Beef Up! Any of your phones with Java

Yea people, this time on, your buddy "Beef iT!" has a new Avatar on show. And this time we'll be catering to all you people out there who don't have a Series 60 V3 handset like the Sony Ericcson k850i for instance. Because this time we'll be focussing on the best Java apps out there! Start downloading and don't forget to give me your views - like if there's a new app that you'd like me to add..

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Migg33
A useful Instant Messaging and mobile chat application that lets you stay in contact. It gives you flexible, cheap international calls using SMS callback and throwback , cheap international SMS and allows you to Chat using MSN and Yahoo!, or in any one of Mig33's chat rooms" .

Google Maps
Combining directions, maps, and satellite imagery, Google Maps is a free download that lets you find local hangouts and businesses across town or across the country — right from your phone. You need to have a GPRS connection though.

Widsets- Widsets is a simple service that brings useful information available on the Internet directly to your NSeries Device. There are two parts to Widsets - the application you load on your device and a web service you set up and configure on the Internet. Try it, the interface is beautiful and its a pretty fun application to use when downloading feeds and such.

CARNIVAL OF MOBILIST RSS READER - This is a free application which collects some of the best mobile news and articles featured on the web. If you are keen on finding out how the mobile world may impact you in the future, send your browser to here.


ScanR Scan Copy and Fax
scanR turns your camera phone into a scanner, copier and fax. Scan business cards, fax documents and capture whiteboard notes. Just take photos, send them to scanR, and get clean, legible copies as a PDF, text file or vCard. Impressive isn't it?

Nimbuzz - Join the mobile Freedom
Awesome free-calling, chat, IM, voice messaging client. Chat to your buddies on Skype, MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber for free. Superior voice quality for over 500 mobiles worldwide. International calls at local cost. Free VoIP is slated for release too!

eBuddy Mobile Messenger
The eBuddy Mobile Messenger is a Multi-Network application, especially designed for the best Instant Messaging experience. Download it to your phone to chat on MSN, Yahoo!, AIM and Google Talk all in one single buddylist. Saves a lot of frustration when you don't have to shuttle between windows of your different IM services.

Mobium GPS
Mobium GPS is a Navigation System for Windows Mobile PDAs and SmartPhones. Search among 12 million business listings or for te cheapest GAS prices and get voice-prompted GPS Navigation. You need to have GPS activated phone for this though. LIke the N95 for instance.

CellSpin - Easiest Mobile Blogging
CellSpin lets users create content (video, audio, photos and text) on their mobile phone and then post it to popular sites. CellSpin supports Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, Live Journal, Live Spaces and eBay, with more to come.

Cellity Communicator
The coolest mobile features - in one free software product! Get free text messages, low cost international calls, easy phone conferencing at an excellent speech quality and many more features. Get your cellity Communicator now!

Over the Air Magic
Phone book backup and Management solution Web access to mobile data GPRS Messaging Global free OTAM messaging Advanced Search

JLearnItME
JLearnItME is a multilingual dictionary. It contains most of the European languages (15 languages). If the word is not found, the nearest words are shown.

i-Citizen 3D world
Worlds first 3D Avatar world for mobile handsets. Come and meet new people chat and make new friends.

SymSMB
Enjoy wireless management of ALL phone files (C:D:E:Z:) from convenience of favorite computer browser. First software for Wi-Fi file transfer between phone and computer! Photos, video, mp3 and ALL other files are just a few mouse clicks away.

XHoroscope
Download and try XHoroscope for free. XHoroscope is a mobile application service which is devoted to lovers of astrology with specific reference to love and sex. Sexual Compatibility between astrological signs.

AntiGnat

The AntiGnat is a Java application that supposedly produces sounds that are presumed to be inaudible to the human ear (of 5KHz 25KHz), but that theoretically they would be capable to repel mosquitoes and other types of insects. The last time i tried a different avatar of this software it ended up letting me down..and i ended up deleting it's post.. I'll check this one out and see whether it has the same fate.

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Sony Ericsson K850i

The K850i slams down its rivals with its winning combo of bona-fide camera flair and excellent
picture quality. Undoubtedly the best camera phone around,
It might have been beaten to the five-megapixel punch by the likes of the Nokia N95,
Samsung G600 and LG Viewty U990 but Sony Ericsson has been quietly plotting
an imaging revolution. This HSDPA Cyber-shot aspires to be like its standalone
brethren, displaying features, tricks and mannerism normally associated with a wholly dedicated
digital camera.

Some pictures that a friend of mine took of the Sony Ericsson K850i - the only Sony Ericsson phone that I've managed to not hate! Don't know why but I just adore the k850i, maybe it's the looks - not sure though..

Read about the N95 vs K850i..

