Rovio today announced that Angry Birds series have been downloaded more than one billion times. In celebration of Angry Birds hitting the big milestone, the Finish developer has released a thank you video for all of its fans.

Check the video after the break.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdTZOFeWiTI

The franchise originally launched in 2009 on iOS includes: Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio and Angry Birds Space is now available on all major platforms: Android, Symbian, Windows Phone, Windows PC, Mac and many more.

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Angry Birds Space, the latest installment of Angry Birds series surpassed the 50 million downloads on all mobile platforms.

The game has hit the 50 million download mark just 35 days after launching, making it “the fastest growing game ever”.

“There’s only one conclusion to draw: something even bigger is on its way! Stay tuned and keep flinging those Birds!” –  Rovio announced on their blog, so stay tuned for more surprises from the Finish company. The original Angry Birds game, released in 2009, surpassed 700 million downloads earlier this year.

Angry Birds Space is available for iOS, Android, PC, and Mac, leaving out only Symbian and Windows Phone owners “in the dark.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKgGphfZXqA

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PhotoBook is digital photo viewer for smartphones by Lonely Cat Games, developers of well-known X-plore file manager for Symbian and Android.

With PhotoBook you can view images taken with your mobile phone or downloaded from your PC, upload pictures directly from the phone to an existing photo album and easily create photo galleries.Also you can upload pictures to several web-based photo services like: Google Picasa, Photobucket, Flickr, Smugmug and share your favorite images in social networks (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace).

PhotoBook Features:

• Photo viewer for Symbian, Android and WM phone
• Uploader of pictures to Facebook, Google Picasa, Photobucket, Flickr, MySpace, Smugmug, and Fotki services
• Easy create photo gallery
• Supported images format: JPEG, PNG, BMP, (animated) GIF
• GPS tags opened in Google Maps Mobile or in mobile phone web browser
• File management: delete file, rename file, create folder, copy file, move file
• Add images to contact
• Send image via: multimedia, bluetooth (Symbian only)
• Shows thumbnails in the current folder
• Zoom
• Show EXIF more details in list view mode
• Fast directory view: moving through directory
• Watch slideshow with time setup
• Search images on device (simple and advanced options)

Nokia has, for a long time now, moved on to support Symbian^3 (Nokia Belle) and WP7 phones, leaving a great community of S60V5 (Nokia 5800, 5230, 5530, N97, etc) users alone. Well, our community hasn’t quit yet and continues to make an amazing job of development for these devices.

Our long time member -=Undertaker=- has just shared his version of a Top Bar for these phones, just like the one you see on the Nokia Belle devices.

He shared two versions, one Black and another White, that you can download for free at our Symbian v5 Modding section.

Opera has announced at the Mobile World Congress new versions of their popular browsers, the Opera Mobile 12 and the Opera Mini Next.

The new features of Opera Mobile 12 are:

* WebGL on Android phones, for all things 3D and web. With WebGL on mobile, it’ll be even easier to make games cross platform and to distribute them.

* Ragnarök, Opera’s HTML5 parser support, meaning better web apps and increased compatibility with websites. More HTML5 means more advanced web functionality.

* Support for camera use in the browser.

* More possibilities for customizing the Speed Dial of Opera Mobile, including entering as many Speed Dial entries as you like.

Opera Next for Symbian, Blackberry and J2ME include the following new features:

* Added support for platform dictionary

* Added support for uploading files

* Added zoom setting

* Improved traffic compression on iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S

* Fixed session restore not keeping tabs when relaunching

* Updated to dark keyboard to match Opera UI

* Various bug fixes

The guys of Phandroid were able to test the Opera Mobile 12 browser at the MWC 2012 and you can see it on this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ-hYzomqbE

To get the latest version of the browsers of Opera, you can download them at the Android Market of via the Opera Site.

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‘IconHider’ is a nice little app for your Symbian phones which will allow you to hide icons from your menu. It’s nice and simple app which doesn’t have too many flashy options yet does it’s job pretty well.

Developer: SymbianToys / Version Reviewed: 1.03 / Compatibility: 3rd FP1, 3rd FP2, 5th, S^1, Anna, Belle devices / Score: 80 / Buy

First impression of this little tiny app was pretty impressive as it doesn’t stay in memory to do it’s job and very light on your phone’s resources. It’s pretty quick and the graphics look good to your eyes.

App handling is quite easy as well, except for a few glitches which I will explain later in this review.

Let’s first discuss about the app’s layout. After you open the app, you are presented with two tabs on top.

First tab will provide following options:

Status – By default the app is disabled so this option will allow you to enable or later disable it again. Disabling it will unhide all hidden icons through this app.

Ghost Code – Default code is *0000* which you can only change after you bought the app.

Hidden Icons – This option will provide you a list of available apps icons to hide. Top second tab does the same thing and provide you all available icons to hide.

Trial Version (Buy Full Version) – This option will open a web page where you can buy the app. You may sometimes get Service Unavailable error but that could be just a temporary error and if you try again after some time, it will work. This happened with me.

Register – If you already bought the app, pressing this option will provide you two options to register this app. Using License ID or Using Code.

