Tuesday, 18 March 2008

Pimp Your Nokia N95 today! Omni Tech Ltd


You might say it’s just a phone (the N95), its not a PDA, and it doesn’t look quite as funky as the iPhone, but it really, just, works! No, its not just a phone, its:
connected, through constant high speed access to the internet via wireless/3G network; for web browsing, email, RSS, social networking; and constant voip/skype connectivity for next to free international phone calls got an inbuilt GPS with Google/Garmin/Tomtom maps support a fantastic camera/video camera for day to day use, which stands up against most of the cheaper consumer modelled digital cameras a worthy media player for playing both 3gp/mpeg4’s and divx/mp3 and pretty much anythign else you can throw at it. also, all those other things you’d expect from a similar unit. A phone, calendar, address book. As you can see, for the time being, we like this machine a little bit too much, and I hope things stay that way.

We will end this by writing a quick list of the best applications We’ve found to date to make the N95 experience even better. Behold, in no particular order:

truphone
A VOIP/telephone app This app literally blew me away. As long as I’ve got internet connectivity (either through a Wireless LAN, or my phone providers 3G network), I can make and recieve phone calls to pretty much any where in the world (yes, Australian mobiles too) for free. I’ve long been used to calling friends and family via Vonage or Skype at home due to the sometimes prohibitive cost of calling an Australian mobile via land line, this is all that, and more from a device you carry on you at all times.

Mobile Gmaps & Google Maps Mobile
Just like Google Maps, or Google Earth, with the added benefit of GPS tracking through the phoones GPS. MGMaps is (I believe) a joint project between Microsoft, Yahoo and Google to provide extensive maps/satellite images to the mobile platform, so its definitely the better of the two.

Opera Mobile Browser
Yes, the same web browser, which I used for a quite a while before the eventual migration to Firefox permanance (word?!), it definitely seems to out perform the standard web browser speed wise, though its not quite as streamlined, look and feel wise.

Gmail Mobile
In all fairness I should probably group google maps altogether, as they’re always fantastic. But this a functioning, fast client for the Gmail mail service And really, the list could go on forever. But a few more things to check out are:

TaskSpy - A task/process list with memory/CPU information and the ability to kill processes

YBrowser - A file browser, text viewer, unzipper to access all areas of the phones storage

Accelerometer plugin - Plugin to access the phones inbuilt accelerometer (read: Wiimote ninja style)

rotateMe - An app for auto changing between landscape and portrait depending on the angle the phone is held at (requires Accelerometer)\

FlipSilent - Flip the phone to silence an incoming call, flip it back again to turn volume on again (requires Accelerometer)

ActivityMonitor - A Pedometer to record steps and exercise activity for the health buff (requires Accelerometer)

SportsTracker - Same as above with GPS support for distance/mapping calculations

RSSWorld - An RSS Feed Grabber

putty - The same SSH Client Windows Live

Messenger - Enough said

Omni Tech Limitd
378 Great North Road
Henderson, Auckland
Tel: +6498383943
Fax: +64983838947



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