Greetings everyone! I know all of us here more or less love watching television. However do we always get the time we need to catch our favorite shows when it is happening? Not always! Me, I usually never get enough time to catch any of my favorite TV shows or movies and that sucks! However, finally I must say that I am most relieved because I found a gem of a mobile phone or smartphones/handhelds application or software which will turn your N-Series or E-Series Nokia phone into a Mobile TV!!

How does it all happen? How exactly do we watch the TV channels? Do we watch it live or they are merely clips of recorded programs which we have to download to watch? Obvious questions I know, but with this Mobile TV Nokia application you will be able to catch your favorite shows live on your symbian series 60 cell phones and smartphones. It uses the GSM GPRS or 3G or even 3.5G mobile internet connectivity for streaming the channel feeds. The faster the connectivity of your mobile phone, the better the streaming or digital multimedia quality, simple as that. You can choose to watch your favorite mobile tv shows in widescreen or landscape mode or in the normal vertical mode. The overall audio quality of this mobile tv application again depends on your mobile internet speed. In general if you have EDGE connectivity then there will be very little or absolutely no annoying pauses in between the feeds when you are watching them live.

Mobile TV acts like a Mobile FLV player like Mobitubia or FLV player for Nokia but the difference is that the steaming is decoded through the use of DVB. This is quite a logical step in the development of the entire mobile phones business and consumer market I believe as a demand was always there and when HSDPA or HSPA slipped in as the standard technology, it was assured that we will be watching live TV on our cell phones soon! Many network operators are already providing their very own mobile TV broadcasts like Orange Mobile, AT&T Wireless, Vodafone, Verizon Wireless etc and many more but a key drawback of all those channels or broadcasts are that firstly you cannot view mobile tv over cell phones of Symbian (you will at least need Windows Mobile or Palm or PDA based devices) and secondly, if your network carrier is Verizon for example then you cannot view the channels provided by AT&T Wireless. In many cases it is your operator or mobile TV broadcasting channel that binds you to an exclusive contract or agreement when you buy your prepaid or post paid plans that you will only watch their channels if you decide to pick on the service.

With this Nokia mobile application installed on your cell phones you will be able to watch all the independent channels as long as those mobile tv broadcasters restrict you to connect, which in most cases they don’t! So finally it is time you watch your favorite TV shows like LOST, The Simpsons, CSI etc when you are at work or you are traveling from one place to the other. This Mobile TV software uses real time multimedia feed (not like you get for my site, it’s the RSS FEED!!!) which enables you to choose from various pre-scheduled programs with good clarity and sound quality. While some phones and PDA handhelds have an edge if they have an antenna built in like the 3rd edition Nokia N77, Samsung Omnia, HTC Touch or the LG VU then after extending it you will get even better reception!!

The only drawback of this Nokia based application (..ofcourse other symbian devices, BREW and windows mobile platforms are also supported) is that it consumes battery like a monster and will drain your phone out of power pretty quickly. Nonetheless, the overall positives are way above anything as pescy as this! This application is compatible with the latest and greatest Nokia symbian N-Series and E-Series, S60 & S40 devices like Nokia N77, N78, N79, N80, N81, N82, N85, N91, N92, N93, N95, N96, N95 8gb, N6600, E50, E51, E60, E61, E62, E65, E66, E70, E71, E90, 6120, 5300, 5700 Xpress Music, 5500, 6250, 6220 6310, 5200, 6300, 6121, 5710, 5610, 6290, the luxurious designer cell phones like 8800 Arte and Luna, 7360 and many more including the latest Samsung Omnia and LG VU, HTC Touch HD etc.

This mobile TV application is network operator independent as it uses it’s own feed and will work with AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Telstra, France Telecom, 3G Wireless, DoCoMo, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile, Digi, Hutch, T-Mobile or T-Mobility, Rogers, Sprint, Optimus, Telenor etc. Please subscribe to the RSS feed for free if you like this blog and this Nokia mobile TV application! Cheers!

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Also, if you want to know how to set up Sky TV manually using WLAN on your cell phones of Nokia N-Series or E-Series then check out the tutorials section!

