S60 Open to new features

It has email, web browser, camcorder, HSDPA, Wi-fi and GPS and it can even dance!

The Nokia zippo was the first one. Now anorectic models (118g) are out anyway and there is a new dancing queen (210g).

Do you have ICE contact in your phonebook? I think everybody should have. So ICE stands for 'In Case of Emergency' . The original concept, conceived by Cambridge paramedic Bob Brotchie, involved putting the acronym ICE in front of your designated emergency contact.

This is a great idea, but you might lose caller id of your most used contact, because most likely ICE is someone who you already have in phonebook. If you add ICE card and it has the same number than earlier entry, calling line identification is not working anymore. Phone is using few last numbers of phone number to match with names and when there are 2 names with the same number it won't show any name. On icecontact pages there is a hint to add * after the number and it will fix this problem. I think the idea is just to save ICE number to common place, but it would be nice that calling from this particular device to ICE calling also works without editing the contact or using separate phone. With my S60 phone and Sonera SIM card I just get number not in use message if there is * added after number.

What I'm thinking here is a new feature for the phonebook. When you open the phone for the first time, it should ask date, time, location and finally ICE contact. (Of course if should be possible to add ICE contact later on). This ICE contact should be separated from the others so that it doesn't mess up caller id display. This feature would promote ICE idea and maybe after 2 or 3 years almost everyone would have ICE in the contacts. One principle around ICE is that the person whose name and number you are giving has agreed to be your ICE partner. Phone could then send SMS to your ICE contact and inform that you have added he or she to this contact.

What do you think? Any comments? No promises about delivery schedule. Now finally some models are getting energy saving alerts and this could be also nice Corporate Social Responsibility act from Nokia.

The Symbian Partner Event is taking place in London on 9th of May. Lots of interesting presentations and exhibition.  If you happen to be around, remember to visit S60 booth. I have nice set of Widgets there to demonstrate. See you in London!

Last week was very busy week in Madrid. S60 Summit, Demonstrations, parties, dinners. I barely found time to do any shopping there:-) Phil has already listed web coverage of the S60 Summit in see into S60. No need to repeat.

100 million S60 phones landmark is now reached. Samsung announced a new device SGH-i400 and LG starts to ship JoY in Europe. Nice milestones.

In my opinion S60 should systematically announce shipment numbers like Symbian. Every quarter! Not every now and then, including sometimes Nokia numbers, sometimes all licensees. There was an announcement on 3GSM time about  S60 shipments. "Nokia alone has cumulatively shipped nearly 85 million S60 enabled devices by the end of 2006". Now it's 100 million all the licensees all together. Cumulatively. I like hard facts, exact terms, systematic approach, not marketing BS. If you know a card game called tuppi, one very basic principle is that cumulative points are never counted. It only matters what you have now.