Updated: 1/05/2009

Got yourself a brand new Nokia n-series smartphone?

Here’s a list of third party application i recommend you might want to try  (in addition to already existing phone software): I am tested them on my N82 and hope my choices will help you get the most out of  your Smartphone good luck!

Navigation (GPS Related)
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Google Maps - This application uses the internal GPS, as well as mobile phone tower triangulation to determine your position (accurate to about 1km at the most, though when internal gps has a fix its accurate to only a few metres). I find it really useful if you want something as simple as internet based google maps on your phone (when ofcourse you cant use the Gps in areas where maps are not detailed etc) (www.google.com/gmm)

Garmin Mobile 10 XT (My favourite)- Becoming also one of my best favourites, and at least this uses the Internal GPS on the phone, its got the most up-to-date Australian maps of the lot. It works quite well and looks the nicest, and definetly worth having installed. (https://buy.garmin.com/shop/store/downloadsDetails.jsp?id=3939&product=010-00579-00&cID=139&pID=420)

3D tracking - Can be used for recording your GPS position as you travel, and your routes, sending information to the 3dtracking site where you can export or view your position in either google earth or google maps, with details of speed for each point recorded (www.free.3dtracking.net)

Symarctic ExtGPS - Allows you to use your internal gps as a bluetooth gps for a pc/mac or pda, quite handy if you want to use your gps on your laptop. (www.symarctic.com/beta/s…=extgps_download)

Music
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ALON MP3 Dictaphone - Plays OGG (which i use quite a lot on my collection)/WMA/MP4/AAC/MP3, online streaming radio. Has an equalizer, playlist editing, sleep mode etc. Records phone calls as well as acts as a voice recorder and it has gain controls to boost the audio. Good program. (www.alonsoftware.com/pro…hone_s60_3rd.htm)

Nokia Internet Radio - Can’t stress enough, kick ass program, quite well polished, looks very nice. Uses your wireless or 3G/HSDPA connection (wouldn’t recommend it unless you have data plan on your mobile though), works brilliantly excellent quality. (www.nokia.com/internetradio)

FIVN Player - Plays most music formats (including ogg), has bass booster, an equalizer and stereo widening (like in the nokia music app), its fairly good though the interface isnt exactly brilliant, but its simple and works quite well. (www.fivn.com/software/player.html)

Filter: The Filter for mobile phones is a clever application that makes navigating the music on your mobile phone quick and easy. Once you have loaded the application onto your phone, simply pick an artist you want to listen to, hit the select icon and in seconds The Filter will create a great playlist for you.Create instant playlists on your mobile phone-Enjoy smart- music navigation-Free download for Nokia (http://www.thefilter.com/mobile.aspx)

Connectivity
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Jaikuspot! : Turn your mobile into a WIFI-hotspot!! -JoikuSpot enables S60 Smartphone to share it’s 3G internet connection wirelessly over WLAN with any compatible WLAN device such as laptop, other Smartphone or e.g. Apple iPod touch. Now this is seriously cool! and free!! - (www.jaikuspot.com)

SymSMB - Brilliant program by Telexy. Allows you to browser your computer folders on your computer over wireless using SMB (windows network sharing protocol). So all you do is share your folders the way you normally do on the network, and open them up on this program. You can also share folders on your phone, or the entire memory card/phone memory on the network and access it on your PC over wirelss. Works brilliantly, highly recommended purchase. (www.telexy.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx)

SIC! FTP - Great FTP program, the site is in german though the program is in english. (www.sic-software.com/mod…=showpage&pid=57) - you might want to run it by a translator if you dont understand german though).

