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Nokia 5800 Firmware v40.0.001

Nokia 5800 Firmware v40.0.001

Put this one in the “rumor mill” category as this appearance of a Nokia 5800 user using an updated firmware v40.0.001 to access the German site Biskero.org is highly speculative.

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Need Google in your life all the time, then you need the Google Search application

Need Google in your life all the time, then you need the Google Search application

Sometime you want an all encompassing application that let’s you do many things at once or in one place so if you like all Google things, then you’ll love this app. (more…)

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How to change your mobile carrier voicemail to Google Voice on Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800

How to change your mobile carrier voicemail to Google Voice on Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800

If you already have a Google Voice account and you would like to use it as your primary voicemail instead (more…)

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Tutorial: Screenshots on your N97, 5800, and E71

Tutorial: Screenshots on your N97, 5800, and E71

Sometimes we want to take a screenshot perhaps to report a bug in an application or sometimes you just want to share with the world via twitpic, flickr2twitter

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Night Paradise an amazing theme for your Nokia 5800

Night Paradise an amazing theme for your Nokia 5800

Well its certainly nice to see some theme that manage the color purple, although I’m not a designer I can just imagine how difficult it is to make something look cool in purple but Night Paradise has certainly been able to catch my attention, it looks cool ah, check it out and the download link is below

 

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iSearch Widget for your Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800

iSearch Widget for your Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800

The iSearch widget is inspired by Russell Beattie’s Q Search widget. Russell made his with 30 lines of code – I used a bit more. iSearch widget has a touch friendly UI and there are currently 8 search options/engines to choose from. The widget is free.

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My Keylock for your Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800

My Keylock for your Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800

A cool little key lock app for your  Nokia N97 or Nokia 5800

My Keylock v1.1.3
Requirements: S60v5 SymbianOS9.4
Overview: The program is to lock keyboard with the functions of blocking, the possibility to lock and to unblock with agitation. So it is possible to dispose sound with unlocking and locking of telephone

 

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Nokia N97 Original Themes for your Nokia 5800

Nokia N97 Original Themes for your Nokia 5800

These themes will look amazing on your Nokia XM 5800 and will surely add a new dimension to your new symbian touch smartphone, combined with these themes and the new firmware and you have yourself a hot little device.

 

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Download zip file here

files are Signed so they should install just fine

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Nokia 5800 gets a little boost via a firmware update

Nokia 5800 gets a little boost via a firmware update

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic just got a firmware update to version 30.0.011 this is great news and only shows Nokia’s commitment to continuously update this great device.

 

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Landscape Pro v3.0 the ultimate screen rotation experience

Landscape Pro v3.0 the ultimate screen rotation experience

Hello guys, I just bought this application Landscape Pro v.30 and wow an application it is, as you may already most newer Nseries devices come with an accelerometer which rotates the screen orientation but as you may have noticed as well Nokia did not include any options. So leave it up to Landscape Pro to come and rescue your experience.

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Kinetic Scrolling ala N97 may be coming soon to the XM 5800

Kinetic Scrolling ala N97 may be coming soon to the XM 5800

This is certainly great news and although its a preliminary rumor but I hope it pans out and all the XM 5800 users will be really happy with this update, I know I will, the update is rumored to be v.31.

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Time Machine for your Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800 – s60v5

Time Machine for your Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800 – s60v5

Do you want an iphone look on your N97 or 5800 well, its Time Machine 2.0 to the rescue. Time Machine by Sheludkov is a freeware stopwatch application for S60 5th Edition touchscreen smartphones. It provides “Count up” and “Count down” functions and an alert function to notify you when the counter reaches zero. Small arrows above the counter let you set the time for the “Count down” function.

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Zip Manager for your Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800

Zip Manager for your Nokia N97 and Nokia 5800

Zip Manager is a wonderful utility that is a must have application on your s60v5 smartphone. (more…)

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What a Windows Vista look on your Nokia N97 or Samsung Omnia HD

What a Windows Vista look on your Nokia N97 or Samsung Omnia HD

Well here you go, not only is Vista 2009 a great theme, it will really let you have the original Vista look you’ve always wanted.

This theme is compatible with the following smartphones :

  • Nokia 5800
  • Nokia N97
  • Nokia 5530
  • Samsung Omnia HD

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Y-Browser for your Nokia N97

Y-Browser for your Nokia N97

Utilities are always a “must have” group of applications and Y-Browser is certainly one of those applications. If you have a Nokia N97 or Nokia 5800, then you definitely need this download, plus it has a great price – FREE

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First Impressions of the Nokia 5800 byTehk7

Just now our resident theme developer Tehk7 wrote his first impressions on the Nokia 5800. Its a great piece and everyone should read it. Its good to know that Tehk now has the hardware to work so that all his themes will sooner than later be running in all its glory on s60 5th edition.
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7 days with Nokia Messaging s60v5

Hey there ladies and gents. It has been seven days since I first got my grubby paws on the Alpha pre-release of Nokia’s much awaited Messaging app for S60v5. Before that, my mailing needs were served by a combination of the built in mail app (which was inadequate, but was my only choice at the time for reliable Gmail retrieval) and Mail for Exchange (for fast push Email).  I also tried Seven push mail (which was okay, but not without its problems) before settling into this combo.

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Nokia 5800 Review: Camera and Media Capabilities

Even though it’s branded with Carl Zeiss optics, the camera module equipped on the 5800 is slightly above average at best. It takes great pictures in adequate sunlight but fails miserably in low light conditions. The lack of a proper xenon flash makes things worse (the dual LED light included isn’t much help, really). Pictures are washed out and extremely noisy on the default automatic settings in low light (blame the tiny sensor), and the auto White Balance is a little off most of the time even with sufficient light.

