The Nokia N85 is a solidly mid-range N-series smartphone, and one that is often ignored in favour of its flashier siblings. When it comes to apps, though, the N85 is every bit as capable as other N-series blowers. Here are the latest Nokia N85 apps, as recommended by the Ovi Store...
The Nokia N85 is a neat little smartphone with a 2-way slider, 2.6-inch OLED display with contrast ratio more than 1:1000 and orientation sensor.This HSDPA phone packs in a 5-Megapixel cameera with auto-focus, integrated A-GPS and included maps. Additional features include USB charging with simultaneous data transfer, UPnP, Bluetooth and USB 2.0 High-Speed.
You can make the most of it with the latest apps courtesy of the Nokia Ovi Store. Here we check out the Top Five best new apps for the Nokia N85.
Genius Converter
Type: Utilities
Size: 0.02 MB
Price: £4.00
Genius Converter aims to be the Swiss Army Knife of unit conversion apps. Temperature, distance, speed, weights - even some more esoteric scientific units can be converted. If you long to master metric but still think in feet and hundredweights, this is the app for you.
MobileKnox
Type: Utilities
Size: 0.121 MB
Price: £8.00
MobileKnox is a secure password manager that locks up your ever-growing collection of passwords, PINS and answers to security questions (you don't answer those honestly, do you?) behind a single master password. The app also has a password generator which will supply randomised paswords guaranteed to be harder to guess than your Mum's maiden name or 'Password2009'.
Walking Hotspot
Type: Business
Size: 0.129 MB
Price: £17.99
Forget the tethering hacks required by other popular smartphone - Walking Hotspot makes sharing your 3G connection with other mobile devices a simple affair. Effectively turning your phone into a wifi router, Walking Hotspot can share your connection with up to five other devices. Take it on holiday with you and the whole family can sit around checking Twitter rather than talking to one another.
eCheckRegister
Type: Utilities
Size: 0.081 MB
Price: £6.00
In this time of financial belt tightening, it is important to keep a close eye on your finances. eCheckRegister lets you track several bank accounts, deposits, withdrawals and other transactions and any pending checks and payments.
Smart Gallery
Type: Photo & Video
Size: 0.358 MB
Price: £6.00
If for some reason you need to hid images and video on your phone - and we are sure you can think of loads of genuine, non-creepy reasons for wanting to do that - then Smart Gallery can help. You can create an area on your phone (or on a memory card) to store any SMS, MMS, videos, pictures or audio recordings you want to stash. This Gallery will remain hidden until you enter the password.
Before you can download any of these apps you'll need to register your device with Ovi Store, which also entitles you to updates and message alerts from Nokia and is a great way of keeping abreast of what's going on at the Ovi Store.