Sony Ericsson W980

Sony Ericsson just revealed the W980, the latest Walkman phone series that promises to get the most out of the music experience. Announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Sony Ericsson's W980 Walkman phone keeps the same line as its predecessors and has been designed to satisfy even the most pretentious multimedia needs. The new Sony-Ericsson W980 mobile phone doesn’t really look like a mobile phone, thanks to what the company is calling the “Walkman on Top”. The controls and display of the Walkman is placed in the front of the mobile phone, so you don’t have to open the handset if you want to switch tracks or check out what’s playing(on top?!). The W980 also comes with 8GB of internal memory (not bad!), built-in stereo speakers, and an FM-transmitter, allowing users to share tunes through an FM or car stereo. Finally, unlike the crappy earphones that comes with the iPod, Sony-Ericsson threw in a Stereo Portable Handsfree HPM-77 headset for excellent sound and hands-free calling.There seems to be no disadvantages on this mobile phone! No word on pricing yet as you won’t be seeing the W980 till the third quarter of this year.

Looks like Nokia's going to be facing some real competition this time on with the W980..
With the sleek looks, and that awesome music playback, it's gonna be payback time for SE!

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16gb microSD - now that's mass storage!

John has hooked us up with live photos showing the N95, E51, Sony Ericcson, and E90, all rocking the upcoming 16GB microSDHC card from Sandisk. The card was announced earlier this year with much hype. The card should also work in the upcoming handsets as well as in our N95s and N82s - support could hopefully along with the next majr FW update.

Sadly the 16GB MicroSDHC card from Sandisk is not expected to be commercially available until later this year, though you can already pick up an 8GB for under $80. Sadly for the N95 8GB user they won't be able to make use of any improements in the microSD technology since they don't have support for it, but Nokia has given the Nokia N96 best of both worlds - 16Gb onboard memory as well as an expandable microSD slot. WHat more could you ask for?1!

Why NokMote is bigger than we think!

A few days ago I'd posted here about Samir's latest 3D Accelerator based app, the NokMote. But unlike previously shown where it was basically touted to be just a menu controller, Waynder from Symbian-Freak has shown that it does a much better job in turning the phone into a game controler - similar to the Nintedo Wii.

The moment the NGage app gets released, the Mobile Gaming World is going to undergo a reveloution, with possible side-shocks hitting the likes of the Sony PSP,Nintendo GBA, and maybe even the PS3&XBoX! After all using the N95 all Ngage games are playable on TV . We are on the verge of a new era in Gaming, that's for sure!

Nokia Spices up the Nokia Video Center

Hye, it's more good news for us guys as Nokia teams up a host of companies such as Cnn,IBN,Jamba, Sony Pictures, Roof top comedy,ROK and others..givin us access to videos on the Go! Provided you have a 3G connection ;)

This new feature will give us access to a load of videos from these companies with the single press of a button making life simpler for all of us. Now you'll be able to while away time just like that..but make sure yuor in range of a good 3g network k..!

Read the rest here.

Courtesy DailyMobile.

N95 Processing Power !

Only when i blogged about the NviDia 6100 GoForce Graphics solution for smartphones did it cross my mind to check about how the N95 did it's number crunching, not to mention how it supported the 5MP camera and that 3D snake and System Rush game.

So i did some research and i must say i was really impressed with what had turned up!

The N95, Nokia's answer to multimedia computers, runs on a very interesting combination of hardware. As you know it has 64MB of RAM and 160MB of flash memory. It's CPU works on a Texas Instruments OMAP microprocessor known as the OMAP 2420. The OMAP 2420 features 332 Mhz clock speed, PowerVR features (3d and 2d accelerator) and High speed peripheral interconnect while running on the ARM11 architecture. Per the TI website, the OMAP families are broken into "High Performance", "Basic Multimedia", and "Modem and Applications". I smiled a bit when i saw that the OMAP 2420 is listed under the High-Performance segment - that explains the smooth graphics on system rush and snake. Oh yeah.. and it has 2 of these processors too...

PowerVR's latest designs on the portable market, the low power PowerVR MBX and high performance PowerVR SGX, which have become the de facto standards for mobile 3D, having been licensed by six of the top ten semiconductor manufacturers including Intel, Texas Instruments, Samsung, NXP Semiconductors, Freescale, Renesas, and Sunplus, and is in use in many high-end cellphones including the Apple iPhone, Nokia N95, Sony Ericsson P1i, and Motorola Z8. The thing is the N95 runs on the low-power MBX version.. i shudder to think what would happen if it were using the power hungry SGX. We would then almost certainly have to go Yoobao then.

Thanks to all these cool hardware the N95 packs a punch for handling graphics - Fully HW accelerated 3D OpenGL ES 1.1 and HW accelerated Java 3D go a long way in re-defining gaming on the n95 and mobile phones as way we know them today. It probably won't be soon before we start seeing hi-graphic gaming phones on the market - a new NGage maybe?