If you are working in Sales, direct or indirect or if your nature of work involves frequent traveling or customer call then you should face a dilemma which really is quite irritating at times. Most of the times when you meet with a potential or existing customer or attend a business conference, you are presented with a bag full of visiting cards which not only makes your wallets go thicker but literally becomes a pain in the a**. Exchanging business cards is like exchanging a simple hello and it quickly gives you an overview for the method of communications available either for you or the person who you are meeting with. Exchanging business cards is also a vital sales strategy as it creates a good first impression and, the more advanced or good looking your cards are, the more respected you will be (other things remaining constant).

Though we all have the option to input every single information within the phone’s contact database, doing it in person is really quite a task. It’s just too much work and you know it!!! Most of the times, 70% of the business cards are either lost or destroyed/eradicated one might say after a period of one month. Also, it is a huge trouble to find the card among the stack when you need it the most and in pitch perfect time. Say it isn’t so? What if I told you, life just got easier…. thanks to the Symbian OS and Nokia phones!!

Today, I am presenting you with an awesome application for any business minded or social individual. If your wallet is too thick already not because of money and because of business or visiting cards then this application is what a dream application is like! Yes, it is the most efficient Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application available in the symbian market to date and it is called Abbyy Business Card Reader for Symbian smartphones of Nokia. There is a solid reason I specified the word efficient here as I am sure that you know about all the other products that are available in the mobile applications or mobile software market for OCR related purpose. Most of them have a huge error percentage that results after the scan and compared to Abbyy Business Card Reader, they honestly sucks!! Abbyy Business Card Reader uses your camera from the smartphone to scan the visiting card and save it as a contact. Sounds simple enough compared to the existing hard business cards method of doing sales or exchanging your information?  With your 3rd edition S60 device powered by Abbyy Business Card Reader you can be pretty sure that you will never ever need to maintain a visiting or business card diary in your hands when you are out to a call.

Abbyy Business Card Reader makes your life easier by its extremely innovative import engine. It scans the card and takes a thumb shot or snapshot, creates a new contact with the card name appearing exactly the way you want it to appear in your contacts menu, (i.e. either by First Name Last or Last Name First), assigns the cell phone number mentioned in the card, creates an email address exactly like mentioned in the card, complete business address with Fax (if available) and PSTN number as well. All you have to do is open up your camera’s lens protector (if it has one) and hold the card underneath the camera and Abbyy Business Card Reader will automatically take a temporary snapshot and start to process the data accordingly. If the contact’s name is already there in the smartphone’s database then it only adds the additional information to that contact or in other words updates it. If the contact’s name is there in the contacts and he has a cell phone number already assigned then Abbyy Business Card Reader will automatically create a new cell phone number specifying that it was number of that person’s Cell (Business Card) and it also does not touch the existing cell phone number. Of course you can toggle this option and overwrite any information with one click only! So far this card reader works with 99% accuracy and intelligence so to speak because unlike the other products out there in the mobile phone’s market, Abbyy Business Card Reader assigns first name and last name correctly. Now you see why I said it is efficient?

This is one application that you can actually rely upon because when you are importing a contact’s information so quickly, if it takes a wrong snap or inputs the information inaccurately then everything is ruined. This application is really easy to use and does not eat up much phone memory or RAM when you are running it. It ensures accurate data and also gives you the freedom to get rid of the paper made business card, thus keeping your wallet thin and your a** painless! Lol. Can the Apple Iphone 3G or 1G do this? No! Hence Nokia Rocks!!!!!! In my opinion, this can be used as a full fledged mobile phone contact manager as well if you use it wisely.

As always, here in Nokia Symbian Themes you only get the highest quality Nokia themes, games, applications, tutorials and phone reviews of the Nokia smartphones and you get them all for free! All I ask in return is for you to show your appreciation by subscribing to the RSS feed which itself is free and takes less than a minute. Thanks in advance for doing so and supporting me. This amazing and efficient symbian application is compatible with Nokia N-Series and E-Series smartphones. All the Nokia S60 GSM and WCDMA handsets that are running on 3rd edition like Nokia N96, N95, N93, N92, N91, N78, N79, N85, N82, N81, N80, N73, N76, N75, N71, N77, 6110 Navigator, 6290, 6600 Slide, 6300, Luna, Arte, Sapphire, 7360, 6121, 6220, 6120, 5700, 5710, 5300, 5600, 5500 Sport, Xpress Music 5200, 5210, Nokia E90, E65, E50, E51, E60, E61, E62, E66, E71, E70, 3250 are all supported with this automated card reader which will surely save you from redundancy and additional work when doing business. All major network carriers of different countries worldwide like AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Cricket, Rogers, Telenor, Orange Mobile UK, Virgin Mobile, Hutch, Digi, Telstra, Airtel, Cingular, France Telecom etc are all compatible with this application.

