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Written by: Tommi Vilkamo, manager of Nokia Beta Labs

Written by: Samuli Ylinen, Nokia Ovi Suite teamHi all!

Judging from past photos, it’s sometimes better to leave the flash off when taking photos inside a restaurant. We had lunch at Green Papaya Thai restaurant and had the Nokia N97 to take photos of the food. There was a large window behind me with enough light coming in. I made sure to force the [...]

This year's Samsung IQ competition is now open with full details and support published to help you develop a Samsung Mobile Widget for the Samsung Omnia i8910 HD. There is a lot of excitement surrounding this device, particularly at the Symbian Foundation. The best submission this year will take out a £15,000 first prize, while second and third place winners will receive £8,000 and £5,000 respectively. All winners will also have the opportunity to have their entry distributed through Samsung's MORE WIDGETS service. This feature is already included on the i8910 HD, but you'll soon be seeing it on a lot more Samsung handsets in the marketplace. Why Samsung Mobile Widgets? Samsung IQ's purpose this year is to introduce Samsung Mobile Widgets and get you thinking about the opportunities they present to developers. You can find out more about Samsung Mobile Widgets from the Samsung IQ 2009 resources page in the Knowledge Base, but here are the highlights: * Samsung Mobile Widgets follow the W3C draft standard for widget packaging and are delivered as WGT files. * In the Touch Wiz UI, Samsung Mobile Widgets install to the home screen widget tray. They can be dragged from the tray to the home screen, and are launched and run directly on the home screen. This makes it possible to have multiple active widgets running simultaneously. The i8910 HD home screen supports up to three separate views, so that users can switch between different sets of widgets for different occasions. * Samsung Mobile Widgets support multiple HTML pages. This gives you the opportunity to offer your users richer experiences by creating multi-view widgets, and makes it possible to provide fully localised content based on separate pages for each locale. Like all widgets Samsung Mobile Widgets are based on standard web technologies including dynamic HTML, CSS, JavaScript and asynchronous XML requests. It is undoubtedly due to the relative ease with which these scripting languages can be mastered (compared to native languages), and the level of functionality that they offer the developer, that widgets have become so popular. This is evidenced by the numerous tools that have recently become available to assist mobile developers building widgets. The possibilities for your Samsung Mobile Widget are limitless and that's why the choice of category is open and you're given complete freedom. The winning widgets will be those that provide an innovative solution to a current problem and improve the experience for the Samsung Mobile customer. They could even be widgets that you have already created modified to run on the Touch Wiz UI. The only fixed thing is the deadline. All widgets must be submitted by Friday 14th August 2009 for judging. Winners will be announced in late August. For more information and to submit your widgets visit the Samsung IQ website and the Samsung IQ 2009 Resources page.

PhoneBAK GPS by BAK2u is an integrated solution ('Anti-theft', 'GPS Tracking' and 'Emergency') that lets users locate their friends, classmates, vehicles or family members to know their whereabouts. PhoneBAK GPS lets the parents see the location of their children mobile phones, employers to track their vehicles and also the whereabout of employees (journalists, agents etc) when carrying out their work. The "Antitheft" function immediately sends all details about the "new owner" to you once the SIM card has been replaced and is also capable of remotely performing hard reset or data wipout on your request. The "SOS Alert" funtion lets you 'single-tap' quick dial in an emergency to a configurable telephone number and also send out the latest GPS location to a pre-defined email address.

Written by: Kee, Maps teamHi all,On behalf of the Maps team we are pleased to announce that Ovi Maps for mobile has now graduated from Beta Labs. It has been a long old journey since we first launched it to Beta Labs back in December last year and we now feel that the product is finally ready for the public.

Written by: Kristian Luoma, Product Manager, Ovi Contacts Hey Beta Labs,

This is Carnival number six for Barcelona based m-trends.org, where once again host Rudy de Waele gives an overview of qualitative, original and diverse opinions about what’s hot in mobile.

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We’ve made it a habit to wake up early Saturday mornings to play basketball and I’ve been using the Nokia N97 to take photos. I just found out now that the N97 can take photos at 1/1000th of a second. This is great for freezing actions. Take a look at some of the samples. Here’s the [...]

Written by: Tommi Vilkamo, manager of Nokia Beta Labs Nokia Java Runtime 2.0 for S60 (JRT 2.0) is a totally re-written Java mobile execution environment for Nokia S60 devices. It gives you several usability and performance improvements, including:

News is filtering through that the HTCSenseUI on the recently announced Hero won't be coming to current handsets on the market, mainly due to licensing issues with handsets branded as "Google" handsets. Those with "Google" branding will not get the SenseUI via HTC and those handsets without "Google" branding may not get the SenseUI either, so there's only one possible alley left - hack!

Video below shows the hacked SenseUI running on a G1, it's noticeably buggy, slow to respond and obviously will crash. But there is hope for those that are willing to take the risk and try the hacked ROM, as can be seen with the Hyakuro ROM hack, it's possible.



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Ahh multitasking. The epitome of a smartphone. One of many factors that combine to push mobile handsets ever closer to computer status. As passionate as people are where their handset manufacturer of choice is concerned, the advent of push notifications gave new ammunition to those whose mobile phone allegiance lie elsewhere. Ha ha ha, the [...]

Heh, looks like I still made it through even though it's already July :) It's been a while since I blogged here. If you remember I started way back in S60 Multimedia blog (which seems to be gone from the server, hope that's a mistake), that was a lot of fun. Then we had the Mobile Web Server activity and a new blog. Since the start of this year I haven't been part of that activity anymore, but following closely. [...]

Written by: Davis Fields, Nokia Messaging team Hello,

It's time to thank each and every one of you who have found our site useful, contributed to the S60 community, and taken part in discussions on the S60 blogs over the years on behalf of the whole S60 team. It's been a great experience for all of us! S60.com will be closed in the next couple of days. S60 Blogs content will remain available on this site, but new posts will not be published anymore. Closing of S60.com and [...]