One of the more curious Ovi services that Nokia has released, in my opinion, is Ovi Chat (and the accompanying Ovi Contacts app). It’s incredibly under-utilized, both by Nokia and by its target consumers. I’ve noticed fewer and fewer of my blogging friends being logged in, and almost none of my Nokia contacts seem to [...]
Ovi Contacts is one of the handful of Ovi services that I actually use on a daily basis – it’s great for keeping in touch with my small list of Ovi contacts, and it runs quietly in the background of my phone, without using up much battery life or resources. It’s very handy, and integrates [...]
They say “when it rains it pours” and just a few hours after we gave you a detailed rundown of the latest Nimbuzz version with new chat message notification, a very decent Twitter integration, chat history, link recognition and kinetic scrolling, another long-awaited application has turned up: Skype has announced a new beta for their [...]
Nimbuzz is one of my favorite instant messaging clients for Symbian-powered devices for several reasons. For one, I get a Nimbuzz username and password, and all my accounts are stored there. That means, whenever I get a new phone, or reset an existing one, I only have to login once, rather than manually logging in [...]
Hot on the heels of Fring for the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Palringo has announced an update, as well. Yet another free multi-protocol instant messaging client, and free, to boot. We’ve covered Palringo here in the past – it’s certainly grown up from those first releases. The new interface translates very nicely into S60 5th Edition, [...]
In case you missed it, earlier this week the Nokia Beta Labs released an update for Contacts on Ovi, specifically for S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 phones, like my Nokia N79. The update mostly fixes bugs, specifically improving the search feature, so that it’s easier to find your contacts. However, there’s something hidden in [...]
One thing about S60 that currently offers a really poor experience is the built-in IM client. Sure, there are 3rd party applications such as Slick IM, but they don’t offer much in terms of integration into the handset. However, many users have found the Windows Live messenger plugin for S60, which has been available for [...]
