Nokia Beta Labs has recently launched an application 'Nokia Diagnostics v1.0' for performing diagnostic checks on your mobile phone. This application does not have a lot of significant functionalities as of now but with this prototype Nokia is planning to build a solution for people where in they can troubleshoot their phone all by themselves. Nokia 5800 is completely supported by this application. Currently, this application does some basic checks on your phone which even you can do without this application.
Furtiv Beta enables Nokia Share Online to be able to upload pictures/videos to Facebook, Twitter, Picasa Web Albums and You Tube. I really admire that this being made available by Furtiv and Nokia did not even think about it. Moreover, this is a free service so everyone can benefit from this. Furtiv Beta plugin for Nokia 5800 allows you to upload your pictures and videos without having to install or signup with any third party software company. Just visit Furtiv and download some configuration files to your phone and activate the services and you are done. Please find below a detailed guide on using Furtiv to upload from your phone using the inbuilt Nokia Share Online.
1. Visit http://furtiv.mobi on your phone's browser. You will find four different links for downloading settings for Facebook, Twitter, Picasa and You Tube respectively.
http://furtiv.mobi
2. Clicking on each of these links will download configuration files that are saved automatically to Nokia Share Online on your phone. You will observe a confirmation message - 'File saved to Share online' upon each file download.
'Love is in the air' - a common tagline everywhere every Valentine season. However, I differ from this and iI wish to say - 'Love is in your phone'. Romantic Valentine is a new premium theme from MMMOOO. MMMOOO have some very beautiful and functional applications for Nokia 5800 to their credit and this one further adds to it. You can check more themes we have (free and paid ones) here on this page.
This theme has amazing graphics in light pink and light violet color. The home-screen image features an Eiffel tower with two kids holding heart shaped balloons which makes the home-screen look really cute. The analog clock on your home-screen looks really with a pink heart in the centre the dial. Every time you look at your phone, it reminds you of the coming Valentine Day and more than that of your girlfriend. For people who don't have a girlfriend/boyfriend, it reminds them that they need to get one before this Valentine Day.
I wrote about the all new Fring in my previous post. I installed the Fring theme too along with Fring and now the Fring application really blends with my new theme. The Fring theme has an amazing feel to it, gives a vibrant look and feel to your phone. The entire theme is based on three colors - orange, yellow and green. There are new icons in the messaging menu while the rest of them remain as system default.
The scroll bars turn green and the highlighted menu options yellow, giving you a lemony look which i love on my phone. The quality of the theme is really professional. I have had themes on my phone where i was unable to view text which i wrote or they were too light to locate in the entire phone layout. However, the Fring theme has none of these flaws and can be termed as good as the original Nokia theme.
Chess Pro II as the name suggests is a Chess board game that you can play on your Nokia 5800. The game has a feature rich design with a customizable user interface. You can choose between a number of designs for your pieces. You can even change the screen layout and boards to different shades of color. If you are an expert player and understand the movement notations then you can change your view mode which allows you see the corresponding notations of all of your game moves. This game allows you to enjoy your play with the computer as well as your friends. You can switch on your Bluetooth and set the game to listen for new users in the preferences and play via Bluetooth with your friend. You can even play the game with your friend via SMS, you simply create a new human user and select it from your contacts.
You have a number of AI (Artificial Intelligence) users already created in the game with different proficiency levels (Expert/Intermediate/Beginner). Playing with the AI users is just amazing and you can spend hours playing this game. The very first game i played on my mobile i spent an hour because it is really addictive when you don't wanna lose and play till your very last piece is gone. Speaking about the stability of the game and resource consumption, it is designed for Nokia 5800 and runs smoothly and never gets your phone stuck.
HTC Touch2 with a tagline 'Life, joined up for you' is an all day phone that helps you do most of the things that even Nokia 5800 helps you do. This time HTC has chosen to focus on the basic requirement that a user has from his/her phone. With HTC Touch2 you can communicate with your friends, log on to Facebook, get your emails delivered right on to your phone and ofcourse making calls which the most importatnt of all. At this point, i am wondering as to what is new in this phone that makes it different from most other phones in the market. To answer this, i can just say that it has a slim design and a descent build quality which i believe is HTC's trade secret.
Looking at the hardware specifications, this phone is quite similar to Nokia 5800 with 528 Mhz Qualcomm processor and 256 MB RAM. The phone runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional. The display screen has 65K colors whereas Nokia 5800 has 16M colors. The phone can connect on WiFi, 3G and Bluetooth. The external storage supports microSD cards. You can take pictures on this phone upto 3MP but sadly without flash. You can find ways using the inbuilt GPS on this phone. Supports a large number audio and video formats playback for your leisure time.
Thus, this phone has everything that you may want in a phone in your day to day life. The phone costs around 230 Euros and comes in three different colors - Black, Brown, Silver. Even after being released after one complete year from Nokia 5800's release date, this phone cannot compete with our phone.
Fring is a mobile chat client which i believe everyone of us are aware of. We know about the capabilities that Fring adds to your mobile phone when it comes to communicating over a number of IM services. We can interact on Gtalk, Skype, Yahoo, Aim, MSN, ICQ, Twitter and Facebook with Fring using WiFi or the data connection. The latest version of Fring brings Video Calling over Fring/Skype which is amazing and Fring claims itself to be the only such application providing such a service.
To use the video calling service all that you need to do is just search for the Fring/Skype contact on Fring and choose Video Call from the calling options. The video call facility is available to 'Fring -> Skype' and 'Fring -> Fring' calls. I hope they bring out video calling over Yahoo, MSN and Gtalk also. So now you can video chat with your friends either from Fring or Skype on PC.
Setting up new themes on your phone is not a difficult task. However, there are many people who are new to Nokia 5800 and find it difficult to set them up. This guide is dedicated to all the newbies to Nokia 5800 so that they have a happy experience decorating their phones with colorful themes. Another note to people who have recently upgraded their phones and find their theme missing or theme effects missing, please follow this guide to set it back.
Step 1 - Install themes on your phone
You can either choose to install themes over the air via phone's data connection (need a data plan) or download the theme to your PC via internet, connect your phone and install via PC Suite. To start with i have three links here -
UC Browser is just another browser not really as good as the Opera Browser for the Nokia 5800 i reviewed in my last post. However, it has come long way since i last knew about it. It was buggy and unstable when i last used it. UC Browser 7 is an all new avatar of the last version i laid hands on. It is much more stable and refined, displays the webpages just like you see on your PC browser.
Browsing over this browser on Nokia 5800 was a fine experience. In terms of functionality, i would say it surpasses Opera. It has an inbuilt download manager which supports low speeds over the 2G network. The download manager allows you to save your download anywhere on the phone, something which is not available in Opera 10 Beta 2. It somehow restricts the download to the phone memory only.
We all know about Opera which happens to be the master of mobile internet browsing. I have reviewed the previous versions of Opera 4 and Opera 5 for Nokia 5800 which happened to be the J2ME versions. Opera 4 was a nice one but Opera 5 somehow was not stable on Nokia 5800. Opera Mobile 10 Beta 2 is a symbian version and works flawlessly on Nokia 5800. The entire layout and user interface which appears on Nokia 5800 gives a feel as if you are not browsing on Nokia 5800 and you are on an entirely different phone.
really great !!!!!!!!
