Essential N95 apps

Streeteh

Streeteh

Streeteh

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Having recieved an N95 yesterday (and instantly falling in love with it), i was wondering what the best apps available were?

So far i have discovered:
Core Codec Player

This isn't as slick as the supplied realplayer app however it supports nearly every type of codec you will need to throw at it. Unfortunately it's still in beta so certain things like video playback on a TV are buggy, but it works very well when using the N95s screen.

Handy Taskman

Basically this is a task manager, simply hold down the Menu key and it pops up. Allows you to easily cancel apps running in the background without having to go through the menu itself (saves a few seconds for the lazy amongst us).

Fring

A great little app that allows the use of voice chat over skype, msn and others. It also allows text chat very easily in MSN, brilliant for when you're stuck, bored in a lecture theater.

Opera Mini

Not perfect, but a definite step up from the built in web browser, and its free!

Motion sensing plugin

In the latest firmware as i'm sure you all know it is now possible to take advantage of the accelerometer majig, with that plugin it is possible to use apps that sense the motion of your phone. Near the bottom there is also a bouncing ball app thats quite cool just to play around with and see whats possible while we wait for new apps to appear that take advantage of it.

I'm sure you guys know of most/all of these, what else is there worth me getting?
 
Opera mini is by no means a step up on the default browser! The new Opera Mobile 9 may possibly be when they get around to releasing it, but that unfortunately isn't free although its debatably worth the money...
 
I got the N80.. yes, not the N95, but still has s60v3..

My Apps:
TomTom (using external gps receiver)
SmartMovie - play divx, etc files, very fast and stable
LCG Jukebox - my prefered mp3 player over the standard one, mainly because i can choose specific folders
Official (MSN) Messenger - got it via Downloads! works very well, love it!
WWIGO - freeware turning the phone into a webcam, works VERY well
irRemote - use the infrared to control TVs. not managed to find the right tv-codes to work with the TV i got, but it seems very useful..

think i'll loook into the new browsers :)
 
I've tried to install fring as for some reason the skype on my n95 won't let me upgrade, anyway when i try to install fring it says certificate my not be valid or expired, is their anyway to bypass this?

Cheers
 
Soulja said:
I've tried to install fring as for some reason the skype on my n95 won't let me upgrade, anyway when i try to install fring it says certificate my not be valid or expired, is their anyway to bypass this?

Cheers
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change date on phone to 2006.. once installed, change back
 
Streeteh said:
Motion sensing plugin

In the latest firmware as i'm sure you all know it is now possible to take advantage of the accelerometer majig, with that plugin it is possible to use apps that sense the motion of your phone. Near the bottom there is also a bouncing ball app thats quite cool just to play around with and see whats possible while we wait for new apps to appear that take advantage of it.
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Thats amazed me, imressed all my mates with that one. Who needs Wii ;)

Also grabbed the Monkey island 2 but mine crashes back to apps menu when i lauch the game from Scummvm, seems a few people have this problem.
 
I made this thread a while back about N95 apps - its a bit old now, but teher might be some useful apps.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17712943&highlight=n95+fring

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Of the apps I have on my phone these are my best.

- Fring
- Googlemaps
- Nokia Sportstracker - great for runs
- Nokia Conversation - allows you to read texts in a 'conversation' format like gmail
- Quake (Full game) - on the N95 looks great.
- ShazamID - pretty useful - it ID's music for you for free.
- London Underground tube app (Official) - Handy for Londoners
- FBubble - Quite a cool little puzzelgame (copy of Bobble)
- Symella - a p2p programme - works suprisingly well.
- Widsets - I love this, its basically a little RSS feeder in the form of little widgets. I read my sites on there while at work (engadget, gizmodo, theregister, BBC sport etc) - all without needing to surf to each page.
- MOSH - For browsing and downloading free software.
- Motion sensing games/apps here e.g Lightsabre App - use your N95 like a lightsabre (using motion app) - for the geek in you.

I wouldnt really recommend the coreplayer - its pretty buggy and complicated - that is until it supports wmv, which it will do apparently one day (have been waiting sice they announced that in Feb!)
 
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Chrisp7 said:
I made this thread a while back about N95 apps - its a bit old now, but teher might be some useful apps.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17712943&highlight=n95+fring

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Of the apps I have on my phone these are my best.

- Fring
- Googlemaps
- Nokia Sportstracker - great for runs
- Nokia Conversation - allows you to read texts in a 'conversation' format like gmail
- Quake (Full game) - on the N95 looks great.
- ShazamID - pretty useful - it ID's music for you for free.
- London Underground tube app (Official) - Handy for Londoners
- FBubble - Quite a cool little puzzelgame (copy of Bobble)
- Symella - a p2p programme - works suprisingly well.
- Widsets - I love this, its basically a little RSS feeder in the form of little widgets. I read my sites on there while at work (engadget, gizmodo, theregister, BBC sport etc) - all without needing to surf to each page.
- MOSH - For browsing and downloading free software.
- Motion sensing games/apps here e.g Lightsabre App - use your N95 like a lightsabre (using motion app) - for the geek in you.

I wouldnt really recommend the coreplayer - its pretty buggy and complicated - that is until it supports wmv, which it will do apparently one day (have been waiting sice they announced that in Feb!)
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Have you got a link to the London Tube application at all?
 
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