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Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta Out

Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta

Be the very first few to test out the latest Opera Mobile 9.5 Beta. It's currently available for download on the Windows Mobile platform.
Opera Mobile 9.5 completely reinvents the Web browser on mobile phones. It provides an elegant browsing experience, while also making smartphones a new home for cross-platform applications. It marks a turning point in the ongoing evolution of the Web.
Some of the features included in the latest version are:
  • Pan and zoom - Using the same technology found in Opera Mini, Opera Mobile 9.5 defaults to full Web page viewing and allows users to pan and zoom into their desired content in just a few clicks.
  • Save pages and/or images - With a click, simply save your selected content and send via email or MMS to your friends.
  • Improved user interface - Opera has completely renovated its mobile UI. Cleaner and more intuitive, the new UI is designed for quick and easy navigation.
  • Improved standards support - Opera remains steadfast in its commitment to make the Web accessible for all. Opera Mobile 9.5 is the most standards-compliant mobile browser available. It is based on Opera's latest core rendering engine, Presto 2.1.
  • Faster - Opera has always been among the fastest browsers — if not the fastest — available. Opera Mobile 9.5 beta continues this fine tradition with noticeable speed improvements over Opera Mobile 8.65 and IE Mobile.
NOTE: This product is a beta release. As such, there will be bugs. This release is intended for developers and advanced users. It may cause data loss or other unintended actions.

You can download the beta version from the Opera website.

Nokia Chat Released

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Nokia Beta Labs have just released their own version of Instant Messaging software for some of their Nokia S60 handsets. The application let's you chat to your friends, show them where you are using Nokia Maps and arrange to meet them.

Initial impressions are it is very much beta, slightly buggy, but the potential is there to finally integrate many aspects of socialising into one converged application, IF Nokia can pull it off.

Go over to the Nokia Chat website to download and try on the application yourself. The compatible list of handsets are:

Tested with:
Nokia N95 8GB, N95, N82, N81 8GB, N81, N76, E71, E66, E51, 6290, 6120 Classic, 6110 Navigator

Should work with:
Nokia E90 Communicator, 6124 classic, 6121 Classic, 5700 XpressMusic

Apple's App Store Launched

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Apple has just launched it's applications store and is available for those you running iTunes 7.7. The store has launched with 500 applications of which more than 25% are free. The rest of the applications will be payware and 90% of those will be $9.99 or less.
If you are running iTunes 7.7 then you can head on over to check out the applications of offer.

via [AppleInsider]

Dope Wars + iPhone = iDope

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If you're cool, and always wanted to be a drug dealer (or maybe was just interested for "educational" purposes) but never had the courage (or the stupidity) to do it for real, there is a likely chance you've played Dope Wars. Yes dope wars let's you trade "dope" and build your empire!.
Now a native version for the iPhone is available (you will need to have a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch).
Now you can deal drugs from the comfort of your home, toilet, privacy wherever you want, and all for FREE!
Don't forget; sell when it's high and buy when it's low, and watch out for the popo!
(via BGR)

Y-Browser 0.88

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Y-Browser, our favourite 3rd party file manager that does so much more has been updated by Dr Jukka to version 0.88. The update includes amongst other things bug fixes, layout changes and improved support and stability for Feature Pack 2 devices.

The main list of changes included in this version are:

- Lots of layout change fixes
- Some bug fixes to improve stability (Especially with FP2 devices)
- File modified time changed from UTC to local time
- Added Command short cut accelerators to the menu items
- Edit-Mark, menu has now two additional options: Mark with wild card & inverse selection
- File association settings added
- Plug-in manager added
- Email folders shown now as well (with Mail folders plug-in)

If you need more info on what Y-Browser does and the benefits of it, check out the review on Symbian in Motion by Zach.

The good news is that the application is signed and ready for installation, which is great in the current climate of Symbian Signed being such a mess. Head on over to the Dr Jukka website to get the addition plugins as desired.

Mobitubia Updated to 1.76, Youtube.com Problem fixed

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Sittiphol Phanvilai has updated the Mobitubia client to 1.76 for S60 3rd Edition models to fix a bug, one big huge one in fact; that bug is Youtube.com. After they had tweaked their site so that 3rd party Youtube clients would not work any more with their site, (which also included emTube), giving users the "Video Not Found" error.

Now I don't have a problem with Youtube saying that they don't want their content to be accessed directly by 3rd party applications, but what other alternative is there? The official Youtube client? Have they actually seen the quality of the playback on that? Now I don't know about you, but from where I stand, this is just Youtube crippling the progress and evolution of potentially 2 great applications. Why not just work with the developers and make a great application which works?

