Symella is a basic Gnutella client for mobile devices based on the S60 platform. It is capable of searching and downloading, but do not upload any data in its current release. It supports multi-threaded downloads which means that if multiple users have a particular file then Symella can download the file from several locations simultenously.

The number of search results returned highly depend on the quality of the peers you are connected to. In the current version there isn't any kind of optimalization for choosing which peers the client tries to connect. Searching for the same text after restarting the program can result in different number of hits. However, an anonymous profiling tool was introduced which helps us to improve the SemPeer protocol in order to help you obtaining more relevant files and fight against spams. However, if you do not want to support us with these data, you can disable this function in the Settings block.

Be patient with the downloads! It can take some time until the transfer starts (it happens when one of the target peers accepts your connection request).

Just like any other application which accesses the Internet, SymTorrent generates network traffic. You should be aware that mobile network operators usually charge for the amount of downloaded data. SymTorrent can also generate traffic while sharing already downloaded torrents.
Symella is free software and distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Check the license text for further information.

Main Features

• Follows Gnutella 0.6 draft
    Most things that could be solved on this mobile platform are in it. Handshake, standard Gnutella messages, Pong caching, connecting, querying, downloading (except Push messages). It doesn't have a sharing subsystem though, it has no sense having one on a small platform like Symbian - it concentrates on searching and downloading. It has no GGEP or HUGE implementation, just plain Gnutella messages.
• Uses GWebCache
    As the draft suggests, it uses GWebCache, hostcaching and a primitive message caching to make communication easier.
• Search
    Does the search by the book - collects files with the same hash into one result, resulting in faster download later.
• Swarming
    Uses swarming technique for downloading - splits the selected file into more small parts, and downloads them simultaneously - faster and more effective than the one-threaded download.
• Multiple downloads
    Only one search can be active at a time, but multiple downloads can run in the background, even from different searches.
• Open downloaded file
    Open the downloaded file with the corresponding program, if available (MP3 player, picture viewer, etc)

Currently, only S60 3rd edition based mobile devices are supported. If the demand is high enough, we will create a new version for S60 2nd phones as well. Previous versions contain several bugs, and therefore they are not supported!

Symella is a self-signed application, which means it hasn't been sent to Symbian for testing. Before installation you should make sure your phone has the "Software installation" option of the Application manager set to "All" (Tools / App. mgr. / Settings), otherwise the phone may refuse to install the application.

• What is Gnutella?
  
• What does Symella mean?
  
• What are the system requirements?
  
• On which phones does Symella work?
  
• Where can I contact you?
  

Gnutella allows you to search for information anonymously, and it allows you to search for information in a setting that differs from traditional search engines like Yahoo! because unlike search engines like that, the information is not controlled or fed to you. Nothing is pushed at you; you control what you look for.

If you haven't noticed yet, the Symella name comes from SYMbian and gnutELLA (the idea came from Imre). It shows what the application is: a Gnutella client for Symbian smartphones.

An S60 based smartphone, and lots of, lots of free space and bandwidth :)

The S60 2nd edition version has been tested on Nokia 6630, Nokia 6600 and Nokia N70 but it should work on any other phone based on the platform.
The S60 3rd edition has been tested on Nokia N91 and Nokia N80.

See the information on the Symella Team page.

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