For all the many sites that exist online, most of us stick to fairly few. Facebook, Twitter, our email provider and the like. That's where Snaptu comes in – delivering all your favourite sites and services in a single attractive interface. Read on as we take a closer with our Snaptu review on Nokia C5-03.
If you haven't come across it before, the idea behind Snaptu is simple. Instead of having a bunch of individual apps clogging up your Nokia C5-03, simply have one – Snaptu – serving as a portal to all the others.
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It's an idea that works particularly well on a Symbian S60 mobile phone like the Nokia C5-03 given that you can only pin four application widgets to the HomeScreen: make one of them Snaptu and you can have a kaleidoscope of different sites just two screen taps away.
And you really do get a lot of choice. Your apps are arranged in a standard grid formation when you fire Snaptu up – there are around a dozen by default, including obvious choices like Facebook, Twitter and Picasa.
To add more to your selection, tap the Snappstore icon or navigate there through the main Menu. Available apps are arranged by category, while a Top 10 lets you quickly plunder the most likely suspects. You can freely add or remove as many as you like from your selection, and the icons on your Snaptu HomeScreen will be instantly updated.
You're covered for pretty much everything in Snaptu: there are plenty of sport, news and entertainment apps to help keep you and your Nokia C5-03 connected with the world around you. All the main social networks are here too, as is the likes of eBay, Picasa, YouTube, Gmail and a London Tube app.
There are so many apps available that to cover them individually certainl y isn't possible here. But we will say that in some cases the text layout left us a bit disappointed. Images and graphics looked sharp and elegant, but text can be clunky-looking.
It helped when we delved into the Settings menu and changed the font size to small, and switching to landscape mode made things far more bearable in many cases, but the Nokia C5-03's screen isn't exactly tiny, so we expected a bit better.
Overall, Snaptu has its rough edges, but those are far outweighed by the convenience and versatility it provides. It does a great job of bringing you closer to the apps and services you use the most, and is well worth the recommendation. Best of all it's free – provided you're happy to put up with some reasonably unobtrusive on-screen ads.
Price: Free
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