Top 20 Symbian^3 OS apps countdown

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I recently revealed the top 8, now its time to reveal 4 more apps that qualify our top 20 list.

Opera Mini 5.1 was in the spotlight yesterday, but now, its time to replace it with a newer version called Opera Mini 10.1. So here goes ninth place.

Opera Mobile is more than a traditional web browser, it’s a must-have traditional web browser. This version interprets the web site HTML and the scripting in the client itself, lets not forget to mention the added benefits of the text selection and a multi-tabbed interface.

All this means that Opera Mobile has ‘Turbo mode’, which means Opera’s servers compress the original site code and content, ejecting it through the air for decompression within Opera Mobile itself.

Have a look at the different versions.

N8 Opera Mini Web browsing

Next up, is Snaptu for tenth place.

Designed for small-screened feature handsets, this application works evenly well with the large-screened Symbian^3 family. Snaptu brings whole online life together in one, from social networks, news, TV listings, movies to work. Plus it’s customisable according to the user choice and extensible, with new modules being added weekly.

Skype has been a major issue with the Nokia N8 for the past month or so. Too many glitches or no proper version for the public, no video calls. Thats the reason it fell under eleventh place.

Despite a similar competitor, Fring, it could have never replace the same service as Skype. Thats why Skype remains the service most people think of in the professional world, instant messaging and group conferencing are the main things that are needed. Its latest version works like a treat on the latest Symbian^3 family, with a better interface than ever, better behaved background operation, lower resource requirements and better voice quality.

For twelfth place, the useful Wikipedia reader.

Many versions of this in the past have tried to be perfect but when this version of Wikipedia arrived, all fell silent, it offers a mobile-optimized view into the full Wikipedia content, online but it doesn’t have the same looks as the web browser Wikipedia.

More coming tomorrow!

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