I know no one uses Nokia anymore (except most of the world still does, but appearances are everything); also that this post is almost or possibly already redundant. Partly because that's the truth about technology, but also because in the very near future I'm adding Android to my accumulated life experience. But my E72 has been awesome to use, and although most (US-based) companies producing phone apps have worked hard to make me feel irrelevant and unhip ;P, there are some useful apps and services that have made my E72 experience worthwhile- as follows, briefly:


-Mail for Exchange is too awesome -Google Talk & Skype have kept my sister (2 000 km away) right next to me

 -Opera Mini- can one ever not sing the praises of this amazing invention? Seriously, the built-in browser is fine and all, even useful for flash-based sites, but I don't always want to finish my prepaid units on loading one page. Actually would mostly prefer not to.

-Sugarsync: although I haven't used it very much, this is also very high on my list. I have used it to sync stuff (all sorts of stuff) between my phone and PC, and also to sync (and access) Dropbox. Just feel more secure knowing I can back up to the (almost mythical) mystical Cloud; also nice to put stuff online to access on the go. 

-Foursquare- although I had to quit my job and move to South Africa to access Ovi Store to download it as Zimbabwe is apparently country non grata, it's so clever, this thing, & I love that I have it on my phone. So do stalkers I guess.

 -QuickOffice: yeah, nifty! The fact that I can read pdf docs, make notes, scan business cards (who does that as a matter of course? But I'm not a business person yet). Yes, all of this is lovely.

 -S60 Bible, & other Java bibles (they have no name, as far as I can tell, but they are off Econet's mobi site). How awesome is it that I have the Bible on my phone? I wish I could wake King James up to show him. Whoever he was.

-Snaptu: by far the bestest thing ever, even better than sliced bread (I mean seriously, sliced bread???). I don't even care that Twitter's revoked DMs. I access fb, twitter, and about a gazillion feeds. I don't use the shortcut links (cos that leads to frustration with Nokia's browser again, & no prepaid credit left), but they are there.

-Nimbuzz: love the chat client integration, also loved the direct access to Twitter until Twitter revoked access to DMs *sadness* 

-Socially: I use it once in a while. I think it's prolly quite nifty, but I just get the feeling it hogs bandwidth, so I don't use it much.

-Vlingo's a fun little thing that I always forget to use- still fun 

-Whatsapp has allowed a little irritation into my life- why is it always on, even if I exit?!- but is also terribly useful. I HATE giving my number out, so at the very least it's taught me to do that (heh).

-Just started using biNu.... Yeah it's not very pretty, is it though? But how nice to have 4 free texts (is it every 10hrs or something?).

 -GTD: nifty little to-do app. Basic, clear.

-Milkshake: another to-do thing. A little more to it than GTD, so necessarily a slightly steeper learning curve (but not very much so).

-Fring: never seemed to stay properly online (-is that because they actually built something in to indicate your online status?) so I stopped using it. Now that I've remembered it's there, will try using it again.

-Just for the record: the Bubble Popper game lol.


I think Google is the company that's tried hardest to have a global view of things- you know, not everyone's on Android & those other things (heh). (Disclaimer: I'm a big fan of things Google). I have Google search and Gmail on my phone, and all the email accounts on my phone are Gmail. I sync Remember The Milk and Google Calendar with my built-in calendar (which, I must say, I've always hated- it's ugly! I wish there was an alternative). The only thing I've missed (a lot!) is Evernote, or some sort of decent note-taking app. On my PC I use both Evernote and OneNote. So I guess what's prompting my future move to something Android-powered (as my main phone, though I'm keeping my Nokia) is partly my love for Google (heh), but also the dearth of stuff for Nokia. Exacerbated, probably, by lack of Ovi Store access (I wonder if Nokia can hear me). I had thought of waiting for a Nokia/Windows phone- but ultimately, why bother? I have my eyes set on the Samsung Galaxy SII.