Very recently I did a brief review of theSPB Mobile Shellfor Symbian. You can find the buying details of the app in that post. Now, I'm back with an extensive review of the wonderful app. You can see from the screenshots, the app looks a lot better. There are many stuffs in this app to like, but one particular thing that all the Symbian users will love is the power to add widgets to your home screen.You can see from the screenshots again that I've actually flooded the screens with widgets. I like having shortcuts for everything, and that is one of the reasons I love using this app.
Another thing is that this app allows you to have multiple home screens. There are two styles of home screens, Lifestyle layout and Professional layout. The default number of home screens in the Lifestyle layout is three, and that in the Professional layout is one. You can have a choice of either one, three and home screens. I prefer five, the more, the better. So, you have a total of ten home screens to decorate.
You can have individual widgets on each home screen. Some of my favorite widgets will be the music player, calendar, clock and weather. They work exceptionally well and you will hardly be going into the default menu with all these widgets. The music player works great, just one tap on the home screen and the music starts. You dont have to go the menu and then the music player.
Alon MP3 Dictaphone is on the best apps I've seen which can do three things for you in a way that you will love. The app plays all your music on you got on your phone, records phone calls and even can record anything that is happening around you, like a lecture for example. The is now available for S60 5th edition too.
The Alon MP3 Dictaphone supports a variety of audio formats, like MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, AAC, MP4, M4A, AMR and othes. These are some of the popular audio formats in the audio world and the app supports all of them. So you dont have to convert your audio files to any one format for the app to support.
The app has an improved user interface for the touch screen devices. Though the design of the app is a bit old school, the features remain the modern. The app records your phone conversations very clearly and there are no beeps in between the recording like some of the other similar apps give you. Another great function of the app is the ability to cut the MP3 files right on your phone. Cool, eh? The app even supports meta data on audio files.
You can buy Alon MP3 Dictaphone for your Nokia 5800 from Handango for $29.95 over here. The is supported on other S60 phones too. You can download a trial version of the app and try it before you buy. The download is available on the same page. You can buy from here too.
This is the best security app for your data on your Nokia 5800, hands down. This app makes it so easy to add and maintain all your personal info at one place, yet properly organized. You get the cool new graphical card representation in the new version of the app which makes it easier than never before for you to maintain your data.
The app is simple to use, you will never get a doubt using this app on your phone. Seriously, the only I got when I used this app was how on Earth did these people make this complex app so easy to use. Like some of the other apps which give you flashy user interface, this provides a clean, decent look for its app, but the features on this app can not be matched by others.
You can have different graphical representation of cards for different categories, like the credit cards can have one color and your email accounts can have another. These cards are tiled on your screen by the app so that you can easily select the one you want and get complete info on the corresponding item. The app uses sophisticated 448 bit Blowfish encryption method to encrypt your data. So you can be sure that your data is certainly safe with the app. And one more good feature of the app is that you can backup all the stuff you have on the app to your Windows PC with ease. So even if you lose your data on the phone, you can always restore it back from your PC.
You can buy Handy Safe Suite for your Nokia 5800 from Handango for $34.95 over here. Handango has an offer for you. If you buy Handy Weather for your Nokia 5800 with Handy Safe Suite, you just to pay $47.92 for both apps combined. If you want to try out the Handy Safe Suite before you buy, you will get the download on the same page. If the given link does not work, use the link here.
SPB Mobile Shell is a very popular mobile shell app in the Windows Mobile community. SPB made it way into the Symbian world very recently. They have released their popular Mobile Shell for the Symbian platform as well. This is one of the best home screen replacement app you can get for the Symbian platform, and it would not be wrong if I say that this is the only home screen replacement app which does not feel like its a third party app. This completely behaves as a native app on the phone. I would very much like Symbian to come up with feature like this them self.
The app gives you up to five home screens. You can switch between them with just a horizontal swipe on the screen. A small white bar at the bottom of the screen tells you in which home screen currently are. You can place widgets on each home screen, a different one on each. You get a very well designed weather app. It automatically refreshes to give you latest weather forecasts. The menus are changed, but only the first level menus. As you go deep into the menu, you get the default menus. The contacts menu is the app's though, and is pretty much organized well.
Conclusion: you are going to love the power of having up to five home screens and having a different widget on each of them. The animations of the app when you switch between the menus and I especially love the weather widget. The app costs around $29.95 on Handango. Its available right now and is the updated version too. You can either download a trial and buy the complete version, which you will eventually after using the trial version. You can buy SPB Mobile Shell for your Nokia 5800 from Handango's page over here. Click here if that link doesn't work.
