A month ago, we reported to you that the S60 team was asking you to “Show Your S60 Smarts”. The contest’s idea was awesome, since they were asking for a video showing your favorite application or your best tip/trick on S60. Basically, it was about how each and everyone of us uses S60 in their everyday life. So you can imagine that the submitted videos were as diversified as the users who submitted them, with applications such as the Wellness Diary, Lightsaber, Shazam ID, Nokia Steps Counter, Nokia Sports Tracker, Calcium,… and some awesome and extremely useful compilations of tips and tricks.
After reading Ricky’s second post about the contest, I said “what the heck?” and decided to enter. The video I submitted is entitled “S60 Is What You Make Of It”, and it shows how I use S60 everyday as a pharmacist, with clinical cases stored as photographs in my gallery, Mobireader and a couple of medical ebooks I bought (especially a medical dictionary and a drug guide) that serve as my main reference, as well as the S60 Web Browser that comes in handy when I need to look up any information.
Basically, the tip I was aiming to show is that S60 is open, and there are applications for almost anything and everything. This makes it easy to adapt your device to your everyday life and needs, be it your work or your leisure, and this is what I advise you wholeheartedly to do. You won’t notice how much these small devices can simplify things, until you sit back and remember how you used to do things before.I am proud to say that my message went through, and when the results were announced on thursday, I discovered that my video won the first place in the S60 Insight category. This came as an awesome surprise. Jakaraka won the first place in the S60 Application category, with his extremely entertaining Google Maps video:
You can head to the S60 blogs to watch the 2nd and 3rd place winner videos in both categories. I also advise you to check the videos in the YouTube contest group, because there are some handy tips and a great way to discover new uses that you might have not thought about. All in all, it was a great contest and the prizes are par with it (N82 for the first place, Nokia BH-604 for the 2nd place, and a Handango voucher for all the winners). Congratulations to everyone who snatched a prize, and I for one am delighted about the N82, since I’ve been pondering the thought of ditching my N95 and getting one.
It is really true what you’re saying about S60.
Because it is open it is available with customizations with 3rd party applications to reach the full potential of a media computer.
Just a note on the N82, if something gets corrupted e.g. during application update some files will still remain in the phone memory. So even if the N82 has UDP (User Data Protection) it is not always the best.
I got a problem with Opera Mini 4 after a fw upgrade
(as most java applications are rendered useless, the only option is reinstall)
I tried installing it again but it wouldn’t install no matter how hard I tried.
I therefore had to go inside C:\private\ and delete som files there. After that it installed just fine.
However to gain access to those files you have to hack your phone.
My advice don’t install applications that you think will get you in trouble after a fw upgrade. That is especially for java applications. Some Symbian applications (.sis, .sisx) can be correctly backed up after a fw, in most cases works fine after a reinstall.
The best thing is that if you have to reinstall a Symbian application the N82 remembers the serials you’ve entered before.
But overall N82 is better than the N95 (Battery, xenon-flash etc).
If you’re reading a lot however I would still hold on to the N95 because of the screen.
Congrats! Your video is very good. Too bad the guys at S60.com seem to have backpedaled on their promise to draw one additional S60 device among all contest participants. I’m disappointed by how easily they break their own promises. I hope you do get your prize eventually, but it seems these guys don’t deserve to be trusted.
Cr, I’m sorry that you feel that us at S60.com/S60 Blogs can’t be trusted. The reason why the extra device prize winner was not announced on the same day as the others was simply because the S60 Summit was ongoing at the same time and it delayed the prize drawing a bit. Apologies for that. I am very passionate about my work with the S60 Blogs and doing my best to serve my readers. If you have any additional feedback, feel free to contact me at saara dot bergstrom at nokia dot com.
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Congratulations.
It is really true what you’re saying about S60.
Because it is open it is available with customizations with 3rd party applications to reach the full potential of a media computer.
Just a note on the N82, if something gets corrupted e.g. during application update some files will still remain in the phone memory. So even if the N82 has UDP (User Data Protection) it is not always the best.
I got a problem with Opera Mini 4 after a fw upgrade
(as most java applications are rendered useless, the only option is reinstall)
I tried installing it again but it wouldn’t install no matter how hard I tried.
I therefore had to go inside C:\private\ and delete som files there. After that it installed just fine.
However to gain access to those files you have to hack your phone.
My advice don’t install applications that you think will get you in trouble after a fw upgrade. That is especially for java applications. Some Symbian applications (.sis, .sisx) can be correctly backed up after a fw, in most cases works fine after a reinstall.
The best thing is that if you have to reinstall a Symbian application the N82 remembers the serials you’ve entered before.
But overall N82 is better than the N95 (Battery, xenon-flash etc).
If you’re reading a lot however I would still hold on to the N95 because of the screen.
Congrats! Your video is very good. Too bad the guys at S60.com seem to have backpedaled on their promise to draw one additional S60 device among all contest participants. I’m disappointed by how easily they break their own promises. I hope you do get your prize eventually, but it seems these guys don’t deserve to be trusted.
@Cr - No backpedaling, Saara has posted an update to the See Into S60 blog announcing the winner of the extra device: http://blogs.s60.com/seeintos60/2008/05/show_your_s60_smarts_prizes_an.html
Cr, I’m sorry that you feel that us at S60.com/S60 Blogs can’t be trusted. The reason why the extra device prize winner was not announced on the same day as the others was simply because the S60 Summit was ongoing at the same time and it delayed the prize drawing a bit. Apologies for that. I am very passionate about my work with the S60 Blogs and doing my best to serve my readers. If you have any additional feedback, feel free to contact me at saara dot bergstrom at nokia dot com.
Jun 2nd, 2008 at 3:35 am
[...] to show that the S60 platform can be adapted to suit ‘your everyday life and needs’. She uses the open nature of S60 to do many things, including combining medical ebooks with Mobieader to turn her device into a [...]
Jul 23rd, 2008 at 5:52 am
[...] than 2 weeks ago, I received my black N82 that I won with the Show Your S60 Smarts contest. I have to admit that I wasn’t initially impressed with the N82 when it was announced, but [...]