S60Tips.com

It’s the end of the year. S60Tips.com has collected third party applications for S60 devices and chosen the best third party applications in year 2007. All applications developed by Nokia are excluded from the list. Feel free to agree or disagree….

Business: Quick Office Premier

If you need to edit and view your Office documents, Quick Office Premier is the one that you need.

Communication: Truphone

VoIP is definitely the hottest topic this year. There are so many VoIP applications for S60 platform; but Truphone is the one that really does the job.

Game: Robo

Robo is an addictive puzzle game that is similar to Sokoban. It is targeted for casual gamers (read: most of us).

Just for Fun: Light Saber for Nokia N95

When Nokia disclosed that N95 has built-in accelerometer; some developers started developing “crazy” applications. One of them is light saber for Nokia. May the Force be with you….

Multimedia: DivX Player

DivX Player was suffered from audio synchronization problem when first released last year. This year, a new DivX Player was released and the problem was fixed.

Online: GMail Mobile

Another application that was first released last year but got updated with several improvements. It is claimed to be faster with the same functions as Gmail on the Web.

Travel: Google Maps for Mobile

Google Maps was first released last year. This year Google has released several major improvements, i.e.:

• Native support for S60 3rd devices (which means faster performance).
• Added support to GPS module.
• Added a location finder based on cellular network (for those who don’t have GPS module, this is a very interesting feature).

Utility: Y-Browser

If you are an advanced user, a good file manager is a must-have application. Y-Browser is one of the best file managers for S60 3rd Edition.

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If you are wondering what kind of cool applications you can buy from Handango; check this out:

Games

• Snow Lines -> a game for your holiday season.

• Sky Force Reloaded -> a very cool arcade game.

• Super Miners -> a very addicted puzzle game (this is one of my favorite games for S60 device).

Productivity

• SlovoEd Dictionary -> a “pocket” dictionary supporting many different languages. Always bring dictionary to your favorite holiday destinations….

• Quick Office -> edit your Office documents.

• BizReader -> business card reader.

• Psiloc Wireless Presenter -> doing Power Point presentation using your S60 device.

About two weeks ago, I posted a posting on my other blog, Forum Nokia Blogs, about accelerometer on Nokia N95 Apparently, Nokia N95 has accelerometer built-in; but it was kept secret. Now after the API is opened to the public, many developers are trying to create cool applications. You can find some of them below.

Before you can install these applications; you need Accelerometer SISX file, which is available from Nokia Research Center web site. Download N95 RD Accelerometer Plug-in package and extract install N95AccelerometerPlugin.sis from the package. For your convenience, I have copied the SISX file to my blog as well (see link below).

Click here to download N95 RD Accelerometer Plug-in package

NokMote - Selecting menu by moving your device. The final version will be released at the end of December as freeware. For now, you can only see the video

Nokmote
Uploaded by soueldi

RotateMe - Have a screen rotation effect from portrait to landscape; and vice versa; just like what we have in iPhone.

Click here to download the unsigned version of rotateMe

Note that rotateMe does not distribute the signed version of the installation package. It means you have to sign it yourself. Unfortunately the certificate/key pair is currently available for developers only. For the end users, it would be difficult to get it sign. There were some discussions on the Internet to apply developer certificate on SymbianSigned.com; but it is likely that you won’t be approved if you are not developer.

RotateMe on N95
Uploaded by soueldi

Light Saber - Have a light-saber sound on your Nokia N95 just like Darth Vader on Star Wars movie.

Click here to download Light Saber for Nokia 95

Inclinometer - Install this on your car’s dashboard and ready for an off road experience.

Click here to download Inclinometer for Nokia N95 (available on Nokia MOSH)

Update (17-Nov-2007): Updated the link to new version of Light Saber for Nokia N95.

Update (21-Nov-2007): Added a link to rotateMe.