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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 !

Virtual Keyboard X-Key is designed to enter text information using a touch screen phone.

This keyboard can be positioned in portrait orientation (the little buttons - to recruit fingernail or stylus), and in landscape orientation (large buttons - to recruit finger). It also has its own text editor window for easy monitoring input text.

X-Key supports 70 language layouts (almost all languages - includes Vietnamese ). You can setup to four different layouts (such as English, French, Russian and Chinese) and switch between them easily. Đọc tiếp...

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

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).

LinkBoy provides up to 45 shortcuts to frequently used tasks, that can be optionally displayed on the standby screen. It seems like GDesk has just gotten some competition.

Similarly to GDesk, whats great is that the positions of the shortcuts and icons can be changed (the fact that UIQ 3.0 doesn't allow for it in the main menu still boggles me). The Captions under each icon can be changed as well. The standby settings are left intact on the screen, and makes it slightly more convenient than GDesk.

NEW in version 1.52:

• List of upcoming events displayed when executing the Event active item.
• Full text display of Note active items.
• New Active item type: Time and date.
• Support for passing application parameter from shortcuts.
• Selectable right softkey action for P990 in flip-closed mode.
• Improved behavior with the Standby application's Today menu.
• Numerous additional improvements and bugfixes.

It also has a menu to set transparency for the various shortcuts - something the iPhone users might be in awe about.

The software does not come for free, as opposed to GDesk. Costing at $14.95, it seems to be a high price to pay for to obtain a "stable version of GDesk". You can go here for the details.

Swiss Manager is one of apps that you must have for your P1i. It provides a task manager, file manager and system information viewer. I think it does the job better than the built-in task manager and I recommend you to install it for your UIQ3 phone.

NEW in version 1.70:

• Support for invoking functions from other applications (e. g. memory cleanup from within GDesk).
• Application setup command to configure applications not currently running.
• New options for instant display of Favorites.
• New option to perform cleanup on startup.
• New status icon format displaying large size text.
• Selectable display of time or free memory on status icon.
• Enhanced file copy operations.
• Improved performance and reliability.
• Numerous additional enhancements, optimizations, and bugfixes.

A pro version with advanced features exists for USD $29.95 but most users should find the free version adequate to their needs. Its compatible with all UIQ3 phones.

You can get the newest version 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.