Missing that power management suite of your notebook/macbook on your 5800? We are in luck as Ravensoft have just come up with a solution for us. Titled Battery Extender this is one of the power management solutions that actually works!

Battery technology which is yet to cope up with the rapid advances in electronics industry continues to be the limiting factor for almost every mobile device today. While the battery technology may take sometime to catch up with the electronics industry, developers have time and again delivered solutions for efficient power management on mobile devices. Now that we have one for our 5800, lets see how this fares on our 5800s. Read more »

Nokia’s response to Blackberry’s push e-mail, the Nokia Messaging has been updated to v10.1.0.13. The update which brings HTML support to the symbian fifth edition devices (5800, N97, 5530, 5230 and X6) along with other improvements can be accessed by pointing your mobile browsers to email.nokia.com.

HTML support on Nokia Messaging for symbian third edition devices has been available for a while now and the recent update brings certain additions to the HTML support, and users can now view embedded content in emails like graphics, flash, etc. Screenshots after the break. Read more »

When was the last time you played with a Percussion beater? Unless, you are a musician, we bet that you wouldn’t have laid your hands on this one since high school. How about fixing that urge straight away? Yeah, we are not kidding you can now get a feel of Percussion beater right on your 5800, courtesy Pocket Shaker.

Pocket Shaker by Offscr Technologies is an excellent virtual percussion beater that makes good use of the accelerometer and the stereo speakers onboard our 5800. Curios to know how this latest offering by Offscr fares on our 5800? Hit on the jump button to find out. Read more »

All excited about the Nokia Event happening in Stuttgart over in Germany? Well, we cannot promise an air-ticket to Germany but yeah we would like to give our best shot for our readers to get a feel of the Nokia extravaganza.

Ovi Theme is yet another masterpiece from the best known name in themes in the Symbian world- yeah you guessed it right, Pizero. If you have been following the Nokia World of which we have been covering a little over the last couple of days, you would have seen Ovi all over the walls, keynotes and almost every publication material that is coming from Stuttgart these days. Thanks to Pizero, now every 5800 can also boast of that Ovi look and feel. Screenshots and more tidbits after the break. Read more »

After the overwhelming response we got to our last contest, we are back with yet another Tube5800 contest for followers of our blog.

While Microsoft is giving away a free license of Windows 7 for throwing in a launch party, we decided we will pitch in with a Microsoft themed party or rather contest of our own. We are giving away 10 licenses of iXP/Win 7 for winners of our latest Tube5800 contest. More details of the contest, after the break. Read more »

The ongoing Nokia World in Stuttgart, Germany has been all over the web since yesterday.  We are not at the event place right now but that didn’t stop us from following the live webcast. Our readers can take a look at the same over here.

As we were expecting Nokia did announce a couple of new devices of whom the web had no clue whatsoever. The latest X series which is the revamped XpressMusic series saw two additions in the form of X3 and x6. Curios to know how these compare with our 5800s, hit the jump button to find out. Read more »

Bored of your 5800 homescreen? How about giving it the looks and functionality of Nokia N97 or the Samsung i8910? Not only that you can customize your 5800 homescreen the way you want it to be. Thanks to this amazing application- GDesk, 5800ers can now add more functionality to that 3.2″ homescreen.

To be honest we feel 5880er were largely let down by Nokia with their latest firmware not bringing the 5530 like scrollable contacts screen and music player widget to our 5800 homescreen. But the device and platform is so powerful that we don’t have to rely on Nokia alone for our customisation needs. Hit the jump button to see if GDesk is good enough to give our 5800 a makeover. Read more »

Missing that rusty old calculator that used to deck up almost every study table back in the 80s? Looks like somebody was missing his old metallic calculator so much that he came up with this awesome calculator application mimicking the looks and feel of the metallic calculator of the bygone era (yeah two decades is a bygone era in the field of electronics).

MetalCalc2 is a flash based calculator application and a good substitute to the onboard symbian calculator. Not only does it have the retro look but also features some advanced calculator features not seen in the default Symbian calculator. Read more »