Nokia N96 App Review – VibrateCall

Name: VibrateCall

Description: Call Utility

Summary: If you consider the amount of time you spend on you nokia N96 waiting for someone to answer their phone and half the time people don’t answer so you just wasted a minute of your life listening to your phone for nothing. VibrateCall is a very handy application that will tell you when there is someone on the other end of your call. VibrateCall does this by vibrating while your contact’s phone is ringing and it will stop once someone answers their phone, and if you don’t want it to vibrate you can make it go on loudspeaker or even both so you know exactly when someone is on the other end. The application can also auto-start and can be hidden and it works like a charm.

Overview: This is great application really simple and really clever and doesn’t seem to have a single downside to it so it makes for a really good application. There is one small thing and that is that its not free but its only $4.99 which is nothing for an application that will be used every time you make a call. There is a trial which doesn’t look like it has any limit so be sure to check out this great new application. Read more

Nokia N96 Theme Review – Fear

Name: Fear

Creator: Xavier

Summary: All my days and times are a bit hectic at the moment but hopefully it will be sorted out my the end of the week. Anyway I saw this a day ago and thought it was worth a post so here it is. Fear is the latest theme from Xavier for the nokia N96 and from the outside it looks like another stunning theme with custom icons. One feature which I don’t thing Xavier intended is that this is one of the best themes for dealing with high amounts of light some themes become completely illegible but this theme just soaks in the light making it easy to see any menu or option. Fear is a nice theme the background image is nice and in the dark look really interesting and even though there is custom icons most of them seem the same as the default but in the end is a nice theme.

Overview: I always look forward to what themes mite come out in the future this theme justifies waiting for a new theme because fear is well worth checking out. As all our themes this one is free and you can download the theme both with and without the icons from the link below. All thanks should go to Xavier for creating this great theme and I can’t wait to see whats coming next. Read more

Nokia N96 App Review – Switch Off

Name: Switch Off

Description: Power Manager

Summary: Turn on and off you nokia n96 is the job of the power button and always will be this isn’t a application to replace it. Switch Off can turn off you nokia n96 at any user define time and can be enabled very easily, quite simple really. I don’t think there’s any really purpose for having this application only what the user can think of. I came up with two reasons one is for security so that your phone turns off everyday so that if someone who has your phone doesn’t have the pin code they are going to have a problem. The second reason is for the better health of your nokia n96 by turning your phone off regularly it should work better and faster. All this requires can be yours if you can be bothered to turn on you phone every now and again.

Overview: Having the ability to do this is almost something you expect, if you can do it on a PC why not on a phone right. Switch Off is a free application that maybe useful at some time and it probably better to have and not need it than to need it and not have it. So overall this application isn’t that important but it mite be handy for some but completely useless for others, all the application isn’t signed so if your phones not hacked you will have to sign it. Read more

Nokia N96 N-gage Review – Sims3

Name: Sims3

Genre: RPG

Summary: There have been a few sims games out for the nokia n96 but I never played any of them so I can’t compare it to any of them so I’ll compare it to other n-gage games. Before I tested this game I read lots of reviews say how boring and lame this game was so naturally I thought its going to be a bad game. When the game first loads you get to customise your characters and then its traits and then its of to its virtual world and you can get on with life. From the reviews this is where I expected the game to be useless but I was wrong the game has all the available options that you could ever want from buying a new house to listening to music. The main complaint everyone had with Sims3 is that it was boring but if you thing its as boring as any sims game but they still appeal to many people and I can’t see why this one won’t.

Overall: The first thing I should tell you is that the game play is a bit slow but the game runs very smoothly and the graphics are fine. The game is surprisingly small at 2MB and and there’s a great trial that’s about 15mins of game play but can be a bit of trouble to download so I have the .sis file in the download. Overall its a good game and will probably entertain you for a good while but you mite get bored of it quite quick. Read more

Nokia N96 App Review – My Travelr

Name: My Travelr

Description: Travel Utility

Summary: Traveling has become a part of life and most people travel to different countries on quite a regularly and when we travel we want to know as much as you can about your destination. My Travelr can give you most of the information that anyone would want about the destination they are going. My Travelr can retrieve information like the time, weather, a map of the surroundings, international calling codes and the currency conversion rate. There are a good few applications that can do this but very few has the the ability to find the weather in 40,000 city’s so it has a bit going for it but I know there are more applications that can give more information.