Do not stand in the way of evolution Youtube, either embrace it or get out of the way. Just like time, evolution waits for no one.

Luckily this latest update for Mobitubia fixes this issue and you can enjoy it still, just go to the official website to download it. The client supports (tested:)

  • Nokia N95
  • Nokia N93
  • Nokia N82
  • Nokia N75
  • Nokia E65
  • Nokia E61
  • Nokia E61i
*Note, the Nokia N95 8GB is also supported, but if you are running on V15 firmware you do know that you have native Youtube.com support? This means you can watch Youtube videos on the full Youtube .com website. You can try either or both if you prefer.

Share Online 3.0 Graduates, Comes With Ovi Share

Share Online has graduated from the Nokia Beta Labs. It is now out of beta and a fully fledged application. The latest version also now supports Nokia Ovi Share (which is a re-branded Twango product). Just like Flickr Ovi share allows users to upload and share their content with their friends, except Ovi Share supports more media types including video and audio.


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The latest version adds a new feature to your active desktop displaying the number of new posts/content and comments on your uploads and your friends uploads, which is a nice feature.

You can download the application from the Blogging and Sharing site, there is also more info about the application and compatibility features.

WLAN Hotspot Your S60 Device

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A great little application has appeared today which lets you configure your S60 3rd Edition WiFi enabled handset as a WLAN hotspot.
By downloading and installing Joikuspotlight instantly turns your handset into a WiFi hotspot allowing other WiFi devices to connect and use the net access available.

The good news is that more than one device can connect at any one time.

The list of supported devices include:
Nokia N95 (all models)
N93i
N82
N80
E90
E70
E61, E61i
E51

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The application is freeware and available already signed! It doesn't get better than this, does it!?? Keep in mind it is in Beta stage still.

Nokia N-Gage First Access


Officially available for users of the Nokia N81 and N81 8GB handsets for testing and feedback. There is a hack available for other S60 3rd Edition handsets. More info and screenshots on my post at Symbian in Motion.

Screenshot 3.01

My favourite screenshot application and the one that I swear by is available in V3.01.

Screenshot for Symbian OS is an application to take screenshot on your Symbian OS mobile phones (S60 3rd). You can capture screenshot and save it to a file in JPEG, PNG, BMP or MBM format. The screenshot can be sent directly to a PC via Bluetooth.
Thanks to AntonyPranata for updating it. This version (from the horses mouth) is better because?:
The current official version (2.80) does not capture N-Gage games properly.
The new version (3.01) has fixed this problem; but the signed version is not available yet.


You can download it here but it is unsigned, which means you will have to sign it yourself or wait for a signed version to be released.

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Skyfire Beta Reviewed by Brighthand

Ed Hardy of Brighthand has done a review of the very impressive "full" browser coming to Smartphones near you. Currently in Beta and only available for the US as I mentioned on Symbian in Motion, Ed has got his hands on it and given a nice quick review of it.
The outcome seems to be very positive, the browser is similar to the one found on the iPhone, but this one is aimed at Windows Mobile and Symbian handsets.



A quick excerpt from his review:

Skyfire acts generally like the iPhone browser. When you open a site, what you see is it shrunk down to fit on your smartphone's display. You can then tap on the screen to zoom in on sections of the page.

When I went to YouTube, what I saw was the full site, not a stripped down version. I selected a video and the page opened, and the video immediately began to play, with full motion and sound.

The full article can be found here.

For information on signing up for the Beta, head on over to my post on Symbian in Motion or the Skyfire website.

Share Online 3.0 Updated

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Nokia Beta Labs has updated the Share Online application to extend handset support.

Overview
Share Online makes it easy to post photos and video from your phone straight to your blog, photo sharing site, or other online community. You can control the file size and quality of your photos and video, add text to your posts, and browse to your page to see how it looks once you`re done.


The latest list of compatible handsets and features supported in different versions of Online Share can be seen below:

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Supported Devices:
- Nokia N95 / N82
- Nokia N76 / N81
- Nokia N73

The application itself can be download from the Share Online Download page.

NiiMe Bluetooth Control for N95

Here is a video of great piece of software hopefully coming to N95 users, which let's you control many aspects of your PC via Bluetooth.



Much like the Sony Ericsson HID profiles which let users control their desktop, Media Players etc... NiiMe brings it to the S60 platform.

Using the N95's accelerometer it is a great combination for gaming which can be found on today's latest Next Generation Consoles (Nintendo Wii),

For now there is no info on release, beta or anything, just watch the video and drool!

A Year on With the N95 Pt 2

This is the second part of my post on A Year on With the N95, to read Part 1 just click the link.

This part will be covering 3rd party applications and great software available for the N95.

