You can view and manage your network usage with SPB Wireless Monitor in a number of ways. The app provides you with an Application Report, showing you how much data is being consumed by each app you're running. The Traffic Report displays the total amount of data consumed on your phone.

Both of these reports in SPB Wireless Monitor allow you to filter data usage stats by Mobile (via carrier's data plan), or WiFi. You can also specify the period of time you want to show data for (daily, monthly, yearly, etc.) You can even export reports as a file.

One very useful feature of SPB Wireless Monitor is the ability to set up alarms that alert you when you pass a certain amount of data usage. This is very handy for monitoring when you're about to exceed your data allowance.

It would have been great if SPB Wireless Monitor went a stage further and allowed you to put a cap on traffic for a particular app. This would prevent an application from consuming lots of data without you being aware of it.

As it stands, SPB Wireless Monitor is an effective way to keep track of all the data you are using on your phone.

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This mobile version of Skype also lets you call phones with Skype credit, as well as allowing you to receive calls on your online number, send instant messages, share files, take part in group conversations, and more.

Nokia owners have had a long wait to see Skype available on the Symbian Series 60 platform. After watching in envy as the revolutionary VOIP app was released for Windows Mobiles and iPhone, then bundled with N97 phones as standard, S60 users can now enjoy the magic of being able to make free calls over their data connection.

Ease of use

Using Skype on your phone is dead easy. Once launched, the program gives you all sorts of warnings to notify you that it will be using your mobile Internet connection. Then it's just a case of signing in with your regular Skype account details to get started. Your contacts will all be imported and displayed in the main window, and you get the option to add these to your phonebook if you like. To call a person, just tap on their name and hit 'Call'. The call quality in our tests was excellent, and as long as your connection is stable you shouldn't experience any drop outs.

Once you've established a conversation, you can do the kind of things you would do with the desktop version of Skype. The IM feature is quick and easy, including a range of emoticons, copy and paste support, and the ability to add other people to the chat.

Skype keeps a record of all your text conversations, as well as logging your call history, voicemails, and files exchanged. You can view this information at any time just by clicking the 'History' button from the well-organized main menu.

Personalize your experience

There are a few settings you can tinker around with that help you personalize your Skype experience. For instance, you can choose to enable or disable the Mood message prompt, activate audio notifications, and show or hide phonebook contacts. There's even an option for forwarding calls to another number.

If you're expecting a fully-fledged version of Skype that has all the features of the PC or Mac version of the program then you'll be a little disappointed. There's no video conferencing or games, for example, and there are no tools for organizing your contacts into categories.

Overall though, this Beta release of Skype for S60 offers everything you'd expect from a mobile version of this great app - it's easy to use, it's fun, and it's free!

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Skype for Series 60 allows you to make free Skype-to-Skype calls using a 3G or WiFi connection. It also lets you call phones with Skype credit, as well as allowing you to receive calls on your online number, send instant messages, share files, take part in group conversations, and more.

Using Skype on your phone is dead easy. Once launched, the program gives you all sorts of warnings to notify you that it will be using your mobile Internet connection. Then it's just a case of signing in with your regular Skype account details to get started. Your contacts will all be imported and displayed in the main window, and you get the option to add these to your phonebook if you like. To call a person, just tap on their name and hit 'Call'. The call quality in our tests was excellent, and as long as your connection is stable you shouldn't experience any drop outs.

Once you've established a conversation, you can do the kind of things you would do with the desktop version of Skype. The IM feature is quick and easy, including a range of emoticons, copy and paste support, and the ability to add other people to the chat.

Skype keeps a record of all your text conversations, as well as logging your call history, voicemails, and files exchanged. You can view this information at any time just by clicking the 'History' button from the well-organized main menu.

There are a few settings you can tinker around with that help you personalize your Skype experience. For instance, you can choose to enable or disable the Mood message prompt, activate audio notifications, and show or hide phonebook contacts. There's even an option for forwarding calls to another number.

If you're expecting a fully-fledged version of Skype that has all the features of the PC or Mac version of the program then you'll be a little disappointed. There's no video conferencing or games, for example, and there are no tools for organizing your contacts into categories.

Overall though, Skype for S60 offers everything you'd expect from a mobile version of this great app - it's easy to use, it's fun, and it's free!

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How it works

Using Skype on your phone is very easy. Once launched, the program gives you all sorts of warnings to notify you that it will be using your mobile internet connection. Then it's just a case of signing in with your regular Skype account details to get started.

