Presently, Nokia limits the number of fields that can be used to sort your messages – for e.g. – one cannot even sort messages for a specific contact within a specific time frame. The only “built in” way to find a message is either by scrolling one message after the other (which takes an awful amount of time and energy) or by using the default search functionality if your smartphone has it installed from the time of shipping out from the factory.

Today we will fix all that and do much more! We will feature and offer the free downloads of the very best Symbian apps that are primarily based on SMS in one way or the other. Whether you want to preview an incoming SMS or want your smartphone to automatically schedule the sending of a particular SMS to a predefined contact (or contact groups) on a future day or even if your need is to encrypt your Message Inbox entirely – this post should be what you are looking for! I will first feature and list the 11 best SMS apps as the featured SMS apps that I personally feel are the best among all the others that will be listed below them. Let’s already begin with the first 11 shall we?

11 Featured SMS Apps:

AIMS Migital Technovations SMS Scheduler: SMS Scheduler 2.0 is a simple and convenient app which can save and send any number of SMS to a contact or a group of contacts at a future date. SMS Scheduler for Symbian can start automatically in the background as a hidden process which ensures that the scheduled SMS is sent even if you have forgotten about it completely. It also lets you review the entire history of sent messages along with their delivery status.

Fingertip Access Ultimate SMS: Ultimate SMS by Fingertip Access is the ultimate SMS Manager for Symbian which offers an all in one solution to all your SMS needs. It can protect all your incoming and outgoing SMS by keeping them password protected. It includes an option to integrate Threaded SMS  and SMS Chat, an automatic forwarding/auto reply function, unread SMS reminder and automatic filtering of all Spam SMS and assign customized tones according to contacts.

IT Systems Daddy’s Eye: Though Daddy’s Eye for Symbian Series 60 is more of a call manager, it is primarily used to Record or log all Outgoing and Incoming SMS (with deliver reports) silently to and from your mobile even when they are deleted from the Inbox or Sent Messages folder. Once activated, it stays hidden in the background processes and because of a very small memory footprint, it never crashes unlike other similar Nokia apps.

MumCode MumSMS Plus: Beside being a call manager MumSMS is one of the very first dedicated S60 application that offered the automatic SMS hiding capability on Symbian. MumSMS not only hides and password protect any specific (or all) SMS but it can do so without tinkering with the SMS incoming tone. You can also configure any number or profiles and customize to hide (or delete) your SMS messages automatically from rules defined by you through a blacklist or a whitelist.

Killer Mobile Advance SMS: Advance SMS by Killer Mobile Software is another excellent all in one solution with a lightweight memory signature. It includes SMS spam filters, privacy protection, full screen SMS preview, custom message tones, SMS scheduling and forwarding and much more. It can start automatically in the background process and almost never crashes when you launch multiple apps with it running in the background. Lastly, it also includes a SMS backup function!

Dtarasov Mobile SMS Monitor: SMS Monitor is a stealth application and a remote SMS monitoring application for Symbian. It can be used as a powerful parental control app which keeps itself hidden at all times from the main S60 menu. It silently monitors, logs and then sends a carbon copy of all the incoming and outgoing SMS (or only SMS from specific contacts can be manually configured)  from the mobile phone where it is installed to your number silently. No delivery reports, drafts or sent messages are stored on the phone it is installed on making it almost invisible to the user.

KeyPoint Technologies Adaptxt SEE: Adaptxt SEE works much like the built in T9 word suggestions and dictionary built in your Symbian devices. However, this revolutionary Symbian app has its own dictionary and database which is being constantly updated every time you send or receive a SMS, E-mail, Browsers, IM and other documents. For e.g. if you usually write a SMS like this “Hi bro! R u gonna b attndin da party 2nite?” then Adaptxt will suggest “2nite” when you are about to write a new SMS with 2 in its body somewhere. Cool eh? You can also add custom words manually and use it to type different local languages in English! It thinks ahead and adapts fast to your personal writing style. It supports QWERTY Keyboards, regular number pads and the new touchscreen devices.

TrustMobi Mobi Message: Mobi Message is a multipurpose Symbian freeware which can encrypt or decrypt text messages, filter SMS messages based on blacklisted keywords, can track your phone and protect it from theft, maintain VIP and blacklists, set up multiple options to automatically reply and forward messages and it can even enable threaded SMS views for chat style SMS conversations.

Nuance Talks Premium: Nuance TALKS Premium is the ultimate voice to text or speech to text converter and text reader. It can convert your words to text when writing a SMS. That means you don’t have to type anything when you are composing a new SMS. Just speak out and Nuance Talks Premium does the rest for you. It can also read out any incoming SMS text messages, emails, MMS and notes.

Wireless Labs Message Mirror Standard: Message Mirror Standard version 2.5 allows you to mirror and maintain a hidden database for all your incoming and outgoing messages. This allows you to retrieve both incoming and outgoing SMS messages even when they are deleted from your SMS Inbox or from the Sent Messages folder. You can password protect that database and keep it hidden from the applications menu if you want. Also, you can backup your SMS/MMS/E-mail etc to various formats including .CSV and other formats (e.g. HTML, Email). It can automatically start up when you power on your device and can run in the background without any notification icon – completely stealth man! Lastly, it can also filter the actions to be taken for any SMS (incoming or outgoing) according to whitelists and blacklists provided that you define them.

Wireless Labs Uni Messaging Pro: UniMessaging Pro is the ultimate converter for your text messages and it empowers you to convert your SMS text messages to MMS, E-Mail, Text Notes. It is also backwards compatible meaning it can also convert E-Mails to SMS, MMS and so on. UniMessaging Pro can also send messages over Bluetooth, Infrared etc. free. It can convert any SMS to notepad documents and send that document through bluetooth to anyone without incurring any fees from your network provider. This means you can literally chat and send/receive text messages (and files like images, docs, audio etc) with anyone within your bluetooth range free!

75+ Other SMS Related Apps:

ASGA Tech Cards V2: A simple app to compose and send greeting cards and picture SMS for certain special holiday occasions. It includes 3D characters and different set of colorful cards, icons, smileys etc.

AutoSMS: A mobile app that mainly functions to send automatic SMS replies according to the rules defined by you. There are a bunch of pre-defined SMS templates which you can also use in case you want your replies to start immediately after installing the app.

CMI Technologies Black & White: Black & White for Symbian is an automatic Call and SMS Log Cleaner for Symbian which can be customized according to your assigned white/black/baby lists. It cleans any traces of SMS/Call sent and received from the phone.

Code Factory Mobile Speak: Mobile Speak is a screen reader which can read aloud any incoming, outgoing or draft SMS through the loudspeaker of the Symbian device it is installed on. Also, this is absolutely vital for people with visual impairment as it allows them to use their mobile phone without seeing it.

Code Factory Mobile Magnifier: Mobile Magnifier by Code Factory is a content magnification app for Nokia. If you feel that the size of your texts when writing or reading a SMS is small, try this!

Active SMS Lock: Active SMS Lock for Symbian is a very light app which helps you to protect your SMS messages with a password of your choice.

EHandySoft CoolSMS Plus: Cool SMSPlus for S60 is the ultimate solution for sending any sort of free Blinking SMS, Service SMS, Personalized signatured SMS or Flash SMS to a single user or a bulk of contacts simultaneously.

Dtarasov SMS Monitor Lite: This is the lite version of the Dtarasov SMS Monitor and it includes all the basic functions of the actual app. However, the lite version doesn’t let you customize rules for specific contacts (which the full version does), thus all incoming and outgoing SMSs are sent automatically to the phone of your choice.

Dr. Jukka Fake Messages: Fake Messages for Symbian lets you compose, schedule & send fake SMS Messages to yourself automatically from within the device and without incurring any SMS charges from the operator.

Dr. Jukka Flash SMS Scheduler: Flash SMS Scheduler 2 is a flexible SMS scheduling app which can be configured to send SMS messages periodically or once. It also supports sending 0 Class (Zero Class) SMS messages which is sent immediately and only saves itself when the receiving user explicitly saves it clicking the options. If they do not save the message while viewing the incoming SMS for the first time – the Zero Class SMS simply deletes itself and all its traces from the Inbox.

Free iSMS: iSMS is a lightweight mobile app that lets you view all your Inbox and SMS messages in a cloud format (the same way that you may have seen on the iPhone). It includes configuring a thead style auto reply function, a fake messages sending option among many other. To fool your friends you can easily insert any fake messages in the SMS view and the GUI itself is quite nice!

FunSMS: FunSMS is a mobile chat software based on SMS and not just that. If the recipient and the sender both have FunSMS installed on their devices then both of them can exchange 3D Smileys and emoticons, any web based content, animated colorful graphics and even audio clips. It can also control the backlight and sound of the user you are sending it to. The cost per SMS is that of a single regular SMS regardless of the awesome stuff that you are able to send within that SMS.