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So what are you waiting for? If you have already taken a glimse of the snapshots above and subscribed to my newsletter/feed then go right ahead to download this Nokia symbian application to start making your life easier! Cheers!

Did you know that more free Nokia applications are also available for downloading and usage on your mobile phone in this blog? Just do a quick search for the S60 based application you are looking for through the search box on the right side or the one below this post and you will most probably find it!

…Because life never gives you a second chance! Na’ah not true because with this post you will get a second chance! This is 2008 and it couldn’t get any more exciting than it already is, is that what you thought? You haven’t got a clue because this game is all about a second chance and this game is all about winning, time after time, games after games and penalties after penalties! You got me for sure, FIFA 2008 it is. Did you know that football is the world’s most played and watched game? No matter if you are a fan of Christiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Lionel Messi, Kaka, or Thierry Henry, you now have the chance to put on there adidas boots, the respective football club’s legendary jerseys, get on the field to defeat your rivals and clinch the title of the year to be the club champions of the world in 2008. It is all about success in 2008 and this is what this game of football is all about.

You have the choice to play quick symbian football games or in a career based mode where you have to choose a club and play in the league games, win the league games and it’s not over because simultaneously you have to be getting your club qualified for the UEFA international club championships. Not only that, this game of mobile football brings much more than any other versions released so far. It has injuries, night play mode with floodlights, the yellow cards and even the red cards. If you start your run too early you are risking to get your on the offside and be pulled back by the dreaded whistle of the referee. As you play on the career mode and win games, your overall points improve and so does your overall stats. The more you win the more your fatigue gets you and the slower the player becomes when taking a long sprint. You have to learn the art of balancing between everything that you have, if you overwork your players then you will suffer in the next game with the same players because maybe only after the first half of the game they will give up on you.

The best strategy in the career mode according to me is to pick up some young players either via club transfers or scouting. Both have their merits and demerits. In club transfers the players are usually more rich in terms of gameplay and stats but they do not come cheap for the transfer. Most of them are actually already playing the most prestigious clubs including Manchester United, AC Milan, Barcelona, Bayern Munich etc and wouldn’t want to switch in the first place. However if you have enough cash and do manage to buy a young superstar like Rooney or Messi or even Torres, then you have flexibility to make them your front line force from the get go. If you acquire young players through scouting then you have the freedom of buying them cheap, most players are good as a long term investment but almost none of them can be your front line players from the next match. Just use the transfer season wisely, that sure is all!

In this mobile game of Football 08 (or soccer for some of you) you can configure your keys accordingly with your phone. Most widescreen phone needs to do that bit of customizing because, by default, the game is designed for vertical screen phones of Nokia. Only possible to play on the 3rd edition symbian phones, this game is sure worth the wait. The atmospheric sound effects are quite exclusive and I must admit that I haven’t heard this much details and clarity in any symbian games. If you are on a N-Gage or something of a pda styled symbian phone, then this game is a dream come true mainly because of the extremely detailed, excellent and entertaining graphics. Of course all other Nokia symbian cell phones and handsets can play that mode but I personally think the full package is the best for high end gaming devices of Nokia. The graphics and overall gameplay is quite detailed for a smartphones based game and is surely something to watch out. The best part of the game is the gameplay and the overall experience and if you haven’t played it yet, you are missing out a lot!

Almost all major wireless network carriers are supported including Orange Mobile UK, Virgin Mobile, Hutch, Telstra, Telenor, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, AT&T Wireless, Sprint, Rogers, Digi, Airtel, Orascom, Cingular and a lot more. All 3rd edition E-Series and N-Series based smart phones are supported including the Nokia N95, N78, N96, N91, N92, N93, N-Gage, 3250, 6600 Slide, 6290, E65, E50, E51, Prism, 8800, Luna, Sapphire, 7360, E90, 6300, E60, E61, E62, E70, E71, E66, N73, N80, N81, N82, N76, N75, 6110, 6120, 5700, 5710 Xpress Music, N95 8gb, 6121 etc and many more. Please do subscribe to the RSS feed via your favorite feed reader or via e-mail, that’s all I ask in return. Subscription is both free and useful, takes less than 2 clicks and less than a minute and morever it keeps you updated of the latest posts.

