Following the recent update of the Youtube client, Google have also updated their Maps for Mobile application to v3.2.0 which now has a host of new features including Layers and My Maps. The official release notes after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »source:symbianworld....
Adobe Reader doesn’t need any introduction, does it? Well, you may know that since Adobe pdf is one of the most widely used document formats today, Adobe PDF Reader has been a standard office package for the s60 third edition with the immensely popular Quickoffice. However as of today, a fully functional Quickoffice continues to elude the s60 fifth edition devices. But, our developer friends at Quickoffice have been good enough to offer Adobe Reader as a stand-alone application. Lets see how this PDF viewer app fares on our...
Here they are, fun applications: a genre which has been very popular on the iPhone platform. We have been touting 5800 to be an iPhone killer since long now and finally some developers have realized the huge potential of our 5800s. If its available on iPhone, its gotta be on Europe’s best selling phone-5800 too, right? XpressBeer started it and now Shake it! by Zensis brings the same joy to non-alcoholic friends of us....
And then there was Smartlight I’m sure all of us have experienced this. We check our messages in our inbox. While we’re reading, the backlight turns off. So we need to touch it again. And again. And again. Wouldn’t it be nice if your phone knew when you needed the light and when not? Thank goodness for SmartLight Automatic Backlight. Smartlight Automatic Backlight by PhonePhreak Software for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone will let your...
Record your message for later. Ever found yourself talking notes instead of taking notes? How about a melody or lyrics in your head that keep getting away because there’s no handy recorder on hand? How about giving yourself voice reminders and memos via e-mail? Imagine the hassle of attaching it to your e-mail so it is sent to your inbox. We’ve got an application that can help you achieve these and more: the SBSH VoiceQ. SBSH...
Sensible Sudoku Platform Subscribing to our RSS Feed is the best way to get the latest news but also the best contests of the nokia 5800 world: Sensible Sudoku is the best Sudoku game for Nokia TouschScreen phones, Nokia 5800 and Nokia N97, giving you the possibility to use the touchscreen resources even knowing that the game wasn’t designed to run on a Symbian S60 v5, but for a Symbian S60 v3, so, we can figure that this was...
New Firmware. New Features? Recently, rumors that our favorite Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone will be receiving a major firmware update is circulating in the internet. Included in this firmware upgrade are certain addressed issues and functional tweaks. Some rumored functional and aesthetic improvements are the kinetic scrolling in the web browser and contacts list. Kinetic or flick scrolling is an awesome feature that iPhone introduced...
I have been looking around for some wallpapers for Nokia 5800 Xpress Music, found some lists around the web and joined all of them so that you can have a package with tons of wallpapers. This list might be the biggest one around the web, bigger than even another with 200 or something wallpapers. Also, in a near future we will get you an original list of wallpapers made by Neo, our mate from Nokia5800.net. This wallpaper pack for Nokia 5800 is just the beginning of better and more beautiful wallpapers. This wallpapers...
With the touch interface of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone, MMMOOO’s MyPhone software brings the graphic user interface (GUI) of Apple’s iPhone to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. The innovative folks at MMMOOO are listening to your suggestions and they are using this to make their MyPhone v2.2 for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone product truly remarkable, as we reviewed in the Beta version. As promised, the MyPhone v2.2 for...
This Nokia N97 game is based on the classic ping pong game (arcade game). It has 4 levels: easy, medium, hard and ultra with semi transparent menu, excellent graphics and eye catching background. Using your movable bar, just send the ball back to the opponent. There is a pad at the bottom screen you can use to control the movable bar. The opponent will get point once that ball falls. But you will get point once the opponent fails to catch...
Should I say anything more than what the title says to get your attention here? I don’t think so and am sure that all eyes are stick to the screen now. Well, let me not waste much words and straight away spill the beans: Pepsi and Nokia are giving away Nokia 5800s for free and let me tell you that they are giving one away every ten minutes. There must be catch here right? Infact, there is one, this offer can be availed only by residents...
