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.

Rock ‘N’ Scroll Detailed Demo:

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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Playing pool will take center stage once you get yourself acquainted with this 3D symbian mobile Pool game called Celeris Virtual Pool Mobile 3D. Virtual Pool Mobile is one of the most acclaimed simulation based game available for symbian smartphones around the world. It is so good that it won several awards as the best Nokia symbian game for your Nokia smartphone devices and even for Pocket PC based windows mobile. Read the full story

Ever faced a situation when your phone is connected to your personal computer of laptop via bluetooth and you need to send a SMS to someone? Imagine, your cell phone being the other end of the room and you are sitting on your chair in front of your computer and you just don’t want to get all the way to the other side to get that phone. Or, what is your option when you want to send a SMS to your friend via your laptop computer? Or what about if you want an incoming SMS alert on your PC or laptop when your phone is connected to the PC? Are there really any easy, cheap option? Read the full story

“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance in this life or the next” ….do you remember these lines? Yes that was Russel Crowe from the Oscar winning movie, The Gladiator! While that movie is ageless and will always have a place in our heart we all thought that it was over. But, it is not! On your smartphones and handhelds, Maximus is back to raise hell once again and his fate depends on how good you are. Gladiator The Mobile Game combines heart pounding emblem of harmony and music from the age of Mozart and with today’s most sophisticated, state-of-the-art graphic details on your symbian S60 and S40 Nokia and Sony Ericsson mobile computing handheld devices.

The game serves you with nine individual characters who are adopted straight from actual movie. They each possess unique moves which are their specialty and they each have a weapon of their choice. Every time you hit your opponent with a death hard strike, the blood spills out from him and it simply looks like that the movie is running on your cell phone’s screen while you are the director. This high definition 3D mobile phone game ensures the very best of game engine that really have an impressive all over performance. The camera view during the game play is 360 degree, meaning you can actually rotate the entire screen the way you see fit for you smartphones. Action games are always well respected in the Nokia software market and this one is no different.

The control set up is really simple and straightforward and it should not take you more than two or three straight fights before you get a good hold of the special moves for this mobile java game. There is a nice “lifeline” bar which reduces every time you are being hit by the enemy and it takes quite a while to actually die in this game. The gameplay becomes more and more difficult with every stage you advance to and odds will stack up against you. I know that you will be the Spaniard in the game for obvious reasons but what if you could face another gladiator of the same caliber in the Coliseum of Rome? Will that make it hard to win for you? Guess what, that is exactly what this Nokia mobile game offers to you.

Multiplayer! Yes, with your latest camera phones A2DP bluetooth switched on you can play against your friends and destroy him for good! The multiplayer feature is really one hell of an addition to this game and surely will be best used on N-gage and N-Series multimedia computers or cell phones. The game play is not affected in any way when you switch on this feature and since the size of this game is not really huge, you can be sure that your phone will run it smoothly. You can choose to play in three different modes including a quick fight, a career mode and the most exciting survival mode. In quick play you can simply pick an opponent, no matter who or how difficult they are and fight them straight without any delay. Not really the best part of this symbian 3rd edition game is the career mode though and to be frank it is quite easy after you have played it two or three times. The story you are given is exactly a copy of the feature movie however the dialouges are really well thought of. They are quite compelling and is what made this mobile game really stand out.

The best and most hard to play is the survival mode where you are given only one shot to defeat all of the remaining gladiators. When you finish one, the next one pops up with fresh energy pumping in their vein while your fatigue remains still the same. The more you progress the more impossible it becomes to defeat the opponents and before you reach to Commodus. All in all, the survival mode is really the most coolest part of this game and although it is hard to play well in that mode, but it is surely worth it. After all, to be the man you have to beat the men!

With time and progression you will be able to adapt the best possible moves and tricks. You also have the option to learn how t dodge which really will come handy when you are playing the Survival mode. The game is truly amazing and quite compelling and anyone who have seen the movie will be an instant fan of the game for sure. Even those of you who haven’t, I am sure you will still like it even if for the graphics, sound and overall gameplay. Batman Mobile: The Dark Knight was not anything like this one even though just like this one, Dark Knight was also a movie based cell phones game.

