What's on my Phone?
I see these kinds of posts everywhere, but I still enjoy reading them. When I first got my phone, these types of lists were really useful to see what software to install. It's especially interesting to see what people find essential and really use every day vs. what's been installed just to check it out or for the novelty.
What's on my Nokia 6620 Symbian phone:
Now for apps that were good for novelty and for demoing the phone to others, but I rarely use them:
- FExplorer - This app is critical and should have been included with the factory install. Aside from enabling me to browse the phone's file system, the "Turn light on" feature is huge. This solves one of the more annoying things I first found with my phone. When playing a game or connected online, the screen's backlight would always dim as a power-saving feature if I appeared to be idle. I couldn't find anywhere to disable this on the phone, so I searched for tips online and found FExplorer. Now, before using any app, I fire up FExplorer first, then the app I want to run.
- Switcher is another cool utility. I install a lot of software on my phone to try things out, and, unfortunately, a lot of them are buggy and don't seem to terminate properly. Switcher allows me to terminate apps that just don't want to die.
- Aces Texas Holdem - This is the first piece of software I actually went out and paid for on my phone. I tried the trial version and I was hooked. This is my default app on the train when I go underground and lose my Net connection.
- Opera or NetFront - I go back and forth on which one of these I like better. I prefer some things on Opera and some things on NetFront. The sad thing is that I don't browse the Web on my phone as much as I thought I would when I bought it. I pretty much use my browser to view Bloglines and that's it.
- WLirc - Nice free IRC client. Works great, but I'm terrible at texting, so it's tough to have a conversion with someone who has a keyboard on their end.
- BlitzCheck - Shameless plug here, but I really use it a lot.
Now for apps that were good for novelty and for demoing the phone to others, but I rarely use them:
- SmartMovie - This has a nice gee-whiz factor to it when playing movies for others, but I rarely use it.
- Frozen Bubble and Yahtzee - I played these a few times and lost interest, but I keep them on my phone for when I'm stuck in line with friends. Both games are easy to grasp right away and you can kill 10 minutes playing them easily.
Posted on Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:29 by Seni Sangrujee (2313 day(s) old)
