You may remember that we reviewed Thumbnail Folders for Symbian last summer, concluding that it was highly recommended. That was a paid application and now it seems that the application, as-is, has just gone free, making it even more of a must-download. There's talk of a new commercial version with extra features appearing in the future, but in the meantime grab this and give your app folders a whole new iPhone/Android/Meego look!

Here's Thumbnail Folders in action:

(Left) After installing, you need to 'Update folders' from the menu. Your carefully created folders (right), in my case 'Games', 'Utilities', 'Office' and 'Rarely used', get their icons changed to reflect the first four applications contained therein. 

All very clever - there's no auto-update facility as yet, but then I'd argue that this should be a manual process, after doing some app icon reorganisation, rather than something automatic which might get in the way or cause performance issues. Comments welcome.

You can download Thumbnail Folders for free here in the Nokia Store.

PS. In case you were wondering how to create folders in the first place, use the main options menu and 'New folder', then long press an app icon and choose 'Move to folder'.