After the official launch on Apple’s most popular product the Apple iPhone last year on the 9th of January 2007 just after the new Mac OS, a whole new market for this particular smartphone was born. That market have grown significantly over the last year and is still growing by the minute with the second version of the smartphone, iPhone 3G. Apple always focus on performance and features more than anything else and the best examples can be the iPod, the MacBook and of course the iPhone. Where is Nokia amidst all this? Why am I all of a sudden going from a Nokiaholic to an Apple geek? Read the full story

The term wireless mobile computing has redefined itself several times with the development of some outstanding and extremely intuitive technological leaps which most of us could never even have imagined otherwise. For the best mobile phone brands like Nokia, Sony Ericsson or Samsung, it all started with the Series 30 based java powered cell phones which later on evolved to Series 80, Series 40 and of course everyone’s favorite: the symbian Series 60 platform. One of the more recent development of the major mobile phone manufactures like Apple (with iPhone), Nokia (with N95) etc are their ability to detect movement quite extraordinarily with the help of motion sensors or accelerometers. Applications like Rotate Me or NokMote and many others took the center stage the moment those mobile softwares were developed. In fact, they still are high value potential products and joining into this portfolio of mobile applications are the two very dynamic and exciting mobile computing softwares called Hi N Bye and Rock n Scroll.

They are developed by the mobile technology driven organization called Keynetik (pronounced as KEY-net-ik) and I must admit that they have done an excellent job so far. Nokia N95 and Nokia N82 symbian accelerometer plugin really has opened up the basic platform one would need to develop such state of the art mobile softwares and applications. Powered by the break through technology called Accelon, you will be able to do so much more with your symbian smartphones that are running on the 3rd edition symbian os platform or newer. However, for the sake of humanity and divine, be noted that when you have these two insanely fantastic applications installed on your mobile phones you may get addicted to them (as if you are not already!) and be blamed for sudden “shaky behaviour” lol.

Remember, in the past, I published a post regarding all the accelerometer based Nokia softwares that are currently available or have at least been published under a beta version? These accelerometer based moile applications are similar to those in nature but both Rock N Scroll and Hi N Bye focuses on a much deeper level and will let you do multiple things from one point. One thing’s for certain that with these sensible and intuitive motion particles sensor applications installed on your symbian devices, you will save your keypads for a long time to come. 

What does these applications exactly do? Are they just fancy applications which we Nokia symbian users can only install to have some fun or even show off at cases? Good and legitimate questions from any general end user whose main use of the cell phone is for making voice calls or sending a SMS.

Well my friends, both Hi N Bye and Rock n Scroll can be classified as applications to efficiently complete tasks for you with the help of motion sensors. With the help of some physical and acceleration movement of the phone that are predefined with these mobile applications for your smartphone you will be able to:

access your gallery and start/end a slideshow,

scroll a list of tens and thousands music files in the music library,

control the navigation key when playing a mobile game,

receive, swap or dial phone calls,

enable or disable the loudspeaker of your phone

and the list goes on and on.

Oh btw, did I tell you that you will be doing all of these without touching your keyboard or initiating any kind of voice commands or with the help of your stylus!!

Exactly!! Capishce? Both of these applications are only responsive to some specific sudden movements of your hand like a quick small shake of the phone side to side or tilting it vertically and horizontally, flipping it etc. Each of these movements also depends on the position of your phone and it usually never happens when it is in your pocket because the space for these specific movements are limited and somewhat contained when your Nokia phone is in your pocket or bags. Thus both these applications ensures a 360 degree coverage (yes much like a beautiful panorama) of all issues you might be thinking of.

