The official Sony Ericsson Blog brought us news that there is finally a way to enable a equalizer on the Sony Ericsson Vivaz and the Satio.

For most markets there is now an free application called “Equalizer” available on PlayNow in the music category under applications. This equalizer will give you the following different options: Off, Classical, Jazz, Dance, Party, Pop, Rock, Spoken Word, Loudness, Mega Bass and Treble Boost.

There are two important notes though: First of all this application needs the latest update to work on Satio and also since it’s a separate application it needs to be started separately when you want to start using it i.e. it’s not included under options in e.g. the music player. When an equalizer setting has been chosen it should stay even if the application is closed or the phone rebooted.

Unfortunately, this application is not deeply integrated into the music player but a standalone application.

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Opera Web Browsers for Symbian have finally been updated out of beta. Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5 are both probably the best 3rd party web browsers available, and even tend to surpass the functionalities of the built in S60 browser. This release puts all the necessary finishing touches on the Opera mobile-browsing duo, with focus on delivering the best Internet experience, along with a unified look and feel, such as Speed Dial, password manager and tabbed browsing. To download Opera Mini 5 or Opera Mobile 10 to your S60 handset, simply visit m.opera.com. Read the rest of this entry »

Reuters Social Portfolio is an open, community-powered way of looking at and tweeting about stocks. It plots tweets and news against stock data to give you an interactive picture of what the world is saying about stocks you follow. The Flash-based mobile application lets users monitor reactions of various stocks with corresponding news and social media updates. Any user can set up a FTSE stock watch-list on their S60 5th Edition Nokia handset where favorite stocks can then be accessed at the touch of the screen. Selecting a stock will open up a graphical display of the stocks performance over time in a line graph format which is familiar and easy to read. Reuters Social Portfolio is available for FREE at the Ovi Store. Read the rest of this entry »

This, the Nokia X9, is by far the most advanced and sexiest Nokia I have seen since the release of the Nokia N97. As good as the images look, this is just a concept made by a really talented Nokia lover. Whether Nokia will grab this idea and launch this baby is unlikely to see. Did you recognize the perfect twitter and facebook integration? The big players like Nokia, Apple and Samsung should really take a look at this. Read the rest of this entry »

For all you Formula1 fans I’ve found the official Formula1 application. This application displays information supplied to the teams from every session of the Grand Prix weekend. Thus you always have the latest results, stats and all information you need. Point your browser either to mobile.formula1.com/download to download this freeware application or download it straight on SymbianWorld. This application works on all S60 devices like the Nokia N97, X6, N95, E90 or the Sony Ericsson Satio.

S60 5th Edition Download (N97, 5800, X6, Satio, Vivaz)

S60 3rd Edition Download (N95, E72, E71)

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David Rivas, VP of Technology Management at Nokia,  demoed Symbian^3 in San Francisco. Of course he used a emulator to show the new Version as there is no Symbian^3 device announced yet. This new version of the old OS should help Nokia redefining themself. I have seen this demo a few weeks ago and I am looking forward to the first device running Symbian^3. Take a look at the video and let us know your take on this. Read the rest of this entry »

The YouTube for S60 that everyone has been waiting for is here. Version 2.4 now lets you to log-in to your YouTube account and access all your favorite videos, subscriptions and playlists directly on your handset. This new update also brings a new search query suggestion tool and a new homescreen user interface that is optimized for larger screens. Read the rest of this entry »

The Nokia C5 is the very first device coming from the new C-Series. Basically. the C5 is smartphone for the massmarket. It features HSPA, S60 3rd Edition, big keys, a 3.2 megapixel camera as well as A-GPS. Moreover, it comes with free pedestrian- and carnavigation.  On top of that, the C5 cost only 169€. 169€ for a full navigation system and a smartphone is a awesome deal! Here you can see some pictures:

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Finding destinations using Ovi Maps is very easy now, with the search more precise than ever. There is one slight weakness however, when trying to access a location using coordinates, as the option isn’t so apparent. Now although navigating with coordinates is hardly an everyday scenario, there may be times when you’d like to find or navigate to a location using just the coordinates. So heres a quick guide on how to go about this on your Nokia smartphone. Read the rest of this entry »

Since the release of Skype for Symbian, I was not quite sure whether to stay with Nimbuzz or to switch over to Skype. The point is, that it’s hard to run both apps at one time since the Nokia N97 is a bit short on hardware resources as you will know. When I tried to run both apps and work with the phone at the same time, I experienced program shutdowns and so on, so I had to decide.

I’m using Nimbuzz for Skype- and Facebookchat, so switching to Skype would be a step back and there would have to be serious reasons for me to do it.

So, at first glance, the choice seems to be easy. Nimbuzz features not only Skype but also WindowsLive, Googletalk, Facebookchat, Twitter and so on plus Nimbuzz occupies about 1Mb less ram on my N97.

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