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A self described "App Store for the 3 Billion Users Who Don't Have an iPhone", GetJar is the largest and one of the oldest (since 2004) off-portal download sites for free java and native mobile games and applications. Getjar's catalog contains 10,000 plus titles and the site delivers over 16 million downloads per month worldwide. And according to MocoNews, GetJar recently started working with carriers to provide the GetJar experience on-deck as well. Getjar has already signed up 10 carriers including 3 UK.

There's a full web version (Getjar.com) with a searchable and browasable directory of games and applications. Listings can be filtered to exclude apps not compatible with your device. Listings include a screenshot, description and user reviews and ratings. Files can be downloaded to your PC for side loading. Or you can make note of a five digit "download code" that can be entered on the mobile site for a direct to mobile download.

The mobile version of the site has a mobile formatted version of the same searchable, categorized directory of apps and individual pages for each app with descriptions and ratings but no screenshots.

Downloads are free, the applications and games are mostly freeware or ad supported but some are trials and demos. The type of each download (free full version, free ad-supported or trial/demo) is clearly indicated in each listing.

GameJump is a mobile (wap.gamejump.com) and web site (GameJump.com) offering free downloadable ad-supported Java games. The site and service seems to be a raging success with 1.4 million downloads in it's first four months of operation. There are currently over 350 games available on GameJump. This success has not gone unnoticed with Greystripe, the company behind GameJump, winning Best in Show Overall at the Under the Radar Mobility Conference. In a comment to this MobileCrunch post, Andy Choi, Greystripe CTO, claims impressive 5-15% click through rates. Greystripe has also released some metrics where they report that the service is most popular in the US, UK, India, South Africa and Indonesia. It's pretty amazing that they can get that many off-portal downloads, particularly from US users who are notoriously reluctant leave the carrier deck. Also telling is the carrier breakdown with the largest US carrier, Cingular's 39% share barely beating much smaller T-Mobile's 30%. Could that be because T-Mobile charges $6/month for unlimited data compared with Cingular's $20. Yes, cheap unlimited data does drive mobile data adoption.

I gave the service a try and liked what I saw. First I downloaded a couple of games to my old Nokia 3650 from GameJump's mobile site. There is no registration required, you don't have to give GameJump any personal information, especially not your phone number so there are no worries about Text SPAM or premium SMS scams. The whole process was very smooth. GameJump correctly identified my phone but also allowed me to override and pick a device from a list if that was "Not my phone". Both downloaded games looked and worked well with attractive full screen graphics and good game play. When I launched the games there was a message to the effect that the game would occasionally use the phone's data connection to download new ads and I had to agree to allow this before I could start playing. I have an unlimited data plan so I was fine with this but I do appreciate the disclosure.

Next I downloaded a game from GameJump's Web Portal for side loading onto my Boost Mobile Motorola i855. I was pleased to see that GameJump lists games for all the Java capable iDEN phones all the way back to the i85. Unlike some sites, GameJump has both the .jar and the .jar files available for download, both of which are required by iDEN handsets. The game I downloaded for the i855 installed with no issues and again looked and played well. As with the mobile site, no registration is required to download games. You can register, all that's required is an e-mail address. Registration lets you review games and participate in GameJump's contests where you can win free phones.

You have probably never heard of most of the games on GameJump but the ones I downloaded were of commercial quality - much better than what you typically find on freeware game sites like GetJar.com and Midlet.org. GameJump has games in many genres like sports, action, adventure, casino, puzzle and retro. I'm not much of a gamer but I do like puzzle games and downloaded three, a well done version of the classic Same Game, BubbleTrouble which combines elements of Bejeweled and Same Game and Magic Crystals - a Tetris variant with particularly nice graphics. All three were easy to play, fun "casual" games with no run learning curve - ideal for killing a few minutes while waiting for a bus ,- .

About those ads, I was pleasantly surprised that the ads are not at all intrusive. GameJump says that they only display ads when you start or quit a game so as not to disrupt the playing experience. In over an hour of playing the three games I downloaded I only saw one ad. When I quit Same Game an ad appeared offering a $5.00 off coupon for an oil change if I entered an e-mail address. The option to decline was a little hard to find (in a menu linked to the left soft key) but it was there and choosing it ended the game with no nagging. Overall, I was quite pleased with the GameJump experience. I think these guys will do well.

