An at-a-glance readout of the amount of free RAM in your Symbian smartphone has always been a bit of a 'faff' to get, usually involving a dedicated full-screen utility. Free Memory Bars, released today in the Ovi Store, solves the problem by putting a Symbian homescreen widget panel to good use, showing RAM, C: disk and E: disk status, in terms of proportion free and figures in Megabytes. 

Well, to be picky, actually the amounts are shown in mB, i.e. milli-bytes, which don't exist, but we'll forgive the developer this one slip up. The widget updates itself every ten seconds while in the foreground and comes cautiously recommended - battery impact notwithstanding.

There's also a commercial version of Free Memory Bars, with more information displayed, should you be impressed with the free offering.