Gizmo for S60 just become available in Nokia Beta Labs.

Go try it. People tell me it's really good.

This S60 client is related to the Gizmo project, a great service that gives us free calls etc. to any Gizmo Project, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, or Windows Live users.

Compatibility: at least N80 Internet Edition and N95, dunno about the other WLAN-enabled S60 devices.

Zach, the writer of Symbian in Motion, asks Does Anyone Check the Wishlist?

Phil already replied to most of Zach's questions, but he missed the big and hairy one: does Nokia systematically process the wishes? Or at least the most popular wishes, related to the built-in apps?

To be honest, I don't know. I proposed this idea to one cross-functional Nokia internal working group, and the chairman liked the idea. But then, unfortunately, I got too busy to join these workshops, and I'm not sure if this initiative is proceeding or not. If you have better (public) info, please comment: is somebody from Nokia systematically processing the wishes?

Link: S60 Application Wishlist

As a side note, sorry for being quite inactive in the blog world lately. Been really busy working on a big assignment, to be delivered by the end of this month. Hope to have more mental bandwith for blogging from June onwards.

Here's yet another feature that would be nice to have built-in:
S60 TV: S60 Hack: Changing fonts in S60
Darla Mack: Changing Fonts on S60 3rd Edition Devices!

Check out the pictures. (nice work!)

Note: follow these hackety-hack instructions with your own risk.

See you there.

Folks, please go and say hello to our new S60 bloggers Kevin Korpi and Carol Chen. Both of them just started as contributors in S60 Multimedia blog, along with our old friend Jukka Eklund.

First posts:
- Kevin: Animated Gif Screensaver on S60 3rd Edition FP1
- Carol: S60 (Multimedia) handset usage tips

Warm welcome!!

A year ago, I met a Arto Viitanen and his gang from Comeks, and learned a lot about the challenges that developers - even the good ones - face when trying to make money with mobile applications.

Now, I'm now happy to hear that they got funded by a venture capital firm Accel Partners.

Congratulations!!

Sami Lempinen has just started a really interesting blog Mac.sis | making macs and S60 handsets talk.

Quote:

Mac.sis is a resource dedicated to making most of Apple Macs coupled with S60 (née Series 60) based smartphones. While not always a marriage made in heaven, these two technological marvels do indeed get along, for better or for worse.

Now, that's a good niche to write about.

Sami is a colleague of mine from Nokia, but he runs the site as a private person in his free time. Sami seems to have lots of insights about using Mac and S60 together, but more importantly, he hopes to establish a community to help each other around this topic.

Subscribed.

Now, I just need to go buy a Mac...