After the official launch on Apple’s most popular product the Apple iPhone

last year on the 9th of January 2007 just after the new Mac OS, a whole new

market for this particular smartphone was born. That market have grown

significantly over the last year and is still growing by the minute with the

second version of the smartphone, iPhone 3G. Apple always focus on performance

and features more than anything else and the best examples can be the iPod, the

MacBook and of course the iPhone. Where is Nokia amidst all this? Why am I all

of a sudden going from a Nokiaholic to an Apple geek?

Because today what I am about to publish has something to do with both of the

iPhone and Nokia. After you read this post, download and install this mobile

application on your Nokia symbian phones, you will not only feel that iPhone

actually have a nice interface but if Nokia adopted a similar pattern with its

symbian OS

platform, it would have quite fantastic to say the very least. Don’t get me

wrong, I will pick a Nokia N-Series or

E-Series S60

smartphone any day of the week over an iPhone, but I do admit that the regular

menu of iPhone is quite beautiful than the default symbian GUI, plus I love the

Apple Mac!! Overall in terms of compatibility, user friendliness and the

flexibility of the symbian operating system on any smartphones,

Symbian wins hands

down over iPhone.

The main appeal of the iPhone (beside the music) is its touch screen

sensitivity and the ability of it to serve external interfaces as applications.

There are Wordpress (the platform I am using for this blog, I love wordpress btw

on a totally different note) plugins dedicated for the iPhone mainly because in

the states most people are using iPhone over the Symbian. Sad really because

Nokia phones are still the number one deal maker and breaker in the industry and

Wordpress should have had something for focused to the rest of the world users

who actually uses something else and certainly not iPhone. Anyway, back to the

topic and what I am about to publish today will convert your default Nokia

symbian menu and settings (not the core settings) to that of the Apple iPhone,

thus giving you the looks of the

iPhone while letting

you use the much better Symbian OS. It is called Symbian Plus

and it will “flip and swooop” your default Nokia interface!

When you install this application and restart your smartphone, you will see

that the entire screen has changed quite significantly. When you enter the menu

you will be presented with the fabulous little iPhone navigation bar with the

animated zooming icon menu through which you can access various applications and

commands directly. The animation menu depends entirely on your current symbian

os edition of course. You also get the 3D sliding effect that you can see in the

iPhone 3G version, it is not perfect but it is quite satisfactory considering

that this is the very first version of this creative mobile application. There

is another similar application in the mobile software and applications market,

which I already published in the past, called

iPhone style Launcher or iLauncher for Symbian S60 cell phones and

handhelds. But Symbian plus is surely more powerful and intuitive than that one.

Symbian Plus also has one nifty thing which I mentioned earlier, the

navigation dock bar that actually was Apple’s Mac thing and later ported to the

iPhone. You can opt to have a total of seven different applications or functions

there each dedicated to something different. By default Symbian Plus assigns the

first icon to be settings, the second to be the mobile gaming dedicated pad. The

third is assigned for going back to phone and the rest are the internet browser,

music, help and refresh buttons respectively. This mobile application also lets

you experience the Mobile 2.0 interface with the help of its pop up menu

screens. It is really hard to describe it, but once you install it you will know

what I meant lol.

Anyway, this symbian mobile application is compatible with a wide variety of

Symbian 3rd edition phones including N71, N75, N73, N76, N77, N78, N79, N81,

N82, N85, N91, N92, N93,

N95, N95 8gb, N96, E50,

E51, E65, E71, E66,

5320, 5700, 5800, 6210, 6120, 6121, 6122, 6290, 6500, 8600 Luna and Arte. All

major GSM networks are supported like the

Orange Mobile

UK, 3G Wireless,

Sprint, Nextel, AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile,

Cingular, Verizon

Wireless, Vodafone, Optimus, Telenor, TeliaSonera, Telstra etc.

Some flicks of Symbian Plus, iPhone on Symbian:

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