Putty S60 - If you use SSH you most likely know putty, it needs no real introduction. (s2putty.sourceforge.net)

HandyWi - Nice program if you are looking for an alternative WIFI manager. It’ll alert you when there’s nearby wireless networks that are free to access or when you’re in range of your own wireless networks. It will also pick the best network to use if you’re near a couple of them automatically without you needing to choose one for yourself. It creates an access point on the phone that will automatically choose this for you. It’ll also manage your wireless passwords and automatically connect to networks if you want. It can also autostart on boot if you wish. (www.handywi.com)

File Managers
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X-plore: X-plore is my favorite file manager for mobile devices, with wide range of functions on phone’s file system.This software is shareware, with friendly price and relaxed registration option. (www.lonelycatgames.com/?app=xplore)

Best Taskman: Running applications and tasks control, ability to substitute built-in system task manager or work along with it, ‘Windows Alt-Tab’ style task switcher, a unique way to access favorite applications (Quickstart), running processes control, and many more advanced functions to explore. (http://www.smartphoneware.com/taskman-for-s60-3rd-edition-product.php)

PhoNetInfo - general utility to give you details about the phone, imei, battery level, current open tasks, phone capabilities, network signal strength, cell id etc. (www.patrickfrei.ch/phonetinfo)

SMS Export - Allows you to export all your sms’s as individual text files, which could come in handy at times (www.m-internet.com )

CoolSMS+ - Allows you to send Flash SMS (automatically opens on any mobile phone). And wap push sms (if you want to push symbian or java apps to someone). Can be cool, as well as rather annoying… for the receiver, especially if they’re avoiding you or someone who has no idea how to read sms’s [read parents!] (www.ehandysoft.com/coolsmsplus3.htm)

Call Filter - Allows you to set up call receiving rules (if you want to reject calls from certain people or private numbers etc.). Quite handy. (www.m-internet.com)

Y-Tasks - Lets you view supported file types, apps and tasks running, processes, memory usage, fonts etc. Also lets you kill applications that have hung/crashed. (www.drjukka.com/YTasks.html)

Y-Browser - Great general purpose file browser/copy etc. Lets you explore folders that you cannot usually view with the nokia file manager. Lets you browse mail/sms/mms folders too which is really handy. (www.drjukka.com/YBrowser.html)

FExplorer - similar to Y-Browser, i find its a bit friendlier to use. (www.gosymbian.com/FE_beta_download_3ed.html)

Nokia Energy Profiler - tells you how much power your phone is using … mostly so you can tell which programs are sapping your battery dead. (www.forum.nokia.com/main…_energy_profiler)

Misc Utilities (accelerometer apps, etc)

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Note: Its always fun to use any of the accelerometer apps, there are many upcoming brialliant programmers who are developing exciting applications based motion input which our smartphones support. Check out and try  some of them now

RotateMe (not needed for n82 with auto rotate feature already built in)- Seriously Cool. Uses the phone’s accelerometer to rotate the phone’s view into landscape mode by just tilting the phone, with sensitivity and reactivity settings, and autostart on boot option. (www.bysamir.fr/rotateme)

Nokmote - Another seriously kick ass tool by the crazy frenchman Samir, allows you to play games by tiling the phone to control your arrow keys. Really really cool. (www.bysamir.fr/nokmote)

ps: and more accelerometer apps by samir go to www.bysamir.fr

Flip Silent - A small software which makes you use your phone in a more natural way: When you are in a meeting or dating, and a call is coming in, you can flipover your phone to make it go into the silent profile and hang up the phone call or mute the ringer - without touching anything on the phone, just flip it over, your phone will go into silence! (http://symbianblog.com/flipsilent/)

cClock - Lets you replace your screensaver clock with something more readable and useful, and it allows you to see the battery level and network strength from the screensaver. Fully configurable. Has built in stopwatch as well. (home.pacific.net.sg/~welic/cClock.html)

Massage Vibra - well.. besides the fact that it has a lot of different vibration settings… its something that you could probably use with someone else… or for your aching muscles…. (www.shapeservices.com/en…uct=massagevibra)

Media (Video playback, Flash, photo edit tools etc)

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Locr - Highly recommended. Allows you to automatically GPS tag every photo you take, and upload them to the web automatically if you set it to, has various gps idle times so you dont wear your battery out if you aren’t tagging photos. Also lets you view photos from nearby locations taken by other people (if they set them to public viewing of course). (www.locr.com)

