Symella
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Symella is a Gnutella
file-sharing client for Symbian S60
smartphones. It is available for mobile devices based on the S60 Platform 2nd and 3rd edition, but 1st and 5th edition of S60
are not currently supported. Plans have been announced to develop a version for S60 v5. Symella supports multi-threaded downloads which means that if multiple users have a particular file then it downloads the file from several locations simultenously. It can also download multiple files simultaneously.
Symtella is a free Open source
software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
. The developers of Symella also develop a Bit Torrent client for the Symbian S60 platform, called SymTorrent
.
Gnutella
Gnutella is a large peer-to-peer network which, at the time of its creation, was the first decentralized peer-to-peer network of its kind, leading to other, later networks adopting the model...
file-sharing client for Symbian S60
S60 (software platform)
The S60 Platform is a software platform for mobile phones that runs on Symbian OS. It was created by Nokia, who made the platform open source and contributed it to the Symbian Foundation. S60 has been used by mobile device manufacturers including Siemens mobile, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Panasonic...
smartphones. It is available for mobile devices based on the S60 Platform 2nd and 3rd edition, but 1st and 5th edition of S60
S60
S60 is used to refer to many items including:* S60 , a software platform for mobile devices based on Symbian OS* S60, the FAA airport code for Kenmore Air Harbor* S60...
are not currently supported. Plans have been announced to develop a version for S60 v5. Symella supports multi-threaded downloads which means that if multiple users have a particular file then it downloads the file from several locations simultenously. It can also download multiple files simultaneously.
Symtella is a free Open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
. The developers of Symella also develop a Bit Torrent client for the Symbian S60 platform, called SymTorrent
SymTorrent
SymTorrent is a free GPL-licensed open source BitTorrent client for Nokia Series 60 Symbian phones made by researchers of Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Written in Symbian C++, rather than Open C/C++, the client is rather basic and does not support many of the features advanced...
.