Software On My 6680

So here is the post I promised earlier. A basic rundown of the basics I have installed on my Nokia 6680. I could not get screenshots of everything, but I think it's the thought that counts, eh?

I won't cover the Nokia pre-installed software, since I have formatted and reinstalled only the things I need. My standby screen (right), is decorated by a theme called Collision, for the purpose of this article.



This is a quick and informative shot of my main menu. Everything here is pretty default, and it work. There really isn't any better word for the camera than "Camera". This shot basically just demonstrates the theme, once again.

I still need to sort the icons, in a better order. This layout just works for me at the moment, and I don't think changing anything here, would gain me any profit.


The games, well, taking screenshots of them is pretty much impossible. So here is my custom games menu.

MRally 3D is a pretty impressive arcade style rally game with relatively nice 3D graphics. I just could not get the sound to work while racing. Or maybe there isn't any?

Micropool. This is one of my favourites. A very impressive looking 3d pool table, and awesome physics. I have played many games in the time I had this installed. I recommend it for time wasting indeed.

Snowboard X by Distinctive games. Another arcade style slalom type game. You can choose extreme difficulty, and slalom through flags pretty fast. I guess I like it.

Truck Tycoon. This is a vertical top view (a la simcity 1) type tycoon where you, well, do Trucks. I can't say much yet, haven't played it that much. But it is nice. Honest, guv.

Nate Adams Freestyle Motocross. This is just Amusing (with capital A). You have to maintain proper balance on the bike, and do wierd stuff. I find the falling off part, amusing as well. This is a side scrolling type of game, but has quite decent graphics, enough to do the trick.

Frozen Bubble. w00t. This is just the best opensource game out there. It must also be the game in which I spend countless hours a week. I really don't like the other bubble games, and since I am used to it on my Linux box, it is just nostalgic and perfect. Get it or die.

Emulators. Who would survive without them?
I don't want to say me yet, this far I'm not having a great time yet. eeMame is just a hassle. The Vampent emu's (pictured) is in my opinion well planned/developed. The only problem is the sound, or maybe it is just me, but while playing ANY games, and pressing any keys, the sound becomes choppy. I also had one crash, where I could not even shutdown my phone. I don't point fingers, this might be my fault, and I haven't uninstalled them for this reason. So maybe when I have time to figure it out, I might say more. But you try it, phones differ, and people need to have NES roms on their phones, it is just proper education.


Now on to the more useful stuff. The "other" software. For the same reason as games, there was also some programs I could not screenshot in the act. But here is a part of my 'Util' menu.

Util has:
Fexplorer
Agile Messenger
CellTrack
PuTTY
TaskSpy
Jbenchmark
SmartMovie
Opera
UltraMP3!
PowerDicttaphone
PeriodTable
ScreenShot

Agile Messenger must be one of the best messenger apps out there. It is also my most used. Agile really did a great job, and by providing it free they are also drawing attention to their other products. AgileMessenger Supports MSN/ICQ/YAHOO/AIM and it easy to work with, has an awesome interface, and 'technically correct' navigation. Don't use anything else.


Here is some screenshots from various other application I have installed.




Fexplorer. The best file manager out there for series 60. It just supports and does everything. It is also way more usefull than Nokia's default (but probably safer Filemanager)

PuTTY. If you need telnet (yikes) or SSH access to a remote machine, then this is it. A port to series 60 of Putty. It's versatile, and awesome. Gets my vote.

TaskSpy. Probably also a 'must-have' if you want to know what is going on, in your phones internals. This is like a series60 replacement for Window's CTRL-ALT-DELETE process manager. It also has the ability to kill/list all running processes, and cpu/mem graphs.

Opera. I won't say this is better than "x" or "y", but it sure as hell is an awesome Browser. I jump back and forth between Opera and the Nokia browser, but I use Opera more. It has what it takes for mobile browsing. I heard Netfront is quite a competitor for Opera, I don't know.

The last few (small? blogspot?) screenshots.

UltraMP3! is supposed to be the awesome player out there, but apart from having great looks and a lot of control, it really doesn't perform that great on my phone.

The next two screenshots is taken from SmartMovie, which IS on the other hand, the best movie player I have come across. It is not free, but it's worth the buck. I have installed the xvid codecs, and started playing one of my Evil Con Carne episodes for the screenshot (General Skarr).

The last picture there, is of CellTrack. This is just something you don't need, but like to have. It shows you the cell you're currently on, strength, batter power, graph, and various other identification information. If you like tracking the cell's you move through, you can even keep pictures of each one.

That's it.
I think I covered most of the third party stuff I have on my phone at the moment. Of course, time will tell. I might install more stuff later on, which I will probably blog about.

Until then. Moochos grassy arse.