Review of Nokia Podcasting Application from Nokia
The Nokia Podcasting Application allows you to search, discover, subscribe, download podcasts over the air and play, manage and share podcasts on your mobile device.
Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files (such as audio programs or videos) through the Internet using either the RSS or Atom syndication format for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.
Here is brief information about the application to be analyzed:
| App name | Vendor | Price | Size, Kb |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nokia Podcasting Application | Nokia.com | Freeware | 150 |
We analyzed the following list of aspects and application details:
• Installation
• Trial period
• Settings
• Help availability
• Application in action
• Special features
The application is quickly and easily installed if you follow the instructions on the screen of the mobile phone.
Nokia Podcasting Application is free of charge downloadable software. You don’t have to pay money to purchase it, just download and use. Therefore it has no trial.
Nokia Podcasting Application Settings contain the following options:
• Connection
o Default access point – to define the internet connection that will be used to update and download podcasts
o Search service URL – is what the Search uses to find Podcasts and can be updated if desired
• Download
o Save to – to define the memory location to which your podcasts will be saved
o Update interval – to determine how often manual or automatic updates happen
o Next update date – to set date at which automatic updates take place
o Next update time – to set time at which automatic updates take place
o Download limit – limits the percentage of the memory that will be used for podcast downloads
o If limit exceeds – to configure what the application should do if the downloads exceed the limit
Nokia Podcasting Application has the Help file, its items are available for separate application options.
When opening the application you can see the main screen:
Here you can see the main application menu:
• Podcasts – shows the list of the podcasts to which you have subscribed
• Directories – contains some preloaded popular directories and podcast shows
• Search – to find podcasts
Left soft key Options of the main screen offers the following list of buttons:
• Open
• Details
• Settings
• About application – to display information about the Nokia Podcasting Application version, software vender etc.
• Help
• Exit – exits the application
Podcasts screen
When opening the Podcasts option for the first time you will see the following screen:
Left soft key Options contains the following buttons:
• New podcast
• Help
• Exit
Having added at least one podcast this screen will look as follows:
When you click left soft key Options you will be able to perform the following actions:
• Update – to update the current podcast
• New podcast – to find new podcast
• Edit – to edit the podcast address
• Delete – to remove the current podcast
• Send – to send the current podcast via MMS or Bluetooth
• Mark/Unmark
• Details
• Help
• Exit
After you have updated a podcast you can view available episodes for that podcast:
Episodes are listed by publish date. Under each episode you will see the file format, size of the file and the date it was last updated.
Different icons will help remind you whether an episode has been downloaded yet and if downloaded, whether it has been played.
Any of these episodes you can:
• Download – download the podcast episode
• Mark as old
• Remove – delete the episode
• Mark/Unmark
• Details
• Help
• Exit
Directories screen
The Directories screen comes preloaded with some popular directories and podcast shows:
To view or update the contents of a directory, select the directory and select left soft key Options → Update. When the folder changes colour it can be opened:
Left soft key Options contains the following buttons:
• Update – to view or update the contents of a directory
• New
o Web directory – to add new directory
o Folder – to add new folder
• Edit
• Delete
• Send – to send directories via MMS or Bluetooth
• Mark/Unmark
• Search
• Import OPML file – to import an OPML file stored on your device
• Restore default – to restore default settings
• Help
• Exit
To subscribe to a podcast, click the title of a podcast; afterwards it will appear in your Podcasts screen, which now can be accessed by going to the Podcasting main screen and selecting Podcasts button.
Search screen
Search helps find podcasts by key word or by title:
I guess the whole Nokia Podcasting Application can be regarded as special, as it is very interesting in using and presently is unique in its kind.
As you see Nokia Podcasting Application is simple in using. But once you try it, you will continue using it for a long time. You can search, discover, subscribe, download podcasts over the air and play, manage and share podcasts on your mobile device. The quality of podcasts is excellent and the pleasure after using Podcasting software is great.
A tip: it is worth to connect the mobile using your PC internet channel for downloading the podcasts, for example at night, so that you will have everything refreshed for the next day at low cost.