S60 Open to new features

Here’s a quick update from the world of S60 Ambassadors. We’ve gotten a great response out of the gate for our ongoing pilot campaign “Share on Ovi“.

The reports are pouring in. We will be posting an “Ambassador Report of the Week” each week. The Ambassador who submits the selected report will get a loaner device (most likely an N82, but we have some other stragglers in there as well) for 2 weeks. This week’s selection is from Daniel Silvers. Check out his post — Daniel does a great job of relating the 4 elements of a great report:

1) Where did the conversation take place
2) When did the conversation take place
3) What was said
4) What was the reaction to what was said

He also is not afraid to mix it up with a few random thoughts and questions that help to make Ricky’s life more interesting. Keep up the good work, Daniel, and enjoy your loaner device — we hope it will generate lots more conversations, and lots more reports…

Here it is, your Report of the Week:

I was out last night, at my friend Mark’s house for a low key evening. It was Mark, his girlfiend Kathleen and his drummer Jon, all three are about 23 years old and current Verizon customers. I usually meet up with them at least once a week for food and drinks. While I participate in discussions and events, I am known to also be playing with my phone.

Usually my phone of choice is the Nokia N73, but on this evening I took out my new branded N75 that I had just gotten from AT&T as a replacement for my beloved 6682 which went swimming in the rains we had in NY a few weeks ago…
While Mark and Kathleen went off to watch mind numbing television, Jon asked me about my “new” toy. I had already installed opera mini, google maps, and my gmail on the phone, so i proceded to show him the ease that I am able to switch between applications, while playing the music in the background. I visited the S60 site to show the available downloads, and stressed that s60 is open for change… based on your wants and needs.

Since I really haven’t been using it as much as I should (the n75). I did not have Ovi Share set up on this phone, (and a further search shows that there is not an available download for this phone…) but did go to my ovi share site to show what I had uploaded previously. One thing that he thought was neat was that I had uploaded a video of a friend performing at a local open mic. I uploaded it from the show, and would have been able to shoot more, had they let the artists’ play more then one song.

One of the things that Jon (Since Mark and his girlfriend Kathleen were busy watching TV in the other room) liked about this phone, or rather, the way it operated, was that I was able to multi task, and not slow the phone down, he actually compared it to a computer with multiple applications running at the same time! He said his phone “lags” and he just thought that was normal, based on the size and tasks that such a small thing was required to do.

Jon has seen my N73 before, but I never really took the time to give him a demo. But since I am more familiar with that phone, he said next time I have it out, he’d like to see how easily I flow through the applications, and specificly, how I use Share, how easy it is to upload pictures and video…

This was my first real post, since the pilot, I hope it was ok…

My review of the AT&T branded N75 is not good, I’ve been having problems with it, and cannot wait to upgrade…

I’ve been also talking up a storm about the E70 to a friend who has a sidekick on T-Mobile, and think that she would benefit from switching to that device… is there any “loaners” for such an old phone, or do you, Ricky, know where I can get one second (third, or even fourth) hand?

She likes my phone (the N73), but needs a full sized keypad…

any thoughts?

Thank you, Daniel Silvers, S60 Ambassador.

Couple notes:
Next “Report of the Week” selection will be made *this* Friday.
Stefan is finally up and running so if you are not in the Americas, send your reports to him here: Ambassadors@S60.com