More on GameJump from:

• GamesetWatch
• Mobile Marketing Magazine

Download free ad-supported Java games. Similar to GameJump (review) it has many of the same games. Download is via the WAP site, direct to your PC for side-loading or sent as a link in an SMS. HOVR differentiates itself from GameJump by having more of a social element. Members each get a personal page called Mobile Space, where the games you've downloaded and your high scores are displayed. Your can set up a detailed Mobile Space profile with your picture and exchange messages with other Hovr users. In spite of the name, Mobile Spaces are not available in a mobile version, only as a full PC site. Full registration requires giving up a mobile number but you can use a phony one if you're the cautious type like me.

Freeware, ad-supported and demo game and app downloads from Mobilerated, one of the largest distributors of legal free games on the web.

Phoload is a new JAVA ME "App Store" along the lines of GetJar.com. In fact, it's organized very similarly to GetJar. There's a full web version (phoload.com) with a categorized, searchable directory of games and applications that can be filtered to only include apps compatible with your device. Applications and game listings include a screenshot, description and user reviews and ratings. All files can be downloaded to your PC for side loading. Or you can make note of a six digit "download code" and enter it on the mobile site for a direct to mobile download. Registered users can also add titles to a "Quick Download List" which makes them appear on the mobile site's front page.

All downloads are free, the applications and games themselves are mostly freeware or ad supported but some are trials and demos. The type of each download (free full version, free ad-supported or trial/demo) is clearly indicated in each listing on Phoload.

The mobile version of the site (m.phoload.com) has a mobile formatted version of the same searchable, categorized directory of apps and individual pages for each app with screenshot, description and rating. There is also download by code feature and, for registered users, their "Quick Download List", a "vault" containing applications and games they have tagged on the full web site.

I like Phoload, the site is nicely designed, has a Ready.mobi score of four and good mobile usability. Phoload competes directly with GetJar, a site with almost identical features (everything except the"Quick Download List") and usability and probably 10 times the content. I don't think I'd choose Phoload over Getjar if I was looking for something specific, but for browsing Phoload has hundreds of interesting games and applications to choose from.

Mobango is a very popular mobile file sharing site. After registering at the PC site mobango.com, you can upload ringtones, wallpapers, videos and java apps from your PC to Mobango and them download then to your phone from the Mobango mobile site wap.mobango.com. When you upload a file you can flag it as either public or private. Any register user can download public file which currently number over 200,000. The file size limit is a relatively generous 10 MB per file. There is minimal help on Mobango's PC site and none on the mobile site. The site is pretty easy to figure out though. Here are a few tips, you can't immediately download the files you have uploaded. Uploaded files end up inyour "My Mobile Files" area on the PC site and you have to transfer them to your "Locker" before they can be downloaded. You can also browse and search files on the PC site and send any you find to your locker.

Mobango has a social aspect too, you can search for users by age, sex, country and make and model of phone. Members can exchange messages and files through both the PC and mobile Mobango sites.

Most Mobango services are free. I did get prompted to buy credits when I tried to add a 2.5 MB video to my locker. I could buy various quantities of credit from $2 up. There was no explanation how much credit was needed to transfer the file in question. I had no trouble transfering files up to 2MB in size and latter after I uploaded more files I was able to move the 2.5 MB file to my locker for free. So maybe you can earn credits by uploading.

Mobango can convert some content to mobile format. There is a simple online image editor which allows you to resize crop and add effects to uploaded images. The site also claims to be able to convert non-mobile video formats to .3gp. I tried converting a 2 MB .avi but conversion failed. Mobango claimed that the original file was corrupt even though it played without error in the embedded player on Mobang's PC site.

