SPB Mobile Shell for your Nokia 5530 – Part 2

Continuing with the review of SPB Mobile Shell, lets take a look at other menus. For example, the following screen shot shows the menu of the Messages widget which you can get on your home screen. This again is not the default menu of your phone, but the next menu from this will be the default of your phone.

Next comes some… Continue reading

iConsole, turn your N97 into Wii


With the success of MyPhone, MMMOOO releases their newest launcher interface iConsole recently.

What’s iConsole?

iConsole simulate the hottest game console, Wii on your Nokia phones. The following screenshot shows you the homescreen of iConsole. Is this look familiar? ) All the icons in the homescreen can be deleted and customizable except the fist raw so you can add your… Continue reading

Nokia Bots for N97 & Mini

Nokia Bots is a collection of add-ons that autonomously learn your personal preferences, and improve user experience with new, customized features and tricks. These add-ons, or Bots, observe how the phone is being used and automatically configure and activate themselves, if customization seems relevant.

The Bots ‘live’ within a single homescreen widget, where their status, messages and suggestions are presented to you. Currently, four Bots are included:

Profile Bot

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Symbian^3 and Symbian^4 on the N97?

With the advent of Symbian^3, it makes one wonder about the possibility of the new OS on our beloved N97’s. Symbian^3 promises to improve the UI by:

Symbian^3

An improved user experience

There are a range of user experience improvements in Symbian^3, incremental enhancements that make Symbian-based devices easier and more enjoyable to use.

Single tap interaction model – no more “tap to select, tap again to

Best N97/S60v5 Applications! Day 4: BTSwitch

So you use bluetooth to maybe send and receive files, or connect a wireless headset, or whatever… but you don’t want to leave it on all the time due to battery consumption? But it’s such a PAIN to go through all those menus to turn it on and off, what a predicament we are in here (  This is where Aden comes to the rescue again… Continue reading

IMDb Widget Released!

I often look on the IMDb website for info on actors, movies and TV shows on my phone but what if there was an easier way to view this information through an app of some sort? Well now there is, queue the IMDb Widget from moubail.com.

I first liked the idea as it solves the problem of horizontal scrolling on the website as the page is too big for the N97s… Continue reading

Wikipedia widget

Theres a new wikipedia widget for your N97 and mini. Its simple but really useful. The formatting is properly done, so you wont have to scroll both ways at the same time. Download link.

N97 Wikipedia Widget
N97 Wikipedia Widget

Quoting Symbian-Guru, “but keep in mind it is an alpha, and might have… Continue reading

Social Messaging Beta Gets an Update: Looks Neat

Social Messaging BetaIf one had to dedicate the last year to something that transformed the way we use technology in our daily life, it’s gotta be the evolution of networking services in day-to-day life. Popular social networking services like Facebook and Twitter not only got bigger but also added more teeth to their potential… Continue reading

Nokia N900 quick hands-on

Filed under: Handsets, Features, Nokia, Linux, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

We’ve finally had a chance to play around at length with a very late pre-production version of Nokia’s N900 (retail units are already shipping, but not to our neck of the woods just yet) and we wanted to… Continue reading

Catch Rihanna Live in London, Right From your Couch Though!

Confused? Spare us a minute and we will tell you how to get an eyeful and earful of Rihanna as she performs live in London, all from your living room. As you may have heard, Rihanna is all set to launch her new album on 23rd of this month and she will be performing a few tracks from her… Continue reading