Nokia 5800 Blog

Nokia 5800 Cellet Neoprene Armband

Anunay Kumar — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:44:14 +0000

Cellet Neoprene Armband is a nice accessory for Nokia 5800. It allows you to carry your Nokia 5800 with you strapped to your arm. It does not matter if you are working out, walking, running or trekking, you can carry your Nokia 5800 strapped to your arm safe and secured with Cellet Neoprene Armband. I took some pictures and made a video of the Neopreme Armband I've just bought from ebay.

While working out you can use your Nokia 5800 as a music device strapped to your arm or even as phone with a headset attached to it. The Cellet Neoprene Armband wraps around your arm and has a pouch correctly sized to hold your Nokia 5800 tightly. The phone cannot be taken out without unwrapping the armband. I see this as a positive aspect of the armband while some may view it as a negative one because you cannot take out the phone.

Cellet Neoprene Armband is washable, very light weight, elastic and extensive with a strap length of 11 inches.It not only has a great utility but also makes you look stylish. It is very soft on the skin and does not feel uncomfortable even after wearing for over an hour. The material used is Neoprene which is a family of synthetic rubber known for its high chemical stability and durability over a range of temperature. Since, it is washable, you need not worry about sweat and dirt on it.

Everyday running in the mornings is much more fun with Cellet Neoprene Armband which allows me to carry my phone without fearing to drop it somewhere accidentaly. Now, i don't even carry my mp3 player anymore. Cellet Neoprene Armband actually completes and compliments the XpressMusic label for Nokia 5800. This should have been something provided in the sales package with Nokia 5800 but it hasn't, so you can do as I did and buy it from here.

Nokia 5800 App Review: Dasur SlideIT Keyboard

Anunay Kumar — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:40:13 +0000

Dasur SlideIT Keyboard is an interesting application. As the name suggests SlideIT keyboard replaces the traditional Nokia keyboard and allows you type text by sliding your stylus all across the keyboard. The Dasur keyboard can be used in two modes i.e the ABC mode which is the normal Nokia like mode and the SlideIT mode which is sliding across the keyboard. It also has a Graffiti mode which supports only numbers and other mathematical operators and punctuations. Graffiti mode is nothing but the handwriting recognition mode.

Dasur SlideIT Keyboard does involve a little bit of practice before you can use it flawlessly. However, once you get used to it, you would not want to return back to the Nokia keyboard. The SlideIT keyboard also include "add to dictionary" function for your new words. It also has an intuitive T9 kind of function that keeps displaying all the different possibilities as you slide over the keyboard which is four keywords at a time. This is an impressive feature.

Dasur SlideIT Keyboard installs as an application which can be accessed from the Application menu and has options to active the Nokia or the Dasur keyboard anytime you want. It is a paid application and a demo can be downloaded from the Ovi Store. I have been successful in getting a demo file of the application that you can download directly if you do not have Ovi Store but you may have to sign the application.

Download Dasur SlideIT Demo - Ovi Store
Download Dasur SlideIT Demo Unsigned - Sign this app

Contest Result: MyPhone Contest Winners Announced!

Jonah Lin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:47:14 +0000

Here we get the winners of MyPhone v2.50 contest. We got 169 vaild comments this time and from those participants we randomly selected the 10 winners with random.org.

The winners will receive an email notification soon to asked for your IMEI number in order to activate your MyPhone. Here we only show you the name/nickname of the winners.

1. M.Alaa
2. Greg
3. ORiOn
4. KK
5. viswesh
6. Xibal
7. Martin
8. kristaps
9. Marco
10. Vpuik

We would like to thank MMMOOO for sponsoring this contest offering the MyPhone application for S60 and all of you who participated and made this contest the most competitive as it could be. If you missed the prize this time, you could always try MyPhone here or purchase it.

Top 3 Nokia 5800 apps

Anunay Kumar — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:02:56 +0000

There are countless applications for Nokia 5800 today and narrowing down to three top applications for Nokia 5800 is a difficult task. I have tried to pick three applications on the basis of overall usage and quality.

Fring

Fring is one of the best applications which combines video chat, instant messaging, voip, internet radio and social networking on a single application. It supports Google Talk, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, AIM, Skype, Facebook and Twitter among some of the most popular services. You can use your 3rd party Voip account with Fring.

Download

Opera Mobile 10

Opera Mobile 10 is an excellent mobile web browser for Nokia 5800. Being a Symbian application, it integrates well with the phone's OS and lets you browse almost 99% of the websites whether it be HTTP or HTTPS protocols. It supports Java scripts on webpages. You also get an inbuilt download manager which is very convenient to use and works on slower 2G connections. It is a must have for any Nokia 5800 user.