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Heath Ledger was born for this role, period! Most definitely my top three movies of all time is the spectacular and recently released Batman: The Dark Knight. I can’t tell you how much I liked the Heath Ledger’s phenomenal and quite unbelievable acting in this record breaking, chart topping, money making, thrice the oscar level movie. If Joker do not get an Oscar for the Dark Knight then the Oscar is worthless. In IMDB (Internet Movie Database) Batman: The Dark Knight went up over the Godfather to snatch the first place of the best 250 movies of all time. When it was first released, I honestly must admit that I thought it’s the overall superhero hype that was going on with Joker. But man oh man was I wrong! It’s really quite sick that the guy is really dead cause I tell ya, Heath Ledger was born for this role of the Joker!!

“Hahahahaha!!! Batman you flying rodent!!”

Anyway, back to the topic and after watching the movie I couldn’t wait to play the movie based game of Batman, The Dark Knight mobile game which was released earlier. This Nokia game is quite fun in one word but I really would love it better if I could be the Joker in the game cause I really would love to squash Batman under my clown-ish shoes. Lol. It only allows you play as Batman himself and you have to get out of the sticky situations by fighting your way out by using the senses that you have developed. The overall fiery, cartoon like graphics really suits the game well and makes it even more fun. Everytime you perform a heavy punch either a “Splat!!” or “Thud” or “Smash” pops up which I really liked about this themed mobile game. The game have that old comic thing going on pretty well I must say but the overall storyline is almost the same as movies. The navigational controls are quite easy and none of the Nokia 3rd edition or 2nd edition phones of almost all screen resolutions will have no problem whatsoever playing it. There is also a constant “life left” bar that shows up on all your enemies and it helps you assess your moves better in situations when you have multiple punks surrounding you and trying to make a show out of it. You get to fight behind the glass panes where the famous poster was shot and you also get to fight the enemies on the roof tops, behind walls and in places exactly like in the motion picture. You can use your gadgets, go in stealth mode or simply punch your way to the Joker to finish the game.

This game is compatible with all the symbian based S40 and S60 smartphones of E-Series and N-Series Nokia like I mentioned earlier. All 3rd edition devices with the Symbian OS 9.1 and 9.2 like the famous Nokia N96, N95, N91, N92, N76, N77, N80, N81, N82, N78, N73, N71, N75, E50, E90, E60, E70, 3250, 6600 Slide, E71, E66, Xpress Music 5700, 5200, 5300, 5710, 5210, E65, E62, E61, E51, 6120, 6121, 6210, 7360, 8800, 6300, 6290, 6110, Luna, Arte, Prism, etc are all well supported. All 2nd edition handsets like N70, N72, 6680, 6681, 3230, etc will also be able to run it with ease. GSM network carriers like AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, Hutch, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, Vodacom, Digi, Telstra, Orange Mobile UK, Rogers, Cingular, Airtel, Telenor etc should be able to support it as well. This game is really worth the attention mainly because of the movie and for a motion picture based game it is much better than any other similar symbian games. You will love to play it specially if you have seen the movie but for those who haven’t seen the movie, well see that first and then play to to enjoy the mobile game to the fullest. Please do subscribe to the RSS feed before anything as subscription is free and keeps you updated with my latest releases. I am also thinking of making a Dark Knight Batman and Joker based symbian theme soon, will see how it goes though.

“Hahahahahaha!!! Why so serious?? It’s all part of the plan…. Hahahahahaha!!! Now let’s put a smile on that face shall we? After all we are tonight’s entertainment…. Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order… well then everyone loses their heads…. Hahahahahahaha…”. - The Joker. * …takes a bow most graciously… *

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Being good at what you are should never be compromised and it applies when you are playing a game too! With that being said let me introduce you today’s topic, review and a brand new game for your smartphone S60 Nokia devices. Do you like games made out of the true events that took place in the history? Does your mind likes to shoot the enemy yourself or rather be a mastermind and give orders to defeat the opponents while you watch laying over a posh red couch? Today’s game is for those who likes to give orders more than carrying it out for someone else, …and yes, today’s game is all about the history that made the world a better or worse place in your mind, …..and yes today’s game is called the Age of Empires III Mobile.

