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Top 5 iPhone Applications not for the iPhone

Posted on July 7, 2007
Filed Under Links to my Articles, Mobile Computing |

One of the advantages of Apple’s approach to the iPhone Developer question - namely to lock out the phone, but stress the idea of ‘applets’ running on the Safari/WebCore based browser - is that these applications can run pretty much on any browser… including those in Symbian phones such as the Nokia N95.

iPhone apps running on the Nokia N95

You do need to be aware of some issues when running these ‘apps’. Firstly, the browser screen is smaller, so use the ‘#’ shortcut to reduce the magnification to 75%. This will allow everything to be on the one screen. Also, the mouse pointer that S60 uses will duplicate your finger but sometimes will force the app to scroll away at the right or bottom edge. No worries, just scroll it back again.

The second is that unless you have a flat rate data plan, or are using Wi-fi, these applets will talk to their servers a lot, so be aware of the bandwidth you are using. Right then, on with five of the iPhone applets that I’ve been enjoying on my N95!

The full article and Top 5 are over on All About Symbian.

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