Here are some of my favourite free apps for my nokia 5530 (basically compatible with all Symbian Series 60 V5 phones)
- Opera Mobile : The katest version 10 is still in beta but provides a great browsing experience, the only let down is it is RAM hungry
- Touch Comic : A great app for reading comics in cbz format, with option to zoom , fit to width etc.
- Fring : A great app for chatting, making video calls and some social networking too
- Device Info : This is a great little widget listing out all the phone’s hardware and software resources in a graphical and easy way
- GMail : Its a java app, but a easy way to catch up with gmail. Its not perfect for a touchscreen phone but still my daily used app
Still there are some more free apps like skyfire, nimbuzz which I am yet to try. If you know any free good apps for Series60 V5 please post your comments here
written by Vignesh
\\ tags: nokia 5530, nokia 5530 free apps, s60 v5 free apps, series 60 V5
Recently one of my friends got a blackberry 8900 and i got to play with it a few times and here are some of my thoughts on it…
- The first thing that impressed me was the solid build and the refined finish which when you hold makes you feel good
- I was surprised by its weight which felt lighter than my nokia 5530 and the back battery cover lid with patterns was cool
- The 2.4″ 480 x 360 screen was excellent and the user interface was nicely designed but still somewhat confusing when delving deeper into the sub menus and stuff
- The 3.5mm audio jack coupled with a nice media player and memory card slot makes it a fun phone for entertainment needs too
- The blackberry app store was a nice way to extend the phone with lots of free apps and easy to use features
- The qwerty keypad was easy to use even though i haven’t had lots of experience with those type of keypads
- The chat messages of messenger like gtalk getting integrated with the messages list and way of notifying and accessing them becomes a whole lot easier
- The browser didn’t support youtube or flash videos was a major downer
- There was no FM radio which would have been a nice addition
At 18,500 INR (395$) its a excellent business phone with a nicely complemented 3MP camera and multimedia qualities.
written by Vignesh
\\ tags: 8900 curve, blackberry, blackberry 8900, curve 8900
Its been almost a month now with 5530, the most used feature other than the calls and sms is music ,watching videos and games. The music player is a simple but well featured player giving multiple listing options and settings to tweak the music like equalized, surround effect etc. Setting up album art was just a tad confusing (but googling i found a way to put album art using windows media player and setting the album art as front cover option). The in-box plug style 3.5mm stereo earphones are ok (I am not a fan of these type of earphones) but it drains out outside noise and the music quality is good.
The music player could have had a option for browsing music by flipping through album art ala iphone anyway the player does the job of sorting and playing music.
The video player also does the basic job of playing videos well. I first tried to convert video to 640 x 360 pixels but now I found out converting videos into mp4 with 640 x 480 pixels and then using the options in the video player to “Stretch” fits the screen perfectly and if the source video quality is good the converted mp4 plays and looks excellent in the 2.9″ screen.
Playing games was a mixed bag with some games requiring stylus and some being played with fingers, anyway my favorite games being Disks, MatchEm and The word game (all free and available in OVI store).
Battery seems to hold out well with extended periods of hearing music and playing games and as a portable multimedia player the Nokia 5530 seems a perfect fit for me.
written by Vignesh
\\ tags: 5530 xpress music, nokia 5530
All these years with Sony Ericsson I never used Sony Ericsson’s own PC Suite and used the excellent and FREE MyPhoneExplorer . But changing to Nokia 5530 I didn’t have a 3rd free alternative to go to so I decided to go with OVI Suite rather than Nokia PC Suite. Installation was pretty straight forward and quick. And I tried connecting my phone with Bluetooth and all went without a hassle.
The phonebook migration was a hassle with the exported data from MyPhone Explorer not able to be recognized by OVI Suite. But by using Microsoft Outlook I was able to get it done. Usually I edit contacts in my SE phone and then sync it to computer but in my 5530 I do all the editing stuff and creating contact groups in my laptop and sync it to my phone which I find more easier.
Syncing photos, music , message all are pretty easy and straight forward. But the given music player didn’t have the capability to do any Tag editting might be the Nokia OVI player app helps in that matter (But I haven’t tried that yet). I also haven’t tried using the online OVI contacts, calendar sync service and so I am not sure how far it works with the OVI Suite.
But updating Nokia 5530 firmware to V11 through OVI suite was a breeze and the process went without any Hiccups….
To conclude, pretty good app somewhat bloated but easy to use via bluetooth / usb cable but could have had features like a OVI store client inside and a better way to archive sms in the pc etc.
written by Vignesh
\\ tags: ovi, ovi suite
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