Forum Nokia recently selected an additional eight developers and their applications into the Innovation Series, which recognizes outstanding applications that passed multiple selection hurdles over the last 6 months. These applications deliver unique value and a compelling, enhanced device experience to users as determined by internal Nokia stakeholders from Device Experience, Category Management, Markets, and Software and Services, as well as directly from consumers via focus groups.

The most recent group of applications come from developers in India, Japan, Singapore, [...]

We’ve got a couple of recently added travel-related apps at S60.com downloads that are worth checking out if you’re planning a trip.

DK Top 10 Travel Guides & Maps is a handy app that tells you the top tips of a selection of the most popular cities to visit in Europe and US. The cities include e.g. Rome, Vienna, London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles. We are offering a trial of the London guide for [...]

A couple of days ago I was very happy to have a chat with Aron Kozak from Qt to talk about what they do at Qt Software. Like many of you already know Nokia announced the porting of Qt to S60 a couple of weeks ago.

If you are interested in learning more about Qt, an early technical preview of Qt for S60 is available for download from Qt Software website. The first production release of Qt [...]

We have been working on enhancing the security prompts in S60 Java for some time (actually quite a long time for that matter). Nearly always the Java application security prompts are an annoyance in user’s perspective. When using applications that go beyond the very basic things and would use more of the Java Runtime provided APIs users need to consecutively keep accepting all sorts of security prompts. This means that application’s user experience is ruined as the UI flow [...]

Just a few minutes ago Qt Software announced the porting of Qt to S60 on Symbian OS. Qt is a cross-platform C++ application development framework, which makes it easy for developers to create applications once and then deploy them on any of the Windows, Mac, Linux, Windows CE, Windows Mobile and embedded Linux platforms. With the inclusion of the S60 platform, developers have an additional 80 million target devices that can support with their Qt-based applications.

Sebastian Nyström, Vice President [...]

Check out app overviews and demos from the developer companies themselves on Ovi Share:

Kyte Mobile Producer for S60

WHERE Location Aware Widgets

In our 3rd edition FP2 new features list I mentioned the Scalable icon support for Java applications.

Java MIDP specification mandates only the support of PNG icons from a device implementation. Nokia Java implementations have thus far supported only bitmap based icon formats, most notably PNG, GIF and JPEG files. Vector graphics based scalable icons provide a lot of benefits over bitmap icons.

The application icons are used in many contexts in S60 device user interface. The normal application menu is [...]

In case you missed it, at the An Evening with S60 event last week at the NYC Nokia Flagship Store, Forum Nokia announced the Calling All Innovators contest. S60 is one of the global sponsors.

http://www.callingallinnovators.com

All three categories (Eco-Challenge, Emerging Markets, and Technology Showdown) are open to S60/Symbian developers.

Let’s see what you can do for a chance to win $25,000 and a free trip to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona!

David Sparks from the Interop Blog visited our booth and got his face (well, just a photo of it) thrown on the wall. Jürgen Scheible aka Mobilenin, a researcher, music and media artist, is the guy behind this neat MobiSpray app. MobiSpray allows light-based painting by using a mobile phone as spray can. With only a phone and a surface you can paint anywhere, anytime on anything.

The spray-painting follows your hand gestures in [...]

Forum Nokia’s “Calling All Innovators” contest, which is now open for submissions, could have you S60 developers seeing green in more ways than one.

First, there’s the green that helps the planet: your mission is to create an application that can benefit society at-large.

Next, there’s the lucrative kind of green: up to USD $150,000 in cash and prizes, along with access to official Nokia channels for app distribution.

And finally, there’s the green your skin will turn [...]