Top Ten Freeware Applications for Symbian S60 3rd Edition

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 28th Jan 2007 09:11 UTC

It's been about ten months since the first S60 3rd Edition SymbianOS smartphone hit the market. Nokia made a lot of changes to the underlying OS and broke compatibility with the ~1800 S60 2nd Ed. applications that were already available. Ten months later, there are about 220 applications for the new version of S60. This is a small list of the Top-10 freeware applications for your new S60 phone.

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Helpful stuff

by moleskine (4.16) on Sun 28th Jan 2007 10:32 UTC

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Very helpful - thanks, Eugenia. I'll have fun with this when my N73 arrives. It will also be interesting to see what add-ons Apple eventually come up with for the iPhone since extending functionality like this is a potential "must-have" field imho.

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AutoLock

by gothic (1.2) on Sun 28th Jan 2007 11:56 UTC

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"AutoLock is a free automatic key lock application."

I really don't know why Symbian doesn't have this feature. I've a Nokia 6600 and doesn't have that too, and it continues...

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RE: AutoLock

by Wintermute (4.28) on Mon 29th Jan 2007 00:03 UTC in reply to "AutoLock"

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I think the latest version of Symbian S60 (3rd Edition FP1) has this function. However, as far as I know, there are no phones using Feature Pack 1 on the market.

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msn

by hurricanechristian (2) on Sun 28th Jan 2007 13:51 UTC

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im getting an nokia n73 next week - anyone know any good *free* msn apps?

cheers for the list Eugenia!

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RE: msn

by Eugenia (Staff) on Sun 28th Jan 2007 22:55 UTC in reply to "msn"

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You need the IMHere J2ME application (previously called eMSN). It is bare bones and ad-supported, but the only one that kinda works and it's free. There are no free native Symbian apps for MSN. Both IM+ and AgileMessenger cost money.
http://www.funrungames.com/download/IMHere.jar

Edited 2007-01-28 23:01

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RE: msn

by Wintermute (4.28) on Mon 29th Jan 2007 00:17 UTC in reply to "msn"

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Eugenia is not quite correct. There are several freeware MSN clients for the the s60v3 platform:

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/software/item/HIER--S60_3rd_edition....

I am using the a client developed by Nokia Hong Kong:

http://www.nokia.com.hk/nokia/0,,98969,00.html

It's pretty basic, but I didn't really expect more functionality.

N73 is a pretty good phone, so far I am very happy with it. It does have a few minor annoyance though, like not being able to create subfolders in the menu section.

Too bad that N73 doesn't run s60v3 FP1:

http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-s60-3dfp1-en.shtml

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good site

by broken_symlink (2.68) on Sun 28th Jan 2007 15:36 UTC

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this is a good site dedicated to symbian v3 apps. http://www.symbianv3.com/

about the autolock thing. I cannot even enter a lock code on my e61. It says in the book that the default code is 01234 but when i enter that code to try and change it or even lock the phone i just get a message that says code error. i thought this was supposed to be fixed in the new firmware.

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Thanks Eugenia!

by segedunum (4.48) on Sun 28th Jan 2007 16:47 UTC

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Just what I needed - a nice summary of useful stuff I can pop on to my phone, some I hadn't looked at before.

I concur with Autolock being at number one. It is pretty indispensable, because I find the locking mechanisms on Nokia's phones to be less than perfect and not exactly easy to use or set up.

An honourable mention is also worthy of OggPlay (http://symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/). Using that and Internet Radio actually turns my phone into the universal smart phone and media device that all these companies say exists, but doesn't.

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Goggle Apps

by smeat (2.67) on Sun 28th Jan 2007 19:37 UTC

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Don't forget all the great google apps for symbian:
http://mobile.google.com

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RE: Goggle Apps

by Eugenia (Staff) on Sun 28th Jan 2007 19:55 UTC in reply to "Goggle Apps"

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You are mistaken. These are J2ME apps that work on any cellphone, they are not native Symbian apps like this article mentions. Besides, at the bottom of my article I link to another article that has these J2ME apps anyway.

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RE[2]: Goggle Apps

by smeat (2.67) on Mon 29th Jan 2007 23:21 UTC in reply to "RE: Goggle Apps"

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Ahhh it would appear you are correct.

My mistake.

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Qreader

by asharism (1.3) on Mon 29th Jan 2007 06:08 UTC

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I've the Qreader application for a while on my E50. However, I've not been to happy with this app. I found Microsoft Reader on PPC perfect for books on the small device.

Any other alternatives to Qreader (apart from the one mentioned in the article?)

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