Nokia 5800 Game Review: Sensitive 5800

Sensitive 5800 is the game that I will be here reviewing for you, but have in mind that I’m not the kind of guy who feels the need for fully packed action games on my mobile, with stunning graphics and all the bells’n'whistles that comes along with them. No. All I want/need from a mobile game is to be entertaining in those moments, where you have no other option but to… play something in your mobile! The one truly thing that is always with you. When you’re waiting for the bus, when you’re travelling and don0′t like the landscape, when you’re in the bathroom doing.. you know.. so I prefer games that can be played through levels where you can start from where you left, and that can somehow, make you think about some strategy. Something not too obvious.

This is why I find the Sensitive 5800 so great. It’s is really really simple and it reminds me of one of the best mobile games I ever played (Vexon - I think). All you need to do is go across the yellow platforms and make them all fall before you hit exit. It seems simple and it is in some levels. Others will make you think and imagine the whole path in your head before you start tapping the stylus on the screen. Or you can also play with your fingers (although I have not felt a good user experience. It was much harder to control). It’s up to you.

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source : http://nokia5800.net/

Nokia 5800 App Review: Timer

S60 never had a stopwatch counter. (Maybe Nokia 5500 had one… I can’t remember.) And this is something that someone like me, a common mortal can’t understand.
Fortunately, there’s always somebody who develops the code and application and shares with everybody else.

That’s what Offscreen Technologies did!

This is as simple as it gets. You get 4 buttons oddly placed in the screen and if you tap them you’ll get an “about”, a “start”, a “close” and a “lap” function.

It does what you expect from a stopwatch, but design wise it could be much better. For starters, it doesn’t include landscape mode (which you may think should be mandatory) and as said above, the buttons look like they have been placed there as they could have been places elsewhere.

With timer you can naturally register your lap values. However, you can’t have more than 4 laps at the same time which, considering the big screen of the 5800, is simply screen space going to waste.

In the end this will work if you need to know how long does it take to run along a track, or if you want to know how fast you can tap “start/stop” (that’s funny too). Don’t expect the best of designs and there’s no countdown functionality. This would be an extra value for this application, but unfortunately you don’t get that, at least on this release.

But in the end it’s still worth to have it on your phone, especially because I don’t know of any other application that does this particular job!

Download it here.

source: http://nokia5800.net/

Nokia 5800 App Review: Gmail Client

I have always dreamed of having gmail access on my phone, for gmail is not only my email client, but also my online deposit box with a soft copy of all my important documents and files. Be it my latest resume or my university transcripts or a scan copy of my passport, I have it all on my gmail. Just give me internet access and I can source all my documents for you, anywhere, anytime! So that made a gmail client on my 5800 a “must have” and lets see how it fares on 5800.

Installation:

Gmail client can be downloaded right on to your mobile, by just pointing your mobile browser to m.google.com/mobile

The installation process is simple, intuitive and fast. Once the application is installed, one needs to configure the client to interact with your gmail account. All this is done in one step: just signing in with your gmail account on the client. It cannot any get simpler than that, can it?

Now lets move on and explore the feature set of gmail client on 5800. The default screen looks something like this:

It can be seen that almost 50% of the screen-space is hogged by the navigation buttons which are not really needed for using the client. Lets fix that straightaway. To get rid of the onscreen navigation buttons, go to menu (main menu on the phone and not gmail client menu)-> settings-> application manager-> installed apps.-> gmail-> options-> suite settings-> on-screen keyboard: off

With this setting your client will look something like this:

Now this is a welcome change, just a minor tweak and our client looks so much better now. Lets move and explore other options now:

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source: http://nokia5800.net/