WOMWorld: N95 Trial - Part 2 Applications
WOMWorld: N95 Trial - Part 2 Applications
http://www.womworld.com/nseries/
The first thing you want to do when you get a new phone, apart from charge it up, is transfer your contacts/calendar/notes/etc.. over to the new phone. Well this is where having a NSeries phone comes in handy, the N73 and N95 have an application called "Transfer". Thought I'd give this a try rather than just syncing with my PC, but after 30 minutes transferring 915 Gallery Files I stopped the transfer.
Checked the N95 and it had transfered all my contacts, calendar entries, notes, browser bookmarks and half of the files on the external memory card. When you select to transfer "Gallery Files" it copies everything in your internal and external memory. I'll know the next time, still everything I wanted was transfered over, so great little app.
I store all the applications I use in zip form on my N73 memory card, so I used bluetooth to send over to the N95 and install. Evertything installed easy enough, only thing I needed to get which was different version from the N73 was Nokia's great "Conversation" application from Nokia Beta Labs.
There are a number of applications I always like to have open all day, so I've started my N95 test by opening Windows Live Messenger, Skype and LCG Jukebox, oh and ScrnSnapS60, so I could take a screenshot of Taskman to show how much RAM I had left to play with, see Fig 1.
I made some Skype calls, sent some messages with WLM and posted the screenshot I made to Flickr via Nokia Online Share 3.0. Everything still up and running and no "Low Memory" messages yet.
Sitting happily working away at my PC listening to DEEJAY.COM on LCG Jukebox via the N95 when suddenly the N95 reset itself, it turned off and then after 20 seconds turned back on. Strange I thought, so asked one of the guys in my office if his N95 every resets itself, he said "YES, every now and then". Its happenned twice now in one day out of the five I've had the N95. Might just be me running to much stuff?
All the apps I use on the N73 work perfectly fine in the N95 and I must say that music seems to be clearer on the N95 especially streaming radio via Real Player and LCG Jukebox.
So started to look at what apps are on the N95 that are not on the N73 as standard. Noticed the Video Centre which allows you to access video on your phone and access internet video content like You Tube, Reuters, One TV, etc.. really good this and you can add your own streams.
Next was "Internet Tel." I've already posted a blog on how to easily setup Sipgate for VOIP Calling, works a treat over 3G and Wifi. Oh nearly forgot, "Nokia Maps", I've installed this on my N73, but its just all that better on the N95 when you have built-in GPS, but I'm not going to pay for navigation function to see how that works.
Note on 3G & Wifi: Mostly all applications work on both connections, expect Download!, well that is after I'd sorted my SkyBroadband router to allow the N95 to access the internet without crashing out. Its good listening to the 128K radio streams at night via wifi, if I listened to them during the day via 3G I'd use my 1GB allowance pretty quickly.
Here is a list of all the apps I loaded and have working on the N95:
Google Mail v1.5
Google Maps v1.7
Coreplayer v1.1.2 (Plays any audio or video file)
Nokia Podcasting v1.00.3
LCG Jukebox v2.12 (Mostly use for Internet Radio)
Social FM Player (Think this is trial at the moment, but doesn't state it in the app)
Vimio Live TV v1.0 (Bloomberg, SkyNews, Disney toons, Movie Channel)
Nokia Team Suite v1.0
Nokia Conversation v1.0
Active Notes v1.0 (Great notes application)
Opera Mobile v8.65 (Much much better than the built-in browser)
Opera Mini v4.0 Beta 3 (You can now sync bookmarks!)
Windows Live Messenger + Hotmail (Available via the Downloads! app on your N95)
Nokia Share Online v3.0 (Post pictures, videos, blogs to the web with Flickr and Vox)
Shozu v3.20.69 (Upload pictures, videos and contacts, to mostly anywhere you want, but I use it for You Tube, Photobox and Picasa)
LCG Slick v0.28 Beta (MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/AIM Messenger)
SIC! FTP (Connect to FTP Servers)
LCG X-plore v1.11 (File Manager, handles zip and rar)
Y-Browser v0.80 (File Manager, mostly use LCG X-plore, but just love the search function on this app)
Sky Anytime v5.00 (Sky+ Remote Record)
Jaiku v0.80
Widsets v1.0
Skype for 3 (FREE Skype to Skype calls on 3 network)
Fring (MSN/Skype/Twitter messenger and MSN/Skype/SIP voip calling)
SplashID v3.33 (Store all your Usernames/Password securely)
Handy Calendar v1.0 (Better than the built in calendar)
Handy Converter v 1.01 (Currency converter)
Handy Blacklist v2.0 (Blocks incoming calls defined by yourself)
Handy Taskman v1.06 (Task Manager, check memory usages and close/kill open applications)
LivePVR v2.71 (Record all calls, voice recorder and meeting notes recorder)
Projekt (www.kylom.com)
ScrnSnapS60 (Take a snap of what you can see on your N95 screen)
Okay that's enough posts on the N95 till next week, I'll see how it handles day to day usage from the gerrymoth and what annoys or delights me over the next week or so.
To be continued...
