5th Edition and tested on N97 Mini.

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Long before i owned a Nokia 5800, even before it was actually launched, i was crazy over iPhone (This is the blog which I read). The prime reason for this was the touch screen revolution which iPhone brought with itself. But as time progressed and there were more devices launched with touch screens, i figured out some of the major restrictions which iPhone has in terms of technology and feature support.

I being a regular user of nokia phones, owned a nokia N91 and moving on to the new iPhone had the same expectations. On an initial review itself i was disappointed for i needed a dedicated data plan with the operator for operating the iPhone. It did not support the normal gprs that i had earlier. Moreover, i came bundled with few operators and i did not have the option of an unlocked iPhone (at least in India). The camera with the iPhone did not feature a LED flash. Comparing with the Nokia 5800, it did lack a number of stuff like for a battery replacement, i needed to visit a customer care center. The Bluetooth in iPhone did not connect to other brand phones. So sharing data was a big problem when it came to multimedia files. Also, iPhone does not feature a secondary camera which comes in handy in a video call.

Comparing other features of Nokia 5800 and iPhone give the iPhone an edge over Nokia 5800 but comparing their prices, it becomes obvious for iPhone to have that edge. iPhone has better memory support and processing power and it also has a superior graphics support. There are separate groups of Nokia lovers and iPhone lovers and both the groups have their own reasons for loving these phones. Nokia is telecom giant and known for making people's phone in all categories. With phones like N900 and N97, it seems that Nokia is all set to leave the iPhone way behind. Only time will tell who wins the race.

Specs from El iPhone Blog

Mobile Download Accelerator is a free utility from 1000CHI Software. You can download this utility free of cost from Nokia Ovi Store. Follow this link to download the Mobile Download Accelerator. This application works almost the same way the desktop versions work. You can stop, pause and resume the download any time you want. It integrates with Nokia's mobile browser and starts the download as soon as you click on the downloadable link.

Launches as soon as you click on the download link

This application is essentially useful for users who are on 2G connections and experience frequent failure when downloading files above 1MB. I rate this application as a must have for Nokia 5800. I am able to download big audio and video files without any failure. The application has a nice interface with two different tabs which show you the file downloaded and the files currently getting downloaded. It has an option in its settings which allows you to choose if you wish to download a particular file using the Nokia's inbuilt down-loader or the MobileDownload Accelerator. Every time you click on a downloadable link, there is a prompt that gives you the option for selecting the download client.

Meet members of the Mozilla mobile team as they give you a quick tour of the user interface, features and vision of Firefox for mobile. It is about time that we see a client for symbian phones as well. Although the new Opera Mobile Browser does the job pretty well and is way friendly in the S60v5 devices but nevertheless it would be great to see a fully functional Firefox Browser soon. Catch the video below for more:

Do you love frogs? Nevermind even if you despise them for this fun little game- Froga will change you perception of frogs, and if not that it will atleast entertain you with its puzzles.

Frogs and puzzles? And don’t the leaves look like Pac-Man? Yeah you are right with both the observations, for the first: the puzzles are more like block-2-go or Bulldozer and for that uncanny resemblance to Pac-Man of the leaves, we have no answer. May be we should knock at the doors of interActive (developers of Froga) for an answer, or may be Namco (developers of Pac-man) will! Let’s not bother about copyright infringements here and dwell straight away in to Froga, after the break though. Read more »

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CAUTION: Before you read further, please make a back up of your device and make sure you understand that you are doing this at your own risk. We will not be held liable for any type of loss that may occur during the reset process.

1. *#7780# – Restore factory settings – resets all the settings to the default. Make sure you back up your data. The default code for ALL operations listed here is 12345.

2.*#7370# – Reformat your phone (out of the box, though keep in mind that most new nokia phones at least Nseries, Eseries and s60 based phones have UDP – user data preservation, so not ALL data may be lost. Still it is a good idea to always do a back up of your stuff.)

This you perform as a last resort. Nothing else is working. If the phone is not showing any activity, proceed with hard formatting , turn off your phone, hold the following buttons while pressing the power button.

3. Hard reset – hold the following buttons * (star key), 3 (number button) and talk/green key for s60v3 based devices. Turn on the phone and do not release those buttons until you see the Nokia boot up screen. Once you feel the phone power up you can let go off only the power button while still holding all three buttons.

For Nokia 5800XM – use the following buttons to do a hard reset, /Green/Red/Camera keys pressed all at once on power up. This will only work on 5800’s that have firmware version 20. and up.

For Nokia N97 (unofficial version but works) is Backspace/SpaceBar / Backspace while holding the power button. Again do not let go until you see the handshake screen. If these codes are not working the only thing for you to do is contact your Nokia Care Center/Service for assistance.

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It’s been a while since we heard from SPB Software, who are like one of the most popular app developers for Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms. Just when we thought their Symbian division had gone dormant, they released their new app- SPB Weather.

Weather forecasts, why would you need weather forecasts on your mobile phone? If you are asking the above question, let me tell you that this info comes in very handy especially if you happen to be someone who travels a lot on work. You don’t want to be wearing the wrong gear as you step out of your home, only to realise how horribly inappropriate your choice was on reaching the destination. Ok, we need weather forecast, but how good is SPB Weather at sourcing this info right into our 5800s? Let’s find out. Read more »

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Do you love frogs? Nevermind even if you despise them for this fun little game- Froga will change you perception of frogs, and if not that it will atleast entertain you with its puzzles.

Frogs and puzzles? And don’t the leaves look like Pac-Man? Yeah you are right with both the observations, for the first: the puzzles are more like block-2-go or Bulldozer and for that uncanny resemblance to Pac-Man of the leaves, we have no answer. May be we should knock at the doors of interActive (developers of Froga) for an answer, or may be Namco (developers of Pac-man) will! Let’s not bother about copyright infringements here and dwell straight away in to Froga, after the break though. Read more »

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Famous for their applications on the Windows Mobile platform, Resco have been pretty active across other platforms as well. One of such applications on the symbian platform is Resco Photoviewer which was first launched way back in 2007, the golden years of Nokia’s dominance in the smartphone segment with the unparalleled success of Nokia N95.

Well Nokia as well as we as consumers have come a long way and so has Resco with their Photoviewer which is now into v5.01 beta. Whats the deal with Resco Photoviewer? Well, it packs in quiet a punch with its kinetic scrolling and true image editing tools, that are presently not offered by the default image browser of our Nokia 5800s. Ok, how do they actually pan out on our 5800s? Let’s find out after the break though. Read more »

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Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition Now Available in the U S of A

The last few days we have been pretty busy catching up with the application updates on our 5800s, needless to say with hundred odd applications that we have on our 5800s, it’s by no means an easy task. However, it gives us great joy to play around with the latest apps and we deem its our duty to keep our readers updated with the latest apps as well.

Two of the most popular 5800 apps, which we are sure are installed on every 5800 out there in the market today- Google Maps and Ovi store client were updated recently. Hit on the jump button to see what new features these updates bring to your 5800s. Read more »