GoHome: Want to let your friends know when you will be arriving at his place? Or do you simply want to let someone know how much longer it will take you to reach a location? Then try GoHome for Symbian which operates by calculating the expected time to reach a destination from the place you are in. GoHome does this with the help of your GPS (internal and external). It calculates the time and can send the information embedded within a SMS to a number of your choice. You can also configure the content of the SMS if you want.

IQ Mobile Jokes Marathon: If you are the master comedian among all your friends and frequently send them jokes over the SMS then this app is for you. Mobile Jokes Marathon stores over thousands of awesome high rated jokes on your mobile phone which you can send instantly to your friends through SMS. No internet connection is needed so everything is free except the SMS charge from your mobile operator.

Enpronomics Solution SOS Tracker: SOS Tracker is a GPS tracker that can automatically send a SMS with your GPS location (and anything else you like) in it to a number of your choice. It has a panic button, a simple settings page and an optional feature to send non-emergency SMS. A simple long press sends the SMS which can also be changed if you want to and it also works with the phone’s keypad being locked.

KALASms 2: KALA Sms version 2 lets you send low cost bulk SMS to multiple recipients, groups or users with detailed delivery reports and SMS history straight from your phone.

Kavyasoft SMSMerge: SMS Merge for S60 is a SMS and e-mail management Symbian app which enables you to merge long mails, SMS, contact lists etc. into a SMS template. This comes handy if you are to send a single template based SMS to multiple recipients at the same time with each users individual name in the SMS field.

LOKSms: LOK Sms is a small automated SMS backup and Inbox cleaning application. LOK Sms simply backs up all your received and sent SMS in .txt format along with all the SMS data and details like time and sender of the received SMS. Additionally it can automatically delete all incoming SMS once they are backed up.

Mind Warrior MobeCode: MobeCode lets you set a password to your SMS (or emails) which is great for safekeeping a secret SMS from one user to the other. After you set a password and send the SMS to someone, the password remains intact for the user receiving the SMS. He or she has to know the password and enter it to view the protected SMS.

MoBaoBei FlashSMS 2: FlashSMS 2 is a hands free customizable text editor which can also send blinking Flash SMS to another user from your mobile without incurring any extra cost than that of a single regular SMS.

Mobile Effort Message in Time: Message in Time for Symbian is another alternative to schedule the sending of a future SMS. You can configure it easily and send SMS to multiple or single recipients and select whether to repeat this in the future or only once. Planning your work or sending a daily report to your boss just got easier mate!

MobiFun Soft Remind Me: A popular app to ensure that you do not forget to read, compose or send a SMS in the future and you can customize the number of times it will alert you. Remind Me also supports reminding you about many other events like emails, MMS, calendar events etc.

MobiMonster 2.0 SMSTimer: SMSTimer 3 for Nokia is an advanced SMS Scheduler and it supports 1600 characters per SMS. SMS Timer integrates itself with the built in Nokia messaging center and takes over a SMS from therein. It includes all the basic scheduling features of SMS Scheduler 2.0 that I mentioned above.

MobiSophy Phone Alone: Phone Alone for S60 3rd edition and 5th edition phone can turn your mobile phone into an answering machine. However, why I have listed it here is because of its amazing remote control abilities through a SMS. Phone Alone lets you retrieve remote contacts from a lost phone through a SMS from any other number. For protection, you must know and set a secret code which you must include in the first SMS that you send to the remote/lost phone. After verification it automatically sends all the matching contacts or simply the entire contacts through SMS silently from that phone to the one you specify. You can control almost everything in the lost phone through SMS commands!

MobiSys Spam Manager: This is a freeware utility to prevent receiving unwanted Spam and advertisement SMS from any number of known or unknown user. It can additionally prevent the same SMS rejection facilities for voice calls.

MobiSystems QuickWrite: Quickwrite is another awesome T9 enhancement and text writing application. Just like Adaptxt, QuickWrite for Symbian supports multi-languages and it also includes adaptive and preferred word suggestions (the one you use more frequently will pop up on top of the other related words). It too has a low memory usage level (like Adaptxt) and you can insert, edit and delete words easily. Quickwrite supports word suggestions while you writing or forwarding a SMS or e-mail, while you are browsing the web, editing a mp3 tag, editing documents, calendars, phone books etc.

Mobivation Private SMS: Private SMS is another SMS Spam Manager and SMS filtering app. It can securely filter any SMS from a list of 5 number/words that you have to define. The action taken depends on what you want. You can either delete those SMS or password protect them automatically so that no one else can view the SMS in the inbox. It can also move that SMS to a custom folder of your choice and thus hide it permanently from the list of SMS within your messaging inbox.

MoMate: MoMate is yet another SMS Encrypting application and SMS Spam Manager. You can maintain a friend list, block spam SMS, encrypt SMS with a password and even encrypt private pictures from the gallery or in a MMS.

SMS Diary: SMS Diary by Olamelen software scans all the SMS from your messaging Inbox and creates a diary out of them. It is a simple app which can act as a SMS backup software if you want it to. The format of the diary is in HTML and it is saved in the memory card.

PBC Mobile MonIncMT: A SMS bill tracking software which tracks your monthly free outgoing SMS messages and free minutes and displays that with detailed statistics. MonIncMT also works independently and resets itself after the monthly billing date of your phone. This way you can be sure that your operator is charging you what it advertises to charge per SMS or Voice Call.

Light Signal Plus: LightSignalPlus by Phone Phreak Software is mainly a 5th edition based Symbian app which notifies you with three light blinks in case there is a missed call or incoming SMS that you didn’t notice. On 5800, 5530 and Nokia N97 this app saves you the time of tapping the screen to see if there is a SMS/Call that you missed. It also automatically deactivates itself to save battery when you are using an app or playing a game in full screen mode.

SmartLight: Smartlight is another alternative to Light Signal Plus but it is basically designed to keep the lights on when viewing pictures in the gallery. However, you can also use Smartlight to keep the back-light on when you are writing a SMS or reading a long one.

PhoneBak: PhoneBak by Bak2u is a simple yet extremely powerful anti-theft application which can help you to find your lost or stolen phone with the aid of a simple SMS even when the thief changes the SIM card. You have to set up an external number when you install this application and it will always operate in the background. When a SIM card is changed it will automatically send a SMS to the number you specified. That SMS will include the new number of the SIM Card, the IMEI Number of the phone, the IMSI number (SIM Card) and the physical location of the thief including his Area Code, Country and Cell ID (BTS). That’s not all, after sending the SMS to your number PhoneBak then switches the mobile phone to the stand by mode with password protection and if you send a SMS with a specific code to your stolen phone then it will automatically perform a Hard Reset on the stolen phone!

Phone Ghost: Phone Ghost for Symbian is a Python based application to easily backup your SMS, MMS, Messaging Contents, Contacts and many other popular 3rd party apps (like Quickoffice, Smartmovie, Garmin XT, Kaspersky etc.)

Handy Phoneguard: This is a powerful S60 application which can password protect almost everything in your phone including all the items of your messaging Inbox.

ProSMS: ProSMS is one of the most advanced SMS encryption symbian application. It supports AES 256 and SHA 256 bit encryption which even restricts your network operator to read or view the SMS content in their systems. The person at the receiving end of the SMS must know the exact SMS protection password that you have set to unlock, save or view the SMS on any device.

Psiloc XSync: XSync is designed to automatically Sync and Archive your SMS/MMS content and then e-mail the archive or backup to your E-Mail Inbox. You can set  the frequency of the Sync and Back-up emails. It can also back up, sync and email you on a per SMS basis as well. In other words, with XSync you can treat your SMS Inbox as a regular POP or IMAP like account.

Psiloc Font Magnifier: Psiloc Font Magnifier is a font magnification symbian app for 3rd edition and 5th edition smartphones and touchscreen devices. Font magnifier can be used to magnify the text of your SMS and MMS when you are reading or composing one.

PySMS: PySMS is a Python based open source app which can be used as a server on the client side. In other words you can use this app to send bulk SMS. This lightweight application has a built in pySMSFlooder or SMS flooder (I do not recommend flooding!) option with which you can mess with your friends by sending loads of SMS! PySMS for Symbian S60 also supports inserting special “Symbols and Characters” into an ordinary SMS.

QuietSMS: Quiet SMS is a SMS filtering application which ensures that you receive certain SMS from a group of contacts or a single specified contact silently without any audio or “1 New Message” notification. It can also delete logs of sent and received SMS automatically if you want it to. You can even configure to password protect your inbox, hide the application icon from tasklist and be notified of incoming SMS from listed contacts with a quiet beep.

Rock Your Mobile MessageTones: Message Tones lets you customize the incoming SMS tone of your phone for a single contact, contact groups, contact types and even by incoming message type. It even lets you assign a specific tone for a contact even when he/she is listed in a group (or list) for which you have already assigned a particular incoming message tone. Rock Your Mobile has been officially closed down so this application will not be updated in the future, however, the existing version works with all 3rd edition and 5th edition smartphones.

RSeven Mobile: RSeven is an online backup and synchronization app for Symbian, Windows Mobile, Android and iPhone. For Symbian devices it lets you automatically sync all your incoming and outgoing SMS automatically every time they arrive.