All sites hosting user submitted content have a problem with users sharing copyrighted material and Mobango is no exception. Each time a user uploads a file Mobango requires the user to check a box asserting that the file is their's to share legally. I'm sure they respond to take down orders as well. Manually checking 200,000 files is impossible and even YouTube hasn't ye been able to do programmatically. I don't know what the answer is to intellectual property issues on file sharing sites. Sharing content you have created is great, sharing the hard work and livelihood of musicians and software developers is not. I hate DRM and the heavy handed approach of the RIAA, etc but just asking people not to post or download copyrighted material isn't going to work. What do you think? Comments please.

For more on Mobango, see Oliver's review at MobileCrunch.

A (mostly) free, add supported ringtone, game, video and wallpaper download site. Myxer lets you upload your own music, videos and images.  The site transcodes your content to mobile format and makes it available on your phone by direct download, SMS or MMS.  Myxer also has a sizable catalog of free content as well as some premium ringtones delivered by SMS for a one time charge

Myxer seems to have it's origins in 3G Upload, a free download site for Sprint PCS users which dates back to the early days of the mobile web. 3G Upload morphed into Mixxer and was later renamed 3Guppies with support all carriers. 3Guppies still offered some free downloads but most ringtones were via a subscription service which cost between $8 and $14 every 6 months. In 2008, 3Guppies became Myxer which is a non-subscription service.

 

Free ringtone site mjelly.com (mobile mjelly.mobi) has branched out.  In addition to its funky collection of sound effects, old school phone ringers, cartoon and TV themes, rave and metal tones; the site now offers downloadable applications and games and a mobile site directory.

The new content sections are pretty small so far. Right now mjelly lists  21 app downloads and 54 mobile sites compared with 352 ringtones. But the apps and sites are all well known, high quality ones like Facebook, Mippin, Opera Mini, Shozu and Widsets.  I expect the selection to grow rapidly. Don't go looking for warez though, mjelly is a class act and everything is legitimate.

If you are an application developer or mobile publisher use the Contact Form on the full web version of the site to submit your free app or site.

mjelly has a user rating system for content.  Registration, which is free and instant is not required to browse mjelly and download any of the content. Registered users can rate and comment on any tone, app or site. By default, listings are sorted by rating but sorting by Newest or Most Popular is just a click away.

There's a lot to like about mjelly, it doesn't have a huge catalog, but the site loads fast, is easy to navigate and looks like a hassle free way to get truly free content for any phone.

Nokia Beta Labs which offers often useful, bleeding edge applications and services for Nokia phones finally has a mobile site.  It used to be a pain navigating the full version of Beta Labs with a mobile browser, even a capable one like the WebKit based browser on S60 3rd editon (and a couple of S40) models.  With the "Services" browser on mainstream Nokia handsets, forget about it!

The new mobile site is very complete and highly usable.  It has the Beta Labs Blog, Forums and a catalog of current, "archived" and "graduated" Beta Laps apps going back to 2007.  There are download links for all the active and most of the archived apps that have a mobile component.

On thing that's annoying though is the way that graduated mobile apps are presented on the Beta labs site.  There is plenty of information about them but no easy way to download them.  They should all be available from other Nokia channels - so why not include a link to the appropriate mobile friendly download page or tell me to use the Nokia Download application or whatever the drill is.

Other than the graduated apps problem this is a nicely done, easy to navigate and genuinely useful site. It looks like it was built in-house at Nokia rather than being handed off to a third party too. I hope the same team that created this site is involved with the soon to be released mobile web version (for S40 phones) of the Ovi store.

The Ovi Store lets you download games, applications, ringtones and themes to your Nokia phone.

Downloading is quite easy for free applications.  You do have to log in, which seems unnecessary for free apps, but my existing Ovi ID and password worked, hooray for single sign in.  If you don’t have an account it’s possible to register on the mobile site.  Registering requires an email address and mobile number and there is a Captcha too, but it’s definitely doable. The download went smoothly.  I searched for ‘Flip” and FlipSilent was on the first results page.  Clicking the app name and on the next page, the download button started the download.  Couldn’t be simpler.