Your contacts will all be imported and displayed in the main window, and you get the option to add these to your phonebook if you like. To call a person, just tap on their name and hit 'Call'. The call quality in our tests was excellent, and as long as your connection is stable you shouldn't experience any drop outs.

Once you've established a conversation, you can do the kind of things you would do with the desktop version of Skype. The text chat feature is quick and easy, including a range of emoticons, copy and paste support, and the ability to add other people to the chat.

Advanced features of Skype

Skype keeps a record of all your text conversations, as well as logging your call history, voicemails and files exchanged. You can view this information at any time just by clicking the 'History' button from the well-organized main menu.

There are a few settings you can tinker around with that help you personalize your Skype experience. For instance, you can choose to enable or disable the Mood message prompt, activate audio notifications, and show or hide phonebook contacts. There's even an option for forwarding calls to another number.

If you're expecting a fully-fledged version of Skype that has all the features of the PC or Mac version of the program then you'll be a little disappointed. There's no video conferencing or games, for example, and there are no tools for organizing your contacts into categories.

Overall though, this Beta release of Skype for S60 offers everything you'd expect from a mobile version of this great app - it's easy to use, it's fun, and it's free!

Download Skype 0.9.0.0 Beta Series 60 (3rd Edition FP2) in Softonic

All calls from a Gizmo user to another Gizmo user are completely free, so if you use the service and like it, it might be worth trying to convince all your friends and family to get it too. Land and mobile rates from Gizmo to non-Gizmoers(?) are cheaper than normal. Check the website for full details. Plus there are lots of additional features that are quite nice, including multi-network chats with MSN friends, conference calling, and Meta-Voice which allows you to call friends on Yahoo Messenger, MSN and Google Talk for free. Also if you participate in the All Calls Free plan you can get a number of free minutes each month for mobiles and landlines. Some of these add-ons though felt a bit invasive to me, as though they wouldn't let me rest until I signed up for something that cost me money.

Alternative Skype-style cheap call provider, but do you want to change provider?

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Video playback and recording capability is fast becoming a top concern for mobile phone buyers. pvAuthor is designed to take video files on your computer and convert them to a size, resolution and bit-rate suitable for playback on your phone.

When running it for the first time, pvAuthor presents you with a fairly complicated configuration interface. Its four tabs (Input, Clip Info, Encoding and Output) used what we felt was pretty technical language for a first time user. After selecting the input file, the program became unresponsive for a few seconds. This also happens when switching between tabs in the configuration interface. While this only lasted about three or four seconds, it was a little unnerving and caused noticeable jumps in a separate audio player program we were running at the same time. pvAuthor is a program apparently best used on its own, so as not to cause instability in your other apps.

The next important setting you’ll need to choose is the desired screen size of your finished product. Naturally, you’ll want to choose one that’s as close to your phone’s screen as possible. This option, however, is pretty difficult to find. It’s located under ‘Encoding’. On this tab, a series of sub-tabs appears at the bottom of the screen, and preferred output video size is located on the ‘Codec’ sub-tab. Quite why this important setting is hidden away in such an odd place, we couldn’t fathom. This and other strange and confusing factors made the whole user interface feel like the advanced settings for some much simpler program.

Settings for your preferred handset can be saved as profiles, which will take the hard work out of converting videos next time you come around to use the program. Individual movies’ settings can also be saved in sessions, though we felt that this feature was somewhat obsolete for most users who will probably only seek to convert each video file once.

In terms of video quality, pvAuthor performs admirably. The video it generated after we chose settings for a Nokia 6230i played well on that handset, and videos for phones with larger screens and more memory were likewise of a generally high quality. No doubt, we could have tweaked some settings in the labyrinthine configuration dialog, but pvAuthor’s default settings seem perfectly adequate for cutting down on file-size but not sacrificing video quality. We were slightly disappointed by the lack of support for various file-types; pvAuthor only claims to support MPEG and AVI files, but the AVI movies we tried to open were rejected. Support for other video types (such as the increasingly popular MOV format) would be a welcome addition to pvAuthor.

pvAuthor is useful tool for users who are aiming to convert MPEG movies or videos to fit the screens (and memory cards) of their mobile phones. The video quality it produces is of high quality but the program is somewhat let down by the complexity of its configuration dialog and lack of support for popular video formats.

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