Tv software for s60 5th

Although this hasn't been fully updated officially yet for S60 5th Edition and thus shouldn't qualify for this list as not being optimised, I couldn't resist adding the necessary install for driving a Bluetooth wireless keyboard. With this onboard, you can treat your S60 full-screen touch phone a is shown below as a mini-laptop and the solution works rather well.

Use this install file , the version for S60 3rd Edition FP1 phones, until such time as Nokia get round to doing a formal S60 5th Edition release. And no, don't worry, you don't have to speak French. There's general news, business, culture and weather content here, in pre-edited but regularly updated 10 minute segments, all in either French, English or Arabic, plus a genuinely live stream onto the appropriate language France TV channel.

Video quality's not the best by default , but you can change the stream to 'Highest quality' in Settings, after which picture quality is easily up with that of the BBC's iPlayer.

With the dual LED flash system able to be used during video recording, why on earth didn't Nokia let us use the LEDs as a torch when needed?

Why indeed, which is why PhoneTorch is such a little God-send. On devices with the LEDs covered in normal use e. Perhaps a pinnacle of modern software engineering, JoikuSpot turns your S60 phone and its data connection into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot for other devices of yours to hook into.

The premium version has loads more functions and security, but for cheap, cheerful and ad-hoc use, the free 'Light' version does very well, letting you surf away on your laptop, for example, using in this case the Nokia XpressMusic as the hotspot. Yes, PC Suite also allows through-Internet connections, but isn't is just so cool to be making your own Wi-Fi hotspot?

Get it from the Nokia Ovi Store or from Joiku's download page. Fring and As ever, I can't split these two, offering very similar feature sets. So I'm going to let you try both and make your own mind up! Grab both utilities from the Nokia Ovi Store or directly from the developer mobile sites: Get Fring by going to m. This well known live video capture utility. The quality of its output usually disappoints relative to capturing video with the native Camera app , but hey, if you need to stream live then you need to stream live!

Get it from the Nokia Ovi Store or e. This is a Last. It allows you to listen to your Last. Aside from Skype, its one omission, this is perhaps the ultimate instant messaging client for S60, building in every other chat system, including unusually Facebook Chat.

There's GPS support too, so that your contacts can see where you are in the world. Get it from the Nokia Ovi Store or from www. Similar to Worldmate but here compatible with all S60 phones and not just Nokia ones , this offers free travel related functions, including daylight globe, currency conversion and 5 day weather forecast. It's all rather slick and, like Worldmate, Psiloc probably plan to make their money on the premium flight information, coming soon.

The rest of the application is free, however, which is why it's included here. In theory, World Traveler is in the Ovi Store, but it's currently giving an error. So get it from here. Note that the install is incredibly slow - I'm guessing the SIS file is very complicated and has all sorts of language options which need to be worked through by the OS! It's the paint utility that Nokia forgot to add! Get it from Nokia's site or if you don't like all the Flash here. Yup, it's a full blown Twitter client and a whole heap more friendly than using the Twitter mobile web site each day.

Not in the same league as Gravity but then this is free, after all. Sadly, there's no web-like 'kinetic' scrolling, so you have to use the fiddly scroll bar. Get it from the Nokia Ovi Store or from here. Although shareware, it only has the one 3-second nag screen and there's no time limit to your trial. A little specialist, to be sure, it's only appropriate to someone visiting London, but it's a slick conversion from paper to pixels as the company name suggests. Browse around the London tube network without having to remember to bring your paper tube map.

Get it from here. This is the original Shoutcast player from a few years ago. It's been minimally updated since, but does work. It only comes with a handful of Shoutcast stations, but it's reasonably easy to create. Get it here. The perennial BPM counter, metronome and note generator, implemented here in full-screen Java. Impressively, there's a range of different instrument tones that can be generated. There's even a choice of four guitar tones, but I was disappointed not to be able to scroll up the neck to see the various inversions as well.

Still, for a freebie Get Musician's Swiss Knife from here and Chords from here. Again, I'd like to emphasise that ALL the above are free to download and use. So if you don't fancy trawling the online stores for the best freeware then just bookmark this page and use it as your quick reference when getting a new phone up to speed!

Google Maps The first really huge third party S60 application to get a full touch makeover, this works superbly on S60 5th Edition, on all phones, in both landscape and portrait modes, and with touch-panning of maps and of the StreetView displays in countries where this is supported.

YouTube Yes, there's now a mobile version of the YouTube main web site, but exactly what it serves up is dependent on the device you use to browse it - and there are the delays caused by having to bring up different pages and by waiting for RealPlayer or Flash Lite to do its thing.

Picture quality is QVGA, scaled up, but it's quite good enough for casual viewing. Opera Mini Why on earth would you want another web browser?

Get either version from mini. Quickoffice v6 upgrade It may seem a little odd to see Quickoffice in a list of freeware and, it's true, I'm cheating slightly. Snaptu As with Opera Mini, don't write this off because it's Java-hosted. AccuWeather One of S60's best kept secrets, AccuWeather was always a useful little widget to have installed. Files on Ovi A terrific way to keep your important desktop folders automatically backed up you get up to 10GB free, amazingly, in Nokia's 'Anytime files' system and to have remote access to your master documents - on either Windows PC or Apple Mac - through the phone, Files on Ovi is fully compatible with Nokia's S60 5th Edition phones - it's just that Nokia doesn't make it easy It's right there on the front page, the name pretty much tells you what it offers, and most new users are likely to try this at least once.

So far so good. Still, the main categories seem to be reasonably useful as a guide, let's try downloading a game. Let's try Marble Revolution.

However, it says "Price: Free", so the game costs nothing! Great, a nice bit of freeware to test out this new phone. Let's click on "Get". Wait, why is it also installing a second app called "license manager"?

It refuses to load the actual game until I pay for it, and there's no free demo option either. The description on Download! Luckily this reviewer had an unlimited data plan so there was no cost in the actual download process, but many people would have already had to pay just to download the installation file.

And it's also a waste of time for anyone looking for freeware, which is how the game was advertised on Download! This really isn't the best way to encourage customers to come back. At best it wastes their time, and at worst it costs them money in unnecessary download charges. Even beyond this price labelling glitch, the service is cumbersome and awkward to use. There's a lot of stuff that needs fixing. Again, AAS has covered this ground, but as Nokia don't seem to have learned their lessons , maybe the lessons are worth repeating:.

If you can make software download services easy to use, even non-techie people will use them to buy software. This has been shown across many different kinds of devices, including the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console and Apple's iPhone App Store, both of which are aimed squarely at consumers without technical knowledge. Even Nokia has shown itself a potential model for Download! Improving Download! Only phone anoraks and mobile companies know about them, everyone else has never heard of them, despite their massive sales and enormous market share.

This severely reduces the chances of Symbian users actually buying Symbian software, and here's why: If you buy a Windows PC, you see the Windows logo on the advertising, the packaging, the computer itself, the startup screen and the OS, so you know that you own a Windows-compatible machine.

If you want software for it, you know you have to look for Windows software. If you buy a Symbian S60 device, there is usually no Symbian or S60 name or logo anywhere, except perhaps tucked away on the legal page of the phone's manual.

Most people who own Symbian S60 devices will never know they own such devices. Because they don't know they're Symbian S60 users, there's no reason why they should know that they can use Symbian S60 software either. All a potential Symbian software user has to do is notice the Download!

If the Download! Such a connection would make it so much easier to find and purchase Symbian software, it could have potentially massive benefits to the Symbian ecosystem, and this has been proven to happen on other platforms with well-designed on-device software shops.