If you are a fan of the famous National Geographic channel, you are going to love this app for your Nokia 5800. This app, the National Geographic, connects to the server of the channel and gets to you an amazing photo each day. Each month, there is a different category from which the photos will be chosen from.
You can get up every morning o get a new photo at the top of the list. This month's category, however, is Photos From the 2009 International Photo Contest. You can see a sample in the screen shot I have provided. Its a very light app, it will not take up much of your memory.
If you like any photo from the collection, you can share the photo from within the app. This is a cool feature. But when it comes to sharing options, its a disappointment. There are no Facebook and Twitter sharing options in the app for reasons that I dont know. The only modes of sharing the photos are SMS and Email. If you SMS it, the link to that particular photo will be sent in the message and your friend can simply tap on the link on their phone to view it. May be in the future versions, we can hope for the addition of Facebook and Twitter sharing options.
Tapping the Ovi button on the bottom of the screen will take you to the Ovi store. Tapping on the Home button will take you to the app's home screen where you get the list of all the photos of the current month.
You can download the National Geographic app for free for your Nokia 5800 from the Ovi Store.
Krusell Touch Screen Pointer is an alternative to Nokia's stylus. This is a very convenient screen pointer accessory which is attached to a strong nylon wrist strap. If you were looking to buy spare stylus for your Nokia 5800, I would suggest to buy Krusell Touch Screen Pointer instead as I found it way too easy to use.
You could also get this mega Nokia 5800 accessory pack with 15 goodies, including two stylus. It ships free all over the world!
One of the best advantages that I see is that it is impossible to lose it. I have lost two stylus for my phone as the stylus compartment in my phone got lose because of continuous use and both of them fell somewhere. As a replacement i had been using the Nokia N97 pencil type external stylus but then it was heavy and not very easy to use and also had a chance of falling somewhere.
Krusell Touch Screen Pointer is very light and has a good quality plastic smooth two-way pointer. The pointer works great on Nokia 5800 and the touch is well recognized by the touch screen. The high quality plastic ensures there are no scratches on the screen. The nylon strap fits well in to the strap socket at the back of the phone. The length of the strap is just perfect neither too short nor too long. You can have a look at the pictures and video attached to this post and decide for yourself if you too want one.
Nokia Abstract is a premium theme for Nokia 5800 that comes with a lot of icons. This theme has icons for each and every default system icons and even for many of the external applications like, Joikusoft, YouTube, Ovi Maps, Communities, etc. This is a maroon theme with a black and red tint to it. It highlights the selected menu option with a blinking highlighter. You would love the look of this theme more if you own a red Nokia 5800 as this theme blends with overall look of the phone.
If you are concerned about your Nokia 5800 getting scratches on the display, here is a chance to get a very good protection accessory for low price. Zagg is offering its award winning protection accessories for your Nokia 5800 phones at very low price. You can get as much as75% off on its products. Just follow the link given below in this post and avail discounts on all the products listed on the page.
Currently for Nokia 5800, Zagg is offering screen protectors and you can get it by 3.75$ (like wow). The invisible protection shield lets your phone be safe and also does not make your phone look ugly, because, I said its invisible, rather transparent.
Get a better idea of the product on the official website. You can read user testimonials and product features before you make a purchase. So head over to the website with this special link provided and take a look at the products yourself.
'Black Icon' as the name suggests, this theme is characterized by black colored icons which are mirror images of the standard icons. This theme looks very sober and classy. The theme has a glossy look and carries a thick black stylish slider which look nice.The clock as usual is the nicest part of this theme. It is a very light weight theme which does not compromise on the performance of the overall navigation between various menus in the phone.
Smart Gallery is a nice to have utility on your phone. It allows you to hide your important files and folders. As the name suggests, Smart Gallery by MIGITAL works smartly and hides the folder in the regular file browser of your phone. All the hidden folders will not display in the default file browser list.
The utility has another great advantage in the form of an online server that records your password that comes in handy when you lose it. The password gets emailed when you forget it. Since the password is not stored locally on the phone, there is no chance for anyone else to know it even accidently browsing through your phone. Smart Gallery hides each and every type of file. However, you would not be able to hide any system folders. The interface of the application is very easy to use and intuitive. It appears to be as simple as the other system menu options.
