Nokia N96 App Review – UCPlayer

Name: UCPlayer

Description: Media Player

Summary: We all should know by now that the Nokia n96 is very much a media phone is its awesome speakers, large screen and stand. Because its a media phone your always going to want good quality media and a good quality media player. UCPlayer is a Chinese media player translated to English that really only deals with videos but that’s fair since there are plenty of great mp3 players. UCPlayer may only deal with videos but it deals with videos very well, first UCPlayer will chose which file type to associate with and then you can easily search your files for your videos. UCPlayer can support flv, avi, wmv, mkv, 3gp, 3gpp, mp4 videos so you can easily play good quality videos.

Overview: With its customisable colour scheme, great sound output and excellent file support make UCPlayer a really good media player. The problem with UCPlayer is that you can adjust the brightness or contrast but all that make it more of a install and play application. I’m pretty sure UCPlayer is a free application so you can download below and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a quality media player. Read more

Nokia N96 App Review – PowerMovie

Name: PowerMovie

Description: Media Player

Summary: I know myself that the real player that’s pre-installed on the nokia N96 has its problems but overall it works quite well but that doesn’t mean that there’s isn’t anything better. PowerMovie is a new video player for your n96 that supports AVI(DivX, XVid) and MP4 codecs and a few other handy things like being able to rotate the screen 270° and being able to chose a start time. What I do like about this application is how intuitive it is and how easily it changes clips and another little touch that I like is the ability to change the brightness, contrast and saturation. PowerMovie will also scan you phone for video clips, the search isn’t the best I’ve seen as it missed a few but it was quicker than what I expected.

Overview: There’s good news and bad news with this application first the bad news and that is that it costs $20.00 which is a lot for an application that doesn’t have anything new. The good news i that it does have a 15 day trial so you can see how good it is but there’s still no reason for the cost but ignoring the cost its a pretty good application and a good bit better that the pre-installed real player. Read more

Nokia N96 App Review – Power Mp3

Name: power mp3

Description: Mp3 Player

Summary: I posted a previous version of this application a while back but then it didn’t have an equalizer now however it does so it makes for a perfect Mp3 player for your Nokia N96. If you have use Power Mp3 before you will know its based on the original media player but it has a few things that that’s not included in the original one. The first addition this has is the use of short cuts using the numeral keypad, Power Mp3 also has a mood setting that you can define for each song and rate it as well. Other things that Power Mp3 has is a preamp, bass boost, loudness and stereo widening. Another feature of Power Mp3 is the skins and themes that you can apply that gives Power Mp3 nice interface.

Overall: I know its hard to change media players and even though this mp3 player is better bit quite a distance but I just can see it actually replacing the original one.  What I will tell you is that this is a beta at the moment so you can download it for free but I think when the full version is out it will probably cost a few quid so it is really worth downloading. Read more