Have you been missing that “Whac-a-Mole” game of your bulky old phone? Well, lets see if this new game, Speedtouch Lite, a flash based game, which recently appeared in the Ovi store can be a good substitute for “Whac-a-mole.” You must be wondering if we have missed something here, as our Tube lacks a physical numpad for that “whacking” action but rest assured SpeedTouch Lite makes fair use of the Touchscreen capability of the symbian fifth...
With the touch interface of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone, MMMOOO’s MyPhone software brings the graphic user interface (GUI) of Apple’s iPhone to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. The innovative folks at MMMOOO are listening to your suggestions and they are using this to make their MyPhone v2.2 for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone product truly remarkable, as we reviewed in the Beta version. As promised, the MyPhone v2.2 for Nokia 5800...
Strobe is yet another very handy application, delivered by by Offscreen Technologies for the symbian fifth edition platform. If BrightLight bought torch light feature to our 5800, Strobe now brings Stroboscopic lamp features to 5800. In case you didn’t know what Stroboscopic lamps or Strobes are: its a device that can produce regular flashes of light which are most commonly seen in clubs and alarm systems and are great for SOS signalling....
Nokia 5800 App Review: Spb Wallet v2.00 (11243) Template Categories within SPB Wallet Aren’t you bugged from having to register at every other website you browse these days? I am sure most of internet surfers can identify with me when I say that nothing annoys me more than a “Username and Password don’t match” message or its derivatives displayed on these websites! Now this is where applications come into picture and when it...
Nokia 5800 App Review: BrightLight v1.00(0) Control Switch As you may have noticed by now, Ovi Store has been brimming with a new set of applications for the last few days. As on Friday, I was not able to download any of these new applications, but things changed towards good as the weekend progressed. I successfully downloaded and installed some of these new applications and the best part is most of them are actually very useful...
Yeah, we know you are missing contests since last few days on Tube5800, so here we go again. This time its a simple application with powerful features and unique concept of its kind. VoiceQ by SBSH is an application which was just out and we found it interesting enough to giveaway few licenses to our users. VoiceQ is developed as a solution for users who wish to remember tasks and do not want to write down what they have to do on various...
We are back with more contests, and now giving you the chance to win 1 of 10 M1 applications we have to give-away, yes, the Android Interface that was reviewed by Sushant before it went to sale. Now, we have 10 applications to distribute between our readers and followers, from Facebook, RSS Feed, E-mail Feed (top of the blog), Friend Feed, and many others that daily come to our blog to check the latest news regarding the Nokia 5800 Xpress...
Exclusive: Sneak Preview of MyPhone v2.2 (Part 2) As promised we are back with a few more screenshots of the next version of MyPhone. Please note that as readers of our blog, you are among the first to get a glimpse of these images as we are as always the first source on the web to publish these screenshots. Sit back and enjoy as we show you some of the best features of the next version of MyPhone Infinite. SMS Interface iPhone...
50% off to France during Tour de France Now you can call France for only 0.015 Euro to fixed lines and 0.095 Euro to mobiles. This exclusive offer is valid through Tour de France i.e. from 4th July to July 26th 2009. Take advantage of this special offer as all call to France via Vopium in next 4 weeks are now available at the lowest possible rates. No promo codes needed just signup at vopium.com and start calling!! Vopium is sponsoring the world’s best cycling team, Team Saxo Bank (former Team CSC) owned by former Tour...
OfficeSuite v5.1 If you have been looking for a full fledged office application for your 5800, it must have been a frustrating quest indeed. With the popular office application Quickoffice not supporting touch screen input, there are very few alternatives available in this genre. This is when I came across OfficeSuite v5.1 from Mobisystems, an award winning office suite for s60 fifth edition devices. The application is...
Nokia 5800 does not have an inbuilt countdown timer or stopwatch as you may know. If you feel a need for that sometimes, the timer application is here now. Time Machine is a freeware application which can be used both as countdown timer or stopwatch. The application has cool graphics as you can see in the screenshots. Time Machine lets you count the remaining or passed time for any purpose you can think of. Alarm function is also included...
