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Nokia has announced it will bring social networking to the masses on its freshly minted C3, C6 and E5 phones. This comes just a day after Microsoft did the same for mobile Windows users, and Sony Ericsson is promising to catch up. The Nokia phones will communcate with Facebook and Twitter, as well as Ovi Mail and Chat. …

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  1. Ben Tasker
    Stop

    It's time for every mobile phone to get social

    Except mine hopefully. I've no need or desire for MyFaceTwat on my phone.

    As long as you can turn the functionality off

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "Symbian handsets can be enhanced with downloaded applications"

    so can s40. Remember Java ... it was big in the 90s.

    1. Watashi

      Symbian Apps

      A list of (non-Java, not pre-installed) Symbian apps I run on my s60v5:

      C64 emu

      Scientific calculator emu

      QuickOffice

      Point and Find (augmented reality from nokia)

      Skyfire / Opera Mini / Opera Mobile

      Google Maps (which works with my network enhanced GPS)

      File manager

      OpenTable restraunt booker

      YouTube & Daily Motion

      MySpace & Facebook

      Snaptu

      Nightstand clock

      Shopping list

      Stylus write-on notepad

      Wikipedia

      IMDB

      ESPN

      Daily Dilbert

      Shazam

      Last FM scrobbler

      Windows Live Messenger

      Skype

      Google Translator

      Tourch app that switches on my flash

      Phone locator software

      Egg timer, counter & stopwatch

      Mirror using front facing camera

      Spirit level

      App that allows me to use my phone screen as a bluetooth mouse

      App that turns phone into Wi-Fi hotspot

      App that enables me to lock / unlock my phone through tapping the screen, sliding on the screen or even waving my hand in front of the proximity sensor

      App to stop my backlight switching off unless I lock the phone

      Worms

      Risk

      Bubble Bobble

      Backgammon / chess / bagatelle / card games

      Resident Evil

      Tetris

      Virtual Rubiks cube

      There are lots more and new ones coming along all the time.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Joke

        @Watashi

        Wow - an egg-timer!

        And Worms, too!

        You must be the envy of all your mates with iPhones.

  3. Cameron Colley

    "promised 29-day battery life"

    Is that a typo? If not, wow! I'd love to get a quarter of that on my E71 -- and that's a big improvement on my previous WinMo devices which would barely last 2 days.

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