 

Paid applications run from $0.99 to at least $39.95.  Most ringtones seem to be $2.95 altogether some are an outrageous $4.95 and there are a couple of free ones including the “futuristic” Nokia tune from the new StarWars movie.  There doesn’t  seem to be any way to preview ringtones, even on the desktop site which is going to hurt sales badly I believe.  The only way to buy paid applications in the U.S. is by credit card.  Nokia handles mobile credit card purchases as well as possible with only name, card number, card expiration and CSC required. You can store your card details for future use too. It’s great that you don’t have to fill in your address like all the dumb hotel booking sites do.  I wonder why no PayPal option though?

Although most of the initial reviews of the Ovi store have been pretty negative, I like the mobile web version.  It’s well designed, easy to navigate, search works well and the download process is relatively free from roadblocks. There are a few things I’d like to see changed thorough.  For the Ovi Store to be a roaring success, Nokia needs to drop the log in requirement for free downloads,  eliminate mandatory signing for java apps except as required by standard platform security and make a real effort to get all popular applications in the store.

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Download DrJukka's Symbian applications and widgets direct to your phone. Jukka Silvennoinen, aka DrJukka, is a prolific developer of free Symbian smartphone applications. His best known apps are Y-Browser, a powerful file manager and Y-Tasks, an amazing collection of system utilities that includes a task manager, file association editor, crash monitor and a font viewer/manager. I've found both of these programs indispensable on my N95. 

DrJukka's mobile download site has Y-Browser and Y-Tasks plus several others including an inclinometer, profile and theme schedulers, a fake SMS sender and 50 JavaScript puzzles and games which DrJukka has ported to the Nokia WRT widget platform.

Except for the widgets all of DrJukka's applications on the mobile site are ad supported. If you can't take the ads, alternate unsigned, self signed or older ad free versions are available from DrJukka's desktop site.

Download freeware and ad-supported mobile games, themes, screensavers, ringtones and videos.  Large section of games nicely organized by supported screen resolution and handset compatibility

Mobile portal with a large selection of free mobile app, game, theme, video, wallpaper and ringtone downloads and a small mobile web directory.

 

A large (over 1000 files) collection of freeware, ad-supported and demo Java game downloads.

Game developer Wapfrog offers seven free Java games for download from their site. All the games let you save your scores online and compete with other players for the highest scores.

Mobile community and content sharing site emphasizing themes. Download free Nokia Sony Ericsson themes.

I want to follow up on yesterday's piece about IDT's acquisition of Zedge.net, a mobile social software (MoSoSo) site that slipped under my radar to become a market leader.

Initially, I was surprised at how little there is to Zedge's mobile (wml) site wap.zedge.net. All you can do there is download the files that you have added to your account from the PC site. There is no messaging, chat or ability to view another user profile or any social features at all on the mobile web site, although all those, except chat, are available on the PC site. With 3.5 million users and 400,000 shared mobile files Zedge obviously is popular. As I explored Zedge's PC site, I think I found a couple of keys to Zedge's success, trust and a focus on handset customization.

• Trust is fostered by Zedge not using SMS to deliver content, there's not even a place for a phone number in the user profile. This is reassuring to users who have been burned by or heard about "Free Ringtone" services that turned out to be premium SMS scams.

• By handset customization I don't mean hardware mods or firmware hacking, instead Zedge offers users ways to personalize their phones with, easy to install content that won't break the warranty like ringtones, wallpapers, themes and screensavers. To that end, there are menu driven, online logo, wallpaper and screensaver creators. There's a large, active forum with the busiest topics being phone specific help forums and theme making and unlocking. In terms of downloadable content, there are ringtones, images, themes, wallpapers and videos with the focus on themes. There are over 40,000 downloadable themes created by users for most of the models of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Siemens and Windows Mobile phones that support themes. Many users use the forums to request a specific theme based on a photograph or web link.

Unlike most phone file sharing sites, Zedge doesn't offer sharing or download of mobile games and apps. I suspect that's because Zedge doesn't want to be seen as a "Warez" site. There are intellectual property issues around ring tones, too - but tones are more of a Grey area. Is a user created midi of a pop tune a copyright violation, if it was composed from memory without starting with a digital file or score? What about supporting fair use for users who already own the CD? On the other hand, having your site be a repository for the sharing of cracked games is just asking for trouble.