Here is the trailer of this awesome mobile software & game:

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This game is surely a jam packed fun machine and will turn you PDA, Pocket PC, Palm, smartphones, handhelds or latest cell phones experience something worth to remember in the future when technology have taken a step much further from what it is today. This game is also available for the latest java phones of S40 versions however I am publishing the S60 symbian 3rd edition one here. All the latest mobile phones from N-Series and E-Series series 60 smartphones of Nokia are supported. The list includes Nokia phones with the model numbers of 6290, 6110, 6260, 6600 Slide, 5300, 5200, 6300, 5500, 5700 Xpress Music, 5610, 6120, 6121, N81, N71, N73, N82, N80, N85, N72, N70, 3230, 3250, Prism, Arte, Sirocco, Pearl, E50, E51, E60, E61, E62, E66, E65, E71, E70, E90, N76, N77, N78, Nokia N95, Nokia N96 3G, N95 8gb, N91, N92, N93, 8800 Luna etc. Major WCDMA and GSM mobile network providers like T-Mobile and AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, Rogers, Cingular, Nextel, Airtel, 3G Wireless, Hutch, Orange Mobile UK, Telstra, Virgin Mobile, Optimus, Reliance Mobile, Vodafone, Telenor etc are all supported. This software is not dependent on your carrier and whether you are on a pre-paid plan or a post paid one will not make a difference because online gaming is not available at this time. Please do not forget to subscribe to the RSS feed of my blog to keep yourself updated with the latest games for mobile phones. Have fun with this game on your latest cell phones and if your one is an old version which does not offer detailed graphics, then be sure to grab the latest mobile phones of Nokia next time you hit the shops. Now tell me again, Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained? Is this not why you are here? Lol. Cheers peeps! Godspeed!

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All the latest cell phones, PDA, Pocket PC, iPhone 3G, Palm and smartphones of Nokia, Windows Mobile, and SonyEricsson, Apple, HTC, Ipaq, Blackberry and HP have it installed by default. So if your handhelds are missing it, ain’t that sad? All the major network gsm and wcdma providers like AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Nextel, Orange Mobile UK, Hutch, 3G Wireless, Virgin, Vodafone, Airtel supports it and if you still do not have it then will it be fair? When I published a previous post regarding several other GPS based software module for you to download and use only a few days ago, did you still not download it? Well then it’s about time that you are taking a look at this post because this post will give you another chance to install it on your operating system of the latest cell phone of Nokia.

The most beautiful thing about Blackberry, iPhone 3G and Ipaq is their ability to use memory resource intensive applications without any problem almost. This is the only department that the Series 60 or S60 symbian OS platform was falling short. However with time Nokia presented us with one of their best application to date, the Nokia Maps 2.0. It came built in all the latest cell phones of N-Series and E-Series including the N95 8gb, N81, N82, N78, E66, E70, E71 etc and almost shook the entire software market positively. However, within the last few months there was another application that was released in the United Kingdom, the CoPilot Live GPS module, which enables you to do virtually anything you can imagine when navigating and using a GPS device from your smartphones and hand helds. No additional cell phones accessories are required when you have CoPilot installed on your mobile device.

CoPilot GPS Live was actually designed for the Pocket PC and Palm platform and was a real hit in the market. That’s when they decided to expand the compatibility by offering it to other brands of Symbian OS and UIQ, thus enabling us to use it with our cell phone quite easily. Do not get me wrong though, I am not comparing it with either Garmin XT or Nokia Maps in any way, however the peeps whose geo locations are based in the United Kingdom or Europe (specially Norway, Ireland, Denmark, Italy or Sweden etc) will have an awesome time using this smartphone navigation system because the maps that comes with CoPilot GPS Live is phenomenal and detailed. CoPilot GPS Live also lets you use its intelligent Open GL platform engine to compute several factors very easily with the touch of a single button. The menu of this application is quite end user friendly and any new cell phone user who just bought his or her latest mobile cell phone or have been using a really nice Symbian OS 9.1 or 9.2 platform powered, unlocked or locked, Nokia symbian phone possessing advanced skills, will also be able to use it easily.