Overview: My Travelr has a few advantages over some travel application but there are a good few application that can display much more information. The good thing about this application is that its free and if you compare it to any other free travel application it comes in the top three, well that’s in my opinion. It’s a very handy app if you are planning to go on hoilday to another country or something like that. Read more

Nokia N96 App Review – Resco Photo Viewer

Name: Resco Photo Viewer

Description: Photo Viewer

Summary: We all use the gallery in our nokia N96 to view and edit photos with a lot of ease and there’s not really any thing that needs to improve. The only problem that anyone can complan about is the speed or lack of which brings me to Resco Photo Viewer. Resco Photo Viewer is great for viewing your photos because it uses thumbnails so it can show you many more pictures and can load them all faster, you can also customize your view to the most suited view. With the pre-installed gallery you can send your pic to the web or through blue-tooth which is also available in Resco Photo Viewer so really its exactly the same but faster.

Overview: Because Resco Photo Viewer has to use thumbnails it uses more space on your memory card but it isn’t that large but is just another thing to watch out for. Resco Photo Viewer cost $14.95 but does have a 14 trial which lets you have a good go of the software but unless you use your gallery more than often then you need Resco Photo Viewer to do it in a sort of reasonable time. Read more

Nokia N96 App Review – Privus

Name: Privus Mobile

Description: Caller Id

Summary: Most people are happy with the the caller Id already on your nokia n96 but the truth is that you don’t have a caller Id, all you have is a contact recognition which will never show information the name of who’s calling. Privus is an application that can find out the name of the person that’s calling you, Privus has been around for a little while but has only recently been made for symbian. On other operating system it will tell you who’s calling but on the nokia N96 it will get you the name when you connect a to wifi. The application works well but requires a restart to completely install the application but can auto start from then on. To use this service you have to subscribe to Privus and pay for a month of use.

Overview: Privus is really only for business men that need to know who’s calling them but If you do want Privus it is going to cost you $5.99 a month or $59.95 for a year but does have a 10 day trial. Really I don’t think Privus is worth the cost but if you need to know then you don’t have much of a choice. You have to register at Privus for the application to work but that’s very quick. Read more

Nokia N96 contest winner revealed!!

And we got the winner of this great contest we run at NokiaN96.net, as you can see on this page. We will now reveal the winner that will get this fantastic price. We have not yet contacted the winner, we will make the post first and then contact him regarding this fantastic prize. The winner will receive on his home a fantastic Nokia N96 device, a copy of Million Dollar Poker and other nokia goodies, the lucky guy or girl just needs to wait for “the e-mail”.

Overall we got more or less 200 valid right answers, many of you answered C, as the correct answer, but the right one is A) Denmark. The poker star Gus is from Denmark. At the list you can see in the left side is the winner and the next 9 people  that have the chance to win if the winner doesn’t replies to our mail in 5 days.

And I would like just to finish by saying thank you to Nokia N-Gage and Gameloft for giving this prize to our readers. Thank you!

Nokia N96 App Review – Calc Sheet

Name: Calc Sheet

Description: Spreadsheet

Summary: We all deal with money and any senseable person will tell you that its important to manage your money, one of the best way to do this is by creating spreadsheet with all your income and expenditure. You can already buy an application called Quick Office which is really Microsoft Office for your phone but is only available at a high price. Calc Sheet is almost the same as Quick Offices excel, it can do all the same things like put in formulas and different colours and font types. One thing I found great was the way you select boxes to add, subtract ect.. Although in the end of the day Quick office is a much better more perfected Excel but this is definately worth its cost.

Overview: When I say its worth its cost thats a bit of a lie it is probably worth about 10 times it’s cost because its free so everyone can enjoy. I also should say that I really like these types of apps because they are so clever and I think anyone who has never used excel should try this to see whats possible. Calc Sheet is a .jar application but works very nicely on the nokia n96. Read more

Nokia N96 App Review – PhoNetInfo

Name: PhoNetInfo

Description: Phone Information

Summary: This application is really quite useless as it only has one real use but I think is pretty good, what PhoNetInfo can do is find out information about your nokia N96. There are applications that can find out information like your ram usage and open applications but PhoNetInfo can find out a whole lot more. PhoNetInfo can tell you nearly everything form the current profile to the image format of the secondary camera there’s more information than you could ever need. The thing I really don’t like is that the information that it provides can’t really be adjusted or selected but it can be copied to a clip board, I can understand alot of information can’t and be able to be adjusted but some of the information you really want to change like your profile to see what effect it has.

Overview: I like seeing all this information but I wish you could be more involved with the application but it still is only useful for people who actually need this information. PhoNetInfo is free and is pretty interesting but is in no way important but I guess you never know if you will ever need it or not anyway for anyone want to know more about your phone you will never find an application that does it better. Read more

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