Let us have a formal and more detailed functional look of these two mobile applications:

Hi ‘N’ Bye Features:

Hi ‘N’ Bye:

Hi N Bye is a sensor or movement based mobile telephony management service powered by the accelerometer. It manages how you receive your calls or reject them, turn on the loudspeaker etc. When an incoming call rings in your phone, you will not have to do anything but just simply put the phone up against your ears and the rest will be covered by Hi N Bye. The moment it senses that you are receiving the phone by raising the phone near your ears it automatically manages the ringing tone by turning it off, this will protect your ears from the ringtone!! When you are in the middle of one call and another call is waiting on the queue, the quick shake of the phone will trigger a quick swap between the two lines. To disconnect the second or first call you simply have to shake your mobile phone again and Hi N Bye with the help of the Nokia accelerometer will disconnect it and swap over to the waiting call on the first line. To go loudspeakers you simply motion your hand forward in which you are holding the phone and it will turn the loudspeaker itself.

Just imagine that now you can manage a multiple channels conference call without pressing a single key of your phone. With the Hi N Bye already integrated with the Nokia accelerometer of your handhelds and smartphones, this single mobile application is one of the most convenient and sexiest phone softwares ever thought of and developed.

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Rock ‘N’ Scroll Features:

Rock ‘N’ Scroll:

Rock N Scroll for S60 Nokia phones is a complete package of well thought creatives and it takes the game to a whole new level for Nokia 3rd edition series 60 phones, period! Rock N Scroll actually was a concept first developed for the bluetooth based gestures for Pocket PC phones as a mouse to any Mac Os X laptops. However, with the increasing trend of the Nokia symbian accelerometers and other motion based platforms it has hit evolution!! Rock N Scroll will let you control every aspect of your phone navigation thoroughly. While some predicted that it will be a complete copycat of the NokMote but believe that this is by far the absolute best accelerometer application ever!

Rock N Scroll differentiates itself from all other accelerometer applications including the Hi ‘N’ Bye by its jam packed features. While most of the accelerometer focused mobile softwares does something very simple and straightforward in nature (like Shakelock locks the keypad, RotateMe rotates your screen from landscape to portrait etc) Rock N Scroll have a far fetched impact on the phone because it is the navigation we are talking about, it is the way you select item we are talking about. Just think about it, how convenient your navigation lets you operate will decide how much multitasking you will be able to do with the free hands. Rock n Scroll is surely going to change the way you operate.

Rock N Scroll works in gaming mode and flick mode. The gaming mode is the landscape mode through which you will be able to navigate in one way (through tilting the phone slightly) while the flick mode (vertical or portrait) will let you navigate and function differently (specifically do specific clickthroughs or perform a twist back). What function they actually perform can be completely customized through a nice detailed compass on an uniform map. You can set the speed of the wrist flick by which you will basically tell the symbian application how much force or acceleration it will set to determine a particular action. In the same way, through the gaming mode you can define the speed of the scrolling when the phone is tilted backward and forward. This really will come very handy if you have a big memory card and there are tons of pictures or songs in the gallery or music library. These two modes together completes the entire application functionality and none will really be this much special without the other.

For both the modes you can also set the Push and Pull functionality (and I don’t mean Push or Pull SMS) that determines the action it will perform. You can choose to receive calls or make calls, you can decide to launch the mobile based Premier Office Suite or Quick Office, you can even choose to go silent by  changing the profile when Push it. However, I personally felt that the current default functionality are the best ones as it results itself to come full circle so that this single application can take care every bit of navigation and basic functionality.

Last but certainly not the least is the ability for you to learn through the Notifications bubble which you can choose to be turned on or leave it as it is. will tell you to keep it activated at all times. It shows you if you are in a dead zone or if your phone is slanted at a 90 degree, (thus no tilt, simple physics!). However, it might be get annoying because it will notify you whenever you change the screen orientation of the Nokia phone. Totally up to you!

Experimenting and finding the perfect combination of actions which suits your daily life is what this application is all about and of course some more. Once again, I honestly feel that if you have any symbian powered 3rd edition Nokia devices with support of accelerometer or motion sensitivity then both these applications are something you really SHOULD CHECK OUT! They are new, they are flashy and they will certainly (according to me) evolve to be the next huge thing that mobile computing will follow and make the standard. All the latest N-Series and E-Series cell phones like N95, N95 8GB, 5800 Xpess Music, E71, E66, N78, N79, N85, 6600 Slide, and N82 should have accelerometer built in and should be able to use this symbian motion sensor application to make your life much easier. Smartphones from other brands with symbian os platform like the Samsung SCH-S310, SonyEricsson W910, 850i etc will also support both these applications smoothly.

