Apps I Wish Symbian Have

Having use several mobile operating systems (OS), I could say that I’m already a bit verse with applications floating around the mobile gadget space, and from the looks of it, Symbian lacks quite a few good and usable ones to its stable. Well, no OS is perfect of course, their were also countless of good apps that can only be found on Symbian but nonetheless a complete system could be achieve and strive for.

I'm really yearning for the following apps to complete my mobile connectivity and productivity needs, hopefully, Nokia or any freelance developers could read this blog post and respond to my requests.

1. Flipboard – A news and magazine client found in Apple iOS and Google Android. I like this app so much that I wrote an entire blog article about it before and wants it primarily installed on my Symbian phone. The main core of the app was simplicity, users get to enjoy a swift and fluid interface in browsing through web based news and magazines, Facebook or Twitter by just flipping up and down the board page.

2. Get Glue – Being a huge fan of movies and television shows at the same time a social network fanatic, this application became a necessity since it combines both worlds. It became a venue for me to express my admiration or displeasure on a particular movie or TV show. Its also a good social place to meet fellow fanatics or haters, earn badges of coolness, or simply brag your prominence.

3. EZ PDF Reader – One of the biggest drawbacks of Symbian at the moment is the absence of an efficient and smooth PDF reader and editor. There were some apps capable of doing so like Adobe or QuickOffice, but they were not as fast and savvy as that of the EZ PDF. Try reading one on a Nokia Belle smartphone using the aforementioned apps and you'll get nightmares being ragingly slow. Also, the EZ PDF Reader allows annotations on the files like highlights or side notes making it very ideal.

4. Super Video – Do you like to multitasks, like maybe watching a movie at the same time doing something else on your mobile phone, well, the Super Video handles that leisurely. Its like a self-regulating app that floats above your screen allowing you to do something else like web browsing or playing games while watching videos. You can even watch multiple videos all at the same time, that's how superb it is.

5. Instagram - Though I couldn't see the reason why I should be using this app since all my pictures were directly published in this blog or on Twitter or Facebook, it cannot be denied that their were sizable number of people who loves the social network site and would prefer a fully dedicated application of it in their mobilephones. In fact their were even be some who prefer to buy phones because of its Instagram compatibility. With this scenario going on, Nokia should strive hard to create one for Symbian, every buyer counts.

With the fierce competition in the smartphone space at the moment, every aspects and details are important, Nokia and Symbian should seriously find ways to make these apps available to the users, their should be no stones unturned. Anymore apps you want to include in the list? Feel free to write them on the comment section below.

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Flipboard, The Ultimate Social Media Client?

Ever since I got hooked to social networks like Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc., social application clients had become my most used on my phone or tablet opening it first and last every time I grasped either of them. This is also the reason why I'm so picky in choosing a social client that supports them all. Let just say that I've tried everything there was on Symbian, iOS and Android platform and settled for Gravity (Symbian) as the ultimate of them all not until I discovered Flipboard (iOS/Android) offering the most beautiful and intuitive interface challenging my beloved Gravity.

Inspired by the beauty and ease of print media, Flipboard was designed to give users the best reading experience by just flipping through Facebook newsfeeds, Twitter timelines and news from around the globe helping users find the things that can inform, entertain or even inspire them most every day.

Quite true indeed because you can easily access social networks and feeds from just any website in a visually rich format. To mention a few of my favorites, a curated special feed page for National Geographic, Technology, Men's Health, Rotten Tomatoes, Rolling Stones, Travel, Photos and so much more, users can choose from the rest of its featured feed links on the following categories; News, Business, Tech and Science, Video, Cool Curators, Photos and Design, Living, Entertainment, Sports, Travel, Style and Local. The information links on Flipboard is limitless as users can search and subscribe to any Twitter or Facebook account, or just any other websites in the web space that supports RSS feed.

Perhaps the best feature I love about the app was its user interface, its smooth and intuitive that I find it fun to flip pages up and down. Its somewhat similar to the Windows Phone 7 tile mechanism except that its not active and that these tiled style windows had the ability to render images of current feed being pushed through it during an update. Tapping the window tile would give you a sub-window showing the full image and the first few sentences of the article being feed. Users can then access the full story by clicking the opened sub-window.

Some of the app's drawbacks includes limited social network support (no Foursquare, Get Glue, Instagram among the rest of the popular social networking sites on it), limited Twitter and Facebook features like its inability to view current trends, run multiple twitter accounts among others and the feed subscription is only limited to 23.

But nonetheless, the app is excellent that I'm already hooked to it. I could even say that I'm using the app more now than Gravity, but when it comes to the idea of being the "Ultimate Social Media Client", its not just yet as developers still needs to tweak and add a few more support before they could take the crown from Gravity. But I believe this won't take long to figure. I just hope they could add a Windows Phone and Symbian operating system support as well to cover everyone.

For Gravity, I also wish for it to evolved and its developers to introduce more innovations to the app defend its throne. God luck to both and keep those creative juice flowing.

Flipboard by the way is FREE to download on App Store and Goggle Play.

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