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 »

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 »

In line with the upcoming Lunar New Year Celebration, our friends from China are taking the spring cleaning rather seriously! Thinkchange, one of the most popular developers on the symbian fifth edition platform with apps like nUnlock, Fingerprint, ByeByeCaller, Xmas Avatar, Vibrate Call and Compass Pro are giving away all of their apps for a net price of just US$15. Yeah, thats right 15 bucks for 6 hot apps!

If you have been following Thinkchange, you would know that their Compass Pro itself costs $9.95 and the other 5 apps cost $4.99 each. So, translates into a net savings of $19.90! Can you believe that? We are not kidding for sure and you are not day-dreaming either. Pinch yourself, if you have to! The fact remains that Thinkchange is being extremely generous in the build-up to the lunar new year. There’s gotta be catch right? There is, the offer is available only till the end of this month-31st of January 2010. So you guys have 2-3 days to max out this deal. So waste no further time and head straight to the store, but first catch a glimpse of what is in store, after the break though. Read more »

The holiday season may be over but if you are still planning for some travel (work/leisure), we have something you might just need for the trip. Wondering what? Let’s say you are traveling to some exotic location, the local language of which is as alien to you as the humanoids on Pandora of James Cameroon’s Avatar, then you are in for luck as ABBYY have just released another one of their revolutionary OCR based apps for 5800s- ABBYY’ FotoTranslate.

ABBYY FotoTranslate comes in as many as 8 versions as of now offering word-by-word translation between German, Italian, Russian, and English. That covers most of the European languages and if you happen to be heading to Europe, put ABBYY FotoTranslate on your shopping list, right now! Read more »

Total Recall is amazing stuff and no we are not talking about that Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie of the early 90s but a killer app from none other than Killer Mobile. If you have had a symbian phone before, you would have probably heard or had this app on your phone for this is one of the most popular apps on symbian front.

Like you guys know, keeping track on all your telephonic conversations is by no means an easy task. Don’t you wish there was an  telephone call recorder app which could seamlessly record all your incoming/outcoming calls without the other party learning about it? If yes, is your answer, then Total Recall is what you need. Catch the screenshots and review, after the break. Read more »

Wikipedia or Wiki as it’s popularly known as, needs no introduction to any netizen spending a decent amount of time on the web these days. However the popular web encyclopedia has been overlooking the symbian eco-system when it  comes to releasing a dedicated app for the platform. However the dawn of 2010 has heralded another welcome addition to the symbian world with the Wikipedia Reader Widget, thanks to Symbian Foundation’s developer wiki system.

We don’t have to tell how handy Wiki on your 5800 can be but we will tell how easy it is to use this widget on your favorite phone, just after the break. Read more »

If one had to dedicate the last year to something that transformed the way we use technology in our daily life, it’s gotta be the evolution of networking services in day-to-day life. Popular social networking services like Facebook and Twitter not only got bigger but also added more teeth to their potential uses in the practical world. If Twitter was put to good use during the recent Afghanistan Presidential election episode, Facebook is being increasingly used by HR personnel worldwide for employee profiling. Not surprisingly the year saw an emergence of tons of mobile apps bringing popular networking services to mobile handsets. The latest entry to this genre is Social Messaging from Nokia.

Social Messaging, one of the latest beta apps from Nokia Labs has been doing the rounds on the web and early adopters for a while now and the beta app got an update sometime last month. While the update did fix a few critical bugs, some new ones have surfaced in the latest version. How bothersome are these bugs in practice? Is the app ready for the mainstream users? Find your answers after the break. Read more »

We just offered our users some exclusive holiday deals and christmas apps. Its now time to bring another great offer for this holiday season. We are offering a 50% discount on our best selling applications and 15% discount on all other apps in our app store under this Mobile Heist.

Just visit our app store and pick the applications you like from a catalogue of more than 1000 apps, themes and games just for your 5800. We have apps for other Nokia phones too. The offer is valid till January 1st 2010. Lets see what are the best selling apps and how you can get the discount. Read more »

Another Xmas Bonanaza: We grabbed a special deal from MMMOOO folks for our users. You can get all their top selling apps including MyPhone for 50% OFF under this promotion. If you have ever wanted to buy MyPhone, Win7, iXP, M1, MySMS, iFit, Ever Light, Handy RSS, iRobot, etc. but felt short of cash, here is the golden chance for you. Now you can get ANY application, game or theme from MMMOOO shop at half the price.

The promotion is only valid for a limited period of 2 days only. So grab your X’mas gift before the offer ends. This is a one time deal and you may never get the chance again to get all these hot apps for so cheap prices. Lets see how you can get all their top selling apps at 50% off. Read more »

eyeSight, the innovative Symbian developers who are hell bent on not letting us tap on our touchscreen symbian phones, have launched another one of theirs interactive games for 5800s- Interactive Christmas Card.

If you recall eyeCall, which we covered earlier this year: it offered a touch-free interface to answer/reject incoming calls using the front facing camera of the 5800s. This time around the folks at eyeSight have moved to the higher resolution rear camera and merged it a control unit for their christmas themed game-Interactive Christmas Card. The name is kinda misnomer for there is no actual christmas card for you to forward to your friend or anything, but nevertheless its still fun to play.  Before you rush to get this app for free from the ovi store, take a look at screenshots and our brief review, after the break. Read more »