Apps for symbian s60 5th edition

Aside from Skype, its one omission, this is perhaps the ultimate instant messaging client for S60, building in every other chat system, including unusually Facebook Chat. There's GPS support too, so that your contacts can see where you are in the world. Get it from the Nokia Ovi Store or from www. Similar to Worldmate but here compatible with all S60 phones and not just Nokia ones , this offers free travel related functions, including daylight globe, currency conversion and 5 day weather forecast.

It's all rather slick and, like Worldmate, Psiloc probably plan to make their money on the premium flight information, coming soon. The rest of the application is free, however, which is why it's included here. In theory, World Traveler is in the Ovi Store, but it's currently giving an error. So get it from here.

Note that the install is incredibly slow - I'm guessing the SIS file is very complicated and has all sorts of language options which need to be worked through by the OS! It's the paint utility that Nokia forgot to add! Get it from Nokia's site or if you don't like all the Flash here. Yup, it's a full blown Twitter client and a whole heap more friendly than using the Twitter mobile web site each day. Not in the same league as Gravity but then this is free, after all.

Sadly, there's no web-like 'kinetic' scrolling, so you have to use the fiddly scroll bar. Get it from the Nokia Ovi Store or from here. Although shareware, it only has the one 3-second nag screen and there's no time limit to your trial.

A little specialist, to be sure, it's only appropriate to someone visiting London, but it's a slick conversion from paper to pixels as the company name suggests. Browse around the London tube network without having to remember to bring your paper tube map.

Get it from here. This is the original Shoutcast player from a few years ago. It's been minimally updated since, but does work. It only comes with a handful of Shoutcast stations, but it's reasonably easy to create. Get it here. The perennial BPM counter, metronome and note generator, implemented here in full-screen Java. Impressively, there's a range of different instrument tones that can be generated.

There's even a choice of four guitar tones, but I was disappointed not to be able to scroll up the neck to see the various inversions as well. Still, for a freebie Get Musician's Swiss Knife from here and Chords from here.

Again, I'd like to emphasise that ALL the above are free to download and use. So if you don't fancy trawling the online stores for the best freeware then just bookmark this page and use it as your quick reference when getting a new phone up to speed! Google Maps The first really huge third party S60 application to get a full touch makeover, this works superbly on S60 5th Edition, on all phones, in both landscape and portrait modes, and with touch-panning of maps and of the StreetView displays in countries where this is supported.

YouTube Yes, there's now a mobile version of the YouTube main web site, but exactly what it serves up is dependent on the device you use to browse it - and there are the delays caused by having to bring up different pages and by waiting for RealPlayer or Flash Lite to do its thing. Picture quality is QVGA, scaled up, but it's quite good enough for casual viewing.

Opera Mini Why on earth would you want another web browser? Get either version from mini. Quickoffice v6 upgrade It may seem a little odd to see Quickoffice in a list of freeware and, it's true, I'm cheating slightly.

Snaptu As with Opera Mini, don't write this off because it's Java-hosted. AccuWeather One of S60's best kept secrets, AccuWeather was always a useful little widget to have installed.

Files on Ovi A terrific way to keep your important desktop folders automatically backed up you get up to 10GB free, amazingly, in Nokia's 'Anytime files' system and to have remote access to your master documents - on either Windows PC or Apple Mac - through the phone, Files on Ovi is fully compatible with Nokia's S60 5th Edition phones - it's just that Nokia doesn't make it easy Wireless keyboard Although this hasn't been fully updated officially yet for S60 5th Edition and thus shouldn't qualify for this list as not being optimised, I couldn't resist adding the necessary install for driving a Bluetooth wireless keyboard.

It needs an Blob: Blogger and WordPress client. Type : Unsigned. Have fun with this retro style tape recorder that let you record words and sentences Mega Avatars helps you create your own cartoon avatar or make one for your friends!

New Popular Top Rated. UC Browser 9. ABC Call Recorder. Best Screen Snap. Best Timer. Youtube Downloader. Youtube HD Installer. Metro Revision Pro. Nokia Xpress Music. The OS is also the enabler for many of the technologies described below.

Adds touch enablers and tactile feedback to S The UI is designed to be used with finger touch or a stylus. The UI and base applications have been optimised for touch usage. Standard S60 applications have been extended and optimised to take advantage of touch interactions.

In order to help enable touchscreen devices there is enhanced support for higher resolution displays and a new 'widescreen' mode. Adds a framework to enable the use of sensors in the UI and by third parties. Such sensors might include accelerometers, which enable functionality such as 'flip to silence' or 'shake to unlock'.

Third party access is enable by APIs which are available in the software development kit. Enhanced support for Internet technologies, including an updated Web browser more recent version of WebKit and Flash Lite 3.

The browser has been optimised for touch usage, including the ability to scroll around the screen using a finger and finger touch-friendly toolbars and controls.