Topic Review (Newest First)
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| 04-07-2008 10:47 AM |
| Unregistered |
I would like to add a new application Flying Money Manager to this list
I would like to add a new application Flying Money Manager ( advanced expense and income tracking) to this list
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| 29-05-2008 11:16 PM |
| Unregistered |
You have forgotten
Bambuser.com, provides you with real time live broadcasting from your mobile to net, including GPS tracking and live multi mobile-cam mixing opportunity.
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| 27-05-2008 02:38 PM |
| Othi 2 |
Quote:
Originally Posted by grimly fiendish
i cant believe Conversation was on only one person's list. It is an immensely practical app to keep threads on individual sms history.
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I had great hopes when this app came out (since I'm a big fan of GMail's threads and the iPhone SMS app, yes, shame on me =p), but it is UNusable. I have about 2000 SMS, and Conversation always gives me a 'Memory full' error. Then it is build into the Contacts app (which I don't really get), so to edit a contact, I had to wait for Conversation to finish loading or erroring out (about 2 minutes). I mean wtf, isn't it supposed to make readind SMSes faster and more convenient? A total fail. The idea is good though, once it has solved it's problems, it may become a good replacement for the horrible build-in message app.
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| 27-05-2008 06:04 AM |
| grimly fiendish |
i cant believe Conversation was on only one person's list. It is an immensely practical app to keep threads on individual sms history.
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| 27-05-2008 12:29 AM |
| mjlaris |
My 2 cents worth
My 10 "must have" apps on my E90 (previously my E60) are as follows:
1. Mail for Exchange - this is always the very first application that I install because it restores my contacts, calendar, and tasks.
2. Truphone - mVoIP is the primary reason that I purchased my first E series phone (an E60) and is still a one of my primary applications. While VoIP can be setup manually, the Truphone wizard makes it so easy that I can be making a VoIP call 5 minutes after reformatting my phone.
3. Y-Browser - I don't like the native S60 file browser.
4. Calcium - much better than the native S60 calculator and free.
5. Interactive Voice Call Master - I use my E90 extensively as a business phone and this application allows me to direct and filter calls. Friends and associates are put directly through whereas others are either directed to my business partner or voice mail.
6. QuickOffice - as I said, my E90 is primarily a business phone and I need to be able to read/revise Office documents on the fly.
7. S60 Tracker - I used to use Handy Taskman to replace the native S60 application but find that Tracker has more features.
8. Best Profiles - I need an application that auto changes my profile and Best Profiles is the best (and I have tested all the others).
9. SmartLight - I hate for the screen to dim when I'm reading something.
10. MobiReader - I always have several eBooks on my phone and this is the best reader available (and it's free).
Mark
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| 26-05-2008 09:57 PM |
| Wolfcat |
LocationTagger
ExtGps
Palringo
symTorrent
Gmail
twibble
scribe
WaveLog
Mobile Divx
Stris 2
A damn good “free’ as well Tetris clone, an oldie but a goodie.
Plus a good Pacman and a good Space Invaders will never go astray for killing sometime.
I all the details on whys e.t.c are here http://www.wolfcat.com.au/randomrants/n95-8gb/ but most of you should know most of this list.
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| 26-05-2008 09:37 PM |
| Sam Stokes |
Quote:
Originally Posted by rbrunner
A browser engine for Symbian, written from scratch with limited memory in mind, would probably behave a lot better. But of course the development of such an engine would take ages and gobble up tons of money. Won't happen anymore.
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Good points, but I think you also make the point I was sort of getting at: decent engineering makes more difference than whether an app is "native" or not. And some languages make that easier than others.
Obviously needing access to the device's functionality makes that less true, but in that respect C++ apps are no more "native" to Symbian than Java apps - they can use only that functionality that the Symbian + S60/UIQ/whatever C++ APIs let them, and they jump through (internal) hoops to do so. There's no technical reason Java, Python or Ruby apps couldn't do (nearly?) everything a C++ app could do, if Symbian or Nokia or whoever provided the APIs. The RIM APIs for Blackberry app development provide access to all kinds of "native" platform and device functionality, and they're Java APIs.