Game-screen Solo noble is the today’s game review. Remember that solo board with marbles, you used to play with during those hot summer afternoons? It used to be one of my favourite board games during my childhood and am sure most of you would identify with me. But now, neither do I have that board nor the marbles, but I just found an application that lets me play this classic game on my 5800. Offscr Technologies are building on their reputation...
According to the study conducted by Frost & Sullivan amongst European and Russian consumers, Nokia is the number one choice for mobile navigation over other leading handset manufacturers According to Frost & Sullivan, GPS-enabled devices is a fast growing market segment in Europe, with more than 30 million devices shipped in 2008 and close to 80 million devices expected to be shipped by 2010. In Russia in 2008, the market for navigation-enabled...
There is a new firmware for 5800 doing rounds in the inter-circles of web since June 22. Available for a selected few product codes (maily HongKong) and the firmware version is v21.0.101 and not v31.0.15 as has been widely rumored in blogosphere, which was previously covered in our blog here. While there has been no official changelong released by Nokia, users who have updated their firmware have reported improved browsing experience on...

"The quality of the generated music and video files was excellent""Impressively comprehensive, yet incredibly easy-to-use"PC Welt"if we’re talking about easy to use and effective software, Tunebite is the clear-cut winner"Netzwelt My Rating: 4/5 stars (Excellent)Overall, Tunebite is useful, but its interface and lack of features can be frustrating. That's why I give 4 out of 5 stars rating.The songs that you can buy for instance in Nokia...
How to take photos on the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music(taken from allaboutsymbian)======================================Most phones have cheap cameras that use a technique called "fixed focus", which means the camera lens doesn't move. This lowers the quality of photos, because the camera cannot adjust its focus to match what you're taking a picture of.The Nokia 5800 has a better type of camera called "autofocus", which allows the lens to move...
Disconnect from PC 5800xm safe way(thanks to mufaddal_km)============================="if your phone is in "pc suite mode" make sure u exit pc suite before disconnecting , that's bcoz there s a process " service layer.exe' which is is communication with your device ...so don't just pull out the cablein "mass storage" mode ..make sure u stop the usb connection and then unplug your device...
Nokia 5800 CERTIFICATE EXPIRED! Problem SolvedThis method Is exclusively for Nokia 5800xm....first of all I need to say some thing..... "This is a F.W bug(v11)......And I hope nokia will fix this bug in a month"Exclusive Method:=============people you need signed applications(nokia 5800 compatible Appz)1) Make your phone memory backup data using nokia pc suit 7.1(very important)2) After that remove your Micro sd card from mobile..3) Remove your SIM card also(very important)4) press *#7370# and unlock code to format your phone...
Application Tips=============1. Always install your phone theme on the memory cards. This is because if some theme does not work (Christmas tree) then you need to flash your phone.2. Uninstall your application in proper way. Use Menu -> Setting -> Application mgr. -> Installed apps -> Choose application then option n uninst...
Music tips=======1. If you can’t find your songs after transferring from your pc to memory card, go to music player -> Option -> Refresh libr...
Camera & Picture tips================1. Some noise could be reduced if set the ISO sensitivity to low instead of auto.2. When viewing pictures, you could use your stylus to view for previous (slide left) or next (slide right) picture like iphone feature.Video====For converting video that is high quality to play at 5800, should use the mp4 format as below (All is 16:9 widescreen):a) Xvid @ 678kbps resolution 480×272b) Xvid @794kpbs resolution 640×352c) H.264 @ 512kbps resolution 400×224d) H.264 @ 550kbps resolution 400×224...
Memory Saving Tips==============1. Restart your phone if the memory less than 30MB, you could either soft reset (User a dialer and dial 5 * * then call) or hard reset by pressing the power button2. Use Handy Taskman to close all application regularly or kill application that is not in u...
Battery saving Tips==============1. Always turn off wireless scanning, Bluetooth when not in use2. For those not using 3G, choose your network mode to “GSM” instead of “Dual mode” which will consume more battery. Settings -> Connectivity -> Network mode -> GSM3. Less Display Lighta. Setting -> Phone -> Display -> light sensor (move the slider to the left)b. Setting -> Phone -> Display -> Light Time-Out (lesser time to save battery but annoying if too short while you are playing games)4. Always terminate...
