iPhone Interface On S60 & A PC Application That Controls Your Phone

I just came across this neat Flash Lite file that transforms the S60 devices into an iPhone for all those of you who like the slick interface. It is not compatible with Flash Lite 3 but runs smoothly on the inbuilt Flash application. It is great to use as a screensaver also. However certain icons such as YouTube do not perform the corresponding task.

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Themes For A Lifetime

 

Rita has probably made the find of the year! She’s just found Nokioteca, the homeland of all glorious Italian themers like Jendell, Ivanov, Giambi, Gnokkia, Babi, Pasco, Pizero, Luca and Lillium to name a few! Whether you are a theme freak or someone like me who just likes clean, plain and polished themes its a must visit.

There is one catch though, the forum is in Italian and if you can get yourself registered with a translator or something, its game on! Jump over for all the details! Screenshots courtesy Rita again!

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The N96 – Why A N9x Phone?

Its has been 24 hours since the N96 has been leaked and it has managed to generate quite a bit of buzz around the web. I saw the news yesterday but had an exam in the morning so couldn’t really spend time on the device. Since then I have a lot of questions in my mind, even had them bothering me while I was writing the exam! But lets start with what we know about the device or at least think we know:

– Music Centered Device based on the N81-N95 combine.
– A 5MP Camera with dual LEDs and no lens cover.
– Feature Pack 2.
– 2.6/2.8″ Screen. ( I hope is 2.8″)
– All features of the N95 and the audio quality of the N91 plus noise cancellation and 16GB storage may be.
– A provision to make it stand for video consumption.
– A card slot for even more memory!
– More shots of the device here.

Now here’s what I think.

Multitasking: Multiple Windows In The S60 Browser

The user manual for the N95 says that it can open multiple windows in the browser but even after three firmwares I am yet to see that option materialise. However what the latest v20 firmware has done, is give the N95 a decent ammount of free RAM. Under the old circumstances I never really dreamed of managing multiple windows on the browser, however things have changed and we are in a position to do so. I sucessfully opened four websites including AAS, Symbian-Guru, WOM World, The Symbian Blog. When I tried opening the heaviest of them all Intomobile, it did load but after a while the other four crashed! However the max anyone will open is about theree, which is just fine.

For the other devices too, such as the N82, N81 and the others with decent ammount of RAM already, multiple windows on high speed wifi/3G connections is something practical. There are two methods I have been using to open multiple windows, here’s a rundown of both of them.

Freeware: A Fully Featured You Tube Client

 

Sebastian Jedruszkiewicz has released the first version of emTube, a freeware YouTube client application and FlashVideo player. emTube allows you to browse (by search, by featured video, by top rated videos and by most viewed videos), view and download YouTube videos or play back a locally stored file. Rafe from over at AAS has all the details.

QWERTY Nseries Device In The Making?

Unwired view has just brought to light this new Nokia triple slide patent called called “A layered mobile device”, which has a dedicated QWERTY keyboard, T9 keys and dedicated multimedia control keys. With the Nseries already not really known for build quality I have serious doubts about this device considering the sheer ammount to moving parts. But if Nokia can get the build quality on this thing right, boy we’d have one hell of a ‘multimedia computer’.

There’s nothing to say that this is going to be a Nseries device, but the multimedia keys sure make it seem like one. Ricky has been wanting a Nseries QWERTY, may be this is it?

Via: Intomobile

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Brief: Nokia Map Loader & Maps Updated

Anuj from the Nokia N95 Community on Orkut reports that the Nokia Map Loader has been updated to version 1.3 and the maps have also got an update. While the Indian map data has only increased from 19.7 MB to 21.1 MB, China it seems has gotten a big upgrade and is now upto 190 MB. In case you spot a change, do drop a comment.

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Brief: YBrowser Updated To v 0.85

Jukka Silvennoinen has updated the best file manager for S60 phones to v 0.85 and the update has brought stability under S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1! Also included are SVG images and two extra languages.

The usual add ons such as Mail Folder Plugin, Text Viewer Plugin etc are available from his website.

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Miscellaneous Links

I have exams going on so have very little time to put something up of my own! However these are a few posts from all around the blogging world which are a must read!

1. The Best Advice We’ll Ever Get – Steve reminds us the need to back up our data, here’s an excerpt “Do you know how they get 50,000,000,000 1s and 0s on your microSD? No, I don’t either, and I don’t trust it.”

2. Mark’s What Do You Want On Your Next Phone?

3. Rita’s What You Were Shown But Didn’t Notice, over at Symbian-Guru.

4. PC Phone release over at the Nokia Bets Labs.

 Can’t wait for these exams to end! 🙂

How To Protect Files On Your S60 Device

 

This is probably the most frequently asked question, ever! Everybody has certain photos, videos, songs and all sorts of other files which we want to hide from another person. Fortunately there are several 3rd party applications what allow us to do that, but unfortunately they are paid for!

However there are two ways in which you can not only hide files from the Gallery but also password protect them and the best part is that these methods cost nothing. In this post I will go over both of them.