~Archived - Nokia 5800 Applications

Page last updated September 2010

Here are some of the applications I use/have used successfully on my cellphone for various purposes..

Some of the free applications for Nokia 5800 listed below are available from Nokia India are here.

Internet

Ovi Store - Application for the application store from where you can download all these apps.
fring - IM/Chat/VoIP/SIP: works with googletalk, msn live, yahoo messenger,skype.
Skype mobile - IM/Chat/Voice calls. PC (in this case cellphone over WiFi) to phone calls can also be made.
Facebook for Nokia - Social networking. Allows you to lookup your friends phone numbers and call them. Allows you to click phones and upload them to your facebook album.
YouTube - Watch videos.
Google Mobile - Search using voice
Gmail for mobile - Access email, supports multiple accounts including Google Apps, can't send attachments, can't reply beyond the first chain. Allows you to lookup info for ur friends in your google contact list and call them.
Opera Mobile - Better browser than the default built-in one.
SymTorrent - Torrent client, leave your only your WiFi router and cellphone on and let it download your files to its memory card overnight over your WiFi connection.
Symella - Similar to SymTorrent but uses the older Gnutella network.

GPS

Ovi Maps - Nokia's own navigation applications. Works offline without data conenction since maps must be preloaded.
Google Maps - Add features like voice search, buzz, layers, latitude etc.. Requires a constant data connection
Sports Tracker - No longer maintained by Nokia, now maintained by a Third Party. You can log your workout path, export that to view it later on Google Earth on your PC. You can get your instantaneous speed, direction, location etc.. Even the title of the song playing while you move gets saved! (The earlier version maintained by nokia used to crash when used simultaneously with the music player playing music over a bluetooth headset, but this problem is no longer there in the new version)

Games

Bounce - Arcade, Preloaded
Global Race Raging Thunder - Racing, Preloaded
Checkers - Classic board game
Marble Maze - Accelerometer triggered based puzzle
Motion Dice Box - Accelerometer triggered dice: useful while playing real board games
SPB Brain Evolution - Puzzle Pack
Mancala Touch - Classic board game (flash game and instructions here)

Shopping/Banking in India

Cinemax - Check show timings across the chain, book tickets (Java based). Ticket booking failed when I first tried it - had to call the customer care and get a refund.
ICICI iMobile - Access your bank account, transfer money, pay bills (Java based). First used this on my Nokia 5700 - worked well on that. It was a whole year after I switched to Nokia 5800 that ICICI upgraded their app which now works nicely on 5800.

Purchased Apps

JoikuSpot Premium S60 Edition - Turns your cell phone into a WiFi HotSpot - the phone physically gets hot too.
Mobisophy IVCM for S50 v5 - For call recording without beeps. This doesn't work always, sometimes you can hear the beeps.
Pdf+Standard S60 3rd 5th - For viewing PDF files on your cell phone.
Webgate SMS Spam Manager - SMS spam blocker.

Office/Drawing

Light Notepad - Text editor.
Nokia Mobile Dictionary - Multilingual dictionary.
PaintPad - Draw with your stylus
Nokia Handwriting Calculator - Write mathematical expressions with your stylus and get the computed result.

Miscellaneous

Musical Instruments

All of the above Musical Instrument Applications

are available from Nokia India at this page.

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