The official YouTube client for the symbian platform which has quiet an interesting history in itself reaching our 5800s, has now got an update to v2.4. Ofcourse we are referring to the long wait Tubers (5800ers) were subjected to get this client on their 5800s. Read more »

Remember Apple pulling down the shutters on its 5000 odd adult themed apps over-night sometime last month? Well, we all know how frivolous Apple can be when it comes to their app screening policies but we are now seeing similar behavior in Nokia’s Ovi store as well. Well not exactly as unpredictable as Apple but taking a leaf out of Apple’s approach of keeping its app repository “clean”, Nokia have banned “Bikini Clock” from their Ovi store.

Nokia never really took a stand against pornography and Bikini clock doesn’t have anything that one wouldn’t see on a public beach. So, the rejection must have been a jolt from the blue for the developers but unlike Apple’s strict control, symbian developers are legally allowed to release their apps via third party stores. So here’s Bikini Clock for you. Read more »

Chances are you haven’t heard of this little app till now, as was the case with us till today. Emoze is an alternative to Nokia Messaging, offering push email and messaging services to Nokia devices. It used to be a paid service till yesterday but they just made it free and honestly it’s a steal.

Emoze supports popular e-mail services of Gmail, Hotmail, ISP email accounts, and support for outlook and OWA corporate email. Further it even supports Nokia messaging. That covers like the complete spectrum of email services atleast for the corporate clients. Now, hit on the read button to learn more about this service and how it fares on our 5800s: Read more »

Overwhelmed would be an understatement to describe what we feel as we announce the results of our latest Tube5800 contest for MyPhone v2.50. We got 421 odd responses for this contest and no kidding this contest beat the previous hotly contested Tube5800 contest, also for MyPhone by more than a handsome margin (over 140 more entries!). Thanks a ton guys. It’s your support which motivates us to bring the best of apps and games here at Tube5800.

As with our previous high response contest, we convinced our friends at MMMOOO to give out 10 more licenses, making it a grand 20 license giveaway for the MyPhone v2.5 contest. In other words, we have doubled your chances of winning a copy of the best selling 5800 app, lest you be worried about the decreased probability of winning from increased number of entries. So hold on your breath and hit the read button to see if you made it to our top 20 list. Read more »

The Comes With Music Service which opened an all new chapter in the music industry, especially in Europe and Asian markets is all set for a grand change as Nokia hinted at removing the DRM shackles from the tracks downloaded from its online music store.

Rumours of Nokia Music going DRM free first started when Nokia India started mailing out their subscribers late last month, announcing the re-branding of Nokia Music into Ovi Music among other things. This was recently confirmed by  a press statement by Adam Mirabella, director, Global Digital Music Retail, Nokia, who said “We have dialogues going with all of our partners and Digital Rights Management-free (DRM-free) is also on the roadmap for the future integration of ‘Comes With Music’.” More information and the e-mail forwarded by Nokia India after the break. Read more »

Heard about the Symbian^3 and wondering if you would ever get it on your 5800? Well, you don’t have to wait for long for Theme Master AJ23 over at AJ23 blog has skimmed some of the visual elements of Symbian^3 as a theme for our 5800s and other symbian 5th and even 3rd edition devices.

While it’s no doubt that the Symbian^3 announcement has taken the mobile industry by a storm with inclusion of some of the most sought-after features, the recent announcement of Symbian^4 has taken the Symbian platform to an all new level. So while the Nokia engineers and hackers break their sweat over coding and porting atleast one of these platforms to our 5800s, let’s enjoy the theme on our 5800s. Read more »

Opera, best known for its light weight browsers on desktop and mobile platforms have recently added another feather in their cap with the release of Opera Mobile 10 beta 3. Yeah, we know it’s still in it’s beta 3, but the inclusion of Flash in this version, makes it all the more exciting in the war of the browsers in the symbian domain.

The last time we covered browsers from Opera, we included both the java based Opera Mini and the stand-alone browser or as AAS puts it “natively coded” Opera Mobile in our review, last year, when the beta 2s were out. More than two months down the line, Opera Mobile has been update to beta 3, while the mini is still in beta 2. Look’s like the Oracle buy out of Sun (developers of Java) is starting to have an impact on java based products! Nevertheless, let’s find out how the beta 3 of Opera Mobile fares on our 5800s, after the break though. Read more »

It’s been like a month since our last contest and no we haven’t forgotten about our Tube 5800 tradition. Infact we were waiting for the very best app for 5800 to come out of its hiding, so that we can pass it on to our dear readers via our Tube5800 contest.

So here comes the contest that we have all been waiting for: MyPhone v2.5, the best selling 5800 app, was updated only last week and we wasted no time in pulling this off the shelves of MMMOOO for our dear readers and boy we did get a handful of them. To be specific, ten licenses of MyPhone v2.5 are for grabs and I guess you know the roadway to reach them. Still not sure, where to head, hit on the read button and we will enlighten you. Read more »

Our friends at MMMOOO just can’t help making things better, now can they? Released just prior to the biggest festival in China and elsewhere, the Lunar New Year, the latest version of MyPhone (v2.50) is the best emulator to date for the symbian fifth edition platform.

As you might know by now, MyPhone does more than just mimicking the iPhone interface on your 5800s, with games like Memo Deduction, and now the latest version has added the archery game, which is just perfect to get rid of those boring minutes (or hours) of your daily transit time. As always we are also releasing the Tube5800 edition of MyPhone, which comes with our now familiar iPhone Killer wallpaper, homepage link to our blog and our blog RSS feed in the MyPhone RSS reader. Find out what’s more in store, after the break though. Read more »

If you are the ones who scream at the very sight of a cock-roach, then read no further for this game is all about cockroaches. No, the developers are not glorifying this species for the world already knows about their holocaust survival capabilities. Instead what the game let’s you do is squash cockroaches for fun!

Yeah, we are not kidding: the That Roach Game is all about killing cockroaches. If that’s grabbed your attention, let us inform you that this is one of the engaging games we have seen on our Nokia 5800s. Wondering how engaging can smashing cockroaches be? Find out after the break. Read more »