Opera today announced Opera Mini 5.1 Beta for Symbian 60. Optimized for almost all Series 60 handsets, the Opera Mini 5.1 Beta support Series 60 v2.0 handsets and above. This beta currently only available in English but Opera has stated that multilingual support should be coming out pretty soon.
Opera Mini 5.1 Beta for S60 Features:
* Huge start up time improvements.
* Lightning fast page load times.
* Improved scrolling performance.
* Integration with your device’s native input.
* Option to choose default access point – no more annoying connection dialogs
* Now supporting more devices than ever.
To download the new Opera Mini 5.1 Beta for Series 60 handsets you can visit http://m.opera.com/ on your mobile phone.
The Ovi maps 3.06 today has just got a new update, some people said it smoother than the first beta and also the maps view doesn’t lag as much as before. Get it now from this link.
What’s different from the previous release (v3.04)?
* Pinch to zoom interaction (Only available on Symbian^3 devices)
* Visually refreshed main menu and icons,
* New maps with public transport lines (as a new map layer) for subways, trams and trains in 80+ cities around the world. Just click the map toolbox icon and select Transit lines,
* Improved search experience – find places and addresses around you – or anywhere in the world – fast and easily. Browse places or enter a keyword in the search box. Now with suggestions and “did you mean?” functionality,
* New place pages with description, reviews, pictures and places nearby. Interact with places in a whole new way – you can check in, contact, navigate, save, rate, share, report or see place on the map,
* Share a place – send a place to your friends via SMS or Email. The SMS contains the address and a link to the place page with description, ratings, contact, URL and a mini map. The link opens up on the mobile browser (also on non-Nokia devices),
* Check in – keep your friends up-to-date with where you are and what you’re up to. Check in to places and share it with your friends on Facebook and many more social networks. See places you’ve been to in your check in history,
* New Drive assistance mode with live traffic flow – after clicking Drive, you’re instantly in drive assistance mode with live traffic flow and more. Once you start moving, get safety camera alerts and speed limit warnings,
* More folder with many rich content services relevant to your location. Personalise your Ovi Maps by selecting the services you’d like to keep on your main menu for instant access.
Remote Professional is a great program to control and operate your Nokia Symbian S60 phone from your PC. With Remote Professional, you can access then control all applications on your phone by using your PC’s keyboard while watching the screen of your phone in a virtual window in real time. This application supports S60v3, S60v5 touch devices and Symbian^3 (Nokia N8).
Remote Professional v3.0.959 Features:
* Connect your phone with the USB cable (compatible S60 3rd Edition, Series 60 v2 and UIQ3 phones only!) or by Bluetooth Serial Port
* For (old) Series 60 v1 phones: conveniently connect via the PC Suite / mRouter (Nokia 6600, 3650, N-Gage, Siemens SX1, Sendo X, Panasonic X700/X800)
* Support for multiple skins (showing different mobile phone models)
* Customizable (HTML) fullscreen mode (with zoom feature)
* 3 different zoom levels (2x, 3x and 4x)
* Use your keyboard to control your phone in realtime
* Use your mouse to control your phone in realtime (UIQ 3.0 only!)
* Make screenshots, copy them to the clipboard or save them to your PC
* Create AVI/FLV movies while navigating on your phone
* Profiles for quickly switching between different performance settings
* Reduced color modes, different compression levels, application priority, sampling frequency
Another great SMS app for your phone called Free-iSMS, its an iPhone-style SMS chat application for Symbian S60 phones (s60v5 and s60v3). Your messages will displayed in speech bubbles like the image above, it supports drag and drop, and syncing with Nokia’s default SMS manager.
Free-iSMS can also schedule your messages, and send fake messages to your inbox too. The fake messaging option of Free-iSMS works much better than Fake Messages and ActiveFile. Download Free-iSMS v 1.02 from here.
Free-iSMS app is unsigned so you need to sign it before installing to your device.
Best CallCheater is a cool application developed by Smartphoneware that can turn your smartphone into a device that can give you an alibi and save you from undesired phone calls. With this program you will be able to play different sounds during a phone conversation, i.e: sounds of street, traffic jam, building site, garden, airport etc.
CallCheater v1.06 Features:
* Configurable sound rules for contacts, groups, phone numbers and other situations;
* Easy to use and intuitive user interface;
* Possibility to add any sound in amr format to sound list;
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