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Nokia 5800 Review: Conclusions

As Nokia’s first mainstream, mid-tier fully Touchscreen mobile, Nokia has a lot riding on the 5800. And taking it as it is (a mid-tier mobile rather than the iPhone killer it was billed to be), the 5800 succeeds brilliantly, cramming as much features into its tubby – yet extremely handy – body as it could.

True, taken one at a time and broken down objectively, the separate functions of the 5800 is not really that awe-inspiring, to say the least. But taken as a entire, intergrated package, the 5800 is a thing of beauty.

True, the 5800 is not without its quirks, but for its price I would easily say that it is the first truly “complete” (in terms of features) fully touch mobile for the masses. As such, I personally hope that they would continue on to support and make the 5800 better, as I feel the phone that started the Mid-Tier Touch Revolution deserves at least that.

So, ladies and gents, sound off in the comments section and share with us what you think about the 5800!

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Nokia 5800 Review: Screen, Navigation and S60V5

First, I would like to confess the fact that I’m utterly in love with the screen. The resolution of the 3.2 inch TFT screen is a gobsmacking 340×640, which is great for a mobile of this price bracket (all the other near/better than VGA resolution screens are found in mobiles that are vastly more expansive). The colours are great and are comparable to the PSP that I own, and viewing angles are great for a mobile screen of this size.

Granted, the screen on the iPhone has more vivid colour and is more responsive, but that’ll be comparing apples (pardon the pun) to oranges now, wouldn’t it? The Resistive TFT found on the 5800 is generally inferior to the iPhone’s Capacitive screen, although - as a bonus – the 5800’s screen is not limited to finger input only (like every other Resistive screen, you can tap on it with ANYTHING).

Compared to other Resistive screens, the 5800’s screen fairs well, with sufficient sensitivity. Although the fact its Resistive nature of the screen means that you will have to physically push in slightly for any finger input to register. Even then, I haven’t had much in terms of problems using my fingers. The screen gets extremely fingerprint ridden after a day of use though, and the fact that the screen is only encased in thick plastic (rather the mineral glass found on some pricier alternatives) makes one worry about its durability.

In terms of Navigation, it’s mostly standard S60 fair, although everything has been slightly reworked to more effectively support contextual touch-based navigation. This is primarily noticeable on the home screen, where a tap to the clock would lead you to the Clock application, a tap on the date/time opening up a list of profiles/link to the calendar, a tap on the space that houses the connection/activity indicators opening up a small window that lists down the indicated activity with a link to the Connectivity app.


Also, conveniently enough, a tap on the Media Bar button next to the XpressMusic branding will bring up the ever useful Media Bar no matter where you are.

There is also an option to replace the standard S60 Shortcut Bar with the new Contacts Bar interface. This contacts-centric interface lists down all communicative activities with 4 contacts that you have chosen. I personally find this option irrelevant to how I use my 5800, so I prefer to stick to the traditional Shortcut Bar (mind the low quality contact Images. They COULD look much better, I just never bothered to replace them with better ones).

The recent S60 voice recognition navigation is also included, doing quite well in places with acceptable levels of ambient noise. The fact that it is non-speaker dependent (works well with anybody’s voice) is also great.

Other than that, S60 main menu is still typical S60, with optimization in size of fonts and icons to facilitate finger navigation; arguably at the cost of efficiency as the icons are far too big. This results in more wasted space then I would have liked within the Symbian menu. The default, from the box arrangement of the menu makes no apparent sense as well, as could be seen from how I’ve re-arranged everything for more efficient navigation.


There is also a slightly exasperating inconsistency with single- and double-taps found throughout the interface, with little or no rationality behind it. I finally gave up trying to make sense of this after a few days.


The lack of proper multi-selection in any form is also a maddening minus, thankfully enough third-party apps exist to alleviate this problem but why is such a core process such as multiple file selections so hard to implement within the core OS?

Another popular question that I’ve been asked is the smoothness and speed of the interface itself. As a Symbian based device, it impresses. The 5800 has one of the fastest and smoothest that I have come across – most of the time. Sometimes, though, particularly when the background apps start heaping up and/or available memory start dwindling; the entire system crawls to a halt until you close the offending apps (or restart).

But I do have to say that the amount of programs that has to run for this to happen is quite admirable for a Symbian system with a (relatively) puny 369MHz processor (with NO 3D hardware of any kind) and only 128MBs of RAM. Thus, generally, if one takes that into account (and run applications accordingly), the 5800 won’t disappoint.

On some rare occasions, there are also split-seconds of lag that happens for no apparent reason. These are hoped to be smoothened out by the firmware people at Nokia within the next couple of months.

As for the OS, while Symbian S60 is a relatively mature platform, Symbian 9.4/S60v5 is not quite there yet. The relative newness of this variant of S60 would mean that there will be some programs that will not run as well (or run at all) on the 5800. But this is a problem that we will see being addressed by developers progressively throughout the next few months leading up to the launch of the next, S60v5 powered Nokia Flagship, the N97.

THREE MONTHS LATER: Still in love with the screen, especially how it can be so huge on a mobile so compact. In terms of beauty though, the Omnia HD’s huge Capacitive AMOLED screen has already trumped even the iPhone 3G IMHO, more so the lowly 5800. Nonetheless, things are shaping up to be better than expected on other fronts. Ever since the V20 firmware rolled out, the 5800 is noticeably faster and more stable. More S60v5 compatible programs are also being released, much to my delight. The release of Gravity AND Nokia’s own Image Browser unleashed the potential of kinetic scrolling, which really needs to be utilized everywhere!

Next: The Camera and other Media Capabilities of the 5800.

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