I use my S60 device to playback music through my car, it's quite simple to do, I thought I'd share my setup with you...

There are some really nice car kits out there, but they're not cheap, and I don't like the idea of people drilling holes in my new car to install them. I wanted an inexpensive and easy way to play mp3s on my S60 through my car stereo.

Below is my Blaupunkt headunit which has AUX IN inputs n the rear of the device (nowadays the headunits often have them in the front, which is much more convenient). I had to order a Blaupunkt cable that would go from the AUX IN to a 3.5mm stereo jack. The stereo jack then plugs in to a Nokia AD-46 audio adapter (the AD-15 would work as well). The audio adapter then plugs into my Nokia E70's pop-port.

So when I get in my car, all I need to do is plug the cable into the pop-port and play some songs using the music player of my choice. When using the built-in Music Player, the music will pause if someone calls, I push the button on the AD-46 and it works quite well as a hands free device. Not a bad setup that cost me about 20 euros.

Hi all!

Tommi said:

Now, we are finally about to put Nokia's Barcode Reader application under N80 and N73 support pages, and to the Download! client.

And here it is, my early Christmas present for all Nokia N73 and N80 users! Just start the Download! application (called Catalogs in N80) and you'll find the Barcode reader right there.

Once you're done, scan the code on your right :)

(If you are not able to scan the code: have a Merry Christmas and an interesting New Year 2007!)

Update 19.01.2007: Because of installation problems with certain Nokia N73 versions we decided to remove the download from Download! for the time being. Barcode reader for N73 will become again available as soon as there is a N73 firmware update deployed that corrects the problems. Sorry for this, I'll let you know as soon as it's back up!

Cheers,
Jukka

The S60 Blogging family keeps getting bigger. Please give a warm welcome to the S60 "Mobile Security" blog hosted by Nokia security expert, Neil Barclay. He'll be discussing S60 security news, reviews, and analysis - for consumers and developers.

All the presentations from Nokia World are now online. There's one in particular you should check out - Head of Software Platforms Consumer Marketing at Nokia, Esa Eerola, discussed results from the latest Smartphone 360 study. The study is something funded by S60 and is done two or three times per year.

Custom-built software is installed on a study group's S60 device, all their device-related actions are then monitored and recorded. We find out what they're doing, when, how, where etc.. As data plans get cheaper, devices become more powerful, and new services are offered, the results change quite noticeably each survey. Here are a few highlights from Esa Eerola's presentation...

Memory cards are getting bigger, and people are storing more stuff. That music/sounds category continues to grow, keep an eye on that movies/video category over the next couple years.

Internet on the mobile has seen an enormous surge in popularity. WLAN, flat-rate data plans, and S60's new amazing browser have to be responsible for this.

Very good news for developers - tens of millions of S60 devices out there, half of users are installing add-on apps.

Throw away your mp3 players, all you need is your S60. And as you could guess, music player usage is up during commutes to and from work.

If you have a camera, you're using it.

Just a quick update - We talked a few weeks ago about a maximum volume level bug found on some Nokia E-series devices after the user updated the firmware.

This problem had been reported to the E-series team a while back and I've been informed from the team that they're working diligently to resolve this issue.

I'll let you know when I hear more!

It's been such a long time I last wrote here that I thought it's finally time to do something about it.

This time, I'd like to share a simple trick I came across last week when trying to help my colleque, who had managed to get an application onto his memory card that couldn't be installed properly, but which also could not be removed by the Application Manager. In his case, the annoying thing was that whenever he restarted the phone, installation of this application was started automatically (but then failed).

So what to do? Simple, I thought, install one of the file browser applications and delete the .sis file. So I installed Y-browser and started browsing the content of the E: drive. But the installation file happens to be in one of the protected directories, and therefore can't be accessed with these tools.

What next? Luckily I had a memory card reader attached to my PC, so it didn't take long to figure out a solution. Put the memory card to reader, use Windows file manager to locate the .sis file (the name of the file you can see in the S60 Application Manager) and delete it. Problem solved.

Another mechanism, in case you don't have a memory card reader or your phone comes with harddisk rather than a memory card, is to connect the phone to your PC with the USB cable. Then select "data transfer" mode (not "PC Suite" mode). This allows you to browse again the full memory card/ harddisk content with your Windows file manager