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Are you the owner of a Nokia series 60 smartphone? Do you think that it will be cool if you can customize your cell phone exactly like the way you want? I know it is difficult to believe that you can actually customize the cell phone cases or accessories everyday but with this Nokia application that I am publishing today for the symbian OS mobile platform, you will be able to make all the settings of your phone unique in every single way possible.

With that being said, without any futher delay let me introduce to you the latest edition of a fine Nokia symbian S60 3rd edition N-Series, Xpress Music and E-Series compatible cell phone application MobiFun Software Smart Settings version 2.10. What can this Nokia compatible MobiFun Soft SmartSettings do for you and your most dearly gadget aka cell phone? It is not the most complex mobi software in this world but it certainly is one of the most useful mobile utility and phone settings based software available for any cell phones to date. Regardless of you being a technology and gadgets geek or a simple symbian cell phone user, this application is so easy to configure and activate that even the 99 year old virgin can customize it.

MobiFun Soft Smart Settings basically have many cool features:

• It simply protects your cell phone from issues of privacy without you restricting the phone completely when you, for e.g. hand the phone to your friends because they want to ‘check it out’.
• It lets you change the way the phone operates in terms of lock and unlock functionality. Yes with the latest version of MobiFun Soft Smartsettings installed on your handheld devices, you can change the combination of the Unlock keystrokes (typically Unlock and Star* key pressed in quick successions for Nokia).
• It lets you assign quick shortcuts on your phone for easy, simple access. You can choose the applications to launch, no matter in what folder or memory type they are located in. It also ensures you that things like lanching applications or games or functionality like turning on Bluetooth on your mobile phone, are not accidentally triggered and launched if the mobile device is in your pocket.
• It lets you set combo keypad strokes to access special hidden applications (depends on the 3rd party applications compatibility) which only you might know and assign. While this is a far fetched feature but it can be done.
• Smart Settings for Nokia 3rd edition mobile devices also lets you assign an easy unlock feature through which you can configure completely, for eg. when to unlock, always unlock, under which profile etc.
• Another cool feature of this Symbian OS based 3rd edition and Ngage mobile software is that with Mobi Fun Smart settings you can turn on the light without actually unlocking the keypad or pressing a key for a prolonged period of time.
• You can also choose how many programs to show under the really witty Smart Mobile Menu that you can set with SmartSettings. This also lets you select whether or not you only want to show mobile application or function icons, choose the stylus or the pen option etc. The Smart Menu operates more or less like the Nokia 5800 XpressMedia or XpressMusic smartphone or pda (whatever you want to call it) drop down function. The UI are not visually rich but in terms of productivity, they are the same!

All in all this fabulous symbian mobile application for Nokia 3rd edition smartphone devices will let you tweak the graphical user interface functionality and it will also let you operate very uniquely. This is not only Handy but the handy Settings means that the new users to set it like their old handset of a different brand. This gives all the others users of different brands like the Samsung, LG, Motorola, SonyEricsson, Blackberry, Apple iPhone, etc one more reason to switch over to Nokia the next time they decide to buy a new PDA or smartphone from the shop or market.

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As always do take note that this application will work with all the pre-paid and post paid plans of your GSM or WCDMA telecom network operator and it does not uses the GPRS connectivity any point of time. All major telecom operators are supported like Nextel, Etisalat, Telenor, Sprint, Telkomsel, TIM Wireless, T-Mobile, Telstra, Optimus, Orange Mobile UK, Hutch, 3G Wireless, Vodafone, AT&T Wireless, Reliance Mobile, MTN Group, MTS, France Telecom, Verizon Wireless, AirTel, Research in Motion or RIM, America Movil, Cingular, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Rogers, DoCoMo etc.

