Dwnloading torrent through ur Symbian 60 phone.

I use a Nokia E61i. My laptop is burnt and is probably beyond repair. Since I can’t afford another laptop at the moment, I use my phone for everything to do with internet. E-mail, blogging, chat, surfing and even downloading torrents. Now E-mail is pretty easy, I use gmail and my phone support IMAP4 or POP3. For chat through G-talk or Y-messenger I use Fring. I knew that Symbian 60 platform is really good as u can install myriad applications. But it took me by surprise when I came across an application which allows you to download Torrents!!!

The application that I am talking about is SymTorrent. It is the first full-featured and complete BitTorrent client for Symbian OS. Like all other Torrent clients it is capable of downloading multiple torrent files at the same time, can save the status of your unfinished torrents, so you can resume the downloads after restarting the application. You can also check the status of each file inside a torrent along with several other statistics and properties during download.

As per their website, it is currently available for mobile devices based on the S60 Platform 3rd and 2nd edition. So thats a lot of phones, most Nokia Nseries/Eseries phones are on S60 platform.

And the best part is, it’s open source and is free. So just go to their website, download and start using it.

For downloading torrents on your phone(or computer), i suggest you use an unlimited data plan. I use Airtel GPRS, unlimited for Rs 99 a week. The download speed I get is around 20kbps.

Screenshot frm my phn

I think thats pretty good for a GPRS connection. I have already downloaded some songs using SymTorrent.

But sometimes it tend to crash, i guess it coz i run too many applications at the same time. Apart from that, this is a really good application and all those who wants to download torrents directly to your phones should definitely give it a try.

E61i

I didn’t have a mobile for around 1 year after i lost my third mobile. I bought the Nokia E61i. I had narrowed down between Moto ROKR and the E61i. I chosed the E61i as it had symbian and there are tons of ‘Symbian’ application available on the net. you can personalise it to your heart’s content. It gets even better if you are connected to a GPRS network or Wi-Fi. just to prove my point, m posting this from my phone… pretty cool eh! .It also has good e-mail functionalities, now i get my mail delivered on my phone. it even has office capabilities too although you have to upgrade the software provided to be able to edit docs and spreadsheets. what more.. u can even listen to online radio by installing some new applications(Spodtronic). You can even chat with your gtalk, skype, msn messenger with Fring. Well, i am quite satisfied with this phone.