Samir Oueldi - The Best S60 3rd Developer So Far?
If you asked me today about the name of a Symbian developer, be it freeware or software, individual or company, Samir Oueldi would be the first one that comes to my head. I believe that for now he has managed to focus all eyes and spotlights on him. In a couple of words: this guy is awesome! He was the first to release a rotation solution for the N80 (rotateMe), the first to adapt the rotation to the N95’s accelerometer (rotateMe v2), the first to use the accelerometer for something actually useful (Nokmote) and now he’s the first to allow viewing YouTube videos on S60 (YTPlayer). He is also working on another new application called ShutUp which can bring the same functionality we saw demonstrated by S60 on the Symbian Smartphone Show: flip your phone to silence a call: a funny preview video surfaced a couple of hours ago. What more innovation do you need? If you want a little bit more conviction, just view the newest video of Nokmote in action. Now, do you agree he’s the greatest or still doubtful? Ok then, one more reason to love him: his apps are free. Yup. Free Free Free. As free as it can get.
But Samir has also a donation page up on Paypal (follow the links from his website) and believe me if I did have a functioning internet card (PayPal seemed to believe mine was coming from a country which data it couldn’t explore, or the likes), I would have been the first to give him a couple of bucks. So if you can spare some dollars or euros, transfer a couple to Samir. I think the guy has a life besides coding for us for free and he could use a little money for all the effort he invests in it.
I honestly believe Samir deserves to be hired officially by Nokia or S60 and if I was Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, that would be the first decision I would make. Samir has and will continue revolutionizing our S60 3rd world. I thank him for that, if only in words now. Personally, I was anxiously waiting for the N95 8Gb trial device to arrive from WOM World. Now I wish its arrival gets a little postponned. I really want to try Nokmote, ShutUp and N-Gage, when they finally go public.
totally 100% agree with you there m8 hes well good
He has my vote!
How do I install rotateme? I get a certificate error. I have Software Installation - All and Online Certificate Check - off.
Help!
http://www.emtube.yoyo.pl
try this You Tube player… you can play all the videos… and it’s freeware, not a “make a donation, and i will sent it to you”
i forgot one thing..
on my N95 if i play the video during buffering , it shutters.. my advice is: only press “Play” when the video is fully loaded
Only the betas are “donate and I’ll send it to you”. When he releases an app, it’s always free- he just wants a small donation if you’d like to follow the development.
He has my vote to!
Exactly PseudoFinn. And i don’t blame him for doing that. I guess he’s really putting some effort to boost these apps, and he deserves a little donation.
No, It isn’t the best, it have create RotateMe only for n95 and the other phones?
a good developer creates an application from beginning to end, is not stopped to half in order to create of an other, samir she is a person too many optimal ideas but little facts, when it has since with RotateMe 2,0 all developed arrived many donations have been made to come other ideas to half in order to take the money and to develop the applications with calm.
to this point it would have to release sources so that other good developers can adapt RotateMe to the rest of the symbian phones, because the n95 does not exist alone. I have a Nokia N81 SD and would serve me much RotateMe but the n81 it does not have the accelerometer and as I make? why I must donate something if it does not know when it will develop the application? at last I task that the money does not stimulate, but ruin a person.
P.S.: You pardon me for my very bad English, i’m Italian
Actually, I like the way he does it.
If you want the app early than you can make a small donation, or you can wait for official release. And there is no point making it shareware, because then it will be cracked and all the work down the drain
if he would make all of his work open source, he would be the best
I definitely appreciate Samir’s work - the features of rotateme were sorely missing from the N95 firmware.
Nokia should really be highlighting 3rd party apps and working harder to support their developers - it’s ridiculous that the original rotateme lingered in the symbian signed process for months. Encouraging a healthy development community is going to be vital for the future of Symbian/S60 in the face of a much more developer-friendly android platform.
@el_carlos: hey dude try to make an effort when you speak english…especially when it is for blaming someone’s efforts
I think Samir will make more money doing what he is doing now, without working for Nokia (if they ever make contact with him).
He has my money and my vote to carry on what he does best. I can’t wait for Nokmote, Shutup and future apps.
Rotate Me is brilliant.
Keep it up mate!!!! - You are the best!
@el_carlos It is only n95 for the auto-rotation as that has the accelerometer in it. It will work with other phones but not auto-rotate.
I pity on those people who complain or as a matter of fact are jealous for Samir.
@ cypress: RotateMe 2.0 beta 5 it’s only for n95 on other phones doesn’t work, i’ve try and try on my n81 but the app doesn’t start
Hello ,
N93i and N82 have also accelerometer so RotateMe SHOULD work on these devices too !
BR
Cyke64
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