// May 12th, 2007 // 4 Comments » // simply
A recent survey in Sony Ericsson site asked me the statement that best describes my relation to mobile phones, i said ‘I think that a mobile phone is more a functional tool than an inspiring product and I therefore want to have a mobile phone with useful functions that can help me to improve my everyday life’. I strongly say that a mobile has to be more usable and functional rather than being a status or a style element. I currently use a Sony Ericsson M600i smart phone. It’s smart and it’s sexy too cos I own a crystal white colored one. It’s a 3G phone having a UIQ3 interface running on a Symbian v9.0 OS. Smart features include a QWERTY keyboard, Push email, A2DP stereo audio, MP4 player, RSS Reader, Opera Browser, customizable UI and ease of use. Since all the basic features come in default, I don’t need to crack a Smart Movie or a PowerMP3 player or a Profimail Reader. But still a few free applications for smart phones in the internet makes your life easy and more productive.
ZYB Sync. An easy way to backup your mobile’s Contacts and Calendar while allowing you to share and manage the same online. No wires, No software’s, no hassles. Just a GPRS or a WAP or a EDGE enables wireless synchronization of the data. So once in a week I sync my phone’s data with ZYB servers and I can sync it back to any other phone anytime, or just look for a contact detail in my Phonebook from anywhere even if I lost my mobile. We still have these services available in many other ways like service providers (HUTCH) allowing us to backup the same, or the basic Backup service that come with the mobile suite. But nothing is truly accessible over internet.
Widsets. Its Widgets for handsets, named as ‘Widsets’. It’s a Java MIDP2.0 application for Smartphone. It’s a platform with which you and I can create Widsets using RSS feeds of our own choice. If you don’t have the patience to design your Widsets, just pick the popular ones from the library and keep it going. The killer thing here is its slick UI and I’m highly impressed with that. It’s very light and uses a panning navigation to accommodate any number of widsets within the available real estate. It has audio alerts for new entries, supports sharing and lots more. Since RSS is my world for technical updates and surfing, I glued to this in my loo, in the lift, in the Cab… almost everywhere.
Though there are lots of commercial apps available for smart phones, the above said free ones are must haves. I haven’t tried Yahoo! Go yet as my mobile as of now is not supported by Yahoo! Go. M600i users might find this useful post by Niklas on configuring Gmail account in M600i. This is the most usable phone that I’ve ever used till date. UIQ3.0 is great. But I miss the camera in this phone. I’m waiting for the Indian release of the next upgraded model of M600i, the Sony Ericsson P1i.
