TECHMUNDO 2.0

Akin to the beloved widgets of Mac users, E61 has built in Flash Lite 1.1. Those of us websurfers have experienced Flash in one way or the other; either from those quirky animations passed around on office emails or though tiny games embedded in webpages like my personal favorite, Whack Your Boss.

Smartphone users have always been on the prowl for the perfect app to make their smartphones a little smarter. We’ve always tried to one up each other by being the first one to find that program that will have that little incrimental benefit to our mobile life. With Flash Lite, we no longer need to be limited to Symbian apps specifically written for S60v3 handsets, Adobe Exchange has tons of free apps most of which supports the E61.

Although not all of them (or none of them) runs full screen on the E61, what I like is that there is no need to install anything. Just make a Flash folder on your mini-sd card and load on freewares. The easiest way to access them is just to click on the files on FileManager.

There seems to be a little bit for everyone, from basic cocktail recipes from The Party Bartender, to Stopwatch, to Lady Calendar - an easy way to track down menstrual and ovulation patterns (maybe even moodswings , although why it’s filed under business I’ll never know ). My favorites are BookLook to search for authors, ISBN, etc etc; TapGap Ebay that monitors your watchlists on ebay; MarketReader to be kept abreast with the latest happenings in the financial markets; and mSFO for flight info on major airlines.

There are also some Flash Lite games that caught my eye.

Go Sushi!

President Dance

Micro Invaders

Crazy Taxi Night

and Monster Kick

Also check out the etch-a-sketch Doodle, and Winter, a cool app where you speak to your mobile’s mic and the characters in the app will give you advice or answer your question.

There were some apps that didn’t work well with the E61. Either the softkeys didn’t work as they should, or it just froze. Normally the right softkey exits the application.