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Do you store personal information, such as passport number or bank accounts, on your S60 device? Personally, I do. Why? I found it is useful to have personal information always with me. For example, I went to Indonesian consulate this morning to extend my passport. They asked me to fill out a form. One of the questions was my spouse’s passport number.

The question is how can we store personal information on S60 device? Never use Notes application! If your device is stolen, you will be in trouble. Older S60 devices used to include Wallet application for this purpose. Unfortunately it is now removed. What is our solution now? There are some third party applications (unfortunately they are not free).

Handy Safe

Handy Safe is probably the most popular application to store confidential information on S60 device. It stores credit card details, user names, addresses, insurance policies and much more. There is also a PC application, called Handy Safe Desktop, which allows you to synchronize the information to the PC.

Click here to buy Handy Safe for S60 ($ 49.95)

Phone Wallet

Phone Wallet is much cheaper than Handy Safe. The features are quite similar to Handy Safe. What makes it different is no PC application. How about backup? No worry. Phone Wallet allows you to backup your personal information to a file, which can be transferred to a new phone.

Click here to buy Phone Wallet Series 60.3 v 1.0 ($ 11.99)

Update (22-June-2008): There is also a Java application to store personal information, called MobileKnox. The user interface is not as nice as the two above, but it supports many other devices.

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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Holiday season is coming…. Get 10% discount on Handango by entering the promotional code below on your order form:

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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.