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Ferrari GT 2: Revolution

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:16:46 GMT

This Ferrari-themed arcade racer is one for big fans of the prancing horse, since it enables you to experience more than 40 iconic models from 1957 to 2010 including the latest 599XX and the awe-inspiring 458 Italia. You can drive all the different cars in 50 different challenge states such as Time Attack and Drift Races, while there are 10 different locations across the globe to experience. These include Monte Carlo, London, Cape Town, and Paris and what’s more each city has five types of races to compete in – a standard race with five opponents, a solo checkpoint based challenge, an elimination race (where the car at the back gets lopped off at the start of each lap), a bonus race and a special race that focuses on skilled overtaking and jumping. While the gameplay isn’t absolutely top drawer, Ferrari fans will really enjoy the experience of the various different vehicles and races – indeed, it’s not so much the variety of cars that impresses, but the different races instead. The game is a lot of fun too.

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Auto Trader Mobile

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:13:40 GMT

Buying or selling cars in the UK is synonymous with the Auto Trader name, and the app enables you to search the service’s full listings to find used cars and bikes on the go – Auto Trader boasts that it has 350,000 vehicles available. There’s the option of using basic or advanced search, and the latter is ideal should you want to search by location, manufacturer or other parameters such as age. Once you’ve found a car or bike of interest you can move through images of the vehicle in question. And, should you decide to, you can call the seller directly from the app. Handily, you can also save the vehicles you like for later. Auto Trader Mobile a fine app.

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Aston Martin Explore

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:09:09 GMT

This promotional app from Aston Martin has a nice design, but again it misses the mark slightly – there just isn’t a great deal to the app and you’d really expect more information about past and present Aston Martin cars – there just isn’t enough here for enthusiasts to really take in. You are, however, able to find out about the latest news on the marque, while there’s also a bit of basic information about the history of the sports car maker. But this app could be so much more and could really take advantage of some decent visuals. Instead the design is rather clinical.

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Magic Paper

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:08:20 GMT

Let’s get one thing clear right from the get-go. If you’re going to spend £1.50 on this app (not even £1!) then you’ve obviously got a lot more money than we have. You’ve also got a lot less sense. So what you do is look at the symbols you’re presented with – there are 31 of them – and remember one. The app will then show you the one you thought of, only it won’t most of the time. Oh, what’s the point, this was total punishment. We might as well go home now and cook some gruel.

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Spooky Sound Machine

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:05:10 GMT

Obsessed with scary music and movies? This is the app for you – providing you’re OK with quite a limited repertoire of scariness. Werewolf or zombie, there’s something here for you. The app is essentially a collection of freaky effects to scare your family and friends. This is definitely more of an app for kids rather than adults, and its £1 price tag is a little over the top for what probably would be a free download on Android. Spooky Sound Machine is produced by mobivention, responsible for huge numbers of mobile games (such as Reverse It) and fun apps across the Apple App Store, Android Market and Samsung Apps as well as the Nokia Store.

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AA Breakdown & Traffic

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:01:14 GMT

Originally available on iPhone, iPad and Android, the AA’s cornerstone app has now made it to Nokia. Cleverly, the AA Breakdown & Traffic app enables the breakdown chaps to find stranded motorists – one touch and your call and location are transferred through to the AA’s Breakdown Control Centre. As well as locating a breakdown, the app has a plethora of other useful features. Up to date traffic information from AA Roadwatch provides details of roadworks, incidents or hold-ups on detailed street level maps. The app also has a useful Reminders feature which can help motorists with key dates for their vehicle. The reminders section can hold the renewal dates for your car insurance, tax, service and MOT, and it will notify you when these dates are approaching. If you’ve ever fallen foul of the law in these areas, you’ll know how useful that would be.

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Fit Pro – Sport and Diet

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:58:43 GMT

Fit Pro is an application containing a food calorie and a physical activity databases – essentially a cheaper form of Weight Watchers, it’s designed to help you with your diet. You have to enter the foods you eat each day, enter the exercises you conduct and set your daily calorie limit which you want to achieve. And, as part of a decent fitness regime, we think it could well work. The application displays charts of daily and monthly calorie intake. The user interface has been improved in the latest version, while you can see graphs of your calorie intake over time and pie charts too.

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101 Best Diet Tips

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:56:42 GMT

This small app is a list of the 101 ‘best ever’ dieting tips. Now, while there’s a lot of text here, there’s not a great deal of substance and, for £3, there’s certainly nothing more than you’d find in a huge variety of dieting books. Mind you, if you don’t have access to such material, then it represents a reasonably small investment. But there’s a problem with the nature of the ‘tips’ themselves, which seem written by an over-earnest 10 year old. “Eat at least two servings of fruit or veggies at every meal” hardly represents meaty advice and some, like “resolve never to supersize your food portions unless you want to supersize your clothes” are downright stupid and are hardly worth the effort it took to type them.

