2009/03/12

Palringo Mobile IM with Facebook Chat

Palringo Mobile IMPalringo allows you to instantly exchange text, photos, and vocal IMs with groups or individuals.


Palringo’s latest update to their multi-platform instant messaging app now includes support for Facebook IM and the Nokia N96 using Symbian OS 9.2 (S60 3rd Edition). Palringo supports a bunch of clients, like Jabber, AIM, GTalk, ICQ, Live Messenger.


Get your free download of Palringo IM for Symbian S60 or visit Palringo official website.

Ovi Blue Theme for S60

Need a new theme for your Symbian S60 smartphone. Here’s a cool solution made by Nokia’s Ovi team, which will certainly make your device look “ready for the spring.” Yap, that’s the way I see it. The theme is called “Ovi Blue” and it looks clear and fresh.

Ovi Blue Theme for Nokia N96 Symbian OS S60
As expected — since it’s made by the Ovi team — the theme sports the Ovi icons, and also comes with its own ring and message tones, as well as a cool screensaver.

Download Ovi Blue theme for free and enjoy a fresh new look in your Nokia N96 device!

2009/03/10

Frodo Commodore 64 Emulator for S60

Frodo Commodore 64 emulator for Symbian S60, S80. A new version of the Commodore C64 emulator, Frodo, for S60 3rd Edition has been released. Aside from the S60 3rd edition, Frodo is also available for other platforms — including S60 1st and 2nd edition, Series 80 and UIQ. Frodo is a Commodore 64 home computer emulator. Frodo was released for 9210 on July, 2001. That was the first C64 emulator for any cell phone.

The latest version of Frodo supports also sensors (accelerometer), vibration, on-screen C64 keyboard and audio engine. To enable those those features, you have to install Bilbo library also. Imagine playing Pitstop II by rotating your phone like a steering wheel, or solving Quedex maze by turning the phone in any direction. If you do not want just imagine, look at the YouTube video below and after that get Frodo and Bilbo to your phone! Note that sensors and vibration is not supported in all S60 phone models.



More information is available from the official website.

2009/03/08

S60 Platform SDKs for Symbian OS, for C++

The latest S60 platform SDKs offer an all-in-one environment for developing for Symbian C++, Open C/C++, Java™ technology, and Web Runtime.

Supported editions and feature packs

S60 SDKs supporting Symbian C++ development are available for the following editions and feature packs:

  • S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1.
  • S60 3rd Edition.
  • S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 2 (formerly 2.2).
  • S60 2nd Edition, Feature Pack 1 (formerly 2.1).
  • S60 2nd Edition (formerly 2.0).
  • S60 1st Edition, Feature Pack 1 (formerly 1.2).
  • S60 1st Edition (formerly 0.9).
For more information, visit the Tools and SDKs section's S60 platform SDKs page »

BMW Racing Game for N96

BMW Racing for S60 3rd Edition is able to offer you the greatest driving experience on mobile phones. Racing Mobile Game. Hands-on announced they licensed BMW for their upcoming BMW Racing game. The mobile game will let you race a bunch of the latest Beemers, including the BMW Sauber Formula 1 car, and the M3, M5 and M6, with realistic handling for each type.

BMW Racing for S60BMW Racing Mobile Game will let players race in one of two different modes – ‘Challenge’ and ‘Time Trial’ – around the Nürburgring Nordschleife, which at 20.8 kilometres long is considered to be the longest, toughest and most demanding purpose-built race track in the world. UK studio FinBlade has developed the game, which will work with the Zeemote JS1 - Mobile Wireless Game Controller.

[ Download BMW Racing for S60 ]

2009/03/07

SymTorrent for Symbian S60 3rd

SymTorrentSymTorrent for Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition. SymTorrent is the first and currently only BitTorrent client for Symbian OS. It supports downloading multiple torrents at the same time, is capable of both downloading and uploading and can save the status of your unfinished torrents, so you can resume the downloads after restarting the application.

You can also check the status of each file inside a torrent along with several other statistics and properties during download. Torrents can be started from the browser, and selecting the files that are downloaded from multi file torrents is also supported.

Currently, SymTorrent is available for mobile devices based on the S60 Platform 3rd and the latest 5th edition (Nokia 5800 XpressMusic). Supported phone models include all recently released Symbian OS based phones, such as the Nokia Nseries/Eseries devices, phones with touch UI and many older models as well.

SymTorrent is free and open source software. You can download it from the official website.

2009/03/06

Better File Manager for Nokia N96

Do you want an Advanced File Manager for your Nokia N96 cell phone? X-plore is a is a powerful file management utility for Symbian devices, with wide range of functions on phone's file system and Windows Explorer-like environment.

It implements all standard features such as file/folder manipulation. Thus, you can copy, move or delete files and entire folders, create folders, create and unpack Zip archives, it also has integrated text and image viewer and much, much more.

This software is shareware, with friendly price and relaxed registration option and you can use the unregistered version as long as you wish without any limits regarding to functionality and the only restriction in free version is the slower application startup and close.

Features:

  • View all drives / folders / files on phone in tree view
  • Integrated text and image viewer
  • View file details
  • Edit file attriutes (hidder, read-only, etc)
  • Rename and delete files
  • Create or edit text files
  • Create folders
  • Multi-selection
  • Copy or move files and folders
  • Send files by Bluetooth or Infrared
  • Extract files from Zip, Rar, Jar archives
  • Pack files to Zip archive
  • View Word documents
  • Hardware device info
  • View processes and tasks
  • Built-in program update
  • Viewing, saving files in Messaging folders
  • Hex viewer and editor
  • Search files
  • Folder hotkeys
  • Simple audio player
  • Simple video player