General Tips=========1. Use Dialer and press # for about 2 seconds will switch the profile between Silent and General; press and hold 0 will open the web browser; press and hold 1 will open the voice mailbox2. There is a shortcut key for Music, Gallery, Share, Video, Web shortcut at the top right corner just below the front camera3. Press and hold the Green caller button when standby mode will activate the voice command. You could call the name from the contact or application name.4. Organize your sms by grouping them like outlook...
5800 Tips and Tricks1. To bring out the Shortcuts on your Screen/Desktop-> Settings/Personal/Home Screen/Home Screen Theme and select Shortcut bar, you can then select which shortcut to display if goto "Shortcuts". This will also bring out the "Track" playing being displayed when you open the Music Player.2. Tap the Clock to bring out the Clock menu and make your alarm, alarm repeat is now built-in.3. Tap the "General" or Date (the set Profile besides the clock) and the Profile selection menu pops out, almost similar to pressing...
Here are few shortcut keys that might be helpful for Nokia 5800 XpressMusic owners.*#0000# Device(Firmware) and factory information.*#06# International Mobile Equipment Identity(IMEI) Number.*#7370# Soft reset your mobile with default password 12345*#2820# BlueTooth device address *#7380# Factory settings restore with default passwos 12345*#92702689# Go to Nokia's Life Timer.*#62209526# Mac address of Wi-FiTurn off your mobile. Hold Red, Green and Camera button together and turn on the mobile to hard reset your mobile.*3370#...
Formally known as Nokia Maps, Ovi Maps 3.0 has graduated from Nokia Beta Labs and is now officially available to download, for any compatible handset, from Nokia.com/maps. Nokia maps originally began pretty simple, with other applications offering a better experience without the need of a PC. Ovi Maps still requires you to have a PC in order to load maps (Mac support coming soon). Read the rest of this entry »source: symbianworld....
The guys over at Nokia Beta Labs have formally launched the next-gen Java Runtime for S60 5th edition devices like Nokia 5800 and N97. The new Nokia Java Runtime 2.0 (JRT 2.0) is a totally re-written Java mobile execution environment for Nokia S60 devices. The update is a 4 MB installation that modifies any already-installed Java MIDlets to work properly with the new runtime version. The new Java Runtime is integrated with Ovi, offering...
‘Skype for 3′ for the 5800XM and N97 2 07 2009 Just downloaded, installed and got working on my Nokia 5800XM and N97 the updated ‘Skype for 3′ v2.0.40 application to allow you free skype calls and chat over the 3 Network. Download HERE Posted by Wordmobi Comments : Leave a Comment » Tags: 3, s60v5, skype Categories : 3UK, skypesource: nokiaaddict.com ...
MyPhone v2.2 Menu Screen We were the first source on the web, to bring you a sneak preview of Android emulator, M1 and now we are again the first source to give our readers a sneak of the latest version of: you guessed it right, MyPhone-Infinite. We are making a habit of being the first with anything that’s related to 5800. As much as we love our 5800s, we love to bring the latest news and reviews, along with some free licenses to give...
Nokia5800XpressMusic reaches 116 Free games and applications for S60 usersTested for all the applicationsclick h...
5800 to get Firmware Update Soon? Blogosphere is effervescent with rumours of 5800 getting a firmware update to v31.0.0.15. While there has been no official news or comments from Nokia on this topic, bloggers across the globe have been speculating v31.0.0.15 from the video of Ovi suite 2.0, posted over at Nokia Conversations. (Check the video after the break) It all started with Vikas from Fone Arena who was quick to spot the...
Nokia 5800 Game Review: Spb Puzzle v1.00(0) Welcome screen Remember those jigsaw puzzles and hours of engrossing game play, putting the pieces together? Jigsaw puzzles were one of my favorite puzzles during those lazy afternoons of summer vacation. Well, now you dont have to head to the nearest store to get your hands on a jigsaw puzzle. Your 5800 is all you need to enjoy this game in your spare time. Spb Puzzle by Spb Software...