One of the most important aspect you always have to consider when you are out to a picnic or visiting a friend is the weather. Frequently, it is the weather that cancels the baseball or cricket matches in the big stadiums and you always have to suffer by getting wet under the rain because in spite of everything, you did reach to the stadium premises to watch the big match. Or consider a situation that you are really tight on schedule and you are heading to work cause you have to attend an important meeting with the top management of your company where you will have to present the new ideas through a projector. You dress up in the most pitch perfect way possible and the moment you step outside, rain starts to fall like it is the end of the world!! Gone are the days of such misery because with your Nokia handhelds in your pocket and a little bit of help from the 3G or EDGE Gprs connectivity, you will be able to get the latest updates of what is going to happen around the place you live in or have to travel right through. Thus it is always said that weather services are the most important value added services for mobile phones users or for them who spends a lot of time travelling!

Foreca Weather, is a mobile application/software through which you will be able to get the latest weather details from your city or country or even your neighborhood!! The kind of weather information that is actually important to you can be configured accordingly as you wish and what’s more is that you can integrate Foreca Weather with your regular calendar mobile application or software and be updated automatically every time!

Foreca Weather lets you check the present scenario of the weather around you in details, it also lets you compute and collect information regarding what is about to happen in terms of weather for the next six hours. In short it also lets you gather information on the forecast for the next 10 days straight and lets you see the the weather cloud radar for the United States of America and all of the Northern Europe. Besides these, some other handy and useful features of this smartphones based super smart software are humidity and precipitation (or rain) forecast for the next few days almost instantly with the press of a single button. It also have the wind speed and direction forecast for your city or any other as it supports more than 80 thousand cities worldwide. It also let’s you see cloudiness level for any country in the world so waiting for the major news channel like CNN or BBC is no longer necessary with this mobile weather application installed on your cell phones and handhelds. Lastly, it does one more amazing thing!! It shows you symbols maps for every single element I mentioned about the weather above so that you, me or anyone who has absolutely zero understanding about weather terms can easily understand the information. The symbols are shown on satellite images which are mighty detail like some of the better GPS mobile applications. Now here comes the interesting part, the mobile application Foreca Weather for Nokia symbian phones integrates itself and configures itself automatically with your WiFi connections at home or office. That means you do not have to use the GPRS or EDGE or 3G connections of your phone which will save you some money for sure and which you can rather spend on monthly prepaid or postpaid airtime calls.

It works with all the major handhelds devices of Nokia and others which is powered by Series 60 (S60) and S40 Symbian OS 3rd edition and not the Windows Mobile 6. I think there is also a Windows Mobile or PDA version available but this is not that one!! All Nokia, LG, Motorola, Samsung, SonyEricsson 3rd edition cell phones with feature pack 1 or 2 is supported. For Nokia the list includes: Nokia N95, N95 8gb, N96, N91, N92, N93, N80, N79, N78, N77, N76, N75, N73, N71, N6600, 3250, 5610 Xpress Music, 5620, 5300, 5700, 5710, 5200, 8800 Arte, Luna, Prism, Sirocco, 5500, 6110 Navigator, 6121, 6120, 6220, E50, E51, E60, E62, E61, E65, E66, E70, E71, E90 and many more. Please do subscribe to the RSS feed before downloading this fine cell phones based software or application, subscription is free! Major networks of GSM or WCDMA platform including AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, Hutch, Verizon Wireless, DoCoMo, Idea, Reliance Mobile, Telstra, Orange Mobile UK, Virgin Mobile, 3G Wireless, Digi, Swift, Singtel, Airtel, Telenor, Sprint Wireless, Telstra, MTN, Vodafone are supported. This means that all prepaid plans and post plans locked or unlocked phone should be able to support this software on the mobile phones. However, for cellulars running with a prepaid plan is advised to use WiFi rather than the mobile internet or the GPRS as it will surely save you monthly airtime bill! Cheers!

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Showing you the way wherever you are, that’s what Nokia Maps offer you for your symbian 3rd edition smartphones. What I am bringing you today is something I know that a lotta of you folks have been wishing for so here it is, finally! So what is Nokia Maps? Well Nokia maps is Nokia’s official and finest GPS based, voice guided application developed mainly for the S40 and S60 N-Series and E-Series devices. It was previously in the beta stage and was secretly developed by the Research and Development division of Nokia before it was finally made public after it was confirmed to be stable.

More than 200 different countries and all their navigational details are supported and are also available to be downloaded straight for the Nokia official site. With a voice based guidance you can actually preplan your destination, find way points, restaurants and any special places on the go. You can save the data on the memory card for viewing later by the Nokia Maps Loader. This has its good uses as it will seriously reduce internet charges if you do the navigation from a WLAN based connection. You can easily tag any location for finding it easily in the future. As a driver you will have your very own navigational companion with Nokia Maps 2 as this one can instruct turn by turn of what’s next in the road. You can set the time interval, the voice clarity etc. Finding ATM machines to withdraw cash or to pay your credit card bills will never be the same with Nokia Maps 2 installed as it easily detects all the available ATM machines around your house and tell you exactly the easiest route to take!

There is also a built in search box which lets you search any place, tags etc on the go and its really easy to use it overall. The mapping itself is really pretty slick and simple, with almost all types of view available including a satellite view, a hybrid view, a 2D view and a 3D view. It also have a drive and walk navigation feature, loads of downloadable multimedia city guides which really will be very much useful for tourism purposes, and lots of other innovative and everyday features. Also if you have location tagging enabled then you can share pictures/images on Google earth and Flickr! And if you are a blogger like me, then hubba hubba… Nokia Maps 2 is just what you need!

This amazing GPS application is for you to download free once you have grabbed my RSS feed for free. This application comes built in with Nokia N95 8gb as much as I know but all other 3rd edition application which lacks this built in application can install and use it to their advantage. Mobile phones like Nokia N96, N95, N81, N82, N73, N93i, N80, N78, N77, N76, N75, N73, N72, N71, N70, E90, E70, E66, E71, E61, E62, E65, E60, E51, E50, 6300, 6290, 6220, 6210, 6121, 6110, 6120 and 5700/5710 Xpress Music are supported. However I am only attaching the 3rd edition Symbian OS 9.1 and 9.2 version for you to download from here. You can also download the maps and Nokia Maps Loader straight from the Nokia Maps site. This amazing application is network independent and should work with all the carriers including AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, Hutch, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile, Idea, Airtel, Telenor, Orange Mobile UK, Vodafone, Vodacom, Sprint Wireless, Orascom etc. and more. Hope you enjoy this one as much as I do. Do check out the videos below and you will have a clear understand of what Nokia Maps is able to do! Cheers!

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Like GPS based applications? Need more? Then do check out the posts of Garmin GPS and Tom Tom Navigator.