It's easy to see the appeal of Zedge. The content creation tools are quick, simple wizards that let even the most artistically challenged user create something that looks good. The moderated forums have are mostly flame free and have a pretty good signal to noise ratio compared to most forum sites. Even the minimalist mobile site makes sense especially for users on metered data plans. There is no data or time wasted searching, going through lengthy menus, etc, it's just connect, download, disconnect. I think IDT has picked up a winner, lets see what they do with it. Update: 10-Mar-2007: Zedge has a new and much improved mobile WAP2 (xhtml-mp)site. No longer limited to just downloading content you've queued on the PC site, the new version lets you browse and search Zedge's huge collection of wallpapers, themes, picture messages, ring tones and videos. The social aspect of Zedge is well supported too, you can finally access your inbox and guest book as well as message with your to your Zedge friends directly from the phone.

Download Opera Mini, the fast, free web browser for all Java capable phones.

Download UCWEB a fast, free java based full-web mobile browser with many advanced features including tabbed browsing and copy/paste.

Direct download links for all versions of the Bolt Browser. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

Firefox Coming To Your Phone! Mobile friendly download and information page for Firefox's Fennec browser for Windows Mobile Professional 6.0 and 6.5. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

Mobile app (and webapp) search.  Find apps in the iTunes app store, Android Market or BlackBerry App World.  The iOS and BlackBerry results have links to the apps in iTunes or App World, but there are no download links for Android apps.  There's also a "Webapps" search, although many of the results turn out desktop websites.  Support for iPad, Windows Mobile and Nokia Ovi Store apps is "coming soon".

Flash Lite is Adobe's version of Flash for mobile phones. It's been around since 2005 but never really caught on except in Japan. It's pretty much a commercial failure in the rest of the world and I blame that on Adobe's greed. On the PC the Flash player is free and Adobe makes its money on development tools. With Flash Lite, the player has to be purchased, either by end users or device manufacturers. Charging for the player doomed Flash Lite. If the mobile player had been available to OEMs and users at no cost, Flash Lite would be as ubiquitous on mobiles as it is on PCs.

There are some Flash Lite enabled phones, most mid-range or better Nokia and Sony Ericsson handsets come with the player.

The relatively small installed base means that there isn't a lot of Flash Lite content either. But there is some. Playyoo (m.playyoo.com) is the first mobile web site I've found that offers free Flash Lite games. Anyone with a compatible phone can download and play these games. But Playyoo is more than just a game download site. It's also a community for gamers with high score contests, user driven game ratings, forums and a web based game creator. Anyone can create a Playyoo game using a template based online tool on the full playyoo.com website. There are over 500 user created games on Playyoo. The  templates pretty much limit you to creating simple "casual" style games.

I tried a couple of Playyoo's games and they were highly playable and a lot of fun. The games are around 100 KB and download quickly. My Nokia N95 even gave me the option of saving downloaded games locally so that they could be played anytime directly from the phone's Flash player application without the need to re-launch the browser.

My favorite Playyoo game was "Sushi and Asahi Please?",  a matching game where you have have to quickly match pictures of sushi items to win bottles of Asahi beer. The instructions and prompts in that game are in Italian, but the game is simple enough that I had no trouble figuring it out. Playyoo has other games that are in English. Playyoo is ad-supported, but I found the advertising infrequent and unobtrusive.

If you have a Flash Lite equipped phone, (see Adobe's site for a list) give Playyoo a try. I noticed that the list includes a number of Verizon feature phones. Verizon normally blocks off-portal downloads of games or applications so I suspect Verizon users will not be able to use Playyoo.

If your phone supports Flash Lite (most Nokias and Sony Ericssons do), Spel has a bunch of free Flash Lite games for you to download. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

A user generated content site where users can upload and download ringtones, photos and wallpapers. Phonezoo also has horoscopes and a selection of games. The site is ad-supported and all content and services are free to end users. I wasn't able to download any games as the site claimed my N95 was incompatible.

A popular (over 4 million users) mobile community built around ad supported Java and wap games. Many of the games are multi-player including their latest Space Wars, a massively multiplayer mobile web game (MMMG) for up to 120 other players. Besides the downloadable and online games the site also has community features like chat and polls and a sellection of comics.