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Yoga On The Go

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:53:48 GMT

If you’re a fan of Yoga, then this is the Nokia app for you. It’s adapted from the popular Yoga Deck by Olivia H. Miller – a whole programme to promote physical well-being and emotional balance. The great thing about it is that there’s progression – you can advane along a path of Learn from a vast array of postures intended to benefit the spine, the heart and blood circulation, respiration and rejuvenation, backache and pain, inner organs and much more. The app isn’t fabulously well designed, but it’s certainly worth a download if you’re interested in Yoga to help particular areas of the body.y.

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Holiday Countdown

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:59:11 GMT

This widget for your Nokia is actually a rather simple countdown timer, revealing the days, hours, minutes and seconds until your holiday starts. Or until you have a massively long coach journey from the airport until your hotel. Or until Easyjet delays your flight. It’s entirely up to you. And if you really need it on your home screen then, well, there’s a widget for you to do that, too. Our main problem with this app is that it costs money. And, to be frank, it simply isn’t worth it. £1 for something that basically tells you how many days are left. Our time is cheap – send us the £1 and we’ll gladly let you know how many days remain until your vacances.

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Talking Hamster

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:56:58 GMT

When the iPhone first came out, there were loads of apps that made little difference to the world’s orbit. Like iPint, for example, a brilliant way to virtually sup beer. Or the lightsaber app that enabled you to wield your phone as if you were a Jedi. Trouble was, they gave apps a truly bad name and for ages afterwards, people thought apps were mere folly, for drunken nights at the pub rather than looking up the weather. Nokia’s Ovi Store is also full of these, and here is a prime example. Talking Hamster is a voice-altering app that features an animated hamster. Yep, it repeats whatever you say in a high-pitched squeaky voice as you say it. This is definitely what mobile phones were invented for. And the mega fun doesn’t stop there – there’s a sing button, so you can encourage the hamster to sing, too. One of the other huge benefits of the app is apparently that it will work in any language, too. We’re sure there are huge numbers of linguists just waiting to try it out.

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The Jungle Book eBook

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:54:46 GMT

Good for the kids, this one. It’s a shame that there’s no ecosystem for ebooks on Nokia handsets like iBooks on the iPhone. It’s also a pity that even touchscreen Nokia phones can’t interpret gestures and subtle movements that on other platforms would enable you to navigate through books far more naturally. Here, this Jungle Book eBook simply enables you to press up and down arrows to move through the pages. It’s really not very intuitive and could be far improved. There’s not a huge amount else we can say about this eBook. It’s OK for clarity on the screen, but we’ll be surprised if you think this is a great way to read and manage to get through the entire book. If you’re thinking the same way as us, let’s just say that Mowgli was raised in the jungle by wolves. He eventually needs to fight Shere Khan who wants to kill him. That’s most of it, anyway right?

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Paint Pad

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:52:03 GMT

Some apps are difficult to use on any mobile phone. Then there are apps that are difficult to use on a Nokia. And then there are apps that are virtually impossible to use on a Nokia. Paint Pad is one of these. It’s supposed to be a flexible drawing tool according to the blurb with the app that “discovers and magnifies your creativity!” Is that so? Yes, you can draw to a point, but you can’t actually create anything resembling either a real-world object or Doctor Who alien. The various tools – including eraser, spray can, zoom, text, circle, rectangle and straight line – aren’t exactly a huge amount of use. The main problem was our touchscreen Nokia’s complete lack of accurate or responsive touch but hey, you can’t have it all. However, if you should manage to create a masterpiece, you can share it with a friend via Bluetooth or save it to your handset’s Gallery. We didn’t bother doing either of those with our grotesque creation, instead preferring to hit delete.

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Milkybar – Ungrow up

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:51:00 GMT

Don’t be fooled by the idea this app is for kids. It’s more something for big kids. Like you presumably. Snap a self-portrait using your Nokia’s camera and you can virtually dress yourself as the legendary Milkybar Kid. Well, when we say dress yourself, we actually mean that you’ll just get the famous glasses, blond hair, neckerchief and, naturally, a Sherrif’s badge. OK, so it’s hardly an app with many strings to its bow, but what were you expecting? When you’ve finished faffing around making sure you’ve got your best side, there’s the option to share your new appearance with your mates on Facebook or Twitter should you really want to virtually embarrass yourself, or you’re able to upload it to the Milkybar gallery. So it’s a fairly simple app in every way, but we think you’ll find it quite amusing, all the same.