S60 Ticker: S60 Ticker by Stoeger is a freeware that lets you display the SMS from your Inbox as a ticker on the home screen. You can configure the amount of time it will be displayed for.

Trustmobi SecEMS: SecEMS is another Symbian freeware that lets you effectively deal with Spam SMS and filter them accordingly the rules you define in its list. It also can encrypt and decrypt SMS messages with a password. Lastly, it even allows you to send Flash or beeping SMS to contacts of your choice, integrate threaded chat style SMS and do a lot more.

ShakeSMS: ShakeSMS is an application to better control your incoming SMS with the help of the built in accelerometer functions of Nokia. Simply shake your device to different directions to perform different actions on an incoming unread SMS. You can even delete a SMS without unlocking your keypad!

SkyeQuiKey: SkyQuiKey by SkyeStream is an essential mobile search application which is more like an All in One Tool for Symbian. It offers you Predictive Text suggestions, lets you configure smart shortcuts like composing text messages from anywhere and displaying list of recent contacts when composing a new blank SMS.

SkyeStream SkyeText: SkyeText is dedicated to better utilization of SMS messages with the help of visual graphical smileys. Both the sending and receiving end must have SkyeStream installed on their handsets to display the smileys. Those who doesn’t will display the regular built in smileys of their respective phone.

SmartGuard: SmartGuard 3 lets you hide, password protect and retrieve messages along with images, audio and other files without much fuss!

SMS Accelerator: SMS Accelerator is more of a patch for Symbian 3rd edition and a few 5th edition devices to speed up the sending of SMS text messages from the device it is installed on.

SMS Backup: A Freeware for Symbian 3rd edition smartphones which lets you back up your SMS messages and contacts according to your specified time period.

Sms Chat: Symbianwave SMS Chat enables all the required visual set up to display your SMS messages in a chat like interface. Just like iSms it mimics the cloud style or threaded style message replies, providing you with auto reply options, text quoting options and a quick reply function. It also enhances your phone with custom emoticons, copy and paste functions and built in customizable skins.

SmsER: SmsER is a simple application that functions as a bulk SMS sender. After you finish writing a SMS all you have to do is list all the contact details on a single text file and browse to that file from the SmsER interface. SmsER will automatically extract the information it needs from the text file and work its magic.

SMS Preview: A simple freeware which automatically displays the preview of any incoming SMS on the home page of your device even when your keypad is locked.

Smartphoneware Best Private Conversation: Private Conversation is a dedicated application to hide and clean SMS traces from the inbox and logs. Just like Black & White mentioned above, Private Conversation starts up automatically and does all the hiding and cleaning in the background. Additionally you can password protect this app and any SMS, schedule the time this app will run every day etc.

Best Spam Killer: Once installed, Best Spam Killer by Smartphoneware acts like a SMS Firewall protecting you from all sorts of unwanted or Spam-like incoming and outgoing SMS. It operates the Firewall through a filtering list of words, numbers, country codes, name and more.

Symbian Guru Cute Keys: Want to speak out someone’s name to send a SMS directly? If yes then this app is what you are looking for. It allows you to assign shortcuts to perform different actions which includes reading, writing and deleting SMS messages.

Psiloc Blue Text: The simplest yet most powerful SMS from PC software for S60. With the Desktop and Mobile version of Psiloc Blue Text installed on your end you will able to send text messages straight from your desktop with the aid of your mobile connectivity.

Magic Message Manager: Magic Message Manager Pro by Symbian Wave allows you to sort and filter SMS at your will. This also enables you to password protect your SMS, filter spam SMS, cleaning and back up of SMS, fix smileys and lots more.

Touch Balance: Touch Balance is specifically designed for 5th edition or S60 v5 smartphones. It is the perfect solution to automatically inquire about you remaining prepaid or post-paid balance after you send a SMS or MMS.

TrustMobi MobiDog: MobiDog is a remote SIM card and smartphone protection software. With a single SMS you can delete all the contents of your S60 devices in case of theft. However, MobiDog also allows you to periodically backup your SMS messages and mail them automatically on your desired email address or memory card, thus acting as a phone back up software.

Best Full Screen Caller: Full Screen Caller by Smartphoneware lets you display full screen images of the incoming caller or SMS sender. If you want to display full screen images for all incoming SMS messages on your phone then Best Full Screen Caller is the app for you.

VLingo: VLingo for Symbian is a Voice to Text Converter or Translator which allows you speak your words rather than physically writing it on a SMS. This voice to text converter can write down anything you say on a  SMS, MMS or email and even supports carrying out external 3rd party application functions with voice commands.

Webgate SMS Spam Manager: As the name suggests, Webgate SMS Spam Manager is a standalone application to filter and block SMS that are spams. Various types of list filters, word lists, number sequence can be assigned as its filtering rule.

SMS Zipper: SMS Zipper is a SMS compression application that can encrypt and compress any number SMS messages. The compression ratio is nearly 1:4 and the maximum number of characters that are supported to be sent as one single SMS is 460 compared to the traditional 160 characters. It requires the receiving user to have it installed on their devices to decrypt or decompress.

TekTronic Hidden Contacts: Even though its primary feature is to hide and protect specific contacts in your phonebook, Tektronic Hidden Contacts can be used for many other purposes. One of those features is important and relevant to this post because Tektronic Hidden Contacts can lock (password protect) your Entire Messaging menu or anything specific like the Inbox or Outbox. It can also safeguard you by cleaning the sent messages log and automatically hiding specific SMS messages. It has another feature called Direct SMS through which you can send a SMS to a hidden contact and it will not be logged by the outbox or sent folder.

Nuance Speech2Go: Another fine freeware for Symbian specifically designed to read out your incoming and outgoing SMS messages. Speech2Go is only a reader and unlike Nuance Talks Premium, it cannot convert your words to text when writing a SMS.

VoiceSignal Voice Mode: VoiceMode is yet another speech to text reader and writer. It can convert your spoken words and write out whatever you say when composing a SMS text message or E-mail. It is easy to configure and supports both the US and UK English. The UK English is recommended for users whose primary language is not English.

Tektronic SRL Advanced Phone Lock: SRL Advanced phone lock can lock any SMS with a password. It can additionally lock the keypad, any installed application, your entire messaging Inbox/Outbox, contacts, images, notes, folders and almost anything else on your phone.

Wireless Labs Message Mirror Lite: This is a freeware which lets you mirror incoming text messages (much like Dtarasov Mobile SMS Monitor)  so that you can retrieve them later even if you deleted them from the inbox. The Lite version also lets you back your SMS to a text file easily. You will have to trigger the application manually as the lite version restricts you to automatically power itself up in the background.

Wireless Labs SMS2Email: SMS2EMail makes life easier by sending all incoming messages to a particular e-mail address. Almost all the major e-mail providers including Gmail, Yahoo and Exchange Server based e-mail addresses are supported.

Wireless Labs SMS2Web: SMS2Web version 2 is the upgraded version of SMS2Email and beside letting  you send any incoming SMS to any number of email addresses automatically, it also lets you upload SMS to websites through FTP or HTTP. It also allows any site to integrate the owner’s personal SMS gateway from where the visitors can contact him/her. Not all countries are supported yet so that’s a bummer!

Wireless Labs Message One: Message One is a bulk SMS sender. The free version allows you to send 5 SMS at once while the full version allows you to send any number of SMS to any number of listed/unlisted phone-book contacts.

Wireless Labs Unimessaging Lite: UniMessaging Lite version is the slim version of the actual UniMessaging Pro. It is somewhat limited in terms of conversion and only allows you to convert SMS to MMS and Email.

Wireless Labs SMS Forwarder: SMS Forwarder Pro acts much like any ordinary call diverting service. However, what actually is so cool about this app is that instead of forwarding voice calls to a desired number or voice mailbox, SMS Forwarder forwards the SMS to a desired mobile number or Messaging Inbox.

Wireless Labs SMS Responser: SMS Responser works like an answering machine for not only voice calls but also for SMS messages. It can automatically reply to any incoming  SMS when you are in a meeting. The reply can be customized accordingly by you so that it is both personal yet effective. It can also send automatic responder SMS messages for any incoming voice calls during the time of its running.

Zensis SMS Lock: SMS Lock by Zensis can easily password protect your SMS messages by locking your entire Inbox, Sent Messages Folder, Drafts etc. It can also password protect a single SMS instead of locking the entire Inbox.

Zensis Animated SMS: Animated SMS or A-SMS is yet another SMS animation app which can send and receive animated Smileys, Full Screen Animated Images etc.

Zensis Avatar SMS: This application allows you to create and share personalized avatars for your incoming and outgoing SMS. Both the parties must have this app installed for the SMS avatars to work properly. Additionally you can also insert your created avatars within your SMS messages and MSN Profile. The cost of such SMS messages are that of an ordinary application.

Zidian Studio SMS One: SMSOne by Zidian Studio is yet another simple application that enables Flash SMS sending and receiving capability on your Symbian devices.

