Best Symbian S60 apps

 

Symbian S60 phone fans, whether they’re rocking a Nokia N97 or a Sony Ericsson Vivaz, have absolutely loads of apps to choose from. But if you’ve found yourself utterly baffled about which are the best Symbian S60 apps you should be filling your phone with, we’re here to help. Here’s our pick of 10 of the very best Symbian S60 apps.

Gravity
£6.72 from Fastspring.
For Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Symbian S60 5th Edition.
You can’t really call yourself a proper smartphone user without a Twitter app these days and the standout Twitter solution amongst Symbian S60 apps is Gravity. Keeping social media gadflies down to earth, Gravity supports multiple Twitter accounts, image uploading by lots of photo sites including TwitPic and Posterous blogs as well as integrating Twitter searches, Twitter Trends and Lists. It really is one of the best Symbian apps out there.

Office Suite 5
€19.99 from Mobisystems
For Symbian S60 5th Edition.
As hard as you try to escape work, sometimes you just can’t. Office Suite 5 is one of the best Symbian S60 apps that turn your phone into a powerful productivity tool. The Office Suite 5 Symbian S60 app allows you to open and edit Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents on your Symbian S60 5th edition phone. The Symbian S60 app also integrates with Google Docs allowing you to download and upload documents to your Google account.

Blackballer Pro
$15 from Killer Mobile Software.
For Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Symbian S60 5th Edition.
If you’re plagued by calls, Blackballer Pro is the Symbian S60 app for you. It turns your phone into a particularly picky personal assistant, managing your calls and texts, answering the ones you need to respond to and ditching the ones you don’t. At its simplest, the Blackballer Pro Symbian app is a list of numbers you don’t want to receive calls from – that can be specific numbers or areas. But Blackballer Pro will also automatically forward certain calls to answer phone, automatically send an SMS reply or forward them to a unique message.

Wikipedia Reader Widget
£free from Symbian Developer Community.
For Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Symbian S60 5th Edition.
You can just search for Wikipedia using your Symbian S60 phone’s web browser but if you want access to the world’s knowledge formatted perfectly for your Symbian S60 phone’s screen, the free Wikipedia Reader Widget is well worth a download. One of the best Symbian S60 apps for information junkies.

Tube Map
£free from the Ovi Store or MxData.
For Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Symbian S60 5th Edition .
Harry Beck’s London Underground map is an indisputable British design classic. The free Tube Map Symbian S60 app is a free scrollable Tube map but also packs in live updates on tube line and station status (when you’ve got an active data connection) and a route planner that will calculate the best route between stations even when you’re underground. If you’re a Londoner, or even if you’re a tourist, it’s one of the best Symbian apps to have in your arsenal.

Spotify
£free with £9.99 monthly subscription from Spotify.
For Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Symbian S60 5th Edition.
Spotify allows you to take advantage of your phone’s ability to multitask with Symbian S60 apps. The Spotify S60 app will stream music while you use other apps and can synch songs to your phone for when you’re offline or out of a WiFi or 3G coverage area. Downloading the Spotify Symbian S60 app is free but using it will set you back £9.99 for a Spotify Premium account.

Opera Mobile 10
£free from Opera
For Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Symbian S60 5th Edition.
Opera Mobile 10 adds tabbed browsing to your Symbian S60 phone, renders full web pages, keeps track of your downloads and browsing history and wraps and resizes text when you zoom in. Opera Mobile 10 is very nearly the best Symbian S60 web browser, if not the best Symbian S60 app we’ve ever seen.

Fring
£free from Fring
For Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Symbian S60 5th Edition.
Fring is a real do-it-all social media Symbian S60 app which gives you the ability to talk to friends via Skype, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, Twitter, ICQ, Yahoo, AIM and Facebook. As long as you have the right data plan, Fring gives you the ability to make Skype calls via 3G (as well as WiFi) and the tabbed set up means you can easily jump between different IM chats. For those glued to instant messaging on their desktops all day, it’s one of the best Symbian S60 apps to keep chatting on the move.

Mobbler
£free from Mobbler.
For Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Symbian S60 5th Edition.
Mobbler scrobbles the tracks you play to Last.fm and streams Last.fm radio stations (as long as you’ve got a data contract to handle it). The smart thing about the Mobbler Symbian S60 app is that it scans your local music when you’re streaming a Last.fm station. If the upcoming song is on your phone, Mobbler will play the local version and save you some data. Scrobbling to Last.fm via Mobbler occurs whenever you’ve got a data connection. It’s smart, and simple, like all the best Symbian S60 apps.

Shozu
$4.99 from Shozu.
For Symbian S60 3rd Edition and Symbian S60 5th Edition.
If you’re a blogger, or just love sharing photos and videos with friends, Shozu is a one-stop Symbian S60 app for flinging your snaps and clips onto the web with ease. Shozu supports a vast number of photo and video sharing sites including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Vimeo, Photobucket and Picasa. It’s by far the best Symbian S60 app for uploading, and will even upload the same file to multiple sites at once, saving you hassle if you’re keen for everyone to see your snaps.