Download

Bright Light

BrightLight is a very useful application to have on Nokia 5800. It allows you to use your phone as a torch. With two powerful LEDs provided at the back of your phone, Bright Light allows you to turn them on/off at your wish whenever you want. Just launch the application and slide the soft switch to ON position.

Download

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Comparison Guide: Nokia 5800 vs BlackBerry Storm 9250

Anunay Kumar — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:29:50 +0000

BlackBerry Storm (BB9250) got released an year after Nokia 5800. Black Berry saw all the flaws that Nokia 5800 has and tried to improve them in BB9250. One of the important was the implementation of Capacitive Screen in BB9250. Nokia 5800 even today comes with a Resistive screen which has a inferior touch response when compared with the Capacitive screen. However, BB9250 could not match the resolution of 16M colors in Nokia 5800's display. BB9250 has a screen resolution of 65K colors.

Memory-wise BlackBerry Storm 9250 wins over Nokia 5800 with a massive 2GB internal memory. BB9250 lacks a secondary camera for video calls which is must for any 3G phone. I am happy that Nokia kept this in mind while designing Nokia 5800.

If you do own a BlackBerry and are looking for stuff, then visit BB Lovers for the latest BlackBerry apps.

Nokia 5800 offers a rich media experience with stereo speakers whereas a BB9250 has a standard speakerphone only. Nokia 5800 also has a lot of accessories that come along with it, like the trendy arm band, a nice stand that allows you to use it as a display device, a video out cable. Here, i would like to point out that BB9250 does not have a TV output.

Both the phones have a assisted - GPS and most of the other features are the same. However, the camera in BB9250 misses the Carl Zeiss lens.

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Contest: 10 copies of MyPhone & MyPhone Theme v2.50!

Jonah Lin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:51:57 +0000

Here's our first contest this year! MyPhone's developer, MMMOOO gives us a great gift from Shanghai. We get 10 copies of MyPhone & MyPhone Theme this time. Cheers!

If you don't know MyPhone yet, never mind, you can read our previews review of MyPhone here. MMMOOO has just released MyPhone v2.50 couples days ago. The key changelog in the new version are,

Calendar list function, a clear way to read your schedule
Translate function.
Archery game, a game for you to kill the time.

Other features of MyPhone are,

Fully emulate MyPhone UI in out look, move icons, changes icons
Slide to unlock.
SMS and Call notifier
iStyle SMS conversation, you can schedule the SMS with senders list, easily to read or delete SMS.
Set MyPhone start automatically when power on.
Add 3rd part icon by pick through list, no needing self input anymore. (Java application cannot launched)
Memo Deduction embedded.
Memo Mosaic embedded.
Speed Dial.
Sketchpad
Alternative List Mode
Auto-lock
Set lock screen on/off by yourself.
Worldwide Weather
RSS Reader, with seamlessly reading data method
Customized wallpapers
MMMOOO Premium Service
Fully functional, all operations can be done via MyPhone
You can switch MyPhone UI into S60 UI and the other way round seamlessly.

Now, here's the rules.

- Comment in this post, saying something like: “I am in”, “I want to get a MyPhone”, simply comment;

- On the comment you must put a real e-mail so that we can contact you.

-You are able to comment more than one time, but your e-mail will only count once.

-We will get the 10 winners using random.org and we will printscreen the result and send it only to the winners.

-Those winners who don’t answer to our e-mail notification in 1 week lose automatically the opportunity to win the app, giving the chance to others and so on.

-The winners will be asked the IMEI of their Nokia 5800 so that the folks from MMMOOO can be able to activate the application.

Dates:

-The contest starts from now and will end at 10th March 2010 at 8:00 AM (GMT-Lisbon, London).

-The winners will be posted in the website by 12th March 2010 (we will not reveal e-mail winners neither the first part of their e-mail in the website, of course).

Let's start now.

Contest updated.

Sorry everybody, we made a mistake on the contest time. We will extend the time to March 10th. Come on if you have not left a comment!

Nokia 5800 App Review: PocketSensor Automatic Keylock

Anunay Kumar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:15:38 +0000

I really wonder why Nokia did not think of providing a touch based lock/unlock feature in Nokia 5800. There are some third party applications though which make it possible to lock/unlock your phone the Iphone way but that is mostly flash based and puts a lot of stress on the already depleted phone resources like RAM and battery.

