Symbian in Motion

If you tried to visit my blog over the past few days you probably had some difficulty doing so. I just want to quickly apologize to all of my readers for the downtime but thanks to the hard work of expert_21, all is now back in order.

Thank you all for your patience and understanding. Now keep those votes coming and win that $50 Handango gift certificate! ;)

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Wirefree - an independent Symbian developer - is currently looking for beta testers with s60 2nd and s60 3rd devices. He has posted on various forums including mobile9, HoFo and SF, but it’s hard for people to distinguish between a genuine request and spam. Well I’ve had a few conversations with this developer and everything seems in order.

A bit about the app: WrU? - which is short for ‘Where Are You?’ - is an app that utilizes cell ID location and SMS to allow users to automatically deliver location reports to desired recipients. Pretty cool! Location data is extracted from ‘behind the scenes’ CBMs (cell broadcast messages) that are automatically received by mobile devices each time a user enters a new cell, and periodically thereafter. A quote from the developer:

“Sample Scenario: You are heading for a date (or a bizness meeting) & would like keep him/her updated of your movement thru town as you make your way towards hir. Simply initiate application’s tracking engine to send automatic location updates at regular, user-defined intervals.”

Wirefree is looking for both s60 2nd and s60 3rd beta testers, but there is currently more of a need for s60 2nd. If you have an s60 2nd device lying around or if you know someone who does, please do sign up.

The betas should be released soon and I’ll update this post with approximate dates once they’re available. All beta participants will be eligible for a free license once the release version is made available.

To register, click here.

Remember, the real value of s60 lies in third party apps and their developers. It’s not often that a developer interacts on this level with their potential customers - it’s actually refreshing. Supporting developers results in more (and better) apps, plain and simple. Plus, you’ll get a free app! Nothing wrong with that…

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Here is some additional info (note that all screenshots are pre-graphics):

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Welcome to my blog and thanks for stopping by! My name is Zach and over the coming weeks and months I’ll be reviewing various applications and games created for the Symbian S60 3rd Edition platform. A quick background on me: I’ve been a mobile phone enthusiast for over 10 years and I’ve owned somewhere between 40 and 50 phones. My interest really peaked when I began hacking Motorola phones a couple of years ago and since then I’ve come back to Nokia - thanks to the S60 platform. I am currently a forum administrator on the internet’s most popular free mobile content site mobile9.com (name - EchoZulu) and I am fairly well known on some other forums as well for writing guides and doing as much as I can to help people.

I will be reviewing freeware and payware on this blog and I’ll always include links so that you can download the app (or a trial). If you know of an app that you would like me to review, please by all means contact me here or over on the mobile9.com forum. I will try to update this blog on a weekly basis or as close as I can get. I may stray from time to time with some tips and tricks but I’ll always try to provide you with useful information.

Why S60 3rd? In my opinion it’s the best smartphone OS currently available, that’s why! S60 is versatile and desirable and its capabilities are limited only by its applications. You can browse the internet with the wonderful S60 3rd browser, or stream internet radio stations with a simple open-source app. You can make VoIP calls or stream television channels or even use TomTom to navigate cross country. So enough with the boring intro stuff… Let’s check out some apps!