The Show your S60 smarts video contest was closed a little while ago. I'm really happy that we have got 37 great videos in the contest group on YouTube. We will announce the winners on 29th May on the contest site and this blog. Remember to keep voting and commenting for the videos you like best, because that'll be 50% of the judgment!

Here's a great and very thorough movie from Rita demonstrating how she uses S60 in her work.

meritoe61 made a nice video of his favorite app, the Nokia Wellness Diary. Very nice scenery from Poland by the way!

It's now only a day until the Show your S60 smarts video contest closes on 20th May, so you better start shooting your S60 movies right away or you'll miss the prizes! Submit your video to the contest group on YouTube. Over the weekend we've gotten many great videos, but we still have room for lots more. And don't forget to vote for the videos you like best, because that'll be used in deciding the winner. Of the newest videos especially the "Salvation" starring Zak and Shay is absolutely brilliant!

Rafe from All About Symbian shows with help from with Echo the dog how to enhance your walkies with the ViewRanger app.

Nokius also has made a great video of the Nokia Step Counter available from the Nokia Beta Labs.

It's a little over a week until the Show your S60 smarts video contest ends (20th May). More videos were submitted to the contest group on YouTube over the weekend and here are a couple of them. Keep the videos coming!

Steve here shows us how to shoot video on the Nokia N95 and how to edit with the phone's video editor. He's also telling how to upload the video to a video blog and all this directly from you S60 phone!

Pizero is featuring the Profimail app. He is telling us about the handy auto-update feature in ProfiMail to have Push email on his S60 phone.

The Show your S60 smarts video contest on YouTube started little over a week ago and I’m happy that we have already videos flowing in. Hopefully many of you are preparing yours, so you will not miss the great prizes: S60 devices, BT headsets and gift vouchers. Remember that the contest is open until Tuesday May 20! Below are a couple of great examples I just picked from the first videos.

Bogdangaliceanu from Nokia Mobile Blog shows Handy Taskman. Handy Taskman basically lets you control your phone in for example, switch to, close, kill any application or close them all in one click or find and start a desired application by typing the first letters of its name. Check out how this is done from Bogdan’s movie.

Gletham from symbianone.com has made a nice presentation of the Nokia Internet Radio application on His N95 8GB and throws in a couple of quick multitasking tips as well.

Lately I’ve been doing some business travelling and have set up my N82 with many nice apps that may become handy on the way. I’ve been a happy user of WorldMate for example because I think it’s one of the most comprehensive travel apps there is. When I visited San Francisco a little over a week ago I noticed that there is still one app that I desperately miss on my trips.

When traveling on business you don’t have that much time of to do shopping, see the sights and all that, but sometimes you just might find a couple of hours to play tourist. Being a huge sneaker freak, I of course always head towards the sneaker stores. The problem for me is that when I’m in a strange city and have only a couple of hours to spend on shopping, I usually do not have a clue where to head for the coolest sneakers, especially if I haven’t had the time to familiarize myself with the city beforehand.

Now, what would be handier than an app that would tell me where to go! I would get a list of shoe shops, what kind of shoes they are selling (sneakers, high heels etc) and a map to locate the store.

Any other good travel apps you'd recommend besides WorldMate? Or even better, has someone already created the prefect sneaker-locator? Managed to find a decent pair of All Stars this time anyway though.

Got an S60 tip or an application experience you'd like to share? We would like to hear about your S60 tips and stories of your favorite apps. By submitting your video to our Show your S60 smarts video contest group on YouTube, you'll have a chance to win a brand new S60 device or a Bluetooth headset and Handango gift vouchers. It doesn’t matter if someone has already posted a video on the same topic – creativity is what counts! The contest is open until 20th May.

Our team created two "example" videos. One is featuring Dan Shugrue, the man behind the S60 Ambassadors program, and his favorite app, the Nokia Sports Tracker and the other Mikko Röntynen from S60 technology marketing telling his S60 browser tips.

The competition has two categories:
1. Share your S60 insight! Show your favorite S60 tip and tell us why it is so handy that all of us should learn to use our S60 devices in this way. Tag: myfavoritetrick

2. Show your favorite S60 application! Share your favorite S60 application or an internet service you can use with your S60 device and tell us how and why it makes your life so good that we should all go and download the application now! Tag: myfavoriteapp

How it works?

1. Check out more information and official rules.
2. Create your S60 tip or favorite app video. The video should show an S60 device. A list of all S60 devices from www.s60.com/phones.
3. Become a member of YouTube, if your are not yet.
4. Upload your video to your YouTube account and tag it with either “myfavoriteapp” or “myfavoritetrick” depending on the category you want to enter your video to. Allow the possibility to comment, rate, embed and syndicate your video. The spoken words of the video should be in English.
5. Go to www.youtube.com/group/showyours60smarts, and click Join group.
6. Click Add video link & select your video to enter it.

Again it is time to celebrate the spring and have Wappu. On 1st of May we, Finns, gather into the streets and parks to have some champagne and have fun together with friends and family. You might have heard about our party style; it is what it is so it includes lot of booze… But we also want to share the moments and views with others who are not with us (or if they are it is not a problem either :-)) and we send tens of text messages and multimedia messages during the day. Usually this is done by sending the same message to all of the friends at the same time. We take fuzzy party pictures and send bad jokes or then just wish the best day for someone special. And some of us receives as many messages…There is only one problem when doing all this. When you choose the names from your contacts list you need to remember and concentrate who was the last added person so that you don’t add him/her twice into the group message. The contacts list could have indication telling what name is already inserted or the list could be filtered to include only names that are not yet added. Very challenging situation if you have tasted some champagne….Anyway, have fun and take care!

PS. added this pic of our wappu champagne & strawberry cake at work.

I made a day trip from Helsinki to Tampere yesterday.
Again, I preferred taking the train instead of driving my Skoda Fabia. But this was the first time I bought the train tickets from the internet and had them sent to my N95 over SMS. That's not so unusual; the service has been there for some time.

The funny thing was to see how the conductors behaved when checking the tickets.
I had the text message with the reservation details readily open on my phone.

On the way to Tampere, the conductor took my phone and without any hesitation entered the reservation code into his ticket machine and handed a receipt and my phone back to me. All done in 20 seconds!

On the way back to Helsinki, the same episode took five times longer. First, the conductor seemed to be afraid even taking my phone. Next, he needed to grab his reading glasses from the pocket - not that easy task when holding a phone and ticket machine. Then the display backlight went off (I have it on for 40 sec), and again he could not read the text. He did not know how to turn it on again, so he gave the phone back to me. Finally, slowly, he keyed in the reservation code into the ticket machine and I got the phone and a receipt – and a safe trip back home.

Some notes: SMS is a handy way to deliver tickets; the staff at Finnish State Railways has varying attitudes to new technologies; a quick way to zoom in and out text in the phone would be beneficial; the e-ticket layout could be easier to read; and taking a train is a comfortable way to travel. And I wonder how the reservation codes are actually generated and whether it sometimes could be possible to skip the phase of manually keying in complex numbers from a device to another.

You just gotta love this! Snakes & breakout must be the two most addictive games ever. Can't wait to get to play.

As you all have read by now, Nokia has officially launched the Nokia N-Gage mobile games service. Of course us mobile game enthusiasts were urged to Get out and play already on Thursday last week. Anyways, the Electric Playground guys have managed to get a sneak peak at the new 2008 Nokia N-Gage. It's all for the love of gaming! ;-P