3rd Party Developers
One of the key factors of the longevity if the N95 is thanks to many of the 3rd party developers who create great applications for it both enhancing the experience and making it stand out from the rest.

In recent months there have been many applications developed making use of the built in accelerometer since Nokia revealed the demo of the Moving Ball, an application which reacts to the various tilts of the handset. With this, the floodgates of great applications utilising this feature started to be released one by one.
samirLeading the way was Samir a developer from France who brought us great applications such as;
rotateMe - an application which rotates the screen to landscape view when the handset is tilted horizontally, similar to that of the iPhone's.
Nokmote - an application which detects the movement of your handset to navigate through your menus.
ShutUp - an application which literally "shuts up" your handset when you get an alert by simply flipping it over.

There are many others which utilise the built in accelerometer, this is something I'm a big fan of and I can't wait for the many other great applications to be developed.
Although the accelerometer has been a big success since it was revealed, there have been many more practical applications, utilities and some must have applications which change the way your handset works and you'll never be able to live without again. Read on to find out which they are.

Y-Tasks and Y-Browser by Dr Jukka
dryukkaThese two are essential utilities for any S60 user. They help to trouble shoot, log and monitor process, problems and analyse all the goings on in your handset. There will be occasions when these applications will save you a lot of trouble from having reset your handset, reinstall all applications and backup your data because something has corrupted in your handset. Y-Browser is a file browser and Y-Tasks is a diagnostic and monitoring application. For a full review on how they work you can visit Symbian in Motion. Just click through for the Y-Browser and Y-Tasks reviews respectively.

icon_40_40This application is one that falls into the life saver category. Literally it can do that, stopping you from taking a wrong turn or finding out where your when lost, this does the job simply, quickly and fairly accurately. Since the native version for the N95 was developed which included support for the internal GPS and virtual GPS which pinpoints your current location using Cell towers and your mobile handset signal it is one of the best freeware applications available and a must have for all N95 users.
To install the application you need to head over to http://www.google.com/gmm on your mobile's browser, once visited it will detect your handset and download the appropriate version. For a full review and more in depth information check out Stefan from Intomobile's review here.

emTube
emTube is a great application which gives direct and full access to the entire library of Youtube. This is possible since the release of Flashlite 3 by Adobe. emTube let's you search, browse, download and stream videos from the Youtube site because it supports the flv file format which is becoming the standard for streaming videos. There is a more in depth review by myself which you can find on Symbian in Motion by clicking through to emTube Quenches your thirst for Youtube.

tube2Tube 2 is a great Java application which works on all models with J2ME support. This is a very basic Underground map available for London, New York City and Paris currently. This is a very useful application because it is very quick and comes in useful when navigating your way through the underground maze. Searching via station, planning routes, and directions via text and animation on map makes this the ideal.
This application is not freeware and will cost $10 and can be purchased from the Visual IT website.

Palringo Vocal IM
If you are looking for a good Instant Messaging, Push-To-Talk application Palringo is one of the best around. It supports many of the popular IM platforms including Gtalk, AIM, Yahoo, MSN and ICQ. There are a few cool features which make this stand out from the rest; Push-To-Talk, Send Photos, Groups and the ability to Leave Messages for off-line contacts. Palringo lets you keeping in contact with your friends easy and simple. There is an in-depth review of it by Zach on Symbian in Motion. Click through to find out more.

Screenshot
Screenshot by Antony Pranata is a must have for all bloggers, testers, themers alike who want to take a snap of their current screen. This application is key to many of the previews you see of newly created themes, reviews of beta applications and error documenting on the internet. The application is very simple, uses up little RAM and is one of the best around. The best thing is it's absolutely FREE! It is available for all S60 devices and you can download it from Antony Pranata's website.

QIK
Qik was recently released and is available but it is still in Alpha stage. Qik streams videos from your handset to your personal page setup on Qik. What makes this so special is how fast it does it and how simple it is to use. The results are good and the video is streamed instantly to your personal page on Qik. Be aware on what you record and make sure set it to private if you don't want to stream it as it's set on public by default.
You can sign up and download the application from the QIK website.

There are dozens of more cool and great applications out there developed by 3rd parties, these are just a few of my personal favourites and ones I have used constantly and are still on my device. If you do have any suggestions on applications I should be aware of or would like me to review, please send me an e-mail (can be found at the bottom of the page).

That about wraps up my "Year with the N95" review. I'd just like to point out one more feature which has made my experience enjoyable; THEMES! Great looking themes which change the look of the handset anytime you want it, reflecting your mood, scene or just to match what you are wearing. I'll be doing a post on my favourite themers and themes of all time for the N95. So stay tuned for that soon.