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Smartphoneware Introduces New And Old Applications

By Wampyre on October 8, 2009

smarpthonware_new_and _oldThe problem of application compatibility for S60 5th Edition started with the 5800 and developers are constantly getting their applications compatible with the new platform. While some of our readers think that there are too few applications for the S60 5th Edition phones, I don’t quite agree and the latest addition from Smartphoneware brings new and old applications to the platform.

Best Full Screen Message is an application that will display your message immediately when it arrives. No need to wait for the the new message notification and then press view. Should you not be satisfied with application showing your incoming messages you can turn on reading and have the message read out loud for you. This application is an old classic on Symbian-powered handsets running the S60 3rd Edition and finally it’s now available for touch handsets. You can download a trial from the Symbian-Guru application store to try out for yourself.

Best Spam Killer is an application that filters your SMS messages according to your defined policies. You can choose to not get text messages into your inbox by number, people in your contact list etc. It can also automatically delete all Spam text messages after a given time period. This application is a new addition from Smartphoneware also available from the Symbian-Guru application store.

Last up is an application that strongly reminds me of Ravensoft’s Battery Extender. Smarphoneware’s Best BatterySaver is almost alike their counterpart both in settings as well as functionality and provides a wide range of customization. This application is available from Smartphoneware should you want to download a trial or buy the application.

We’ve mentioned both products from Epocware and Smartphoneware before. Which are your favorites?

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Cheung Yuen Wong had his first meeting with Symbian when he acquired the N-Gage Classic phone. Swiftly after he became addicted and amazed at the possibilities in which the Symbian operating system offered in terms of usability and power. You can follow Cheung on Twitter at @Wampyre.

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  • Lutin

    I have the Smarphoneware Best Profiles application. It’s excellent and provides functionality that probably should be there out of the box on my phone (nokia 5530). I use it only to switch profiles when charging which is very important for me as Nokias won’t vibrate (which is my default “ring”) while charging.

    The Best Full Screen Message interests me a lot as I would love to have the ability to have my messages read aloud. Would be very useful in the car.

    Anyway, I had a question about this sort of software. Does having this software activated drain battery life quicker? It doesn’t strictly seem to be “running” in the background, but surely it’s doing “something”, so wouldthat “something” affect battery life?

  • wampyre

    I believe that the Best Full Screen Message does not drain too much battery, you do have the option to make it read the messages out loud in which battery usage will increase.

    That said I have Psiloc VoxTrack and Connect, Best Full Screen Message, Blacklist and Taskman and KeyLockClock running and I do notice quicker battery drain on my N97.

    Following is what I get of memory usage in Best Taskman under the processes view:
    FS Msg service (Best Full Screen Message) 30.52 kb
    ConnectDaemon 62.61 kb
    Best BlackListD (Best Blacklist) 23.23 kb
    VoxTrack_Daemon.exe 66.11 kb
    VoxTrackWatchdog.exe 1.75 kb
    TaskMan (Best Taskman) 85.25 kb
    DRMCommonLicSrv.exe 54.98 kb

    From this info it’s possible to say that both Best Blacklist and Full Screen Message are among those that uses less memory and hence assume that they also use less battery power.
    (So responsible for my quicker battery drain seems to be products from Psiloc, which doesn’t suprise med due to their own DRM system)

    Do note that I’ve excluded processes that are given, that is processes that should be running and are part of the phone OS. I’ve also closed contacts, messaging, calender and clock that shows up as running during boot of my N97.
    I hope this information can shed some light on your question.

  • Lutin

    Thanks a million for the fantastic analysis.

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