First of all, I want to say that I use Ovi sync religiously, to synchronize everything(contacts, calendar, notes). The synchronization saved me when my phone had to be reflashed at Nokia care. I was up and running in a few minutes thanks to the synchronization features. Now on to the N8... I like to stay in touch with my friends trough Facebook, so in the holiday season, I roam the gift stores and take pictures of interesting gifts, and upload them to Facebook instantly using the official app. Then I post messages on the walls of my friends who are interested in these special findings. I send pictures to my wife and other people I know, if I know they're looking for something I find. I use my phone to take pictures and videos of my baby boy when he starts "acting up" :) and shared them via Facebook or upload them on Youtube so all my friends can see him. I also take videos of my colleagues playing various Wii or PS games during lunchbreak, Guitar Heros featuring programmers is a bliss :). I would fill the N8 homescreens with all the widgets that I'd like to use like communities, weather, rss feeds, phone notifications, because I'm the kind of person that doesn't want to miss anything that's happening. I use Nokia situations(best app I've seen this year) for any situation possible. I've setup a profile for when I'm at home (using the GPS locator, coolest thing ever), for overnight, meetings and for when I'm visiting someone.
That's how I'd use the N8, besides the daily Ovi Maps useage, Point and Find augmented reality and other God knows how many apps I use every day. I should tell you that I charge my phone almost twice a day :D because of this heavy usage, so the N8 would really come in handy, have more battery life than my Nokia 5230.
That's it :)
SPB Weather review
The weather app is probably the most used application on a mobile phone. Various applications and widgets can be used from many providers that preset the data in their own way. Some may seem strange, some may seem familiar. The SPB Weather application is a native Symbian application, unlike other widget applications for Symbian out there, so it runs fast and clean. What I like most about this app, is that it keeps the Symbian UI experience, while providing more usability than most Symbian apps(and I'm talking about the ones provided by Nokia).
You can see the weather conditions for multiple cities, in case your business takes you on the road often. The main screen provides a summarized view of the current weather conditions showing current, morning, day and evening temperatures, and a short forecast with minimum and maximum temperatures for the upcoming days. Side swiping goes to the next city.
Tapping the current conditions opens up a detailed view of the current conditions. This view shows the current temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure and wind speed for the time of the last update, as well as the humidity and wind speed for the rest of the day.
Tapping on the short forecast for one of the following days opens up a more detailed forecast of that day, split by times of the day, forecast which includes the temperature, humidity and wind speed. If you want to go to the next day or the previous day, simply swipe right or left on you screen.
The options menu of the main screen allows you to add or remove cities, change the measuring units, or schedule periodical updates. You can change the measuring units from metric to imperial, and you can also add a new city or remove the currently selected one.
The application also has a layers view of the globe, where you can choose to see the clouds over the globe, the temperature overlay, and the rain overlay. This is a pretty neat feature because the globe that is displayed is 3D and can be rotated to see any region of the globe. Of course the cities you have selected are shown as pinpoints on the rotating globe. When you use the cities layer, you can also see the forecast for the cities in a popup box. You can zoom in on the globe and can press the play button and see the an animated forecast.
Bottom line is, this weather application has everything you could ever want in a weather app. You can give it a try at the SPB Website.
You can see the weather conditions for multiple cities, in case your business takes you on the road often. The main screen provides a summarized view of the current weather conditions showing current, morning, day and evening temperatures, and a short forecast with minimum and maximum temperatures for the upcoming days. Side swiping goes to the next city.
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Tapping the current conditions opens up a detailed view of the current conditions. This view shows the current temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure and wind speed for the time of the last update, as well as the humidity and wind speed for the rest of the day.
Tapping on the short forecast for one of the following days opens up a more detailed forecast of that day, split by times of the day, forecast which includes the temperature, humidity and wind speed. If you want to go to the next day or the previous day, simply swipe right or left on you screen.
The options menu of the main screen allows you to add or remove cities, change the measuring units, or schedule periodical updates. You can change the measuring units from metric to imperial, and you can also add a new city or remove the currently selected one.
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The application also has a layers view of the globe, where you can choose to see the clouds over the globe, the temperature overlay, and the rain overlay. This is a pretty neat feature because the globe that is displayed is 3D and can be rotated to see any region of the globe. Of course the cities you have selected are shown as pinpoints on the rotating globe. When you use the cities layer, you can also see the forecast for the cities in a popup box. You can zoom in on the globe and can press the play button and see the an animated forecast.
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Bottom line is, this weather application has everything you could ever want in a weather app. You can give it a try at the SPB Website.
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