Screenshot - Allows you to take screenshots of your phone’s screen. Pretty simple. Saves them as jpg/png/bmp with user settable shortcuts. (www.antonypranata.com/screenshot)

Mobiola Webcam - Allows you to use your phone as a USB or Bluetooth wireless webcam. Seriously cool and worth while if you do not have one already. Besides your mobile has a better camera than most webcams. Works with just about all video conferencing programs on the PC. [Now if only it worked on wifi!] (www.warelex.com/products/webcam/index.php)

or there’s another good option for phone as webcam; WWIGO

wwigo (pronounced ‘vigo’) stands for Webcam Wherever I Go. With wwigo, a camera phone can be used as a webcam with PC or Laptop using bluetooth as the transmission medium.It consists of two software components:mobile component that resides on phone and streams video to PC.PC component that recieves video. And best of all its free! (www.motvik.com)

Panoman - If you’re an avid fan of mobile phone photography, this program is really worth getting. It automatically stitches and normalises 360 degree panorama shots and helps you line them up correctly to get the best shots possible. Really really kick arse and you can get some really amazing scenery shots this way. (www.panoman.net)

DivX player - not that this needs much introduction, but it lets you play DivX and XviD movies on your mobile phone without conversion (usually). (www.divx.com/mobile)

Smart Movie - By lonelycatgames this is a great xvid/divx player, but will also play MJPEG videos (from canon cameras etc). Very good, and very easy to use. Also comes with a mobile phone video converter to watch movies/videos on the phone at a smaller size without losing much quality. (www.lonelycatgames.com/?app=smartmovie)

Core Player - Great user interface, supports just about every audio format under the sun (MP3, MP2, AAC, MKA, WMA, Midi, WAV, OGG, Speex, WAVPACK, TTA, FLAC, MPC, AMR, ADPCM, ALaw, MuLaw, G.729) and just about every Video format under the sun (H.264 (AVC), MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, Theora, MJPEG, NRE, MSVIDEO1 with WMV soon to be added). Allows adjustment of aspect ratio/cropping to fit in the screen better as well. Allows video streaming as well over HTTP and UDP [apparently RDP/RTP/RTSP/MMS/MTP are being added soon]. (www.coreplayer.com)

also;

Qik - Qik is a little piece of software that enables you to stream videos directly from your phone to the Web. Use it to stream engaging videos to your friends in Facebook, Twitter, etc. or as your camcorder to capture entertaining and special moments. (www.qik.com)

Movino -Movino is a collection of open source applications for streaming and broadcasting live video from smartphones. The main applications are the following: A client for Symbian Series 60 smartphones 2.A client for J2ME camera phones 3.A GUI application and a QuickTime component for OS X 4.A video server for Linux 5.A web interface based on the Drupal CMS -(www.movino.org)

more Media - Youtube

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emTube - Seriously freaking cool program. Allows you to search, stream, and save youtube videos on your phone. Yes, all of them. Uses the accelerometer if you want to view them in landscape by just tilting the phone [and now its even compatible with rotateme too!]. It allows you to have a list of favourites and most viewed video list. (www.emtube.yoyo.pl)

Mobitubia - Another cool youtube player with nice GUI and smooth performance , worth checking it out! (www.mobitubia.com)

Office Applications

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Quickoffice Premier - Quickoffice basic comes with all nokias, but the premier version lets you edit ms office excel, word and powerpoint files too. Supports the latest microsoft formats too. (www.quickoffice.com/s60/index.asp)

Papyrus - Alternative calender to the nokia default one, very neat and useful. Allows you to choose colours for different event types, display lists in different ways, import birthday lists etc. Really useful and it does integrate with the nokia calendar, so it can be synced to outlook too! (www.sbsh.net/products/pa…php?page=summary)

Active Notes - This cool app from the E90 lets you add images/sounds/videos/business cards/internet bookmarks/files to notes as well as write notes, you can also take photos and record audio from teh application and insert it into the note. Then you can email it or sms it or mms it or just keep it there for later viewing. Very useful, and quite a lot better than the standard notes app. (news.mobile9.com/s60apps…-the-e90-anymore)

Games
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Seriously im not going over this lol. I have too big a list. (but i will update this section soon)

Check out N-GAGE if you havent already .. http://play.n-gage.com/

Though i heavily recommend Lament Island by Simlife Science (a chinese game developer). Its a really nice 3d RPG game, with very nice graphics and special effects on a phone. If you can ignore engrish that is:). (www.clickgamer.com/morei…48§ion=S60V3) - includes a youtube preview of the game. Here’s a better one though www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S2HZgqvAHw (though it is the chinese version instead).