License ID – Contains 16 characters and is provided when the IMEI is not known. In this case, to complete the registration process an internet connection will be required. During the connection the IMEI will be provided to the server and it will be paired to the License ID. Usually, the License ID is provided for reviews and free licenses.

Registration Code – Contains 8 characters and is provided when the IMEI is known. It is already paired with the IMEI and the registration process can be completed offline without any internet connection. Usually, the Registration Code, is provided to all the regular purchases.

Customers need to put their IMEI while buying the app on the product’s page. After the payment will be completed, they will be redirected on a webpage and they will receive also an automatic email containing the Registration Code and the instructions to transform the Trial version in the Full version.

I tried with License ID which use your GPRS/3G/Wifi Data connection register the app.

Check Updates – Check for the latest version with developer’s server from within the app itself.

About (Icon Hider) – Shows the version number and some other useful info like how to invoke the app in case you hide the app itself.

Second tab as I already mentioned, will show you the list of available icons you can hide with this app.

Each app can be ‘checked’ to mark it as hidden and once you close the app the list of selected apps will be hidden. App will show you a warning pop up reminding you about your ghost code if you select Icon Hider to be hidden in case you forgot and then later start searching for the app’s icon itself.

Missing for the moment are options to sort system apps and manually installed apps or the apps already installed in phone’s software (Rom Apps).

Let’s talk about how the app works now.

If you are using a Trial version, app will only allow you to hide a single application’s icon and won’t allow you to change it’s security code/ghost code. Select the icon you want to hide and exit the app, icon will be hidden. Pretty simple, huh?

More fun begins after you buy the app as then you can hide unlimited no. of application’s icons and set your Ghost code to anything up to 6 digits. You can hide the Icon hider application icon too. Now to run it again, simply dial your ghost code using the phone’s dialer putting a * in front and in the end and dial the code, dialing will stop and Icon Hider will open.

I highlighted few missing areas or bugs in this version so that they can be fixed or incorporated in the future coming releases of this app.

Help Option – There should be a help option in each and every app whether it’s a simple or highly advanced app which up to certain points explain the functionality of the app as well as explain the available options to user. E.g. there is no info about how long the Ghost code could be set by user which I guess is 6 digits as when I tried to set it for more then that, app crashed. So in such cases a help option or a pop up asking user to enter only a limited number as Ghost code could be useful.

Unwanted application icon comes up as soon as you close the app very first time – (This may happen on selected firmware versions or Symbian OS versions)

When you first run Icon Hider and set the options, as soon as you close it, there will be an extra app in your menu named Signal Boost which I guess it a system app and needs to be hidden always as it’s for no use for a normal user because as soon as you click on that, it will show you a system error and disappear. If you are using a trial version, you can only hide it or the app itself or any other individual app as that’s the limit of the app itself. What I would suggest is when app first runs, it will save the list of already hidden apps and let them hidden always until the user selects them to unhidden and that’s why I suggested to have a category based list view where System apps and user installed apps can be categorized.

In developer’s words:

In some devices, like N8, Nokia have hidden some apps icons (don’t know exactly why, those app are still in beta stage).

After you install IconHider it will show them and you’ll be able to hide them again by marking them in the Hidden Icons panel.

NOTE: The Trial version can only hide 1 icon, so, in some devices like N8, users will not be able to hide them all again…

Of course, it is not intended to force users to buy the Full version, they can just uninstall the Trial version and the original configuration will be fully restored and those new icons will be hidden again.

The device will appear exactly as it was before the installation of IconHider.

The only purpose of the Trial version is just to give to the users the chance to try the software to verify that it does what it claims to do…

One last suggestion would be to put only one restriction on the trial version, either it’s to hide only one icon or disabling of changing ghost code.

Thanks to Marco Bellino (Il.Socio) for making this review possible and nicesoni_ash for making it.

The greatest news to our members is that Marco Bellino also gave us 11 licenses to giveaway to our members! If you want to win one of these licenses, head to this Topic and read the Rules on How to Participate in this Contest!

Today’s free Symbian Game of the Day brings you the classic Black Jack game.

Also known as “21″, the objective of this game is to achieve the value of 21 by drawing cards without passing that value as you go betting against your opponent.

You can get this game for free at Nokia Store.

Have you ever been curious to know what’s your phone internet speed? Now you can make test it!

With the SpeedTest.Net app you will be able to know the download and upload speed, as also the ping, of your phone. Get it for free at our Symbian^3 Applications and Games. This app also feature a S60V5 version that you can download from our forum.

[Thanks syarmwawa]

Tweeties is an awesome Twitter client for Symbian touch phone with a great interface developed in Qt and available for both Symbian^3 and S60V5 versions. Check the video demo after the break.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd2lswSwkJI

For now, there is only available the Free version that is read-only. A full version is announced to be coming soon.

You can check the following links to the Symbian^3 version and the S60V5 version.

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One of the best Facebook apps for Symbian is just about to get better!

Facinate is one of the most complete Facebook clients available for Symbian and it seems that will be getting better soon since the developers have announced on their Facebook page an update that will bring groups and pages support, photo tagging, the ability to save photos to the device and a search function.  They are also maintaining the promise that this app will remain free which only makes it better! Stay tuned for more news!