Click here to download S60 Widget for Picasa Web Album

You can only use it for devices that are compatible with S60 Widget, such as N78 and N95. See here for the list of supported devices.

For more information about the features of this customized version, read the posting on the official Google Mobile Blog.

 

If you want to visit Picasa Web Album from your S60, use the following bar code.

Bonus Links

• Official Google Mobile Blog: Picasa now customized for Nokia S60 and translated into 36 languages
• Voice of S60: Interview with Petteri Koponen and Joe Walnes from Google Web Picasa team

Gizmo

Gizmo is one of the most popular SIP applications. It is available on many different platforms, including Windows, Max, Linux, and now S60. There is a Java application for S60 available at Gizmo5.com. However I do NOT recommend it. I would recommend the native Gizmo application. You can download it from Nokia Beta Labs -> so it is still in beta phase.

Visit Nokia Beta Labs to download Gizmo for S60

Truphone

Truphone used to be my favourite VoIP application. It is integrated seamlessly with the Contacts application. As you can see from the screenshot below, I can just select Options | Internet call in the Contacts application.

One feature that I like from Truphone is the ability to switch between networks automatically. For example, when you are at home, it connects to your home’s WiFi network; when you are at the office, it connects to your office’s WiFi network; when you are somewhere else, it connects to your 3G network.

Visit Truphone Web site and register and download the application

EQO

EQO uses different approach than other applications. It uses cellular network to route VoIP call. In other words, you make a normal cellular network to EQO server, which then performs direct your call via VoIP network. It might be beneficial in some cases. For example, you don’t have WiFi network and don’t want to pay an expensive data call.

Another nice feature from EQO is that it supports many Instang Messaging networks, including MSN, Yahoo and Google Talk.

Visit EQO Web site and register and download the application

Skype

Skype was the pioneer in VoIP application. It is remain one of the most popular VoIP applications. It is available on several different platforms; recently it adds S60 to the supported platform. Since it is pretty new and still in beta phase, there are still some bugs.

Point your mobile browser to http://www.skype.com/m to download Skype for S60

fring

fring was probably the first S60 application that offers a "true" VoIP call. Before that, there were some VoIP services that uses GSM network, such as EQO.

Just like Truphone, fring allows you to specify access points group. It means it will switch the network automatically depending on where you are.

One thing to note that fring does not have its own network to do VoIP call. It uses other network, such as Skype, Gizmo and some other SIP providers. It also supports many IM networks (see screenshot below).

Visit fring Web site to register and download the application

Yeigo

Thanks to archimides who has left a comment on my previous posting about Yeigo. I haven’t really used it heavily, but it looks like a nice application and easy to use.

Point your mobile browser to http://www.yeigo.com/downloads to download Yeigo

Others

Besides all the applications above, there are also some Java applications, such as Nimbuzz and Talkonaut. There might be some other applications that I haven’t covered yet. There are simply too many VoIP applications these days. I am not sure whether all of them will make money. IMO, many of them will just disappear in the next couple of years. There will be only a few of them that will survive.

Recommendation

• If you are looking for VoIP application that is integrated with Contacts application, use Gizmo or Truphone.
• If you are looking for VoIP application that supports Instant Messaging, use fring or EQO.
• If you don’t have WiFi-enabled phone or have no unlimited data plan, use EQO.

Bonus Link

• Looking for A VoIP Application For Your S60 (Symbian-Guru.com)

Previously, I featured Google Search App for S60, which is a standalone client application for Google Search. Unfortunately, the shortcut in the idle menu works using Pencil key (a.k.a. Edit key) only. What’s the problem? Many S60 devices don’t have Pencil key any more. What to do then?

Don’t worry. You don’t even need Google Search App. What you need is your current Web browser. Don’t you know that you can launch the default Web browser by long pressing “0″ key? If you set Google Search as the default home page, you’ll get similar result as using Google Search App. Follow the step-by-step instructions below.

• Launch Web browser.
• Select Options | Settings | General menu.
• On the Access point section, select the access point you want to use.
• On the Home page section, enter http://m.google.com/m.

• Exit Web browser and you should be ready.
• On the idle screen, long press “0″ key and you’ll be directed to Google Search home page.

 

Bonus Links

• Featured Freeware – Google Search App
• Launching Web Browser Using 0 Key
• Top 5 Shortcuts on S60 Devices

Click here to see the tutorial of using Nokia Share Online and Share on Ovi

Click here to download Nokia Share Online 3.0

After downloading Nokia Share Online 3.0, you have to activate Ovi service. It just means entering your user name and password. It’s that easy…

After that, each time you take picture, you can just select “Post to ovi” icon (see screenshot below). You can select the icon from Camera or Gallery application.

Update (11-Feb-2008): Note that not all countries are supported by Shares on Ovi yet. Please see the list of supporting countries at this page.

Update (12-Feb-2008): Not sure if everybody else has the problem with geotagging. I noticed that the current Share on Ovi does not import geotagging information (tagged using Nokia Location Tagger) properly yet.