CoPilot GPS Live simply delivers a very simple pop up menu which shows you all the available options in a clean Web 2.0 like software GUI. It runs via GPRS and Bluetooth as well. It offers several features which is impossible for me to speak of in a single post. However, I am listing some of them below:

Destination Tagging: Through this you will be add tags to certain places that you might only have come to known and will like to check out later. Or, this might also be the house of a friend which you might visit later but because of the complexity of his location you are quite sure that you will forget the route. Destination tagging will let you mark it for future visits, simple!

Easy Navigation: The navigation of CoPilot GPS Live is simply one of the best among all the other available and similar products available in the market for you to choose from. It has a dedicated keys for any smartphone, whether it is your Nokia N73 or HTC Touch Diamond or a Pocket PC.

Detailed Maps: The maps are available in 3 formats which are 2D maps, 3D maps and the very important driver safety maps. We all know about 2D and 3D maps but what is this driver safety Map? Driver safety map shows what to do, and what is about to come, the traffic details and even the turns that you might take in huge letters without showing you the actually cluttered maps. This is really useful when you are driving and cannot concentrate on the phone stand or your phone in front of you on the dashboard.

Automatic Re Routing: Another very important feature of this application is its quick and efficient ability to reroute a new direction just in case you miss a turn. The whole ‘make up’ actually is relatively quicker than any other GPS devices for Nokia or handhelds.

Automatic Set Up: Install it and it’s done. Specially if you are using any prepaid or post paid plans from T-Mobile then this is simply the best application or software that you can use on your latest cell phones. The entire GPS set up builds itself automatically in the background and notifies you once done after which you will never have to customize it again and again.

Lost Mode: The lost mode or the so called “Where am I” is another important integration of intelligent computation on this GPS module. When you select this option the CoPilot GPS Live automatically points the exact location you and your cell phone is in.

Sense of Computation: If you are in foot or in a bicycle then it will show you the best possible way to reach a location by foot and if you are in a recreational car where you will want to avoid the ugly bumpy roads then it will assess the best possible route for cars by avoiding the broken or blacklisted roads so to speak.

Points of Interests: The overall collection of the variety of the points of interests (POI) available for CoPilot GPS Live are way above than any other GPS modules and devices. In total there are 30 different POI that it will recognize by default.

One Stop Solution: CoPilot GPS Live have developed a GPS central through which downloading the maps beforehand and saving it in your memory card is easy. No matter which country you are visiting, be sure that CoPilot GPS Live for Nokia 3rd edition smartphones will cover it. Save the maps in your memory card or cache and it will serve the maps from the cache next time, thus saving you monthly mobile internet data charges and mobile phone bills.

Live Traffic Feed: CoPilot GPS Live also offers updates of the traffic for any particular road. It also automatically keeps the traffic as an element when you tell it to choose the best possible route by Destination Tagging.

Reject Toll paying Roads: Yes this GPS software also offers alerts against roads and locations through which, if you pass, you have to pay toll charges. This can come really handy when you are travelling abroad or internationally and are not accustomed to the roads that well.

Trip Optimizer: With trip optimizer you can easily calculate beforehand how you want to plan your upcoming business or leisure trip. It can automatically optimize for you to plan according with its Calendar integration feature. No redundancy and pure fun!

Dream Kit for Business Individuals: Yes! With this installed you can easily keep track of your incoming or outgoing fleet on the go. This is really important in the business of export and import where you frequently have to track your orders and supplies.

All in all CoPilot GPS Live is simply one of the very best in GPS applications that you can use for your navigation and it comes with full features. It supports a handful of devices but I am only dealing with Nokia or symbian mobile phones so I am going to list the ones from this. All Nokia 3rd edition S60 N-Series and E-Series cell phones and smartphones are compatible with this one including the famous Nokia N95, N95 8gb, N93, N93i, N91, N91 Music Edition, N92, N78, N79, N76, N75, N77, N71, N81, N81 8gb, N82, N85, N80, N73, 5500, E50, E51, E60, E61, E62, E65, E66, E70, E71, E90, 6110 Navigator, 3250, 6121, 6290, 6120 etc and more. All the major mobile network providers like AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile, Optimus, Nextel, Rogers Wireless, Orange Mobile UK, Airtel, Telenor, Reliance Mobile, Telstra, 3G Wireless etc will all support it smoothly.

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CoPilot Live GPS features screen shots:

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