Halloween is upon us and it's time to get in touch with your spooky side and go 'Trick or Treating'. What better way is there of getting into the spirit of the occasion than making sure your Nokia smartphone is as ghoulish as your costume? Here we show you how to trick or treat your Nokia this Halloween...
Halloween is that spooky time of year when children dress up as monsters, go begging for sweets and pretend to be American. It wasn't like this in our day, oh no. We used to bob for apples, put sheets on our heads and tell ghost stories. In short, Halloween used to be rubbish.
Today, Halloween is much better. Kids can go trick or treating, there are usually good horror films on the telly and there is a new tradition of grown-up costumes like 'sexy witch', 'sexy vampire' and 'sexy axe murderer'. To cap it all, there are now a host of apps you can download from the Ovi Store to 'halloween up' your Nokia mobile. Here is our pick of the bunch.
Ghost Maker
Size: 0.614 MB
Price: £1.00
Ghost Maker is a prank app that gets your phone to make spooky noises, flash its lights and display and vibrate in a ghostly manner (because Ghosts are always vibrating. Famed for it). You can set these effects off manually or, better still, hide your phone and set a timer. When the time ticks to zero the phone will 'make' a ghostly manifestation and your frineds will either die of fright or all start patting their jackets thinking their phone has gone off.
Best Tarot Pro
Size: 3.112 MB
Price: £4.00
Harness the mysterious, possibly made-up, power of the Tarot deck with this app. Best Tarot pro simulates a complete deck of the famous Rider-Waite Tarot (as seen in Live & Let Die, fact fans) 78 tarot cards with 22 Major Arcana ( e.g. Death, The Fool and all that lot) and 56 Lesser Arcana (just cards, basically) and will help you interpret your cards. Just call us Gypsy Rose XpressMusic.
Candle Touch
Size: 0.813 MB
Price: Free
Need to enact a satanic ritual, but don't want to take the batteries out of the smoke alarm? Its a common problem atthis time of year but happily one that you can solve with Candle Touch. Also useful for impromptu birthday parties.
Flashlight Touch
Size: 0.167 MB
Price: Free
Perfect for negotiating dark spooky forests, pitch black cellars and unlit graveyards. Flashlight touch is a phone flashlight app with a difference - three sliders let you adjust the colour levels to obtain the kind of lighting you want. This app is also handy for holding under your chin while recounting ghost stories.
Halloween Theme 2
Size: 0.851 MB
Price: Free
There are several Halloween themes available on Ovi - this is our fave, with a proper disturbing faceless geisha for wallpaper, scary face icon replacements and bloodcurdling scream ringtone. Don't forget to change it back again after midnight or.. well, nothing really. There's no such thing as ghosts.
OR IS THERE?