People come from diverse backgrounds and hence, they have their own interests and preferences when it comes to food, cloths and every other aspect of their life that you might imagine. And it’s quite the same when it comes to choice of softwares as well. People have their own interesting preferences. That’s what we come to know by looking at the number of softwares that are hitting the web every day. Everyday you wake up in the morning, there is some new software waiting for you. So, one can always expect for new applications, doing interesting things or even new application doing the same old thing but in a different way and most importantly they all have their own market place. It’s just amazing and I think it’s great.
And below listed are 7 symbian applications that really made an impact on me. Lonely Coder writes this with the only intent, one or two of these might be of your interest as well. And again I remind you, these are only ma interests based on what I do and what I wish to do. So In case, if you don’t find any of these to quake you, then Lonely Coder would like to apologize you in advance.
1. Rotate Me
This is first out of the lot to be installed on ma phone, still I find really interesting coz it is so sensitive to ma movements.
Generally, in iPhone this comes bundled that’s where it senses the orientation that you holding your iPhone and changes the phones’ display orientation accordingly (motion-sensing orientation of the display). This will only have a 900 switch which means the display will change between portrait and landscape but only in two directions (not in all four directions as could be).
I wanted to have this feature in N95 because there is an in-built accelerometer in N95 as well, that’s where I found RotateMe.
2. Step Count
A Nokia Labs Software again an application of accelerometer. Once you configure it with your height, weight and age. It will start counting the number of steps you walk, the distance covered and the energy burned in the process. So the next you walk make sure you install this app and put it to run in the background.
Later you can use this to analyze your trends, on daily, weekly and monthly basis. Hope you will enjoy your walk with Step Count.
3. Blacklist
Having trouble with nuisance calls? then this is for you. Add all the numbers that you hate and activate it. That’s it, no longer you will calls from the black listed numbers. Unfortunately, it will not prevent messages from those numbers, you will still receive messages. And the most important part of it is that though it doesn’t allow a black listed number to reach you. It will still maintain a log where it will show how many times the poor guy has tried to call you and failed with date and time.
It’s that easy staying away from all unwanted calls with BlackList.
4. World Mate
Are you into traveling? Have you ever wanted to check check your flight schedule on right on your mobile? Yes you can all all that with piece of software. More over it can give you scheduled whether reports depending on your location which it will read out for you, and also currency conversion. All this requires a GPRS connection and it’s enough to update it once a day. Which is not gonna cost you a big some of money either. It really has it’s worth if you are a traveler.
But, In order to access some of its services you must sign-up for a premium account.
5. Calcium
This I like purely because of it’s usability over the in-built calculator that comes with nokia smart phones as most others do. The biggest problem with the default calculator beside all its capabilities is that the time it takes for you to perform a sum and most importantly, the number of keys that you have to press in the process.
For an instance if you are to perform,
7*4+2
- with the default calculator you will have to make ten clicks
- With the simple navigator based Calcium calculator it only takes you 6 clicks
I think this would give you a better idea as to why one should prefer Calcium over the default calculator. Assume you are out shopping, which one do you think will be the handiest? It is Calcium. I’ll give 100% for both its usability and simplicity.
Yes; Simple things should be made simple.
6. X-plore
If you are primarily a computer user no-doubt you will be on the look out for a replacement for Windows Explorer if you are having a windows box or else if you are a UNIX user you will lookout for a replacement of Nautilus in your phone.
That’s where X-plore can be handy for you. It’s an state-of-the-art file explorer for your phone. I don’t think I’ll even be able to list out all it’s capabilities purely because it can do a lot of things for you. X-plore, can almost give you the feel of a computer right in your phone.
7. Screen Shot
Last out of ma selection but never means the least. I think you have already seen it in action. Since, all of the above screen shots are taken via Screen Shot. You can set up a button or a combination of buttons to use it. Once, you activate Screen Shot you can start taking your screen shots by pressing the button(s) that you have configured.
Hope you enjoyed it. Your feedbacks are most welcomed.
