S60 Open to new features

First off I apologize for my absence from the blog lately, I've been busy with work and other things in real life.

Now that I got that out of the way onto the thing that you really can here to read about, a free game for your S60 device! Frozen Bubble is one of the best puzzle games around and there is an excellent port of it from GNU/Linux to S60 available on Sourceforge. It has been available for S60 first edition and S60 2nd edition devices for a long while, but it took some time to bring it S60 3rd edition due to issues with platform security and changes in the way S60 works. Fortunately a couple months ago it was successfully updated and released for S60 3rd edition devices!

What are you waiting for? Go download it now and start playing!

Now that the challenge of updating Frozen Bubble to S60 3rd edition has been accomplished there are a couple things that I would like to see work start on:

There is a client update for the Nseries Share Online app for uploading media from Gallery to Flickr (and Vox). To get it, you can go to the Nokia Sharing & blogging site and click on "Download", or straight to the Download page.

This version 2.0 of the Share Online client now allows account creation with regular Flickr/Yahoo login, introduces tagging support including an on-device tag database, plus a few other improvements.

Note that when you install the update, the existing account settings for Flickr or Vox will be overwritten. (The unofficial Twango settings which I added to my N95 were gone as well.)

- Carol.

[ Source: Nokia Nseries-support @ Flickr ]

I'll admit, I can be quite clumsy and accident prone, with myself and my stuff. I have a habit of dropping my phone, not intentionally of course. Both my N95 and E62 have suffered numerous falls, sometimes in the middle of a conversation which I was able to resume from after picking up the phone. You can see some scuff marks on them, but that's about it.

How well does the iPhone hold up against such treatment? I'll let my co-worker Tim Cusack describe what happened:

Situation:
Arrive home, open door of car to get out.
Have my N91 and iPhone in my lap, both drop to the concrete.
One survives without even a scratch.
The other does not, pics follow:

(click on the thumbnail for a bigger image)

This was the first time he dropped the iPhone, from a height of maybe a foot or two (as he as getting out of the car - not standing upright). The highly reflective surface of the iPhone kinda masks the cracks in the image above, but it is quite spectacular in real life.

The cost to fix it? $249. Ouch.

Granted, most people aren't as careless as me, but one drop? Perhaps Tim should have used the $249 to get a titanium case for the iPhone to begin with?

- Carol.

Hi all! Back from holidays? I am..

Just wanted to let you know S60 Internet Radio SIS packages are now re-signed and installation will work without any problems. Just grab them here.

-Jukka