Over 80 Best SMS Apps

All these SMS applications are compatible with Nokia N-Series smartphones like N97, N96, N95 8gb, N95, N92, N82, N81, N86, N85, N80, N79, N78, N77, N76, N75, N73, N71, N97 Mini, N93, N91. They are also compatible with Nokia E Series phones including E50, E51, E66, E71, E70, the awesome E72, E75, E90, E66, E65, E62, E63, E60, E61, E52. Some of them are only made for touchscreen devices like 5530 XpressMusic, 5800, X6, X3, N97 etc. Series 60 smartphones like 6290, 6120, 3250 should be able to run most of these apps as well. Some of these SMS apps are signed while most of them are unsigned and depending on your model and firmware, you may or may not need to sign them before installation.

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Some are way too complicated while some are plain “blunt” with their offered features. Then came the days of the Nokia 5th edition Home Screen Widgets which did solve the need of such home-screen customization based apps significantly but still a general user had to install a bunch of untested and unsigned apps on their mobile handsets to make them work the way they wanted.

For those of you who is reading this post, all these may just have vanished with this particular post today. Today I feature you an excellent, uber-cool mobile app which will make life easy for you in terms of home screen customization on your smartphones. Voyager Home Screen or popularly known as just vHome Desktop is one of a kind powerful symbian mobile app which will help you to customize the display screen or active standby screen of your 3rd edition Symbian devices like the E71, N82, N95 8gb and all others. vHome Desktop powers itself by providing you with functions and customization options on your home screen that most symbian users have not yet dreamed about!

vHome Desktop for Nokia offers you the option to easily integrate several RSS or ATOM feeds (syndication based) on your smartphone’s home screen. This all in app vHome can easily turn your Nokia symbian’s home screen into a full portal where all the information including those from your social profile to the weather condition of your location is being displayed.

vHome Customization on Mobile

Let us take a quick look at the more prominent features of vHome Desktop or Voyager Home Screen:

Quick Lock: Also known as Start Lock which is an easy and automatic lock for keypad buttons of your phone.

Application Shortcuts: Offers an option to organize application shortcuts and widgets on two rows on the home screen.

My Fav Contacts: A simple call and SMS log enhancer which displays your most called/sms-ed contacts on the home screen for one click dialing.

Contact Short Keys: Also known as Smart Keys, this option enabled you can assign a specific contact to a specific combination of number such as 2255 or 6969. When you dial 6969 or 2255 vHome automatically recognizes the command and calls up the assigned contact for that combination of number, much like an automated short key call manager.

vHome Desktop App on Symbian

Built in Apps: vHome comes with a number of built in apps which can fetch your local weather conditions, fetch any feed updates from any blogs and sites around the world and display them on the home screen of your smartphones. The weather details will include information about wind velocity, precipitation chances and much more which will be displayed on multiple rows.

Social Community Friendly: vHome for Nokia Symbian has the ability to fetch the updates from your social profiles located at Facebook and Twitter. It can also display those updates on the home screen of your symbian devices automatically for the rest of the day without the need of multiple sign-in sessions.

Multiple Icons and Widgets: Can double deck the home screen of your Nokia symbian with over 12 individual icons each with its custom functions and actions that you can decide upon. On devices with a bigger screen like the E71, N97 or Nokia 5800 all 12 icons still leaves the space to make the screen appear clutter free.

Search Widgets: Comes with a built in Google Search widget through you can query and display any number of searches straight from your Symbian’s home screen without the need of opening up a browser first.

Built in Color Themes: The latest version of vHome for Symbian comes with a variation of 10 different color schemes ensuring that you do not get bored at any point of time and choose the color you like whenever you feel like it.

Loads of Extras: Other cool extras are also included with this app which includes displaying of the Lunar Cycle, messing with the Operator Logo, getting the latest currency exchange rates etc.

Nokia Homescreen Customization

Download vHome 3.23 (Updated)

Nokia Symbian N-Series and E-Series devices from the S60 V5 to the S60 V3 smartphones and touchscreen PDA handsets are supported. This includes Nokia N97 and N97 Mini, X3 and X6, 6120, N81, N80, N85, N73, N71, E50, E75, N95 8gb, N82, N78, 5700 and 5800 XpressMusic, E66, 6290, 3250, E51, E70, N75, N76, E71, E63, E65, N86, N79, N77, N91, N92, N93, N95, N96, E90, E72, E62, E61 etc.

Please do subscribe to the RSS feed before downloading this Nokia app to customize the home screen of your symbian devices. Subscription is free and effortless!

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The other application that we are featuring here is also a very useful mobile app to say the very least and it is called TrustMobi MobiShield Antivirus. MobiShield Antivirus for mobile is a free solution which takes care of all your virus related issues on the smartphones automatically. Mobi Shield anti-virus is the perfect solution for someone who is looking for a reliable up-to-date anti-virus software for their PDA or smartphones and also want to be safeguarded against incoming mobile viruses including all types of Trojan SMS and Bluetooth Viruses.

TrustMobi Mobi Message: TrustMobi Mobi Message is a free symbian app for Nokia 3rd edition and 5th edition based Symbian OS smartphones and PDA devices. It is the complete solution for anyone who wants an all in one mobile SMS management application for hiding, deleting, creating and maintaining a threaded SMS style inbox. Additionally it can hide and encrypt special messages from a specific contact or a group/list of contact. This is done with the help of a “list” called the VIP List which will serve as the center point for this software’s action towards an incoming or outgoing sms (including Draft messages and Sent SMS).

MobiMessage and MobiShield

Mobi Message Features:

Hides incoming and outgoing SMS automatically and selectively.

Encrypt and Decrypt all or selected SMS messages automatically or manually.

Replacement of normal SMS inbox with a threaded style SMS inbox for Chat and IM enhancements.

Bulk forwarding and redirection of any encrypted SMS or regular SMS to any contacts or group of contacts.

Block and Protect from Spam and blacklisted SMS.

Personal customization for all notification of incoming and outgoing SMS.

Two sets of password can protect you further! You can disclose the first password to someone (like your husband or wife etc) if situation requires you to but still they will not be able to see the hidden messages in the hidden or a second level password protected Inbox which only you know about.

TrustMobi Mobi Message

Download Trust Mobi MobiMessage

Trust Mobi MobiShield: Trust Mobi MobiShield is a full fledged and free mobile anti-virus and security software with which you can protect your smartphones and PDA from all kinds of harmful mobile viruses and infected SMS messages. It protects your Nokia N-Series, E-Series and X-Series smartphones by running on the background of your phone in real time. Just like a watchdog TrustMobi MobiShield can block and filter incoming bluetooth connections and messages from your phone which assures  uninterrupted and security enhanced services from your mobile.

Mobi Shield Features:

Protects your phone from harmful viruses and trojan SMS automatically.

Provides a real time engine Kaspersky Mobile Security and ESET Antivirus for Mobile to block and safeguard your symbian at all times.

A very fast scanning engine ensures a speedy result for manual and other comprehensive scans.

Detects and deletes malwares and other unknown threats.

Relatively comes with a low memory footprint for 24 hour background protection.

Automatic GPRS and WAP updates of scan engine and signatures with and real time statistics.

MobiShield Antivirus

Download Trust Mobi MobiShield Anti-Virus

Well how about a bonus app for Nokia? You can also try TrustMobi MobiCall which has the exact same features as TrustMobi MobiMessage does but the difference is that instead of automatically hiding SMS messages on your symbian, MobiCall hides and rejects the voice call!

TrustMobi Mobi Call is a free Nokia call Manager and though it is not the most powerful call manager out there that is made for Symbian but unlike those it is a free call manager for Nokia. MobiCall provides the basic functionality of a call manager by maintaining a call blacklist which can effectively reject or hide incoming and outgoing calls made to and from those blacklisted numbers or contacts.

MobiCall Features:

Automatic rejection or call hiding or auto-replying functions for incoming calls from blacklist (the blacklist is known as VIP List).

Easy to manage and set up, with automatic start up of the call manager in the background once activated.

Different types of built in modes including a Meeting Mode (auto reply through SMS) and a Sleeping Mode.

Double password protection for incoming calls and viewing of the actual call logs.

Free application and requires much less phone memory consumption compared to some other call managers.

MobiCall - Bonus App

Download Trust Mobi MobiCall

Both MobiMessage, MobiCall and Mobi Shield Antivirus are supported by Nokia X-Series, N-Series and E-Series based S60 symbian mobile phones like the Nokia N97, N96, N95 8gb, N95, N93, E71, E72, E75, E90, E50, E51, E60, E66, E61, E62, E63, E65, N91, N92, N93, Nokia N81, N82, N85, N86, N97 Mini, X6, Nokia X6, Nokia 5800i, 5800 XpressMusic, 5700, 5530, 5500, 6210, 6290, N71, N73, N75, N76, N78, N77, N79, N80, 6121, 6120 and 3250.

