Nokia 
The guys over at Mmmooo.com were kind enough to provide me with a copy of their myPhone application. This application is available for most S60 phones with flash 2.1(and above) support. However, I used it on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, where the application really shines.
myPhone for S60, is a Flash-based application that replaces your standby screen and S60 UI and gives your phone an iPhone-like user interface (UI) and look, complete with a few widgets, notifications, multiple homescreens and customisable application shortcuts. Perfect for those of you, who have been looking for way to make your S60 device UI (or in this case your 5800) look more like the iPhone’s.
Basically it takes your standard S60 UI :
And makes it look like the iPhone‘s UI :
As I mentioned before, I tested myPhone on the 5800 XpressMusic, although it is available for other S60v3 (and some older) symbian phones. That being said, the whole experience is a lot more natural on the 5800. As expected, you can tap on any of the onscreen icons to open the application corresponding to it. Like the iPhone, you can also swipe your finger across the screen to move from one homescreen panel to the next.
As you can see in the screenshots above, there is a large variety of icons, each corresponding to its S60 equivalent. For example, the Calender icon opens the S60 calender, the Web icon opens the S60 browser.
However some icons, like the Weather, RSS and Call icon, lead you over to a flash-based widget which does the job instead. The Weather icon, for example, opens up a widget that looks alot like the iPhone’s weather app and does the job very well.
The RSS icon takes you to a nicely formatted RSS reader where you can add or edit/delete links to your favourite RSS feeds.
If the application ever needs to connect to the internet to update the aforementioned features, it’ll ask you which access point to use, etc.
There’s also a Dialing screen Widget which looks much like the iPhone‘s version :
There are totally 4 homescreen panes (that can go upto 7 with the full version) in the version I used, each with various application icons.
The last homescreen pane (in my case, the 4th), consists of 11 re-nameable blank icons, which you can assign to open different applications or websites of your choice. Sadly, these icons do not change once you assign them, which is a shame considering most applications have their own icons and most websites have favicons. However, I do understand that the current set of icons do have the “iPhone” look to it, which is probably better for the overall visual experience.
Coming back to assigning different applications/websites to icons, unfortunately this is a bit of a complex process You need to know the .exe shortcut path of your device, for whichever application you want to set the icon to. The folks over at
Mmmoo.com recommend you install the Jbak Taskman application on your device, to make this process a little more easier, but it would be nice if future versions of myPhone could just have the ability to select applications from a list.
The main page has the iPhone-like “Slide to unlock” bar, which is very cool and works in the same way as on the iPhone. You can also simply rotate the phone from landscape to portrait, to unlock it which is a nice little feature that uses the 5800‘s built-in accelerometer. There’s a Christmas Tree wallpaper in the background, as you can see, on the version I got. I could not, for the life of me, figure out if this was changeable though. There’s also notifications for Missed calls or new Messages, which is a very nice touch.
Because its a flash based application, myPhone does have a couple limitations though, that might hopefully be dealt with a future update. For one thing, it doesnt completely replace your active standby, or take over the S60 Menu button like Handy Shell does. This might be counted as either a disadvantage, or an advantage to those of you that would like to easily shift between the S60 UI and the myPhone UI. It would also be nice if the application had an autostart feature, because as of right now, you have to manually start the application each time you power on your device.
Here’s a short video showing you how myPhone looks and works on the 5800 XpressMusic :
(If you’re reading this on our RSS feed, you might need to check the post on the site to view the video)
Conclusion :
myPhone is great little application that, at just 12$, very nicely serves its purpose. I know a ton of people who love the iPhone interface and are always looking for ways to get their S60 device close to looking like it. The folks at Mmmooo.com have done a great job with this one.
Definitely recommended for those of you who want the iPhone interface on your S60 devices, even more so for the ones that have S60 v5 phones like the 5800.
You can find out more about myPhone at its product page on Mmmooo.com. Their customer service is very prompt and friendly, so if you have any questions feel free to contact them about it at Mmmooo.com.
-Teh Cj
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1 year ago
I installed this thing on my nokia 5800 and the hanged.Perhaps because I installed it on the memory card along with 20 other games ,apps and themes available for 5800 xm.Has anyone purchased this software can I have the serial no./activation code :) Please :)
Nokia phones, mostly running on Symbian OS, don't require that high speed processor, as compared to WinMo and other OS, to support multiple running applications in the background since it Symbian is designed to handle those strenuous jobs.Usual problems will develop and be experienced, and anticipated as well on all early versions of firmwares for all phones.
@Bryan, not only the frequency, but also something about S60 5th, having performance problems on the first release
It is laggy in the video, maybe because of the low frame rate issue of youtube. I think Nokia 5800XM is kinda slow according to the specs, the core processor is only ~300MHz something, so don't expect it can run application faster than iPhone, which it has ~550MHz core processor.But the fastest processor is not iPhone, the iPod Touch 2Gen is the fastest phone, over 600MHz.
nice
It's amazing! Great!
hi, Cj, pretty nice posting. and the captures are shining as well. also, we will keep up good work also innovation at this. All the MyPhone users, fans and visitors are our passion to go forward and further!
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