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.















