Review: Big Ben (Symbian)

Big Ben is a combined phone lock, screen saver & reminder app for S60 5th edition phones. A jack of all trades, but is it a master of any? .

The default S60 screensaver is pretty basic – it does indeed save your screen (well, the battery anyway) but that’s pretty much it. Wouldn’t it be [...]

Review: Notes on the Phone (Symbian)

They’re not Post-It notes, they are just notes. It’s a legal thing.  Notes on the phone is an attempt to create a ’sticky notes’ app for Symbian mobiles.
Sticky note apps are quite commonplace on PC & Mac desktops. Partly, this is due to them being a natural extension of the desktop metaphor – they work on [...]

Review: SlideIt Keyboard Lite (Symbian)

The problem of how best to enter text on a handheld device has seen a variety of solutions – alphanumeric keypads, T9 predictive texting, touch sensitive virtual keyboards and even handwriting recognition.
SlideIt Keyboard is another angle on the problem. It’s a sort of mash-up of the last two – a touchscreen that you use via [...]

Review: Skype for S60 5th Edition (Symbian)

The smartphone is now a powerful pocket computer, capable of running many strange and wonderful apps and exploring every corner of the internet. Oh, it also makes phone calls.
Naturally, the two facets of the smartphone can be combined via internet telephony or Voice over IP – using your tiny computer’s internet connection to make free [...]

Review: vTap Video Search (Symbian)

Scores of online video, supposedly on tap
While YouTube’s Symbian app might seem like the most logical choice for those looking to browse videos while out and about, Veveo’s vTap is more than an alternative. It’s an app that could and should offer so much more than its famous rival.
Tying in clips from numerous different [...]