Dear readers,

This Saturday, 10th of June, I'm getting married with Katja - the most beautiful and lovable creature on this planet, and the girl I'm deeply and passionately in love with.

Therefore, today at 18:00, I will unplug 100% from the rest-of-the-world and ignore any means of communications. Next time I will plug in on July 10th.

About the getting married part, wish me luck :-)

Hi folks, time to write a recap about the state of S60 3rd Edition.

By now, two and half months have passed since the first device based on S60 3rd Edition started shipping. Let's look what has happened since:
- The first 3rd party app was launched almost immediately
- Nokia has started shipping seven devices (3250, N71, N80, N91, E60, E61, E70), and five more probably start shipping soon (E50, 5500 Sport, N73, N92, N93)
- Despite some initial challenges, the application catalogue for S60 3rd edition is starting to gather momentum. And here comes my heavily biased list of personal favorites.

Tommi's 10 favorite Nokia apps / built-in functionality (in brutal order of importance)
1. Out-of-the-box experience / First-Use Experience
2. OSS Browser
3. MTP - Music synch with Windows Media Player
4. Mobile Search
5. Voice UI (= voice commands + text-to-speech) - the technology bits and pieces are finally here, meaning that the fun has just started :-)
6. Barcode reader - I believe this will be big in the near future
7. Nokia Business Center
8. Lifeblog
9. Internet Radio - would you like us to integrate this into Nokia S60 devices with WLAN?
10. Nokia Catalogs - not perfect yet, but I think we have tremendous potential here...

Tommi's 10 favorite 3rd party apps (not in any particular order)
- Flash Lite stuff in general, I believe this will be big in the near future
- Screen Shot 2.0 by Antony Pranata
- Smart Movie by Lonely Cat Games
- ProfiMail by Lonely Cat Games
- Mobile Search by Odendahl SEPT-Solutions
- Handy Tools by Epocware
- Best Taskman by Smartphoneware
- Hotspot finder by Psiloc
- C2Doom (beta) by Markus Mertama
- Agile Messenger (beta) by Agilemobile

Naturally, the 3rd party application catalogue for S60 2.x devices is still much better. But as Michal Jerz said:

Regarding the availability of S60 3rd Edition software, just give developers some time guys. It's been only two weeks since the date of your comment Symbiatch and the number of apps listed on My-Symbian has jumped from "about two dozen" to 50...

So please be patient, we are getting there. I believe that all the popular apps will be ported to S60 3rd Edition by the end of this year, and that we will see many remarkable new ones (such as Skype?) quite soon...

Now, which applications did I forget? Which ones are your favorites?

Hooray! Forum Nokia just started blogs at http://blogs.forum.nokia.com/.

The blogs are aimed directly at developers - wasn't this what you S60 developers were wishing for?