NOKIA 5800 EXPRESS MUSIC

By Dotsisx on May 8th, 2009

Ever since the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic started shipping, we’ve seen people complain about the inability to manage open applications. It’s true that like any S60 device, clicking and holding the Menu key pops up a list of open apps, and it’s true that like S60 3rd Feature Pack 2 devices, you have the option to Show Open Applications from any Options view, but the problem remained that you couldn’t do anything with that, except jump between applications.

On other S60 devices, you could simply click the “C” or Backspace key in order to exit the application from the built-in task manager itself. But on the 5800, if you want to close one of the open applications, you have to switch to it and then exit from within the app itself. Well, I don’t know if this fix was introduced with the latest firmware or if it’s been there all the time, but now there is a way to close apps from the manager.

All you have to do, when the task manager is open, is to click and hold on the application that you want to close. You’ll see a small pop-up showing you two options: Open and Exit. Choose Exit, and voilà! Credits for the tip go to Devin Ballentina, who has been actively reviving his website The Nokia Guide.

source: symbian-guru.com

Nimbuzz has just launched it’s client for the S60v5 platform to support the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia N97 devices. Nimbuzz is an IM / VoIP application that works with Skype, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, AIM, studiVZ, GoogleTalk, Facebook, MySpace, Jabber and many more.

The application will let you connect to all your friends no matter what chat or VoIP service they would use. Another interesting fact is that, the application is optimized for finger navigation, so you do not really need to get hold of the stylus while using this. It currently supports as many as 14 different IM communities.

Earlier Fring, one of the competitors of Nimbuzz also released their client for the S60 5th edition devices such as Nokia 5800 and N97.

Nimbuzz Mobile is free to download and use. Nimbuzz will not charge or bill you for anything. However, since Nimbuzz uses your internet connection, incremental data charges from your provider will apply. We therefore strongly recommend to use the mobile client only with a flat-rate data plan or free Wifi connection.

For those that have a Nokia 5800 mobile phone and still wonder why you should install Nimbuzz here are a few reasons:

• Landscape chat – so you can make use of the wide keyboard.
• Shortcut buttons so you can easily update your profile, status, or personal message
• No need for the stylus - Nimbuzz can be operated entirely with your fingers
• Personal messages are fully displayed in the contact list for all communities
• Chat with friends from 14 different Instant Messaging communities and Social Networks (Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo, Google Talk)
• Call your buddies from Nimbuzz, Skype or Gtalk using your mobile data plan or WiFi connection.
• Cheap phone calls at low rates with SkypeOut or using one of our SIP partners.

Check out Nimbuzz in action on the Nokia 5800 in this video-

If you are a proud owner of a 5800 XpressMusic, you might want to download the application and check it out for yourselves.

source:tube5800.com

Download Nimbuz

A touch version of Friend View is now available for S60 5th Edition phones. It has been tested on the Nokia 5800 and N97. We hope Touch users will like it. If an S60 3rd edition Friend View client is already installed on your touch device, you should first uninstall that and then install the touch version.

You can download it from here: http://friendview.nokia.com

Or Click Here >>

source: s60blog.com

Google Translator widget is a free, powerful and easy-to-use multilingual translation interface that uses the Google translation engine and satisfies your translation needs on the go.

Similar to its web based translation service, the Google Translation widget for S60 devices translates a section of text into another language. While using the service, widget auto detects the source language and you only need to select the language in which it will be translated to, enter the section of text and click the go button.

Download Google Translator Widget Click Here>>

source; s60blog.com

What is Ovi Store?

It is a Global distribution channel for publishers to reach tens of millions of users with highly relevant content. In a Nutshell, • Nokia hosted content store on the Internet • Wide variety of media and applications • Constantly refreshed, relevant content • Unified user experience across platforms • Easy, personalised access to games, video clips, widgets, wallpapers, ringtones and more • Content intake for media brands and application developers via publish to Ovi.

What will Ovi Store Have?

• Applications
• Widgets
• Video
• Personalization
• Games
• Audio

Why Ovi Store is Next Generation?

Maximum relevance with social networking and location elements. The content that matters and is highly relevant to you.

Publish to Ovi to Reach Consumers?

Global distribution
• You pick which countries

Self-service publishing
• 24/7 access at publish.ovi.com
• Access to real-time reporting

Favorable revenue opportunities
• Credit card (in all applicable markets)
• Mobile billing in many countries
• Content provide gets 70%* of customer price

Summary

Ovi Store offers a wide variety of content with maximum relevance to customers

• Sign-up to become a publisher for Ovi: publish.ovi.com
• Social networking and location components
• publish to Ovi content intake
• Strong value proposition for publishers
• Operator-friendly with billing and content
• 75 existing S60 & Series 40 devices for launch (early May)
• First device to have Ovi Store pre-installed: Nokia N97

Following are a few themes that i came across that look cool. Some eye catching color to start with, Red and Yellow he two bad boys colors and hot favourites on a Ferarri also look good on your cell phone. Do try them out. Good for both FP1 and FP2 devices. Cheers

Download Girl

Download Yellow

Download Palo

source: s60blog.com

SMS Timer is a nice little app that you don’t even miss it until you start using it. At that point you’ll ask yourself: “Why isn’t this already in the phone? Isn’t this supposed to be a smartphone?”

But let me explain what this is all about. This is an application that does a simple job: it enables you to send messages at a certain schedule allowing you to delay them, unlike a regular SMS, that you send the minute you press “send”.

It works in a very simple fashion. You write a message like you normally would, and then hit send, to send it. At this point SMS Timer appears and asks you if you want to send the message right away or if you want to schedule it for later. The program gets embedded with the Nokia 5800, so its integration is really easy and natural. At first sight it may not seem very useful, but for example, if you want to surprise someone at an exact time, this little app will make it for you smoothly. Or if you’re like me and like to send happy birthday right at midnight, you can go to bed earlier because SMS Timer will do it for you!

But let’s imagine you want to change something in the message. That’s something SMS Timer lacks. You can’t change anything but the scheduled date and time. And it doesn’t change it in the message you previously set up. No… it adds a second message to the queue, so you may need to be careful to not send the same message twice. If you want, you can always cancel one or all the messages waiting in the line to be sent.