PocketSensor Automatic Keylock is a nice application to have on your phone. It adds a very simple yet superb capability to your phone. It allows you to cover/swipe your finger over the proximity sensor and lock/unlock your phone. Since, the application does not use the front camera, the RAM and the battery usage is minimal and thus, it is light on the phone's resources.

For those who are not aware with the term 'proximity sensor', it is located just beside your front VGA camera and locks/unlocks your phone when your cover it. The actual functionality of this sensor in Nokia 5800 is to switch off the screen when you receive a call and you hold the phone close to your ear.

Even if you are in the dark, the application determines well that you have not covered the sensor and it would activate/deactivate the lock only if you cover/swipe over it.

Unfortunately we do not have a free version of the application or a well-defined time limited version. You can however install and see the demo of the application and see how easy and comfortable it is to lock or unlock the application with PocketSensor Automatic Keylock.

Download PocketSensor Automatic Keylock

Nokia 5800 Tips & Tricks: View all the documents online on your mobile without a mobile viewer

Anunay Kumar — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:42:49 +0000

Still, we don't have a free viewer for PDF files on Nokia 5800. Portable Document File (PDF) is one of most widely used document formats. We have a few applications that allow you to view the office documents on Nokia 5800. However, we still do not have a pdf viewer. Even the trial version is from Quick Office and valid for only 7 days.

I have tried hard to find a free application for viewing PDF files on Nokia 5800 but i had no luck. There were a few J2ME viewers but they would crash on opening PDF files or they would not display the file properly.

ZOHO VIEWER is an online website that allows you to view a wide variety of document formats online. You just need to upload the document from your mobile and it will display is as a webpage. The website url is viewer.zoho.com.

It supports all the Microsoft documents. It also has support for the Open Office document formats. ZOHO has full support for viewing the PDF files online. I have used the Opera 10 for Nokia 5800 to view the documents on ZOHO on my phone. I would suggest you to download Opera and install it to try ZOHO.

We would really appreciate if you know about any free application for viewing PDF files on Nokia 5800 and share with us.

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Nokia 5800 Tips & Tricks: Don’t have a zip manager – Unzip your files online for free

Anunay Kumar — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:09:20 +0000

Sometimes, you may need to unzip some urgent file that you receive as an email or downloaded on your mobile. There are a few amazing free online services that allow you to upload your compressed file and then download the unzipped content back. I have tested these online services on Opera 10 for Nokia 5800 and successfully unzipped my files.

1. unzip.wapshare.us is a wap site that lets you upload your zipped content and get download links for all the files in the zipped file. You can then click on each of the download links and save them in your mobile. Simple and quick interface since it is a wap site. This website supports extraction from a url which means you can provide the direct url of the file to be unzipped and the complete download/unzipping takes place at the server's end which saves you from uploading the file. This service supports ZIP, RAR and 7Z compressed files. Supports password protected compressed files.

2. wobzip.org is a regular website that supports the following compression formats - 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZHCHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS. You can upload upto 100 MB of file size for a single file. To unzip using a url, use the following url in the given format - 'http://wobzip.org/?type=url&url=FILE_URL_HERE&p=PASSWORD_HERE'

3. krunchit.net is again a regular website which supports only zip and tar.gz files. Allows uploading upto 100 MB of archive file. It allows you to register for an account where you can track your uploaded files.

Important Information

Do not upload and unzip files that contain confidential information. Also, uploading and unzipping will eat up a lot of data so use it if you have a unlimited data plan or Wi-Fi. Try using Opera 10 for Nokia 5800. Download it here

Nokia 5800 App Review: Indian Premier League 2010 Schedule J2ME Application

Anunay Kumar — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:54:33 +0000

The Indian Premier League is back after a grand show in South Africa last year. It is one of the most awaited events in India and across the world in most of the cricket loving countries. It has cricket players from around the world playing for respective teams owned by some of the most famous celebrities in India.

I just happened to see a small java application with all the latest information on IPL 2010 which includes a list of players in each of the teams, complete schedule of the matches with location/date/time, list of the participating countries. You can categorize the players depending on the country and view a complete list. You can categorize the matches depending on the location. The best part of the application is that you do not require any internet connectivity. All the required information is within the application itself.

Available for free download, this is a must have application for any cricket lover and it is compatible with Nokia 5800 with touch response. You can switch off the navigation keys and game keys after installing the application. The user interface of the application is not very top quality but valuable for the kind of information it provides. Let's get ready for the Indian Premier League T20 2010.

Download IPL T20 Application