The Symbian S60 on the Nokia N-Series mobile phones offers a wide range of applications that are Internet-enabled. Here are the apps that I currently have on my Nokia N82.
One of my favorites: Nimbuzz. Basically, it’s a chat program that consolidates your accounts on Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM/ICQ, and a few others into one interface. When you login to Nimbuzz on your mobile, you actually go online on all of the IMs that you specify in this app’s community settings. (Thanks to my buddy, Winston, for letting me know about Nimbuzz last year.)
Nimbuzz also lets you do voice via Skype; but I haven’t tried that yet, only the chatting part. It would really be cool if I could use Nimbuzz’s internet calling facility, and not get charged toll fees for international calls!
Another one that I find very useful and one that gives my mobile phone value-added goodness is Gmail for Mobile. Point your phone’s browser to m.google.com and click on the link for Gmail. On the next screen, you will find a link to “Faster Gmail” — this is the download link for the phone app.
What’s great about Gmail for Mobile is that it’s fast and navigates easily with keypad shortcuts. Reading and writing emails is as effortless as it can get on a mobile phone. Attachments are also handled pretty well by this mobile app. But you will have to have the right 3rd-party apps for accessing downloaded files (MS Word, .pdf files, etc).
Also, Gmail for Mobile now lets you add Google Apps email accounts. For example, I have a couple of email accounts powered by Gmail (thanks to Google Apps), and I’ve included those in my phone as well. So, when I access Gmail for Mobile, it’s easy to switch from my Gmail account to the other email accounts.
Nokia has Nokia Maps. But I’ve also installed Google Maps (which is also available for download from m.google.com). Just like with the regular PC-based application, you can add landmarks and other geo-info on the mobile version. Cool feature: it updates your position while you’re moving. Of course, that’ll only work for GPS-enabled cell phones.
The landmarks you embed via Google Maps are also utilized by Nokia Maps, by the way.
The web browser I use on the N82 is Opera Mini (currently at version 4.2). It’s much more intuitive than the S60 browser, supports tabbing, and has keypad shortcuts enabled. Now, if only I could remap the “0″ key to access Opera Mini instead of the default browser…
Compared to the old versions of the Mini, 4.2 now is much more powerful. Zooming is more seamless than before, and it’s much easier to navigate web pages than before. Also, the user interface looks much better now.
Facebook also has a mobile edition, but it’s really just a fancy bookmark — it simply makes use of the S60 browser engine. But it’s still a cool way of keeping your Facebook account up-to-date. Another online community that I access via mobile is Plurk. On your mobile browser, just go to http://www.plurk.com/m.
What about you? What Internet-capable mobile applications do you have on your phone?
great share kuya. you might as well share those beta labs apps you're using. specially those apps which uses gps and accelerometer functionalities.
Hadn't thought of that. Sige, on another post.
Nice. Gonna try out Nimbuzz and Opera now.
thanks for the tips
looking forward to using gmail and nimbuzz in my mobile 
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Hi Blogie, Nice post.
My answer to your question (What about you? What Internet-capable mobile applications do you have on your phone?) is quite long so I posted it at my blog instead.
My response:
http://www.lylesantos.com/2008/12/tech-review/top...
Nice one, Lyle!
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