Booster Media's Games Plaza has about 40 free ad-supported Flash Lite games for download in several languages.

Free game, app, ringtone, theme and wallpaper downloads.  There's a decent amount of content on this site but you will waste a lot of time finding it as many links lead to empty pages! Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

Download freeware and demo mobile games for many phone models. The games are all free, no registration is required. You can browse by category but there is no site search,

The huge international operator Vodafone supports and hosts a mobile developer community and forum on the web at betavine.net.  About a year ago Vodafone added game and application downloads to the site and re-launched Betavine as a community for both developers and users.  At the same time they created a mobile edition of the app portal at betavine.mobi

Developers submit new mobile games and applications to Betavine which are then available for download on the web and at betavine.mobi.  Users who download the apps can submit feedback to developers using either the mobile or full web sites.

This seems like a great idea, users get to try new applications and developers get valuable feedback and exposure to an audience of millions of Vodafone users.  There is no cost to developers or users and there don't seem to be many restrictions on the sorts of apps that are allowed on the portal.

Betavine.mobi is a 240 px wide fixed width mobile site that looks good on screens of that width but doesn't adapt well to larger or smaller screens.  The site is a little on the heavy side too, with pages up to 150 KB in size, too large for phones with the Openwave or Motorola MIB browsers.

I was really surprised to find only 216 apps and games on Betavine.  The files are filtered by device type, so only 130 of the 216 were  available for download to my N95. The apps are organized into categories (Games, Travel, "Keeping in Touch", Health and Fitness, Music Photos, Sport, Business and A-Z)  There is no search but with only 130 downloads it's not a big deal to browse through the categories.  I don't understand the A-Z category, though.  I expected it to contain an alphabetical list of all the downloads but instead it lists only nine apps which don't seem to have anything in common.

Anyone can browse Betavine.mobi but to download you must register with a mobile number (for SMS verification) AND a captcha - more security than necessary for a free download site, IMHO.   On top of that I never got the SMS.  I'm inclined to blame T-Mobile USA for that rather than Betavine.  Receiving international SMS seems to be hit or miss with T-Mobile, but that's another story.  Fortunately I was able to log in  to the mobile site by using my Betavine.net credentials, an email address and password.

The apps on Betavine are a mix of well known ones like Trutap and SocialPlayer that are available elsewhere, demo versions of commercial apps and developer oriented API demos. Betavine.mobi is a nice little app showcase but where is all the content?  I don't understand why there are so few applications and games on the site.  Betavine.mobi is an on-deck site for Vodafone subscribers in Germany,  Spain and the UK which means 70 million potential visitors.  I'm really surprised developers aren't falling all over each other to submit apps to Betavine.

Admittedly there are no paid apps, so no direct revenue opportunity; but shareware, ad-supported and trial commercial apps seem to be accepted.  Why haven't more of the thousands of developers using GetJar submitted their apps to Betavine? Even Phoload, which is only a few moths old, has more aplications.

A small collection of free downloadable videos, wallpapers and ad-supported and demo games and apps. Source Oh! Mobile Directory

Free ringtone, wallpaper and video downloads. Getit4Free.mobi encourages the exchange of free and non-copyrighted mobile content. All available content on Getit4Free.mobi is free of charge (except for possible
data charges).

Big collection of free windows mobile apps.  Games, Multimedia and Utilities.

Free celebrity wallpaper downloads.  Actresses, models and sports stars from around the world. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

If you are an astronomy buff or just want a beautiful wallpaper image for your phone. check out SpaceWallpapers (spacewallpapers.net/mobile/) for a nice collection of free mobile wallpaper images of celestial objects including planets, galaxies and nebula. There are over 70 to chose from. The images are high quality color photographs and are free to download directly to your phone or to a PC for sideloading to a phone. All the wallpapers are available in 176x220 and 240x320 sizes. The well designed mobile site has a small page size of 15 KB including images. Itshould load quickly and without errors on most phones. The site uses accesskeys (numeric hotkeys) - you can press 9 for next page or 0 to go to the home page, for example. You have to go to the Help page to find a list of the access keys, they aren't displayed of the pages where they are active, I'm not sure what the point of hiding them is.

