Application Manager Log

Many will not have realised that the Nokia E63 has an Application Manager. When you go into the options, there is a useful Installation Log which records when you installed, uninstalled all the applications on your phone. This could be useful to recall what program may be causing some instability issues for your phone. Perhaps my phone has too many applications on it, that now the phone is slowing down and starting to crash more frequently. Have you had the same problem?

Let's talk about Ovi Suite and PC Suite

This has been something on the back of my mind for quite a few months. There seems to be not much clarity regarding the Ovi Suite series and what seems to be that Ovi is replacing PC suite. Personally, I have found PC Suite to be much easier to use. For example, I have found connecting the phone to Ovi to be quite troublesome, with the application hanging quite a few times and refusing to sync with cable or bluetooth. When selecting multiple recipients for an sms, PC suite allows you to type in part of a name, and then select the contact, press enter and continue typing the name of the next recipient. However, this is not possible with Ovi Suite messaging application. On the plus side, the Ovi application displays SMS messages as conversations and has a better graphic user interface.

I'll add other anomalies later but it makes me wonder why they did not just BUILD on what they have already developed with PC Suite rather than what seems to be "starting again" with Ovi Suite? I have not had that much experience with Ovi but curious whether there are any people out there who found Ovi better than PC Suite? If so, in what way is it better?

Search Google by Voice on Nokia Phones

You might not believe it but it works. The application Google Mobile now allows you to search by voice recognition software, understanding accents from US, UK and Australia as well as searches by Mandarin Chinese! Take yourself to http://mobile.google.com and be ready to be amazed with the new Google software! Select the search for YouTube, hold down the green CALL button and say "Lebron James NBA" and let go of the green CALL button. Its as easy as that.


If you have already been using this feature, leave a comment about the different types of searches that you have found useful.

Jumping to the most recent message in Gmail

Some of you will know the experience of receiving 30 replies to the same email and the time it takes  to scroll to the most recent thread in the chain. There is a shortcut.

1. Open the message
2. Exit back to the Inbox
3. Open the message again. Gmail will now open up to the most recent thread.