You can also check out other free Nokia anti-virus and call managers that  are out as the best and consequently featured by us as well. Please subscribe to the RSS feed before downloading these mobile apps on your Nokia symbian phones. Subscription is hassle free and costs you zero bucks. Cheers!

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The updated versions of Killer Mobile Total Recall and Killer Mobile Blackballer supports the latest touchscreen devices such as the symbian 5th edition based Nokia N97, 5320, X6, 5800 XpressMusic and 5530 XpressMusic. Additionally Nokia S60V3 3rd edition handsets such as E71, N96 8gb, N81, E66, E63 and N82 are also supported!

Features of Killer Mobile Total Recall:

This version of Killer Mobile Total Recall offers the option to supress or mute the “beep” during the recording. This ensures complete beepless call recording from your mobile phones without the other party hearing about it.

Killer Mobile Total Recall records call in AMR and WAV format which you have the flexibility to choose. Recording in AMR format is recommended by me as it does the job in an efficient way without taking up memory space and without hampering the quality of the recordings or voice clips significantly. You can save the clips on your memory card or stick or choose to store them on the internal phone memory.

Once recorded, there is an option to send the recorded clips automatically or manually to another contact. You can choose to the clips with the help of MMS, Mobile internet or HTTP and via email.

Automatic naming and tagging of recorded clips are maintained within the app which ensures that you do not lose a specific clip among thousands of others. You can sort and view clips by name of contacts or time, by size of the recording or within a specific time period.

Ability to use Total Recall as a complete and full featured Dictaphone is also one of the highlight of this amazing app. You can manually customize a combination of key presses or simply assign a hot key to launch Total Recall in Dictaphone mode when you are idle.

It is easy to install and set up for full featured usage, Killer Mobile Total Recall offers a simple yet powerful GUI for managing your recordings. This application is a must have for any regular user who wants to keep records of promises made and received.

Killer Mobile Total Recall

Download Killer Mobile Total Recall

Features of Killer Mobile Blackballer:

Blackballer by Killer Mobile is another utility application for mobile phones that are powered by the Symbian OS platform. It lets you get rid of spam calls and incoming SMS automatically without the assistance from your mobile network provider. It is also known as the fastest call rejection app made for mobile to date!

It has a built in auto reply SMS engine which can also be used as your mobile secretary so to speak.You can configure Killer Mobile Blackballer to automatically send different auto reply SMS to different contacts or group of contacts when you reject their calls.

This mobile app is powered by a lightweight incoming call sensor known as the Smart Reject Sensor. The Smart Reject Sensor of Killer Mobile Blackballer lets you reject incoming calls proactively without the need of the whole app to wake up in the background, thus reducing chances of an application crash!! It also pops up a screen momentarily asking whether you want to block it or let it ring away.

Call Rejection or Auto Reply set up is done by managing contacts with different number of lists. The maximum number of lists you can create is unlimited and is easy to manage.

Blackballer runs in the background automatically once you completely activate it. The app is not a resource hog and can run flawlessly even when you have 4 or 5 other applications running in the background or foreground.

Killer Mobile Blackballer

Download Killer Mobile Blackballer

Both Killer Mobile Total Recall and Killer Mobile Blackballer are compatible with Nokia N-Series, E-Series and X-Series smartphones. XpressMusic versions like the 5700, 5500, 5230, 5530 smartphones are als0 supposed to work with these mobile apps.

Nokia N97, N97 Mini, X3 and X6, 6120, 6290, 3250, N91, N92, N93, N95, N96, N95 8gb, N82, N81, N80, N85, N86, N79, N75, N76, N77, N78, N73, N71, E50, E75, E51, E70, E71, E63, E65, E66, E90, E72, E62, E61 etc should be able to install this mobile application without any issue whatsoever. Still, after the installation is over please restart your phone! I have also included the user guides of Killer Mobile Blackballer and Killer Mobile Total Recall in the downloads so for detailed usage instructions check out the PDF user guides.

Lastly, please do subscribe to the RSS feed of my blog as it keeps me motivated to feature these apps to you free! Subscription is free and keeps you updated as always!

You can check out other similar call recorder and call management applications in the post about the best call managers for Symbian. Also, check out SymbianOn Private Call and SMS Manager or Psiloc Xelnex Lite which serves the similar purpose to that of Blackballer and Total Recall. If you are a security freak like me then you can also try VoxTrack Personal for call recording and Guardian Mobile Platinum edition for identity protection.

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Since then, Nokia and other big brands like SonyEricsson and Samsung introduced a number of new Touch UI based PDA devices to compete with the iPhone but honestly speaking, none of them powers itself with an iPhone like stylish keyboard to write your emails or simply when writing a SMS. Till today, the only app that effectively extends the virtual QWERTY like keyboards is Nokia Virtual Keyboard (which btw is quite good). Still, the advanced customization that perhaps even the iPhone and Nokia still does not offer can be installed and enabled on your Nokia Touch UI smartphones like the Nokia N97 or 5800 XpressMusic.

Today’s featured app is special and it will empower you to use your feature rich Nokia smartphone or PDA with the most sophisticated and customizable keyboard app to date. Today’s mobile apps are specially designed to make your keyboard and numpad typing experience better, easier and stylish. There are at least 2 Nokia apps that functions as a complete virtual keyboard for smartphones and they are called DayHand Input and WFVirtualKey. Either one of these 2 special symbian apps is a must have app for any 5th edition Nokia symbian smartphones user, period. You must have at least one of them installed on your device to get the best experience out of your smartphone.

DayHand Input:

DayHand Input (English) is translated and modified for the community by Mr. Milk (thumbs up at ya dude) and it is an extremely customizable virtual keyboard app for any Touch OS supported symbian smartphones of Nokia, SonyEricsson, LG, Motorola and Samsung. Beside assisting you when writing a SMS, E-Mail or MMS, DayHand Input also supports a wide variety of external mobile apps from the OVI Store and other publishers including Opera. Apparently, it also lets you configure a virtual T-Pad on the home screen (not tested by me) with which you can emulate the actual Hardware T-Pad on all the S60 version 3 phones.

It supports customized skins, themes or UI which you can design yourself or simply download from our blog and other trusted websites. It lets you customize the default English language and input buttons easily.

This version of DayHand Input (English version) is actually adopted from its much famous Chinese version of the app which is actually named as the Chinese DayHand Input and is one of the most widely used mobile software for peeps in China. It has been translated in English to quite an extent so that everyone can use it regardless of their language. Still there maybe a few bugs that still remains and it is requested that you report them here in the post or on their official site. Developers of the app are also working double time so that the individual key stroke buttons can also be re-sized and the zooming or panning feature can be easily controlled.

DayHand Input supports several characters that for any single key, meaning it has the option to assign multiple types of both special, alphabetical and numeric characters. For e.g. The characters can be “abc” for the first button in T9 dictionary mode, 1 for numeric mode and a hash in ASCII characters mode. You can also customize any group of alphabets for any displayed key easily by customizing it from the handy menu that pops up when you tap and drag the button you want to customize.

DayHand Input also supports both the Portrait and Landscape display, it can turn itself to align the keyboard layout with your desired and applicable Portrait or Landscape view automatically. You can make DayHand Input your default virtual keyboard and thus replace the built in Nokia Virtual Keyboard or you can also choose to use it as a secondary keyboard.

It includes a total of 7 different which you can select and swap by two individual key strokes.

Dayhand Input Keyboard

Dayhand Landscape Mode

Dayhand (english version by Mr. Milk) highlights

tap and drag

Download Dayhand Keyboard Input:

WF Virtual Key:

WFVirtualKey is an excellent software which imitates the functionality and navigational T-Pad of any generic Nokia 3rd edition device on your Nokia N97,  N97 mini or 5800 XpressMusic smartphone.  It can also act as an enhancer app for many new apps that are being introduced to the 5th edition Nokia smartphones including the Opera Mini browser, Garmin Mobile XT (GMXT) and the Ozone Browser. It lets you replace the standard virtual keypad that comes with your Nokia Touch PDA devices.

It also lets you change the default skin of the T-Pad manually and lets you control the position of the T-Pad on your home screen. You can run it in the background and also play all games that otherwise requires you to have a T-Pad for proper navigation, just configure it and you are ready to go. All the 9 different T-Pad keys (non-qwerty phones) are customizable with an one touch menu button. Only if you are an advanced user you can further tweak the actual .config file of the app located at the internal phone memory’s installation folder i.e.:

C: \\system\\Apps\\WF_VirtualKey\\

To change the skin of the application manually you will have to find the folder named \\Skins which is located inside the \\WF_VirtualKey\\ program installation folder and edit or replace the default skin file present there. To be able to add, browse or edit any files or folder installed on your Nokia phone memory, you will need some very good knowledge of Symbian systems and will require experience in phone hacking or unlocking expertise. Do not accidentally delete or edit any files if you don’t know what you are doing, you can’t blame me if you brick your PDA doing this.