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Treasure of Valagika

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:46:46 GMT

This game would have been better if we’d have been able to actually get to play it that quick – the sponsor ads are provided by InnerActive (requires a data connection) and need to work for the game to function. Trouble is, we couldn’t get them to load for ages so NO GAME. That’s right, if you can’t see the ad you don’t get to have a game. A little unfair we think especially as we’re prepared to watch the ad. InnerActive, you are officially rubbish. Still, we did get to play the game and you have to find ancient treasure. Of Valagika or something. And it’s guarded by a deadly monster. Oh, and your mission is to get the treasure by activating all the so-called switches on your way and making sure you don’t get eaten by the nasty monster. But by the time we actually got to the game bit, it was bedtime. And if you’ve feel you’ve wasted time by reading this, write to InnerActive…

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Devil’s Ride 3D Free

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:33:14 GMT

The description for this app poses several key questions, so let’s answer them in turn. “Have you ever dreamed of making an video game?W Yes, we have. “How would you put everything cool in it?” Not sure really, not thought that far ahead. Police cars, extreme sports, a lot of crazy bonuses, trophies, online highscores and all this in the top-notch 3D graphics? Sounds like this is a bit far-fetched. “Well, we did it and now it’s up to you to decide if the result is a great game or a total rubbish.” Really? Well, if you’re asking us, if you’re really pushing us to answer that, we will. It’s total rubbish. There are pre-roll ads before each race which load only sporadically, while the gameplay isn’t exactly top-notch.

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META Friend Locator

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:29:46 GMT

META friend locator is an online mobile map application but with a twist – there are various social features incorporated within the mapping. According to the developers, META generates 5-10 times less data traffic than Google Maps, so it’s well suited for those of us roaming on other data networks or on tariffs where data is a bit more expensive. You get maps covering most of the world, GPS support and user provided point-of-interest like restaurants and cafes. You can share your location with friends and see where they are, check-in at places and write to people as well as checking out their profile. There are two problems with this though – the first is that the social location functionality is rather Facebook-like in scope. And anything trying to compete with Facebook’s vast userbase is probably onto a loser (unless you’re someone like Google). The second problem is that we found the app was rather unreliable and just didn’t work at times. As such we can’t really recommend it – shame, as we thought the mapping side of things might be rather useful.

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WhatsApp Messenger

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:57:31 GMT

WhatsApp Messenger is a messenging app that’s available for Nokia, iPhone, Blackberry, and Android phones. WhatsApp uses your 3G or Wi-Fi (when available) and enables you to send messages with friends and family. The key sell here is that there’s no cost attached, but we found ourselves not using the app – it’s just not as simple to use as text messaging. And, while the cost of text messaging is still high for some customers, such as those on Pay as you go deals, for most of us on contract texts are free or near-free. So WhatsApp Messenger, while a good idea in principle, is actually a little useless in practice. While some proprietary messaging apps – BlackBerry Messenger for example – have been successful, that’s normally because they are deeply integrated into the user experience. Unfortunately WhatsApp Messenger doesn’t fulfil this criteria and as such is rather limited in usefulness.

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The Guardian

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:54:30 GMT

The Nokia Guardian app adds an additional layer of experience than the paper’s already excellent mobile site. Naturally you have access to all the news, sport and comment on the mobile site. It’s all excellently presented and well-designed for ease-of-reading. You’re able to save content for later viewing as well as get superb picture galleries and full-screen views of the best images. You’re also able to save content off for later reading. There’s also access to the Guardian’s award-winning podcasts such as the superb Football Weekly, The Business and Politics Weekly. You can also customise the app and personalise the home screen so you can see the content that’s most of interest to you, while there’s also a screen showing you what’s been most viewed over the last 24 hours. Sharing is also simple, with options to email articles to friends or post them on Facebook. One of the best-looking and functional news or newspaper apps we’ve yet seen on Nokia.

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Facebook for Nokia

Thu, 19 May 2011 19:41:33 GMT

Finally Facebook is rolling out its apps to more mobile handsets. While the company has been busy expanding, it hasn’t done itself justice in terms of app development; there is still no iPad app, for example, leaving the way open for third party developers to provide access. Clearly Facebook sees the future as phone rather than tablet, something Mark Zuckerberg has admitted. Here then, is the company’s app for Nokia S60 touch-based handsets – and it’s a cracker. You can perform all the normal Facebook functions such as updating your status, add comments on walls, uploading photos, checking and sending messages and sorting out which invites you want to RSVP to. It’s as slick as an interface as you’d expect and, if you’re a regular Facebook user, you certainly won’t be disappointed by what’s on offer. The only unfortunate thing about accessing Facebook on the move is that it lacks the visual impact of the full screen version – images are too small to see without enlarging them, for example. But that’s a small gripe as the app does what it was designed to do – keep you in touch with friends and family.

