I posted an initial list of the S60 demos we'll have in MWC already earlier. Below's a bit more information about the demos.

New Innovations in S60 UI
While the S60 design is kept familiar and consistent S60 renews and innovates to fill different user needs and provides alternatives for developers, manufacturers and Operators to design new type of applications, mobile devices and services. Now S60 expands the UI offering by Touch UI with tactile feedback to create new type of devices and applications and by UI Accelerator Toolkit to create graphically stunning applications.

Advanced sensors and sensor framework
S60 UI expands with sensors and advanced sensor framework. Sensors provide easy and entertaining way to engage with your devices while sensor framework opens this new exiting world to developers and licensees for new innovations.

Full Web browsing experience on S60
Web Browser for S60 provides best-in-class full web browsing experience on smartphones. Recent enhancements in this area - e.g. support for commonly used Flash Video content type and improved content download support - provide an even more desktop-like browsing experience.

Bring your Internet innovation to S60
Developers and designers can create exciting ways to connect and share using well-known desktop-class technologies (HTML, CSS, Flash) combined with the power of Internet information.

Powerful technology to create innovative experiences
Experienced developers can expand the capabilities of mobile devices and leverage the creativity of open source communities using powerful runtime technologies (C++, Open C, Java, Python).

S60 and Internet Community Services
A growing number of popular Internet community services are being mobilized on the open S60 platform. Optimized and integrated in-device client applications provide excellent user experience for users to connect to services that are relevant to them. They can also take advantage of device functionalities - such as GPS for location information - to go even beyond the desktop PC user experience.

S60 Device Showcase
The latest S60 devices at your finger tips.

Tune my S60
Let's tune your S60 device and open it for new features! Decorate your personal S60 device with some free and funky add-on applications such as themes, wallpapers and ringtones. Match your own S60 handset to your style!

An Evening with S60 is back in the States and touches down in Miami on Thursday February 28th from 7 PM to 10 PM at Dolores but you can call me Lolita Restaurant, 1000 South Miami Avenue. It'll be an evening of good food, good people, good fun and of course great technology. This is definitely something that you shouldn't miss if you are in the neighborhood!

On the agenda for the night will be:

- Food & drinks
- Networking with other S60 and mobile enthusiasts from the area
- Share your S60 experiences with our engineers, architects and marketers
- Hands-on with all the latest S60 devices including the N81 and N95 8GB
- One-on-one demonstrations
- Cool giveaways

Sign-up and more details: www.s60.com/miami.

As we are getting closer to this year’s Mobile World Congress (formerly known as 3GSM) in Barcelona Feb 11 – 14, I thought I’d share our plans for the event.

Like the previous years, S60 will have a strong presence in MWC. Visitors to the S60 stand will be treated to a view of the latest S60 platform features, applications, technologies and devices. This year’s demos include:

- S60 touch UI
- S60 sensor technologies
- S60 Internet browsing
- S60 Internet innovation enablers (Web runtime and Flash Lite runtime evolution with Service APIs)
- S60 native development platform (Open C evolution, C++, Python)
- S60 and Internet community services
- S60 device showcase
- The infamous Tune my S60 kiosk

Find out more about the demos from www.s60.com.

S60 stand can be found from hall 8, stand number 8B169. We'll be at the same location as last year. Check the floor plan of hall 8 from here (.pdf) More information about Nokia in MWC from http://www.nokia.com/mwc. This wiki also provides some useful information about the events around MWC.

I will be there blogging and Jaikuing from the event as well as working at the S60 stand. Who else is going to be there? Please leave a comment to this post or drop me an email (saara dot bergstrom at nokia dot com) – It would be nice to meet you!

Had I been around Tampere, Finland on Dec 4th I definitely would have loved to try this. For a puzzle game addict like me controlling the world’s biggest Tetris on my N95 would have been awesome.

A group of students from Tampere University of Technology created the world's physically largest colored graphics platform by using the windows of a student house as light pixels. The games were controlled with a mobile phone over WLAN or Bluetooth. Here’s one of the may videos about the demo on YouTube:

It's now possible to upgrade the firmware of the N95 8GB through the Nokia software update service to version 15.0.015 (depending on your country and operator specific software this may not yet be available to all). This upgrade is not only about improving the quality and performance of the software, but introduces also - for the first time in devices - two major new S60 functionalities, namely Flash Lite 3 and Web Run-time.

Flash Lite 3 support means you can browse web sites with Flash video content. Sites like YouTube, MySpace, etc. can be viewed just like you do with your desktop browser. Now you don't need to be satisfied with just a subset of videos converted to mobile video formats.

Web Run-time enables new types of applications - widgets - to be installed and run on devices. Widgets are small, lightweight applications created using standard web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, style sheets, etc. There are already tens of Widgets available e.g. through the Nokia MOSH service

There is a great, more profound review on the new version by Rafe and Steve at All About Symibian

Last month we uploaded three S60 hints & tips videos on multitasking, downloading apps, and browsing the web with S60 devices. Here's three new videos on our YouTube channel! What do you think?

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Changing the look & feel

Organizing shortcuts & applications