WF Virtual Key

Nokia Virtual Key

What really makes this a special app is its ability to run in the background effortlessly without being a memory hog on the phone system. It also is  the first app of its kind and probably is the actual app that inspired DayHand itself. It is essential that you install this mobile application on the internal phone memory and NOT the memory card. Also, after installation it is advised that you reboot your phone before launching the app for the first time.

Downloads:

Download WF Virtual Key

In WF VirtualKey, there is an excellent option called include/exclude through which you can decide to configure WF Virtual Key for any external apps installed on your touchscreen phone. If you add an application in the “include” list then VirtualKey will be enabled for that specific mobile application.

In the same way, when you explicitly want to disable WF VirtualKey for an application that supports WF Virtual Key, all you have to do is add that application to the list “exclude”. This is a very well implemented feature that seperates WF Virtual Key from all the other touchscreen based mobile apps.

Please subscribe to the RSS Feed before downloading these apps and also feel free to leave a comment with your feedback as they are most welcome. Browse our blog to find only the best apps that any Nokia user should install on his or her phone! Cheers!

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In short NOD32 ESET Mobile Antivirus offers a comprehensive solution to protect your smartphones against multiple types of Spam SMS, Trojan installers, many Viruses, Spyware, Adware, Rootkit infections, Worms and other unidentified malicious mobile softwares.

We are highly dependent on all sort of mobile communications and personal information management in a daily basis from our phones. Whether it is a simple WAP site that you are browsing from your Nokia S60 built in browser or performing a secured remote transaction from your phone, you depend on your device’s capability to deliver what it is supposed to. Having a malicious trojan virus or a vulnerable rootkit located on your phone without your knowing can hamper that completely without you even knowing about it. In a split second a malicious virus can turn your pitch-perfect life upside down and push you into utmost jeopardy and that’s what ESET Mobile Antivirus aims to prevent!

Features:

The ESET NOD32 application comes with a range of individual effective features to ensure you maximum protection from threats without hampering the smartphone’s performance level. In short ESET Mobile antivirus offers the following:

A lightweight virus scanning engine to ensure maximum performance of your smartphone’s battery and available phone memory round the clock.

Amazingly, it still detects and perishes almost 99% of presently active threats at the same time!! It is one of the most effective solution for treating virus to date.

Protects you against all types of malware, spyware, adware, virus and known trojan bots. It also kills any rootkit processes that may be already present in your phone.

Protects you all around by safeguarding your phone from bluetooth virus threats and WiFi intrusions.

An On Demand style scanner to manually scan for virus and threats on your phone with the ESET application.

An On-Access Scanner which detects and disintegrates any virus whenever you or your device’s System processes access the file.

An intuitive user interface to make things easier for a newbie while also providing an in-depth optional set up for detecting and treating infected files.

Similar to Kaspersky Mobile Security, NOD 32 Mobile anti-virus has a simple, one step process for an one time product activation and a daily virus definition upgrade. The upgrade is done straight through your mobile GPRS, WAP or 3G network with their real time virus signature database.

Background scanning on all types of files and active processes. Ability to filter out files manually depending on your specific requirement.

A comprehensive archive scanner to scan and fix every single file in the memory card regardless of how big your memory card or phone hard drive is.

Offers a heuristic based scanning engine which can effectively identify a potential virus by assessing its behavior against a generic virus behavior in a proactive manner.

Can clean or delete all types of infections and automatically move any permanently infected files to the quarantine vault.

Protects your phone from unsolicited spam messages or SMS with a built in firewall rule.

It also shares all type of statistics and scanning log of any/all activity of the application on your phone so that you can easily evaluate your security status.

ESET NOD32 Mobile Antivirus

Downloads:

Download NOD32 ESET Mobile Antivirus

ESET NOD32 Symbian Mobile Antivirus is compatible with all Nokia N-Series and E-Series smartphones like the Nokia N95, N96, N93, N92, N97, N91, N86, N81, N82, N81, N80, N79, N80, N85, N78, N79, N76, N75, N73, N71, E50, E51, E52, E55, E60, E61, E62, E65, E66, E71, E90, E72, E75, 6290, 6120, 6121, 5800 XpressMusic, 5700, 5500, 5300 etc.

Please subscribe to the Rss feed before downloading this awesome free mobile antivirus software for your Nokia symbian phones. Also, feel free to report any bugs or issues if you find any. Cheerios and keep yourself safe from spammers!

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This post will offer you the many ways to extend and enhance your mobile phone’s battery life, stand-by time and talk time so that you can make better use of all the other amazing games and mobile applications for Nokia Series 60. More information about the remaining talk time and stand-by time of your phone means you being able to make those crucial calls when you need to rather than losing communications between an active call due to zero battery power.

Some of these Nokia apps even lets you set profile and organize your phone’s default battery consumption behavior, some informs you about the exact remaining battery time to the last minute while some simply speaks out to you when you lose a bar in the battery meter.

The featured battery related applications that I am going to feature today and that really stands out  in my opinion are: Ravensoft Battery Extender, Capree iOn Battery Timer and the original Nokia freeware called Nokia Energy Profiler which is developed by Nokia themselves.

The Nokia mobile applications should work on all Symbian 3rd edition devices (S60 Version 1, 2 and 3 or FP1, FP2 and FP3) and 5th edition smartphones (S60 Version 4 and 5 or FP4 and FP5).

I like all of these featured mobile applications as they are all very special in terms of their features and I am also confident that most of you will like nearly all of them, still if you prefer one over the other then do let us know through your comments. Without any further delay let me get into the Nokia battery applications that can really change things for the better.

Ravensoft Battery Extender:

Before you download Ravensoft Battery Extender for Nokia you should know that playing with how the hardware of the phone behaves with your battery is really of much importance, hence you should always read through the details of Ravensoft Battery Extender thoroughly. Ravensoft Battery Extender takes into account the default behavior of your phone’s operating system on its Lithium Ion mAH battery. When you chat hours after hours with your friends or when you browse the web from your S60 mobile browser or the Opera Mobile S60 browser for example, your battery uses up memory. As you browse even more it begins to consume more and more battery power which then drains your battery completely turning your mobile phone off.

With Ravensoft Battery Extender you will be able to profile down your battery consumption level according to the remaining power of the battery. Effectively it lets you select some preset profile values which can turn off the power hungry functions like your GPS or Opera Mobile when your battery meter values falls down low. With only one click you can switch battery profiles to completely change your phone’s battery consumption.

Battery Extender for Nokia

You can choose to run your phone with full force by selecting the ‘Outdoor’ profile of Ravensoft Battery Extender which will enable all functions of your phone, thus letting you share your waypoints or geotags easily through apps like Google Maps or Garmin Maps when you need to. When you are back at home you can activate the profile ‘Improved Battery’ so that it can extend the remaining battery life by automatically switching functions like Bluetooth, GPS, Screensaver, accelerometers etc or any other background apps.

There is also another profile which is Max Battery and it can trim down functions  and processes like crazy. It is most effective when you are going away for the weekend or if you are not going to use your phone other than talking or making a call. Of course, you can revert to the original profile anytime and also choose your very own custom settings whenever you want.

Download Ravensoft Battery Extender:

Download Battery Extender

Capree iOn Battery Timer:

Imagine a situation when you have started out for a day long road trip with your friends and after one hour of being on the road you realize that  you have forgotten the charger at home. Even more of a yucky situation is when you realize that you have to make an important call to your boss and your battery dies on you just 5 minutes before the moment, but hey guess what?

Battery Timer

Battery Details Menu

No more will you have to suffer like that because with Capree iOn Battery Timer you will be able to monitor your battery power level or battery charge left in terms of minutes and hours accurately. Thus you will always know how many hours or minutes you have left before your battery turns against you which gives you sufficient time to make that important call you really need to make on schedule. This is just one example on call management of how you can utilize iOn Battery Timer, I can give you a thousand more if I had more time.

Beside having an awesome menu appearance, Capree iOn Battery Timer provides you with precise info like letting you know the exact amount of time left to complete battery discharge, the time and date when the discharge will occur, your average battery life cycle per charge etc. It conveniently provides access to the information of battery charge on the display screen of your phone as a home screen widget.

Download Capree iOn Battery Timer:

Download Battery Timer

Nokia Energy Profiler:

Nokia Energy Profiler is a freeware application that is based on the 3rd edition and 5th edition N-Series and E-Series Symbian OS platform of Nokia smartphones. Nokia Energy Profiler also supports Touch UI based Nokia smartphone devices. I am guessing that Nokia Energy Profiler’s compatibility will be extended for the newly introduced Nokia X-Series phones very soon. At its core, the Nokia Energy Profiler is a Nokia freeware through which you will be able to gather detailed information about any application’s energy consumption rate. This will help you to determine whether keeping a mobile application running on your phone is worth the power it consumes.

Nokia Energy Profiler is mainly aimed towards any S60 mobile application developer and theme developer to examine specific functions or bugs in any application’s power consumption behavior. However, because of the interactive display and pretty graphs of Nokia Energy Profiler many end users find it of much use as it helps them to maintain and better profile their symbian device’s installed applications.