I am going to discuss are three YouTube applications that I think are the best. All of them works have common features, such as:

• play video in full screen,
• search videos,
  list popular videos,
  find related videos.

emTube – The Best

• In my opinion, emTube is the best YouTube client so far.
  It uses standard S60 user interface.
  You can save the videos to your devices.
  It supports accelerometer on N95 and N82. When you rotate your device, the video is also rotated.

Click here to download emTube

 

MobiTubia – The Champion

• MobiTubia is the winner of OpenC competition that was held by Nokia last year.
• It has similar interface to Nokia’s Video Center. It runs mostly in landscape mode.
• Sometimes, I have a problem with the sound (skipped sound) -> may be only me?

Click here to download MobiTubia

 

YouTube Mobile – The Official

• This is the official client application provided by Google.
• It is a Java application; so you can expect a slow performance.
• It is integrated with your YouTube account; so you can upload your videos.
• I have a little bit a problem with this application. Sometimes, it is trying to connect to data connection (via cellular network) although I have explicitly chosen WiFi connection.

To download YouTube Mobile, point your web browser to http://m.youtube.com

 

Bonus Links

•  Featured Freeware – emTube

First, we are now part of Nokia?s new service brand, “Ovi”. As of Today, the Twango brand will be a fond memory. We are now Share on Ovi.

For those who don’t know about Share for Ovi (twango), it is media sharing service; similar to flickr. You can upload pictures (as well as video) and then share them with your friends. Personally, I like the user interface of Share for Ovi. It is very clean and easy to navigate. It has a great potential. And by the way, they have a mobile version of their site too – http://mobile.twango.com. Point your camera to the barcode below (note that the URL may change in the future).

The current service is still beta. As such, there are still some important features missing. For example, the integration with the device is not seamless because lack of mobile client (this should be coming soon). The GPS coordinate embedded in the pictures, for example using Nokia Location Tagger, is also not parsed properly yet.

How do we upload and share media using Share for Ovi?

• You can always use PC to upload your media files via http://www.twango.com (the URL may change in the future). You can also use Windows XP Web Publishing Wizard, which allows you to upload a large numbers of media files.
• How about mobile devices? Since there is no mobile client available yet; the only possibility is using email. Now you can use Nokia Online Share 3.0 to upload to Share on Ovi.
• A couple of months back, The PhoneBoy Blog has posted a trick to upload your media files via Nokia Lifeblog.
  Unfortunately, I was not able to use the trick (not sure why though)

Bonus Links

• We are now Share on Ovi! (Twango’s blog)
• Posting to Twango from Lifeblog or Online Share (PhoneBoy Blog)

Update (11-Feb-2008): Use Nokia Share Online to upload media files to Share on Ovi directly from your mobile device.

You can visit the mobile version of Taptu by visiting

http://www.taptu.mobi.

What makes Taptu better than Google for mobile search? Robert showed the result of music search on his video podcast. Here is another example. The following screenshots show the search result of “norah jones” on Google.

And there is the result on Taptu.

As you can see, the result of Taptu gives the picture of the singer as well as some links the sample songs from YouTube.

Bonus Links

• Google and Your S60 Phones – Part I (Google Web Search)
• Google and Your S60 Phones – Part II (Google SMS Search)
• Google and Your S60 Phones – Part III (Google YouTube for Mobile)
• Google and Your S60 Phones – Part IV (Google 411 Service)

Imagine that you have a web server running on your device. Now, you open your Web browser on your PC and connect to the web browser. What can you do with that? Many things… the sky is the limit. Here are some examples what you can do using Mobile Web Server:

Taking picture from your camera

Retrieving contacts from your device’s phone book

Sending SMS from the Web

Accessing your Gallery on the device

There are some more features of Mobile Web Server. It’s better if you try it yourself. It’s really cool.

Please visit https://secure.mymobilesite.net/ to register and download Mobile Web Server

• The data transferred to your device will be less than the original ones. If you don’t have unlimited data plan, this will save you some money.
• Many Web sites are not designed for small screen of mobile device. Personally, I don’t like doing horizontal scrolling. Mowser will reformat the page so that you don’t need to do horizontal scrolling.

The idea is actually not new. A couple of months back, I have reviewed Skweezer, which offer the same service. Opera Mini also has similar service with different approach.

Mowser is founded by Russel Beattie, a famous blogger in the mobile world. He used to have work for Yahoo! before he decided to start and develop Mowser.

What can we do with Mowser? You can enter a URL of a Web site and transcode it to mobile version. The screenshot below shows S60.com viewed without Mowser.

The following pictures show S60.com viewed from Mowser. As you can see, now you don’t need to do horizontal scrolling.

One feature that I really like from Mowser is that you can search information from many different services by using keywords. For example:

• “gs” to search on Google Web.
  “ys” to search on Yahoo Web.
  “ls” to search on Microsoft’s Live.com.
  “eb” to search on eBay.
  “wi” to search on Wikipedia.
  and many more

The following picture show some example of search feature using Yahoo!

This one is searching using eBay.

Bonus Links

• Faster and Cheaper Web Loading with Skweezer
• Featured Freeware – Opera Mini
• Wikipedia on S60 Devices