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| 26-05-2008 05:26 PM |
| Sergey Zak |
1. I can't believe eveyrybody's falling for CorePlayer instead of the free DivX player.
2. My vote to Opera Mini. I should add here that I secretly hope that after building 'proper' mobile browser Opera builds a 'proper' mobile e-mail client (with built-in HTML support, multiple accts support, IMAP/POP, SSL, TLS; better yet Certificates support). Nokia does not bother much improving usability and features of e-mail client. Have you noticed the same goes for Microsoft? Despite having IE8 beta now, the Outlook Express is still at v6, still has those three-year-old issues...
3. Salling Clicker, bought 3 years ago. Still rules!
4. Screenshot.
5. BluePhone Elite is my choice for "Nokia Mac Suite".
6. Widsets - useful to get a giggle from some funny Russian sites, I also use it as an IMAP e-mail client (see 2).
7. We also have a russian google - yandex.ru, they provide Yandex.Karty (maps) - useful and innovative, since there is a "Report Jams" mode in which yandex watches your movement progress and aggregates info to flag jammed streets based on automatic user reports;
and 8. Yandex.Fotki (Photos) - just an upploader to their service.
9. Mail for Exchange - yes I work for a corpo.
0. If only I could, I'd install LifeBlog on every phone I have; eversince I set it to the right soft button, I just can't imagine myself going manually to all six places it nicely displays on a single timeline.
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| 26-05-2008 03:28 PM |
| Othi 2 |
How can all those users live without TextQuick? If there was only one application I could install, it would be that one. It should be build right into S60, but it certainly wouldn't be as fast and stable xD another must-have would be Google Maps and JoikuSpot, oh, and LightSabre.
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| 26-05-2008 03:17 PM |
| rbrunner |
Quote:
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This is one reason why I find this site's Java-hating "native application" evangelism so ironic.
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Well, I think the trouble with Nokia's "native" browser is that it is not really native. It's running as a Symbian program, but was not written for Symbian; it's a port of the WebKit browser engine, wrapped into a S60 UI.
That's not a detail, but an important point: WebKit was not written with low-memory devices in mind. Its memory hunger probably is a bad fit for a smartphone with only a few tens of megabytes of memory at most.
A browser engine for Symbian, written from scratch with limited memory in mind, would probably behave a lot better. But of course the development of such an engine would take ages and gobble up tons of money. Won't happen anymore.
Opera Mini, on the other hand, is "only" Java alright, but probably was written from scratch with certain well-defined goals like small memory footprint and fast rendering on smartphones in mind. It looks as if the result speaks for itself. How was that - no pain, no gain?
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| 26-05-2008 03:17 PM |
| kflyer |
And if you think it's suitable, my choice is at, http://lankamobile.blogspot.com/2008...i-install.html .
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| 26-05-2008 02:38 PM |
| jaclu |
Opera Mini
The primary reason I use opera mini is that you can go back in history without reload with it.
This is the single worst thing with the builtin browser in my opinion.
Load a large page, like a newspapart start page.
hit a link read it
go back to startpage - and the startpage reloads - takes like 40 sek
In Opera mini history back is instantanous (sp?)
With a large-mem system (E90) it makes no sence that the built-in browser doesnt keep history for at least a few pages. The lores overview is kept, so when you go back you see a preview of the previous page, but when you select it, it reloads every time.
I agree with the previous posts that OM is also quicker and more easy to navigate, but in comparision to the history problem those issues are minor in my view.
regards /Jaclu
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| 26-05-2008 02:36 PM |
| moylan |
* qreader
* y-browser
* ped
* python
* mini opera
* calcium
* msgexport
* mobipocket
instead of the top 10 apps that are installed a list perhaps of what apps people have on the active standby screen and what the buttons are configured to call up. 1st app on the active standby screen is search.
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| 26-05-2008 02:27 PM |
| Sam Stokes |
Another reason to choose Opera Mini over the Nokia Browser, especially if you have an older S60v3 phone (e.g. the still popular E61i): Opera Mini seems to use less memory and be more stable.
About one time in three I use the Nokia browser it bails out with an "out of memory" error (you know, the one that asks you to close some apps, and then turns out to already have closed them all for you). Never happens to me with Opera Mini. Nokia's is also slower to load and/or render pages and occasionally crashes (without an OOM error).
This is one reason why I find this site's Java-hating "native application" evangelism so ironic.
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| 26-05-2008 02:14 PM |
| Rafe |
Quite right - now corrected - sorry Stefan.
I do use Opera Mini, but its not absolutely essential for me. I use the standard browser most of the time to be honest. The exception to this is when I am roaming in another country and this is for bandwidth / cost reasons.
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