The Nokia Photo Browser is another great app from the Nokia Beta Labs. It is an experimental photo browser with many nice 3D effects. The photo browser was released at the end of March for the Nokia 5800 XM. But sometimes later it was also available for the S60 3rd Edition devices. Recently it got a major update with improvements and features. Sadly in the future releases the Photo Browser team will mostly focus on the S60 5th Edition phones. Still this app is already working very well on the 3rd Edition phones.
The browser looks very fancy because of the nice implementation of 3D effects. After starting the browser it will show all pictures on your phone in a grid view. It works in portrait and in landscape mode. To do this the photo browser uses the accelerometer. A smooth rotating effect is used during the change of displaying mode.
Pictures which take longer to load are simply displayed as blank images. Scrolling through the images is also very smooth and can be done very quickly. It looks just like the 3D pictures/video browser Cooliris which can be used as a Firefox add-on.
I already motioned that the newest release came with some new features and improvements. The improvements are better image zoom quality and better rendering and image processing speed. New features that come with this version of photo browser are a folder sorting option, a send function and an image rotating and deleting function. These features were really needed so that this app could be actually used as a real photo browser.
The Nokia Photo Browser is a promising app. It makes browsing pictures on your phone a pleasant experience. If you have an S60 5th Edition device you will get some very nice extra features over the S60 3rd Edition devices. Still as an owner of any current S60 phone you should have a look at this app. This photo browser is free and you can get it at the Nokia Beta Labs.
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Today Nokia announced a new E-series smart phone. It is the successor to the E71 and is named E72. The front of the E72 looks very similar to the E55. The main difference here is the full QWERTY keyboard on the E72 which makes it considerably wider than the E55. The landscape screen and QWERTY keyboard are responsible for the extra width. It is also because of this fact that the E72 is 2.5 mm shorter than the E55 but at the same time it is slightly thicker than the E55.
I already motioned that from now on I would review some premium themes from PiZero. This one is called Ruby v2. The themes name comes from its strong ruby red color which looks pretty awesome. Ruby’s home screen and menu background is ruby red with many lighter red wavy lines going through it. The lines are lighter in the middle and fade into the ruby red color of the background. Some other noticeable things on the home screen are the silvery battery and status bars and the simple analog clock. The main font color used in this theme is white which is very well visible because of the good contrast between the ruby red and white. Ruby red is also the secondary font color which becomes visible when you highlight icons, options, settings etc.
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Since the Ovi Store has been available for about two weeks now it is time that we take a closer look at its content. Let us start with a game called UNO which is a card game played with a specially printed deck. This version was created by Gameloft and has been available on the Ovi Store from its start. UNO was one of my favorite games when I was a kid and almost a decade later I still love this game. I was really positively surprised by Gamelofts version of this game. But first let me explain this game to those of you who don’t know it.
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