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When I began to use UIQ3 phone, I've tried many messenger apps that help me chat with my friends. Almost every application has its own strong/weak points but according to myself, I choose Slick - a Lonely Cat Games product.

Slick is a good messenger app for mobile devices. It's easy to use and supports many features, allows you to chat with your friends connected though various online messaging apps.

Recently, Lonely Cat Games has released the lastest version of this app, Slick 0.46 with improvements: Fixed ICQ/AIM bug sending empty messages to some IM clients, compatibility with S60 touch-screen phones (N5800) .

Main Features:

• Supported protocols: ICQ, Yahoo, AIM, MSN, Google Talk, Jabber
• Text messaging
• Emoticons
• Alerts - sound, backlight, vibration, notify window displaying the number of new messages
• Group and buddy management (add, delete, rename)
• Message history
• File transfer - send and receive files
• Sending / receiving offline messages
• Downloading files sent as links

Supported devices:

Sony Ericsson: P990, M600, W950, W960, P1, G700, G900

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Although Slick 0.46 is still in development but it make me feel satisfied. And you? Which messenger app you're using to chat on your phone? Feel free to share your ideas with everyone here.

This is a small utility for your UIQ3 smartphones (W950, M600, W960, P1i, P990, etc). You can reboot the phone or turn it off quickly by using this app. It is very useful for modders who need to access the power button usually.

For the first time ever, it is now possible to read your OpenDocument files from OpenOffice.org, KOffice, AbiWord and Lotus Symphony on your Symbian Smartphone using Open Source software

Many exciting features are available:

• open OpenDocument text(.odt), spreadsheet(.ods) and presentation(.odp)
• open OpenDocument files directly from email attachments, MMS, Bluetooth, filebrowser as well as webbrowser
• view thumbnail image
• get information about subject, title, keywords and other meta information
• get statistics about paragraph count, words and pages
• zoom and fullscreen
• search
• view of changes

Lots of formatting is also supported:

• all text and highlighting colors
• bold and italic
• underline as well as crossing lines
• upper and lower text
• left, right and center alignment
• left and right margins
• bullets and numbering
• embedded images
• paragraph bordering
• full support for footnotes (show them by pressing ok/enter button, if there are more then one, use the arrow keys to scroll)

Download here !

With a port of the SE G700/G900 Flash firmware support, our P1i can now play swf files (not flv files yet) . A big thanks to SWmail - a super  modder/hacker for UIQ3, you can visit his site to try more intersting mods here.

This mod intended to play Flash contents on Opera Mobile on SE UIQ3 smartphones.

Tested on: P1i (R6G04/R9K009/GW1), P990i (R9GA001/R6E28), M600i, W950i, W960i
Note: G700/G900 smartphones with last firmware already have FlashPlugin.

Installation: (taken from swmail's readme):

• Install CapsSwitch and SIS installer mod for Symbian 9.1
• Download archive with the program from http://www.agathosyne.de/files_ext/FlashPlugin.zip
• Install FlashPlugin.

Now you can play flash from your smartphone's by using Opera opens link like 'd:/myflash/flash.swf' but before opening, you must do the following:

• Start Opera
• Go to More >> Settings >> Configuration >> and tick "Allow Plugins"

Enjoy Flash support! And if you like SWMail's work, you can donate to encourage him to continue

PS: after testing on my P1i, I realize that this mod could make the phone play swf files only with small size (less than 2MB), if you play a larger files, the quality will not be very smooth.

Ozone is a free, world-class mobile browser that offers great performance and an outstanding mobile browsing experience for UIQ based phones.

Ozone's features make it one of the best in its class. From the open-source WebKit engine, it not only delivers advanced features such as client-side database support, zooming, tapping and multiple windows, but Ozone also provides the best web-standards compliant experience that's available.

Features:

• Touch screen control
• Zooming and panning by finger
• Multiple windows
• Pop-up blocking
• Auto-comple URL editing
• Desktop/mobile mode switch
• Netscape scriptable plugin
• HTML5 client-side database support

Click here to download this software or go to the homepage

Note: I just tried it out and I must say that I really like it! Maybe even faster than
Opera Mobile. What about you ?

After waiting for months and months - since the start of this year in fact - it's finally released!

Click here to go to the Opera Mobile Download page and enjoy

Another free game that is recommended for everyone in the UIQ 3 community: SudoX. It's a free Sudoku / Kakuro application for those addicts out there. Although this game may not appeal to everyone, at the very least please give a hand to the developer FiendSoft, for making a bunch of excellent freeware applications.

If you want to capture screen shots, seeing that there was no built-in utility to do that on the phone, I recommend you to use The Open Screen Capture. This app was developed by Space Software Studio. It allows users to choose between 0 sec, 10 sec and 30 sec delay. The screenshots are saved in PNG format (smaller file size than BMP) on the memory card.

It performs a great job of capturing the screen - however it's still in the beta stage. The image file format cannot be changed (must be PNG), so keep that in mind when using the app. Don't be too surprised if the app does act up when you want to take a screenshot of a game or something (It never acted up on me when I've been using it though).

GNU Go, developed by the excellent SomeOne / AnotherGuest (who also ported Lemmings over to UIQ 3.0)

This is an open-source game so if you are a developer and find that the AI is a bit 'lacking', or "stupid" as most people put it, you can contribute to the game algorithm.

The game comes with 2 modes, you can play against the AI-GnuGo or play against another human opponent. Note that there is no wireless play, so you will have to cope with the more primitive method of sharing the phone as you play.

You can find more details and download the game here

mShell is a free scripting tool for anyone who doesn't know what it is. Based on the easy-to-learn programming language M, it has a rich phone specific library, thus allowing many to fully explore the phone's potential.

The image on the right shows the screen when running mVNC, an application built using mShell. It's a software that allows the display of the phone's screen on a VNC viewer on the PC, so the phone can be completely controlled from your computer. The app also offers file synchronisation abilities, so scripts can be edited, tested, and executed on your computer before being downloaded to your phone.

If you like to program for your UIQ3 phone, I think mShell and mVNC is the good choice.