How’s the gaming scenario on 5800 looking like for you guys? Well, there have been some popular titles from other platforms like the Asphalt, Prince of Persia etc, which have been bundled in the Symbian package and the hardcore gamer has been kept on his toes for a while. But, off late there has been not much of a movement from big names, but Sonic Jump from SEGA is a welcome change.

When a major game developer like SEGA comes up with a game, you don’t think twice before downloading that game and when they bundle the game as a free download, there is no reason not to get this game on your 5800. But is the game worth a download? Let’s find out, after the break. Read more »

You know when your app store isn’t doing great? When there is an app to suggest the best apps within the app store. iTunes App store has a few of them but now over our Ovi store has seen an entry in this segment of apps. Unlike the ones in iTunes App store, this one comes from the store keeper’s themselves: yeah that’s right Nokia itself has developed and released the topApps on Ovi store, an app which very much lives up to it’s name.

So what exactly does topApps do, other than listing the best selling apps in the Ovi store? Quiet a few other things as well. Find out after the break. Read more »

The good old Google Maps just got better on the symbian version with the update to v4.1. As seen in its clients across several mobile platforms, voice commands seem to be the theme for mobile applications this season and it finally lands on the Google Maps client for the symbian version.

When it comes to voice commands, differing accents pose a stumbling block, as Microsoft learned when it was pitching Microsoft Dictation as the primary speech-to-text add-on for its Office suite. Has Google learned anything from Microsoft’s bitter experience? Let’s find out after the break. Read more »

Does the name eyeSight ring any bells for our Tube5800 followers? If it doesn’t let us remind you that it is the same company which released the magical eyeCall application which we gaveaway in one of our Tube5800 contests dating back to June 2009! We have come a long way indeed and so has eyeSight which recently released their music player-Moove, which does more than playing the music!

Perhaps the title of the post gave it away already, and if that didn’t the screenshot of Moove MP3 player welcome screen on the left should have. The USP of this app is not the music player but the control mechanism which puts the front facing camera to good use. Find out what and how of Moove on 5800s, after the break. Read more »

It’s been a while (three months to be specific), since Nokia last released a firmware update to their best selling touchscreen device-5800Xpress Music and lest you be thinking of Nokia abandoning it’s loyal customer base, we have an update for you. Infact it’s our Finnish friends who have released an update for the 5800 firmware, which to be honest caught us by surprise, considering the update frequency in the recent times for our 5800s.

The latest firmware is v50.0.005 and since Nokia have jumped from v40.*.* to v50.*.*, we are expecting some major improvements. The update is available for a select few product codes (spread across Europe, South America and Asia) at the time of drafting this post and is expected to hit the Nokia Update servers worldwide in a short matter of time. As seen with previous updates, v50.0.005 is available over both Firmware Over the Air (FOTA) and Nokia Software Updater (NSU). While we weren’t able to get the update on our 5800 ourselves, several of our 5800 friends across the globe have been alerting us on the update and we are wasting no time in updating our readers of the same. What’s new in v50.0.005? Find out after the break. Read more »

It’s been a while since the Sports tracker appeared in the Nokia Beta Labs, where it was a huge success. Such was the popularity of this app that it won the Best Mobile Internet Service Award in last year’s GSMA Global Mobile Awards. No wonder the app not only graduated from Nokia Beta Labs, Jussi Kaasinen and Ykä Huhtala, the developers of the app now head the Sports Tracking Technologies (STT), a spin-off company working on the award winning service.

Coming to Sports Tracker, it’s an amazing logger app for fitness aficionados which not only logs your fitness routine but also helps you evaluate and share  (presently not working but should be working in a matter of time) your fitness regime with the rest of the world. With tight integration with GPS module onboard our 5800s, this app converts your 5800 to an effective pedometer and with interactive maps, this is one killer combo, you don’t wanna miss. Catch some screenshots and brief review after the break. Read more »

If you were wondering where our friends from MMMOOO disappeared after updating MyPhone to v2.5, let us tell you that they have been refilling their already impressive kitty with another emulator!

Yeah, looks like they are just not happy with success of MyPhone, M1, iXP and Win7, as they have released another emulator going by the name of iConsole. Wondering what this iConsole is all about? Hit the jump button to find out. Read more »

Internet radio has been on the web since long and has catched up with the mobile platform off late. While the likes of Pandora and Last.fm rule the roost, there are several online radio stations beaming live radio to netizens across the globe.

However, internet radio is something that our 5800 has been intrinsically missing with the Symbian 5th edition OS lacking a dedicated internet radio client. Well, what are the third party developers for? HotmixRadio is one such client and a very good at it as it categorizes on the basis of popular genres for easy selection. Catch our brief review and some screenshots after the break. Read more »

10×10! Is that a grid size or something? That’s what we first thought when we first saw this app at the ovi store. Intrigued by its name, we decided to take the plunge into the app and see what it has to offer and we are kinda glad we dived in, for 10×10 takes a fresh look at news, of which an awful lot is covered in several media today.

So what does 10×10 really do? True to its name it delivers “100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time” on your 5800s. So basically what we are looking at is photo journalism with a touch of difference for it’s delivered straight on to your 5800s. Sounds interesting, ain’t it? Find out more about this innovative app in our brief review after the break. Read more »

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to carry the entire Wikipedia in your pocket? Of course you have been able to do so with a high speed data connections but offline access to databases of this type has its own advantages: It’s much faster than using your data connection (if you’re lucky enough to have one) and always available. We can think of hundreds of scenarios where offline access would come handy (when traveling, in meetings, underground train, plane). Fortunately for us, WikiPock have sorted this one out with their application-WikiPock, which brings offline access to Wikipedia for 5800ers and more.

Now if you have ever stopped by the encyclopaedia section in a library, you would know how gigantic encyclopedic databases can be, but WikiPock does an amazing job of compressing the entire Wiki collection to just around 4.7 GB, yeah that’s right- 4.7 GB! That’s a big chunk but worth every bit of info on it. What makes us say so? Find out after the break. Read more »