Nokia Energy Profiler

Nokia Energy Profiler shows detailed information about several features of an application on its phone including the individual and cumulative power consumption level, the voltage redundancy of the application, RAM usage level, process activity levels, both GSM network, WLAN and WiFi signal strength, 3G internet packet transfer speed and ip network speed.

Download Nokia Energy Profiler:

Download Energy Profiler

All Nokia 3rd edition Symbian devices including the Nokia N97, N95, N96, N92, N91, N86, N75, N82, N81, N80, N71, N73, N77, N78, N79, N85, N76, 6120, 6290, 6110, 5700, 5800 XpressMusic Touch UI, N95 8gb, 6121, 3250, Nokia E72, E75, E71, E70, E90, E66, E65, E63, E62, E60, E61, E50 and the recently announced 5800 Navigation Edition are supported.

Please do subscribe to the Rss feed of my blog before you download any of these excellent freewares above. Subscription is free, it takes you less than a minute and keeps me motivated to feature such excellent applications to you.

Mobile Apps for Battery Mgt

Please let me know if there are any other applications that I may have missed in this list of battery management mobile apps for Nokia that you think should make this list of Symbian applications for Nokia mobile. I have already added another Python application called Battery Voice which speaks out your battery status every time you lose a bar on the battery meter of your phone’s display so leave Battery Voice out as that is more of a  fun little application.

Cheers!

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Thanks to the mobile apps that let us run commands that mimics the PC functions like ALT+CTRL+DEL and “Show Hidden Files and Folders.”  Like the regular desktop or laptop Windows File Explorer or the famous Norton Commander there are quite a few mobile apps that brings PC like File Explorers or File Managers and Task Managers into the small screen of Symbian OS.

It is hugely because of these fantastic mobile applications that we are able to install 3rd party untrusted, unsigned applications on our symbian phones without any certificate expired or file corrupted messages!!

The official Nokia guys seems to assume that stuffs like hidden phone memory processes, .dll or .bat based firmware system files, .exe based files etc should be hidden from the average mobile phone user as they can pose a significant threat to the phone’s operation if modified or accidentally deleted.

For people like you, me and anyone named Dexter (not Dupree!) the  fun only begins when the default rules are skipped. People like you and me want more control on how the phone’s operating system or firmware behaves and stuff like whether or not we can dictate which background applications and processes should run, what version of applications can be installed yada yada yada!

There are several freeware and regular paid mobile software that are out there for functions that let us control functions such as browsing deep into our phone’s content, moving files around etc. Today we will take a look and feature the best ones of such mobile phone explorers that are out there for the taking!

Featured File Explorers

Lonely Cat Games X-Plore:

Lonely Cat Games X-Plore (popularly known as LCG X-Plore or just Xplore) is not a stranger in this file browsing category of mobile apps. In fact LCG X-Plore is the most successful file explorer to date for any 3rd edition symbian OS smartphones.

LCG X-Plore brings a bunch of important utility based functions to the smartphones that was otherwise absent to the average Nokia user. LCG X-Plore has a nice GUI which makes it even more appealing to users and the font it carries to display the contents of a drive are nicely adopted towards the smartphones making everything easy to read and execute.

LCG X-Plore

Features of LCG X-Plore:

1. Excellent tree based view of all the contents of the phone’s memory and memory card.
2. High performance browsing engine lets you browse your phone smoothly, including files in compressed archives.
3. On the fly modification of file properties or attributes including the modification of the file’s name.
4. Let’s you create and save any new blank file and folder anywhere within the drives.
5. Comes with an integrated image viewer,  audio player, video player to make things easy for you.
6. Clear differentiation between each of the drives, protected ROM files or core system files being automatically restricted etc.
7. Easy to use functions such as copy, cut (move), delete, paste etc. for both the files and folders.
8. Instant two click commands “like Send to Bluetooth or Infrared” are very nicely integrated.
9. Instant extraction, execution and archiving features for any compressed zipped (also .RAR and .JAR files) or unzipped item.
10. Integrated back-end browsing for the entire “Messaging” menu including the files in the Inbox.
11. Loaded with “Two click functions” like displaying your phone’s hardware details, rebooting the phone etc.
12. Comes with a built in Hex Editor, Word and Text Document viewer and editor.
13. Comes with a powerful task manager and system process viewer, which lets you kill or start any process easily.
14. Comes with multiple GUI colors and skins, highly customizable.

Downloads:

You can download LCG X-Plore after subscribing to the RSS feed, subscription is free!

Download X-Plore

FExplorer Pro (FEP):

Another similar and equally fantastic file explorer is the Pro version of the FExplorer called FExplorer Pro or FEP in short. This pro version is also compatible with 5th edition and 3rd edition symbian os phones.

Features of FExplorer Pro Version 2:

FExplorer Pro let’s you:

1. Search individual files and folders that are located on the memory card or phone memory.
2. Take screenshot of the phone’s display screen easily and save it in multiple formats.
3. The new version also offers the much awaited tab interface for managing views.
4. Use the phone’s backlight as a Torch.
5. Comes with a built in bluetooth and infrared manager.
6. Create, Rename, Copy, Paste, Cut a single file or folder. Batch Copy, Paste, Cut functions are also available.
7. Change the authority attributes of any file or folder inside the phone.
8. View all the system files and hidden folders with descriptive information.
9. View images, videos, slides without the need of any external app.
10. Listen to songs, clips, ringtones etc. without the need of any external app.
11. You can restart the phone with just two clicks from FExplorer 2 menu screen.
12. Dump, Compress and Optimize system RAM or device memory.
13. Compress, Extract and browse Zip formatted archived files without the need of external apps.
14. View phone’s info, hardware details and network info of your service provider.

There are many other functions that FExplorer Pro let’s you do which I am not mentioning here. I hope that you will find them out yourself and let us know about your experiences with FEP.

FExplorer Pro

Downloads:

Download FExplorer Pro 2 Beta

Final Version of SBSH File Explorer Pro 2.0:

SBSH File Explorer Pro 2 Final Version

Close Competitors:

There are several other Nokia File explorers that are closely following behind X-Plore and they must be mentioned for the better:

Active File: Active File Explorer is a free file explorer for 3rd edition devices which has almost all the basic functions you can expect from a standard file manager like Cut, Copy, Pasting files and Folders. One of the most unique features of Active File is the multiple “Tab styled” tree view menu which makes browsing through folders and  bulk copy paste functions a breeze!

Y-Browser: Y-Browser is a dedicated free Nokia S60 file manager which brings almost all the functionality of X-Plore except the built in audio and video player. The default application Y-Browser comes with the basic functions and features, however, advanced functions such as sending file over Bluetooth or Infrared, Inbox Menu Browsing etc can be achieved if you install the plugins I have provided.

FExplorer: One of the most used apps of all time has got to be the standard version of the amazing file explorer FExplorer Pro 2.0. The standard version is equally great and is created by GoSymbian for Nokia Series 60 samrtphones. It includes nearly all the functions of LCG X-Plore except the multiple UI Style changes. This version of the app will never expire and should work smoothly on any device of Nokia.

SysExplorer: One of the earliest mobile file explorer for 3rd edition phones of S60 Nokia devices. Lightweight and brings all the basic functions of a file explorer and should be preferred by anyone who lacks phone memory or memory card space.

All the files above including the 4 file managers above and the LCG X-Plore Nokia mobile application is compatible with Nokia N-Series and E-Series based devices including N95 8gb, N91, E72, N92, N82, N85, E61, E62, E63, E65, N86, N73, N75, N76, N77, E66, E70, N93, N95, N96, N79, N80, N81, N97 Mini, N71, E50, E51, N97, N78, E60, E55, E71, E90, 6120, 5700 XpressMusic, 5800 XpressMusic Touch UI, 3250, 6290, 3120, 6220 etc.

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IM Plus or IM+ by Shape Services comes with the most needed feature of absolutely zero costs on per instant messages transferred. This means that using IM Plus you will not be charged for any incoming or outgoing messages to and from the software itself. Whether you are using MSN or Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, AOL, ICQ, Google Talk etc or anything similar is of no importance here when it comes to cost of messages during a chat or private messaging session.

IM Plus lets you bring all the important activities of social messaging services like sending and receiving multiple types of file transfers including your photos and videos, leave and manage voice messages, participate in dynamic ‘reply to’ style chat sessions, setting status manually and automatically when signed in etc. It is also one of the most award winning mobile applications of all time!

IM Plus presently supports Windows or MSN Live Messenger, AIM Messenger or iChat, Yahoo IM, Google Talk, MySpace Chat, ICQ Chat, Jabber Messaging. Facebook Chat is one of the services that they presently do not support and I guess we can only hope that in the future it will bring Facebook within its supported list of networks.

IM Plus

IM Plus supports a wide range of mobile devices and PDA smartphones, from the Apple iPhone to the Nokia 3230, almost every phone type is supported. Some services however, are offered only in certain high end smartphones and some specific features depend on your mobile device’s capability to run them.

