“Homescreen” Articles

Symbian^3 devices such as the Nokia N8, C7 and E7, all bring multiple homescreens to your Nokia handset, allowing you to customise the look of your device and have the apps and services you want instantly at the flick of a finger. Currently all these devices only support up to three homescreens, however the Symbian community have cooked up a version that allows you to have up to six homescreens, along with some other cool features. Hit the jump for the video demo and to find out more.

Voyager Home Screen (vHome) is a great app that transforms your Symbian handset’s user interface into a mash-up of the HTC Sense and Apple iOS homescreen. With support for homescreen tweeting to neat app pages, vHome is definitely one app you need to check out if you haven’t already. Hit the jump for the video.

Nokia Internet Radio is now officially available for Symbian^3 devices like the Nokia N8 and Nokia C7. Although the S60 5th Edition version was compatible with the newer platform, this Symbian^3 version brings all the features officially to your device, including a great widget that lets you see what station is being played directly from your homescreen. Hit the jump to find out more.

Nokia Reader Beta is the latest addition to Nokia Beta Labs and brings a simple and easy to use RSS reader to your Symbian^3 or S60 5th Edition device. What’s great about Nokia Reader is that it uses push notifications which will lower battery consumption and bring the news to you as it happens. Hit the jump to find out more.

One of the forum members over at Daily Mobile has put together some great tweaks to customise the Symbian^3 homescreen. Focusing on the clock, Biggzy has created four custom homescreen clocks which are also viewable in full screen mode when tapped. Hit the jump to find out more.