Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 is still in beta testing, but the people at Nokia Beta Labs believe it's almost ready to turn loose.Nokia Ovi Suite combines the functions of Nokia PC Suite, Map Loader, and Nokia Software Updater. Unfortunately the program still...

Proxy-based data compressing mobile phone web browser Opera Mini received a major overhaul.The start page now shows nine bookmarks ("speed dials") as big squares with page previews. "My Opera," "BBC News," and "Wikipedia" came out of the box and I co...

Every mobile phone has a built-in stopwatch and a countdown timer. Well, almost every mobile phone. If your phone runs on Symbian, there's no stopwatch and no countdown timer. You can download timer and stopwatch programs, but these usually cost more...

If you want to have text chats on your mobile phone, there are plenty of free Symbian instant messaging programs to choose from. Nimbuzz, fring, Palringo, Slick, and more.Nokia Messaging is an email client, Facebook application, and instant messenger...

When you record a phone call, it's polite (and sometimes legally required) to let the other end know you're recording the conversation.But Nokia is overdoing it. When you record a call with your mobile phone's built-in recorder (or another recording...

When you call your application The Ultimate File Explorer the users of your program will have very high expectations. The author promises a lot: "This is the last file manager that you will ever need! The Ultimate File Explorer contains all the essen...

Instant messenger program Palringo connects to MSN (Windows Live), AOL (AIM), Yahoo, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, Facebook Chat, and the niche networks QQ, Gadu-Gadu, and MobileMe (iChat). Palringo also runs a collection of chatrooms. You can share your...

Most modern Symbian phones come with a built-in zip file manager, but what about other data compression formats?PowerGrasp makes and extracts zip, tar, and gz archives.The bad news: PowerGrasp comes as a mobile Java jar installer. Trying to access th...

Symbian S60 task manager KillMe groups the processes (including the hidden ones) that run on your mobile phone according to whether your phone really needs them to keep running.KillMe is the easiest way to close programs that can't be killed from Sym...

Still no Skype and Facebook in TalkonautInstant messenger and VoIP client Talkonaut talks to Jabber (including Google Talk), ICQ, MSN, AIM, and Yahoo. And it lets you call using almost every VoIP service that uses the SIP protocol.The latest update f...

YourTubeYouTube won't let you download movies to your mobile phone for offline viewing. Enter YourTube, a YouTube downloader that searches videos on YouTube and lets you save them in three video formats (mp4, flv, and 3gp) and different quality setti...

Theme Scheduler changes the theme of your mobile phone on schedule, schedules the background image of your active standby screen, and it can link themes to your current active profile.Profile Scheduler automatically switches profiles on your phone, s...

Nokia PC Suite is about to die. Nokia Ovi Suite is meant to take its place.Nokia Ovi Suite is a Jack of all trades that combines the functions of Nokia PC Suite, Map Loader, and Nokia Software Updater.One program to do it all... sounds good in theory...

Google MapsGoogle Maps (with maps, satellite and aerial images, and street view) still doesn't do voice navigation. It has text navigation, but if you don't have someone to read the instructions for you then using text navigation while driving is a v...

Dictionary by Vikrant P. ChavanThe latest update of mobile Java program Dictionary by Vikrant P. Chavan (not to be confused with Dictionary by Simon Judge) adds more words, and the user interface is slightly changed.But the flaws of the previous edit...

ROMPatcher+ by Il.Socio is a ROMPatcher spinoff that's being updated a lot lately. ROMPatcher+ lacks the "caps off" option in the menu. Instead, switching capability checking off is now done with a standard ROMPatcher patch. This may stop people from...

Lost in the darkness? BrightLight turns the camera flash led of your mobile phone into a torch.There's a version for touchscreen phones which sort of works on non-touch phones, and now there's a real working version for Symbian S60 3rd ed. too.Bright...

SkyfireMobile phone web browser Skyfire is not a suitable program for routine web surfing on your phone, but it's good for watching video and listening to music.Skyfire uses a proxy server which turns web pages into a clickable image format before se...

YourTube YouTube video downloaderYouTube for Symbian won't let you download movies for offline viewing, but YourTube does. It lets you search for videos on YouTube, and you can choose between three video formats (mp4, flv, and 3gp) and different qual...

SmartSISSmartSIS lets you pack, unpack, view, edit, and sign .sis installer files. It also turns .py files (Python scripts) into .sis files.If you want to sign .sis files with SmartSIS you'll need a certificate.The latest version has less bugs and a...