S60Tips.com

Yesterday, Yohanes Nugroho, the developer of S60Bible, posted a comment on one of my blog posting. Apparently, he has compiled a list of freeware applications for S60 3rd. Interestingly, a couple of days back, Tommi Vilkammo from S60 Blogs also posted a list of his favorite applications.

So, if you have a question, where to get free S60 applications, please try to take a look at one of these sites/blogs:

• S60Tips.com’s Featured Freeware – This is a freeware list from S60Tips.com. Every 1 – 2 weeks, I publish an interesting freeware application for S60 platform.
• S60 3rd Edition Freeware – This list is compiled by Yohanes Nugroho.
• Shortlist of interesting S60 add-on stuff – A list from internal S60 blogger, Tommi Vilkammo. Note that not all of the stuff listed there are free (although most of them are free).
• Top Ten Freeware Applications for S60 3rd Edition – A list of freeware applications from OSNews.com.
• S60 3rd Edition Freeware – Steve Lichfield from AllAboutSymbian.com has his favorite freeware applications for S60 3rd Edition.
• Nokia S60 3rd Edition Applications Review – This site has a comprehensive list of S60 3rd Edition applications although some of them are not free.

Any other sites/blogs that I am missing?

Bonus Links

• Where to Find Flash Lite Applications? – If you are looking for Flash Lite application, start with my blog posting here.
• Interesting Widgets for Your S60 Phones – Have you ever heard about Widsets? You can have many interesting widgets for your Widsets.
• Where to Find More Applications? – If the list above is not enough for you, you can start hunting more applications from these sites.

Compatible devices: S60 1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition, Nokia Nseries, Nokia Eseries.

Last week, Nokia announced Nokia Maps smart2go mapping and navigation platform available for free download. Currently it supports some of Nokia Nseries devices that run S60 3rd Edition. Although it was announced last week, the download link was available starting from today.

Nokia Maps smart2go is a compact programme for your mobile that allows you to load maps from around the world. Discover interesting places with ease, highlight them and get the route.

Click here to download Nokia Maps and MapLoader

Basically Nokia Maps smart2go platform consists of two parts, i.e.

• Maps application that has to be installed on the device.
• MapLoader application. It is a PC application running on Windows operating system that allows us to download maps to memory card. Currently only North America and European countries are available. However, I assume that more and more countries will be added in the near future.

What can we do with Nokia Maps smart2go?

• Since it is a mapping and navigation application, you can use it with your GPS module to find route from one place to another. If you don’t have GPS module, you can still install it on your device and use it in “simulation” mode.

• You can also search for places of interest, such as restaurants, public transportation, shopping, hotel etc.

There are two important things to note here:

• Even though you can download maps to your memory card, you still need data-connection to find route or search places. You may want to remember this especially if you don’t have flat-rate data plan.
• The voice navigation system is not free. You have to subscribe it separately. If you don’t subscribe it, the route will only be displayed on the screen without voice.

Compatible devices: S60 3rd Edition, Nokia Nseries, Nokia Eseries.

Update (18-Feb-07): Thanks for mike from Nokia-gate5 for his clarification. Apparently, in the final version of smart2go, we can search POI (Places of Interests) without data connection. There will be a possibility to download voice navigation too. It’s really a good news for us.

Nokia has just recently released a new version of Mobile Search. One of the new features is support to search for local contents on our devices. It includes messages, calendar, contacts, notes and other files.

Click here to download Nokia Mobile Search

Just in case you are not familiar to Mobile Search, it is a free application that allows us searching information on the Internet. What kind of information?

• Web. Nokia Mobile Search currently supports two major Web search engines, i.e. Yahoo! and Microsoft’s Live Search.

• Image. You can search images on the Internet using Yahoo! service.

• Maps Viewer. It is similar to Google Maps for Mobile but with less features.

• Local contents. You can also search local contents that are country specific, for example Yellow Pages, Baidu, etc.

Compatible devices: S60 2nd, 3rd Edition, Nokia Nseries, Nokia Eseries.