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Nokia Series 60 (3650) I am in the process (ongoing) of going through the Series 60 application catalogue. I will test all the apps that in my opinion make some sense and provider real value or represent an interesting innovation. This is very time-consuming but educative! Cannot wait to do the same for SE P800 soon... Passed my Sniff Test (rated * - *****): FastChat (****) - integrated push-to-talk, MSN Messenger, SMS over GPRS. Great UI, presence management. On the minus side adds power consumption significantly. Also, will not install on the memory card for some reason. Recommended! FExplorer (***) - This piece of freeware brings a file explorer to the phone. Works just fine, why pay for this other product if you can get it free? Supports creating and deleting directories, copying files as well as sending files over IR and Bluetooth. (Tested 01-May-03) Autoexec (****) - Create startup profiles by automatically starting resident programs. Very useful indeed. (tested 04-May-03) TeleText (****) - Nowire's teletext client for viewing of 80+ text-TV channels worldwide. Also used for viewing webcams and as a generic image browser. Recommended! (tested 04-May-03) BugMe! (***) - A funny little reminder software that allows you to take a picture of the object/event you want to be alarmed by! MobileGirl (*****) - This photorealistic striptease animation software beats all other demos when I am seeking to gain US operators' attention;-). I would call it a perfect sales tool... Under testing: Doom for S60 - This leads the stats at MySymbian by 70,000+ downloads. So far I have not gotten it to work, though... SMS Machine - provides an SMS answering machine and spam control functionality for both voice and SMS/MMS. A good idea but seems to be very slow with my 700+ contacts database. Maybe partly due to installation on memory card? Does not support Tegic T9 :-(. Comments appreciated, this application has a lot of promise. SMS Assistant - a freeware version of the above SmartLauncher - A UI customization tool. Somehow I get very nervous when some program takes over my desktop... the favorites functionality looked promising but did not seem to work. A folder created earlier vanished under the program... not so good so far. WildSkinz - A UI customization tool. Less intrusive than SmartLauncher, I like the designs. This would be great for Anna Kournikova backgrounds (any available?)... On the negative side it seems to stop other programs working, FastChat being a notable example. However, the customization can be disabled from per program. Overall, looks promising! Quickpoint - Powerpoint viewer. I cannot make this piece of crap to work - at least for now. Neuvoice Dial and Command - Voice dialing and command and control for Series 60 phones. Very promising... NameSwap - Forward - Allows forwarding of file received via email, IR or Bluetooth... a potential DRM hazard... System Tools - enables 'flight mode'! Cannot wait to test this! AppMan - Application management utility. The system memory compression functionality might be useful to better manage RAM, for applications the only right thing to do is to go get a 128MB MMC card and consider it a permanent part of the configuration... MiniGPS - Set up special profiles under specific base stations. Kind of an elementary location-based system. Remote S60 - Control your phone from the PC... Infrared Remote Control - wow... the dream of all the geeks, leads the charts by 32000+ downloads... Call Manager - Supposedly the best answering machine, solved the microphone issue... SmartViewer - This is an ebook reader but more importantly it allows for the viewing of system files. Multimedia Player - This will allow playback of MP3 files but not yet in the current version. MobiClip Player - Plays converted Flash files. XenoMorph - picture editing, funny pictures MP3Go - This is then the MP3 player I was looking for... MP3Player - aha, another one... PhotoExpress - Photo publishing onto a website... Blacklisted (waste of my time): Smart vCard - vCard import/export functionality. Jams with big files, does not work well with memory card, lacks useful functionality. Tested 02-May-03.. MTIT and AnsweringMachine - client-based answering machine products. The demos did not work properly. Also, the Nokia engineers have apparently forgotten to separate the incoming voice stream and the microphone line and a call opens both! Well, I am sure the next product will have this problem corrected. The idea of the application is good. Tested 04-May-03.
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