Free mobile space and landscape wallpapers in 240x320, 320x480 (iPhone) and 480x640 sizes. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

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A Java ME podcast and video player. Claims to have a library of 150,000 podcasts. The player and podcasts are free other than what your carrier charges for bandwidth. About 50 phones are supported, visit the Mobilcast website for details.

Free Ringtones (wap.free-ringtones.ie) This site claims to be the largest free ringtone site. I don't know if that's true but it does have 250,000 free ringtone downloads. No personal information or phone number is required to download from the mobile site or from the web site free-ringtones.ie for sideloading. Tones are in mp3 and amr formats. Both mobile and web sites are searchable and browsable by title or artist. The web site has tools and tutorials to help you create and load ringtones on your phone.

If you'd like your ringtone to be a Ferrari Testarossa or Ducati Superbike revving up, Royal Purple, a maker of synthetic motor oils, has these and 22 other free mp3 motor sounds ringtones for download on their mobile site. Source: Mobility.mobi

Direct download of free MP3s and videos from the latest Bollywood and other movies, Bangra songs and other music,  wallpapers and  ringtones. Also mobile games and applications. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

Download free ringtones, wallpapers and screensavers with your mobile browser. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

Download Tiny Twitter, a free Jave ME Twitter Client that works on most phones. Source OH! Mobile Directory

Truphone is a free app for S60 2nd and 3rd edition phones like the Nokia N95, N85 and E61 that gives you free and low cost mobile calls using VOIP..  Download the app from truphone.mobi. Source: Mobility.mobi

You can now download the Skype "Lite" Java ME application directly to your phone.  Supported phones include most recent Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones and selected Motorola, Samsung and LG models. The site detects your phone model but doesn't stop you from downloading the app with an unsupported phone.  Skype Lite is available in signed and unsigned versions.

Skype Lite is quite limited compared with other mobile VOIP applications like Gizmo5 and Fring. It uses your mobile voice channel (and minutes) so calls will not be free, even to Skype numbers. In addition, you can only initiate voice calls from Australia, Brazil (Rio de Janeiro & Sao Paulo), Denmark, Estonia, Finland, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, the United States and the UK.

Skype Lite is mainly useful for Skype IM and cheap international calling. You can make calls to Skype numbers anywhere in the world for the cost of a local call.  You can also call international mobile and fixed line numbers using Skype Out which will almost always be cheaper than your mobile operator's rates.  Skype IM is fully supported and uses only data.

I like Skype and use it on my PC quite a bit. It's far and a way the biggest free VOIP network and the best part is that it just "works". It's ultra reliable, there's nothing to setup and call quality is generally excellent.

Skype's been promising a true VOIP enabled mobile client forever.  They released one for Windows Mobile years ago but we are still waiting for a S60 version.  Tuesday at MWC, Skype and Nokia finally announced a S60 Skype client that supports free Skype to Skype calling on WiFi or 3G.  The only catch is that it will only available as part of a firmware upgrade.  Given that Nokia hardly ever issues firmware updates for the US versions of their phones I doubt I'll ever see Skype on my N95-3.  I don't understand why a Skype client can't be a simple .sisx download.    Gizmo, Fring and TruTap all delivered stand alone S60 clients two years ago, why can't the much larger, Ebay owned Skype? Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

Download free and paid versions of the Kinoma video and audio player for Palm OS 5 and Windows Mobile 5.0 and latter. The player plays local files as well as podcasts and streaming videos from Audible, YouTube and other online services. I haven't tried Kinona as I don't have a compatible device. The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg gave Kinoma on Windows Mobile a positive review recently. Source: Oh! Mobile Directory

Free classical, novelty and folk mp3 ringtones. No registration, is required for this site, you can download without revealing your mobile number so no worries about premium SMS charges - and they have the theme from the Monty Python Show!

Creative Commons licensed mobile audio content including ringtones, audio books and full track songs. This is a good place to find old fashioned telephone rings, classical music ringtones, animal and sound effects ringtones and strange electronic sounds.

Download the latest Tamil language music MP3s. Source Tappity