This 3rd edition S60 symbian mobile software or mobile application will work with all the latest Nokia Symbian OS 9.1, 9.2, 9.4 operating system. For those of you who do not know which phones are operating under those series, it includes Nokia N95, N96, the first touch phone of Nokia the 5800 XpressMusic (or XpressMedia), 5500, Luna, Sirocco, Arte, Carbon Arte, 8800, N82, N92, N73, N80, E65, E50, E51, 5700 Xpress Music, E60, N76, N78, N79, N91, N93, N6600, 6600 Slide, 6120, 6121, 3250, 6233, 6290, 5210, 5300, E90, E70, E71, E66, 6110, N71, N85, N81, N-gage, 6300, N95 8gb etc and many more.

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With the first official Touch User Interface (UI) of Nokia XpressMusic 5800 on the way which is also powered by the latest Series 60 versions of the Symbian OS namely the S60 5th edition OS 9.4, you will be thrilled to know that the Apple iPhone is going to face some serious competition. Read the full story

Are you tired of the default Nokia standby menu screen? I mean everyone has it either turned on or off and nothing makes it special really and no matter how many applications you can actually show on the default menu screen makes no difference. But now with the introduction of Handy Shell all that changes and changes drastically. With Handy Shell installed on your smartphones you can ensure faster operations, efficient program customization and also make you Nokia N95 8gb or E71stand out from the crowd ’s stock version smartphones.

Handy Shell works in a way your Macbook Pro or Lifebook with the Vista premium installed on them does for you or your Apple iPhone menu screen shows, it shows the updated status for all your everyday applications including e-mails unread, incoming calls or missed calls, the status of the bluetooth reception, the upcoming events on your calendars like your friend’s birthday or even your upcoming meetings and it also provides you with a quick shortcut menu link for further modifications. The level of on-screen modifications depends entirely on your phone’s installed application. As for example if you have Handy Weather installed or Nokia Maps 2 installed then the active standby menu will be able to show your latest location marks or your city’s current weather forecast.

Among the different types of plugins that are already equipped in this handy application called Handy Shell, the most interesting and useful seems to be the e-mail/sms inbox feature and the application shortcut feature. Obviously we all know why mobile e-mail inbox status message is so important, we all have to follow up e-mails regularly nowadays but what does the application shortcut means? Application short cuts leave us with a few infinite possibilities. Depending on your cell phone’s capability it will integrate the standalone application’s data on the screen to show you the updates!! How cool is that? Pretty cool, I know! Lol. The default e-mail inbox option is simply superb and the bigger the mobile screen resolution of your phone the better it is cause then the screen remains clean and do not create any kind of unnecessary clutter.

With Handy Clock installed you will be able to show the big digital clock on the main active screen without the need of any kind of flash lite screensavers or wallpapers. However I do personally like Flash Lite applications but I am sure many of you still do not digest the whole technology yet. For them this is a dream all in one application. The Handy Weather integration also will let you show the next five day’s forecast right on the standby screen and they look really tacky and sophisticated when activated. You can call your contacts without ever going into the contacts menu and not only that, Handy Shell will let you use its built in File Explorer for your memory card’s browsing pleasure. The whole contacts manager is really very intuitive and user friendly and it will make your default contacts manager kinda obsolete. Just remember to reboot your phone after the installation completes and you will see the awesomeness of this application from the start of the Nokia 3rd edition symbian OS booting! Every single plugin, features that are available in this mobile application or software Handy Shell can be removed or configured at your will. Compatible with all the latest N-Series, E-Series S60 3rd edition smartphones and handheld devices including Nokia N96, N79, N78, N80, N91, N81, N82, N85, N79, N73, N75, N76, N77, 6600 Slide, E65, E50, E51, E90, E70, E71, E66, Luna, Sirocco, Arte, E60, E61, E62, 6110, 6120, 6290, 6121, N95, Xpress Music 5700, 5710, 6300, N92, N93, N71, 3250 and more. All major networks with GSM and WCDMA connectivity like AT&T Wireless, Hutch, T-Mobile, Digi, Orange Mobile UK, Verizon Wireless, Cingular, Airtel, Telstra, Vodafone, Vodacom, Virgin Mobile, Reliance Mobile etc are supported with this application. Hope you enjoy this one and have fun!! Godspeed!

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