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Highlights on Ovi

Thu, 19 May 2011 19:28:52 GMT

We often wonder why more handset manufacturers don’t take leaves out of ‘Apple’s book of making money.’ Apple makes a fortune on apps, music, videos, games and more, but other companies such as Nokia, Microsoft and even Google just aren’t doing as good a job at squeezing cash out of users via mobile-based stores. Some of the reason for this is that they just don’t have the strong ecosystem of iTunes, but it’s also that they don’t have decent enough shop apps on their devices. The on-handset experience of the Ovi Store, for example, is pretty slow and dysfunctional. Enter Nokia’s new weopon: Highlights on Ovi. Now, naturally, we’re here to give you an unbiased opinion on what to download, but Highlights on Ovi recommends the hot apps available on the Ovi Store. There are three different ways to display them – by free or paid as well as a combination of the two. It’s updated daily, so you can always see the latest great apps added to the Ovi Store.

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Michael Jackson

Thu, 19 May 2011 19:16:35 GMT

This official widget app from Michael’s friends at Sony Music is, we’re sure, meant as a goodwill gesture rather than blatant cash cow. But regardless of your opinion on the exploitation of Jackson’s estate, this app is the mobile equivalent of a fansite. Indeed, the app is little more than a basic mobile site, complete with Jackson news (er, he’s dead) and photos of MJ during his career as well as access to the ‘latest’ videos from the King of Pop. It’s fairly well-trodden ground and you’ll have to be a real Michael Jackson fan to find it of use. Mind you, if you are a real Michael Jackson fan, you’ll probably have seen most – if not all – of this stuff already. As a result, it feels like there’s little here. The makers of the app warn that the app might not work so well on earlier versions of the Nokia Symbian S60 OS, so makes sure you update using Nokia Software Updater before installing the app. To be honest, it’s worth checking for updates anyway, as you’ll have a much more stable handset as a result.

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NokiMoki-Piano

Thu, 19 May 2011 19:12:45 GMT

If there’s one thing we’ve always wanted to be able to do with our Nokia phone, it’s play the piano. Well, we can’t play one in real life, so why not take a shortcut and pretend to play with the help of the free app NokiMoki-Piano. It’s not exactly a pianist’s dream; there are ten white and seven black keys, with which you can (supposedly) play any melody – though the app only has a single octave. We have to say our results could be considered patchy at best, though we would probably describe ourselves as tone deaf. Mind you, we’re not sure if even competent musicians could get a decent sound out of this app – it just doesn’t seem to make much sense to our mind and it’s certainly no substitute for a real musical instrument – we reckon you knew that bit though, didn’t you? Still, if you want to make a noise it’s certainly an option. Just not a very good one.

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Guitar Chords

Thu, 19 May 2011 16:30:49 GMT

Mobile music-making apps aren’t usually up to much and, while Guitar Chords isn’t going to go that far to change that perception, it might be a valuable tool if you are a novice guitarist – though the app itself doesn’t generate music itself. But it will be of help because Guitar Chords’ key idea is to playback chords you’re learning so that you can check if they’re sounding right as well as show you where you should be putting your fingers to play each chord. The main advantage, says the publisher, is that you’ll no longer have to carry round printed material to help you with learning chords (though, we don’t think this is that much of an advantage as you’ll presumably have had to carry a guitar around with you). You certainly can’t knock this app for being shallow; it has over 300 chords on board and is pretty easy to use, you can easily browse and find the particular chord you’re after so if you’ve forgotten something you can quickly find out what you have wrong. Albeit something with a very specific purpose, Guitar Chords shows itself very useful app indeed.

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Flare

Thu, 19 May 2011 16:23:32 GMT

The user interfaces of most mobile phones are pretty bland by default. Think of the iPhone’s grid, which offers little from the off aside from a few odd-looking backgrounds from Apple (Windows Phone is an exception to this rule). Nokia handsets are worse than most, with limited options for customisation. Android handsets can be completely altered in contrast – and often are by the manufacturers. So we’re left with themes that we can install on our Nokia devices. One of the latest available is Flare, which is free “for a limited period” – though quite how limited that actually is remains anyone’s guess. It adds flame effects to your menus and system screens, while it also changes the colour of other icons and details where appropriate. And, despite our reservations, it actually looks rather smart. Of course, should you download it and not like it, you can always remove it – no theme is permanent. And, what’s more, availability is broad across Nokia devices – it can be downloaded and installed on 3rd, 5th edition and Symbian^3 Phones. The company behind this design, PiZero Design, also make various other themes for Nokia handsets so they’re worth checking out on the Ovi Store.

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