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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Greetings everyone! Watching movies on the Nokia smartphones actually began to pick up its throttle when the trend of 3gpp almost diminished to Smartmovie’s Divx media format playing capability. All the latet mobiles from Nokia and others slowly, but surely, started to increase the actual size of the phone’s screen which added even more emphasis to video playback on the smartphones. Then along came the DivX players and others to play movies or clips straight from the mobile phones and with all the N-Series S60 phones having fantastic music edition versions popping up, the meaning of mobile movies started to creep in.

One of the earliest application that was successfully picking up its market was the Core Codec player and it wasn’t till late January when end users started to realize that Core Codec does not only adds movie playback on your symbian devices but it also brings a numerous audio and video codecs along with it, thus virtually making it an one stop all in one solution for handheld media. Core Codec player (or Core Player Mobile) is now the most effective solution out there in the market which actually synchronizes its features with the next generation media features and functions like Bluetooth A2DP support, mobile YouTube or mobile FLV playback support on your symbian smartphones, playing a bunch of audio formats and many other features. Core Player Mobile supports almost all the available formats of video like the MKV, MPEG-1, Theora, MPEG-4 part 2 (ASP), DivX, XviD, MSVIDEO1, WMV, Dirac, H.264 (AVC), MJPEG etc. It also has the built in features which lets it play YouTube videos straight from your cell phone, yes my friends, Core Player Mobile can play FLV movies on the go.

If you are a Podcaster then this can be a dream application for you as it will turn your Nokia smartphone into a full fledged Podcast player letting you reach to your friends and listeners worldwide without any additional softwares or platform. It also brings the power of Enhanced Podcasting and Core Caster functionality on your smartphones. Since it supports the UIQ, iPhone, Windows Mobile Platform, Palm and Symbian OS 9.1 & 9.2 platforms, Core Player mobile had to keep a common ground for both. And they did, they kept a simple user friendly interface on the front end so that even if you switch your handset from SonyEricsson to Nokia or from your Windows Mobile 5 to Nokia S60 3rd, you still can enjoy the same old navigation and features when you install Core Player Mobile. It is bluetooth ready from the get go and supports both A2DP and AVRCP transfers.

When I said all media formats, I meant all media formats! It also supports image management and so on, thus extending it further to be an image manager beside a video and audio player for your smartphones. Jpeg, Gif, Tiffm Mjpeg, Bmp and PNG… you show it that file’s location on your memory card and it will open it up easily. The application is super fast when it comes to image management and is far better than the stock “gallery” option of Nokia which will take an hour to load if you have thousands of images on your mem card. Core Player Mobile also supports media streaming within a few important protocols like Http, Udp, Rdp, Rtp, Rtsp, Rtcp, Asf and Asx. For the average user all these media formats might sound a little new, but trust me what you listen on your Virgin Mobile Radio or Pandora are done through these protocols and now you have them on your phone. So go ahead and open up your own mobile internet radio station today, free!

Core Player Mobile also lets you add custom universally supported skins on it and the widget that comes with it is damn easy to manage and execute, letting you customize the outlook of the player the way you see fit. So inspire youself to create your own skin and use it on your Core. In the future it will also integrate subtitles option which is something I am looking forward to.

Core Player Mobile supports all the major GSM and WCDMA network providers like T-Mobile, Orange Mobile UK, AT&T Wireless, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Hutch, Telstra, Cingular, Airtel, Reliance Mobile, Telenor, Digi, Vodafone, Virgin Mobile UK etc and more. Compatible with all the latest symbian 3rd edition S60 N-Series and E-Series cell phones of Nokia and others like N95, N95 8gb, N96, N91, N92, N93, N85, N82, N79, N81, N80, N78, N77, N76, 3250, 6121, 6220, 6110, 6120, 5310, 5200, 6300, N75, N73, E50, E60, E70, E90, E51, E61, E71, E66, E62, E65, 5700 Xpress Music, 5500, 5610, 5710 etc and more. Please subscribe to the RSS Feed for free before downloading this superb application for free as well!

The version of this Nokia mobile software I am presenting you is the latest one, that is version 1.2.5.

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Football is the most widely played game in this universe and there is a reason why! There are two elements that heats and shapes up this unbelievable 90 minutes of pure skill based gameplay, the managers of both the teams and the 22 players playing this game. No one can survive without the other and they both depend on each other extensively for success. The players depends on the game managers to choose the right players, tactics, training, fitness and even morality while the managers depend on the players to show their flare, develop & discover their skills and hidden talents, build a better attacking sequence or save the goals from happening but most importantly he depends on the players to perform on the big day where real football begins, the field! Neither of them can survive or make this game what it is today and with that in mind I decided to celebrate the game of football release a double whammy for all you football lovers and Nokia devices user.

Today I am publishing both the Real Football 2009 : The Game and Real Football 2009 : The Manager! High definition game play and detailed graphics, astounding sounds and smart decision making is required for both the games but in a very different way. Let me get into the details one by one.

