The Nokia N86 8MP is a rock-solid offering from Nokia that may not have a touchscreen but the 8-Megapixel camera and OLED screen make this a feature-rich and user-friendly device. What's more, the Symbian S60 3rd Edition OS lets you personalise the phone in a whole host of ways. Here we look at the latest apps from the Nokia Ovi Store designed to make your Nokia N86 8MP slicker, safer and sweeter to use...
Nokia's 8-Megapixel slider, isn't just for taking high-quality pictures and, er, sliding. The powerful S60 3rd edition operating system can handle some great apps too. Here are the latest Nokia N86 8MP apps, as recommended by the Ovi Store.
nUnLock
Type: Utilities
Size: 0.253
Price: £1.00
Love the Apple iPhone unlock screen, but don't fancy going through all that iPhone/iTunes rigmarole? Just stick nUnLock on your Nokia and get.. well, if not exactly the next best thing then probably the next, next, next best thing. Big clock, big slider (use the D-Pad due to the lack a touchscreen) and a configurable background and font colour. Job done.
AppLocker
Type: Utilities
Size: 0.083
Price: £8.00
If you lend your phone out to other people to use or - especially - if you have young children who like to play games on your phone, you might want to restrict what they are allowed to do with it. AppLocker will let you stop certain apps from being run on your phone without permission - when the app is running, named apps will pop up a dialog asking for a PIN code. If the code is correct, the app will run as normal. If not, no dice.
MeGo
Type:Utilities
Size: 0.308
Price:£4.00
If you like to brighten up your home screen with some colourful wallpaper, MeGO can add a little variety to proceedings by randomly changing your background image after a given interval. Point it at a gallery of images and it will do the rest.
mSafe
Type: Utilities
Size: 0.345 MB
Price:£8.00
mSafe is a general-purpose data 'wallet' for keeping important information secret. Everything from your National Insurance and passport number to secure passwords and bank pin numbers can be stored using one of the pre-made templates or using a custom form. All you data is held behind one single password, so you no longer loads of different security details to remember.
Random Website
Type: Entertainment
Size: 0.003 MB
Price: Free
Experience the serendipitous Web - Random Website is a simple widget with a simple, rather self-explanatory, task. Give it a tap and your web browser will launch, taking you to a random destination. The results will not always be useful, or even readable (an IBM technote on XML? Thanks!) but in the short time we used this app, they were rarely boring. We presume there is some kind of adult content filter in place but, well you never know so best check over your shoulder if you try this on the train.
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.