Nokia smartphones with the Symbian based OS including the Feature Pack version 1 (or Symbian 9.1), Version 2 (or Symbian 9.2), Version 3 (or S60 V3) and Version 5 (or S60 V5) are all officially supported by IM Plus.

IMPlus

This means that Nokia N-Series based smartphones that are officially supported are: N91, N92, N93, N95, N95 8gb, N96, N97, N78, N79, N80, N81, N82, N85, N86, N73, N75, N76, N77, N72, N70 and N71. Likewise, the E-Series based smartphones like E50, E51, E60, E61, E62, E63, E65, E66, E70, E71, E72, E90 etc are also known to work smoothly with this amazing all in one messaging mobile application for Series 60 Symbian. Regular S60 mobile phones including the 6120, 6121, 6290, 5700 XpressMusic, 5500, 5800 Touch UI XpressMusic are also in the list of supported phones.

IM Plus for Nokia

Some of the highlights of the Symbian version of Shape Services IM Plus are listed below for better evaluation of this cool amazing mobile app:

No hidden IM charges, fees etc for any instant messaging from the client end.

Supports intuitive private messaging elements like avatars, smileys etc.

Speedy transfer for all your files, videos and photos from one place.

Automatic messaging logs and chat history for all the services on any handhelds.

Dynamic message and contacts search within one or in all the IM services.

Complete management of status messages, both in automatic and manual mode.

Full support for complete contacts management, blocking, deleting, allowing etc.

Automatic set up and orientation in landscape and portrait mode.

Supports multiple chatting sessions, pop up messages and dialogs without any delay whatsoever.

Supports templates based instant messaging and

Supports multilingual private messaging provided that your phone supports it.

All in all this all in one Instant Messaging mobile client is one hell of a must have application that almost anyone should install on their Nokia S60 mobile device because it makes life easy and keeps the bill at zero.

Downloads (for S60 smartphones, version 8.09):

Download

Updates (10 December 2009):

Updated Downloads of Shape Services IM Plus version 8.11 for S60 Symbian:

Download IM Plus for Symbian

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Also, do check out some of the other mobile messaging applications that are already featured by us here in Chaos Inc. Nokia Symbian Themes. Cheerios!

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The true fix to lower your monthly internet is to browse the internet from your smartphones or mobile less and less everyday, there is no way around it! However you can always, turn off showing the images and sounds and other heavy multimedia files on a website or blog to be displayed automatically, this should reduce your total kilobytes usage significantly. Then again, you can always try your luck with different mobile internet browsers that are available there including the ones like Skyfire, Opera Mobile etc. Lastly, when all hope is lost and you want to give up or you are going crazy and counting 1 to 100 backwards, behold: UCWEB Mobile Internet Browser!

Or, if you are an Airtel user or Airtel Live user, you can use the much tweaked version of UCWEB Mobile Internet Browser which uses a specific proxy or alternative server as its internet access point, thus eliminating your mobile operator’s browsing charge completely after the connection is made!!!! Other operators are also supported worldwide provided that you can manually tweak the settings of UCWEB browser and you know your specific Telecom Operator’s internet access point to the parent server.

Free mobile internet is ensured from the get go and if you do not disconnect the connection (by running the app in the background) for 60 minutes then you will enjoy super high internet browsing speed from the 61st minute! The highest speed can be somewhere around 25 to 40 KB per second on any Nokia HSDPA, 3G, EDGE or GPRS powered smartphone. For the small screen, that is quite a good amount of speed!

Features of UCWEB Mobile Internet Browser:

UCWEB Mobile Internet Browser or UC Browser can be considered to be the Maxthon of mobile browsers around the world, whether you are on a PDA or a smartphone does not matter.

1. Browsing is fast with UCWEB for Symbian,
2. It offers easy downloading of files and multimedia,
3. It is compatible with WAP and Web based sites,
4. Can export and import browsing profiles and bookmarks from one device to the other,
5. Comes with multiple E-mail services and Search Engines already integrated,
6. Supports all types of feed syndication protocols like ATOM and RSS and
7. Lets you customize your home page with speed dial links (like in Opera Desktop Browser or any other browser where Google Toolbar is installed)!

All the features of Opera Mobile, Opera Mini and Skyfire seems to be already integrated in UCWEB mobile internet browser but why is it any different than the rest? It is because it has even more features in its arsenal.

UCWEB

Advanced and Unique Features:

Alrighty then, with all those being said, let us get into the details of the more unique features of this symbian based UCWEB Mobile Internet Browser and see why this customizable mobile browser is different than the others.

1) Perfect browsing optimization of any website for your mobile phone’s specific display screen. As you can see on the image below, the example website is automatically resized, compressed and fitted on the 240×320 pixels of the smartphone dynamically. Zero loss of navigational links can be seen on the mobile version of the site when browsed with UC Browser and the total size of the webpage is reduced to provide you a  faster browsing experience altogether.

Desktop VS Mobile Browsing Adaptation

2) With UC Browser installed on your Series 60 symbian device you can manually save any displayed image, audio etc. to the local memory storage (memory card or phone memory) of your smartphone. You can then simply connect your phone to the PC or simply browse from the phone with a file explorer to the chosen folder where the file you have saved is located and view it later.

Save Image As function of UCWEB

3) UC Browser supports viewing of multiple attachment types like the PDF, DOC, FLV etc. Whether the file you want to view is embedded in the inbox of your email account or it is simply hyperlinked on a webpage makes it no different because UCWEB Browser supports the both of them.

4) Opera Mobile and Opera Mini like browsing History functions are also present in UCWEB Browser. This means you can have one touch access to the last browsed web location even after you restart UCWEB browser at a later time! Resuming the web browsing sessions are as easy as 123 with UCWEB Browser for 3rd edition and 5th edition Symbian.

Resume Browsing Sessions

5) With UCWEB mobile internet browser you can navigate a multiple number of pages at the same time. Just like any standardized desktop internet browser, you can open, switch or close multiple number windows or tabs (and a group of windows) at the same time.

UCWEB Multple Windows and Tabs

6) UCWEB smartphone browser recognizes and automatically inputs any of the last visited website or blog’s addresses when you start to type the first few alphabets of  the address you are willing to visit. This makes UCWEB browser an efficient and intelligent time saving machine for any regular mobile internet or WAP user as it lets you skip address inputs significantly by not repeating the same URL over and over again from your smartphone.

7) An awesome, much overlooked, function of UCWEB browser is that it lets you choose the way a specific image is displayed on a web page. For example, consider the page you are in right now, our blog have a whole lotta images on it. Some are important and specific to a single post of the blog (specifically this UCWEB one) and are not repeated on other pages. UCWEB can recognize the post-specific or page-specific images and provide you an option to view the image or take any other action based on your need. This ensures proper or full display of the important content specific images to be displayed in full view and display other images (like the common images on the sidebar) to be ignored altogether, thus saving you tons of monthly mobile internet usage fees.

Specific Image Display

There are a whole lot of other useful features that UCWEB internet browser for mobile brings with it and it will take me ten pages to focus each one of them so I will skip them altogether. But rest assured, UCWEB internet browser is one hell of a must have mobile application for any smartphone user looking to lower their monthly usage without giving up the existing mobile internet browsing experience!

UCWEB Browser now supports FLV extensions thus allowing you  to view videos in flash within the browser. This allows any user to view videos from popular social media streaming sites and communities like YouTube and Vimeo! You can browse the other contents of a page and view any embedded FLV video on that page without the need of anything else but the plugin! The UCWEB FLV plugin executes this important functionality quite well as the video streaming quality depends on your EDGE/3G connection speed rather than the plugin’s ability to render it.

UC WEB FLV Plugin

UCWEB Browser is compatible with a wide range of Nokia devices from the 3rd edition and 5th edition symbian N-Series, XpressMusic and E-Series family. Nokia N96, N85, N78, N79, N80, N82, N91, N81, N92, N93, N95, Nokia N97, N95 8gb, N73, N71, N76, N77, N75, N86, 6120, 6121, E65, E50, E51, E60, E61, E62, E66, E71, the newly introduced Nokia E72, E70, E90, E66, Nokia E63, 5800 Touch UI phone, 5700, 5290, 5300 etc and more.

Download UCWEB 6 and 7 plus the FLV Plugin

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If you are using a touchscreen phone like the Nokia N97, N97 Mini, 5800 XpressMusic, X6, X3 or the 5800i then you can try the latest version of UCWEB which is version 7. Even Nokia N96, E71, N95, N73, N82, N81 and other 3rd edition devices can try this one. The download below is the english version of UCWeb Browser 7 and is compatible with all 3rd edition and 5th edition smartphones of Nokia.

UCWEB 7 Official Browser English (JAR version)

UCWEB 7 Official Browser English (SISX version)

UCWEB FLV Player Plugin

Please read through the ‘Read Me’ files included in the download to pick a proxy server which will enable you to bypass internet usage of your telecom operator easily and legally. Without choosing any one of the 3 different internet access points/proxy server fixes, free internet will not work. The 2nd version of the 3 provided server files is recommended by me although all 3 should work regardless. Cheers!

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