The Age of Empires puts you in charge of famous battles that took place for real and changed the course of history, making themselves the most important chapters of our history. Whether you are visiting my portfolio blog from the United States, Scotland, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, or Bangladesh the Age of Empires will have something for everyone. This mobile game focuses on your thinking and strategic decision making ability in situations which is almost in dire straits. In most cases our heroes never have had the opportunity to have their food served to them in a golden dish with grapes or strawberry shakes around as refreshments and in this game you will have to walk in their shoes and make sure that you keep the history intact through your Nokia keys and screen. It’s all about the honor, pride and your personal will to succeed which will decide who is standing when the dust settles. Make no mistake that you will need enough knowledge about when to attack and how to attack, counter attack or defend in a possible booby trapped situation. Those who liked Commandos or any strategy based symbian game will absolutely love the Age of Empires.

The story line of this game is really superb and counts for half the marks of the game overall. The graphics overall is not the best or super high definition but then again they are not bad at all and more than enough details are their for your support and enjoyment. There is the classic information menu as well and overall I am not going to complain on the graphics part. In the S60 Age of Empires game you will get to choose which part of history you want to belong, who you want to be and which battles you always wanted to be in during your childhood or even now. You will be the famous ‘Knights of St. John’ and you have to build a new colony yourself with the help of your citizens and ultimately defend the entire Western Europe. After that you will have to make your presence felt by building an empire under your rule. The game is of course a remake of the PC and PS II/III based game the Age of Empires which I am quite sure you have played at least once or heard about it cause it sure made a hell of a success in the market. Don’t expect extreme similarities in terms of gameplay but for a mobile game, this one is packed with features and modes which is quite similar to the original Age of Empires. You can fight directly in battles after unlocking them one by one or choose to play from the beginning where you move on to different levels of difficulty when the odds stack up on you. I personally am not a huge fan of strategy based games to tell you the truth and am more of a FIFA game fan but I do like the Age of Empires mainly because when I play it I really have to use my brains.

You have more than 15 different stages to conquer, with different strategy dedicated to battles and resource managements. If you win battles then you will rewarded with points with which you can buy more resource for your colony or will be able to build different buildings, almost eight in total. You also have a handy pause menu along with an information pop up menu throughout the game which comes to be really handy after a few days of constant Age of Empires addiction. You also have a mini-map to help you guide and navigate easier. The overall sound effects are not bad and you might miss the 3D surround sound a lot but once again the story line really makes up for that. The situations you have to face to finish the game makes you realize how difficult it really is to win a war or to lose it. You can control your moves or decisions via the navigational joystick or at your wish as you can customize it which is a plus for this one. I don’t know if you will miss the heavy machine guns or 0.9mm automatic guns in this one, I know I didn’t. However for me, I rate it 4 out of 5 because I am really not a fan of strategy games.

Honestly speaking this game really depends on your likings about mobile or PDA games. It can really be a dream come true if you are a fan of Age of Empires years back and it can be a ’so-so’ game if you don’t like that. Whether you want to use your N-Series or E-Series 3rd edition symbian cell phones to play games like Super Mario, SIM City or the Age of Empires is absolutely up to you. Like always this mobile game is free for you to play as long as you subscribe free to the RSS feed via a reader or your email to keep yourself updated about the latest downloads of Nokia Symbian Themes. Compatible with a majority of symbian devices like the Nokia E90, Sapphire, Prism, Luna, Arte, 8890, 8860, 6600 Slide, 3250, E61, E61i, E60, E50, E70, 6110, E71, E66, E62, E65, Xpress Music 5700, 5500, 5200, 5300, N71, N73, N78, N76, N75, N80, N93, N91, N92, N96, N95, N81, N82, 6290, 6120, 7360, N-Gage and a lot more. Also phones from 2nd editions like the N70, 6681, N72, 6680 etc are also supported. Hope you like this one a lot! All major carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, Telstra, Rogers, Telenor, Orange Mobile UK, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, Digi, Virgin Mobile UK, Hutch, Airtel, Sprint, etc and any other CDMA or GSM based operators.

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