Messaging:

Fring: fring^TM is a free mobile VoIP application that enables free mobile internet calls and live chat (IM) to other ‘fringsters’ and PC-based services including Skype®, Google Talk^TM, ICQ, MSN® Messenger and Twitter, using free Wi-Fi or your 3G or GPRS internet data plan instead of costly mobile airtime minutes ! ; furthermore fring mobile VoIP client gets an updated and brings file transfer capability! (www.fring.com)

WirelessIRC - If you use IRC, this is a great program, in addition to the fact it the only decent irc program for the s60. (www.handango.com/Platfor…productId=211930)

Palringo - Supports MSN, Yahoo, Aim, Gadu-Gadu (asian users would know this one:)), ICQ and Jabber [Google Talk included]. Great multi-IM program, and best of all its free. (www.palringo.com)

Windows Live Messenger - Pretty much the only official MSN client for symbian. It supports profile images, voice messages, emoticons and file transfers along normal chat, group chats and more. Really easy to use. You’re best to get this one from the Download! application on your nokia from the WinLive Folder (europe.nokia.com/A4491268)

Nokia Conversation - Allows threaded SMS chat. Pretty neat, currently in beta though, so its a wee bit slow at times but works really nicely and has inline sms chat. (www.nokia.com/betalabs/conversation)

Other General Apps

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Nokia Channels - Quite a nice news reading tool, and supports accelerometer to read articles in landscape. Another Nokia beta labs program, allows you to read newspapers from across many countries. (www.nokia.com/betalabs/channels)

Nokia Widsets - Allows you to use all sorts of widgets (you can even make your own), that are updatable over the internet. More details at the site. (www.widsets.com)

Nokia Sports tracker - Seriously really kick arse program, incredibly well polished. If you do work outs, this program is really really good. It tracks your work out via gps and allows you to export it to google earth. It acts as your training diary, and can also use the accelerometer as a pedometer to count your steps as you work out. Creates really great graphs for your work out and allows you to share it on their online community as well with all sorts of statistics [Altitude vs speed, speed vs distance, speed vs time etc]. (sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/main/index.do)

Nokia Activity Monitor - This kinda should be integrated with sports tracker (wouldnt be surprised if it will in the future), but its a Nokia research project to use the accelerometer in the N95 as a pedometer to count your energy usage throughout the day, providing more stats than nokia sports tracker based on your actual step count. Like the nokia sports tracker it has a training diary and progress/trend charts. (research.nokia.com/proje…activity_monitor)

More Fun:

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Niime 2008 : Asier Arranz developer of the famous NiiMe has finished exams and is rolling again, that is totally awesome, congratulations my friend, I am so happy for you.

Actually we all should be happy, it is extremely good news because it means that Asier has more time for developing and that we can expect more cool soft to come soon.

Also I’m pleased to announce that NiiMe Fusion 1.0b is available for donators and exclusively for the Symbian Freaks in a special package. There is also a new video that shows the projects that he is working on and that we can expect to come during this year.There are few interesting concepts like NiiMe Drums for musicians or quite cool NiiMe Play that allows controlling simpler game like Super Mario with the body movement while the phone is the pocket.

check the youtube video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00PKV5xCL24

Download Niime package for PC and Phone: Niime Alpha Fusion 0.1b

I hope this incredibly exhaustive list of my recommended apps is of help to you all:)

note: i will update this post periodically as and when possible with new applications.
(Last update: May 5th 2008)

ciao,

Sid