Real Football 2009 : The Game takes you straight onto the green grassy field of famous stadiums like Estade de France, Anfield, San Siro, Allianz Arena, Camp Nou etc and more through your Nokia S60 smartphone. You got to play the game with the skill level of golden boot winners like Klose & Ronaldo or be the golden boy of football like Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo or even Fabregas. All the stars starting from Robinho, Buffoon, Terry, Sergio Aguero, Bojan, Cech, Pato, Torres, Walcott, Rooney everyone is there for you to transfer into your team and make the perfect squad at the end of each season. Skill levels are matched to real life scenarios and performance from free kicks to finishing and what not. You can perform bicycle kicks from the ball heading towards you from the corner kick or perform the tricky lob type goal over the goalkeepers head when he is expecting a hard hit shot on the right corner by pressing a selection of number keys on your N-Series or E-Series cell phones. This game is quite breathtaking from the start of whistle to the finish and if you are level after full time in the finals then you go for extra time. If you are leveled on the extra time then you go for the cursed & dreaded penalty shoot outs to decide the outcome of the finals. All the teams have both their home jerseys, socks and shoes and also their away ones and even on your Nokia phones they look simply perfect. The configuration of the mobile game Real Football 2009 also lets you control every aspect of sound level, mobile gameplay difficulty and attacking/defending tactics. You can make substitutions when you get your players injured and might have to face real life scenarios like carrying on the entire season without your main star footballer as it frequently happens on UEFA Champions league, Spanish League, English League or the Italian Serie A. This symbian smartphones game also have different language selection available so that you are not lost in translation anywhere when the game begins. All in all this game is quite the instant hit for sure! The graphics are more than good for a Nokia based symbian 3rd edition game and the playability is smooth compared to the high definition details!

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Real Football 2009 : The Manager takes you straight on the game’s bench from your mobile phones. A new season just started and be sure that the club owners or shareholders will be looking for every single ways to fire you from the prestigious club let it be Liverpool, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Barcelona, Manchester United or Bayern Munich. All the club shareholders, even the smallest ones, share a common phenomena which is, they all love giving the lecture when you are losing or even going head to head with a rival team or sometimes even when winning them. It’s hard to satisfy them in every aspect and they are not the only ones you have to entertain. The fans play a vital part in deciding about if you should stay at the end of a season or if you should be fired after 3 consecutive losses. You need to build the stadium or rather expand the capacity of the crowds from your mobile phone, make sure that you play the crowd favorite player even when he is almost taken over by fatigue and make sure that you reply to the press tactfully after every single game. You also have to find solutions to player’s motivation and make sure that you schedule trainings at a timely manner. Overwork them and your players will be too tired to give their 100% on the next game and too many free times will end you up in utter player sluggishness and losses. Not only these you also got to decide if you want to change the game playing tactics or change the formation of the players when you are playing against a rival who is plain better. You also have to ensure that at the end of the season you have enough bank balance to achieve the targets that were set by the shareholders. This might include extending player contracts, replace your favorite player or buying fresh boots or youngstars into the team. This whole game is a simulation based strategy Nokia mobile N Series and E Series 3rd edition S60 game but don’t be fooled because it is amazingly difficult to be successful with your first club. But yes, you surely can be successful if you try a bit harder every time. All in all the Real Football 2009 : The Manager version is a pretty fantastic symbian mobile game for any fans of the game of football. The sounds, interactive conversations, cool graphics and overall details of the game will surely delight you from the very start of the game and you will be hooked in no time at all.

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You are free to download both the games free for your Nokia 3rd edition cell phones like Nokia N95, N73, N71, N82, N91, N96, N93, N92, N78, N77, E90, E51, E60, E66, E71, E70, E62, E61, 5700 Xpress Music, N95 8gb, 5710, 5500, Luna, Arte, 6120, 6121, 6290, Sapphire, 6600 Slide, N79, N85, N80, N81, 3250, 6220, 6300, E65, 6110, 5200, 5300 etc and many more. All the major GSM & WCDMA based network carriers like AT&T Wireless, Telstra, T-Mobile, Orange Mobile UK, Telenor, Virgin Mobile, Reliance Mobile, Airtel, Hutch, Digi, Rogers, Sprint, Verizon Wireless, Cingular, etc are all supported and tested with.

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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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Adventure games get a new perspective with what I am publishing today here at Nokia Symbian Themes. If you are a fan of Hollywood movies then surely you remember the mobsters movies in the early 90s and even those in the year 2000. Movies like the Lucky Number Slevin or the Black Dahlia are good examples of modern day film noir making a good impact on the big screen. With those movies in mind, here I present you the first ever symbian mobile detective game that will make you addicted to your Nokia or N-Gage based phone for damn sure. It is called Dirk Spanner and the Fallen Idol (also known as Dirk Dagger and the Fallen Idol) and it is set up in the fictional and imaginary city called Dark Haven. A highly next generation game based on the platform of the N-Gage. Read the full story