S60 Open to new features

On the final day of the S60 Summit, Rafe Blandford of AllAboutSymbian.com, Matt Miller of ZDNet / Geek.com / MobileTechRoundup, Michal Jerz of My-Symbian.com, Stefan Constantinescu of RingNokia.com, and I all piled into my little hotel room for a round table discussion. Some of the greatest minds in the mobile industry all on one bed! It was a great chat, we covered the event, the latest S60 devices, widgets, iPhone, the possibility of a touch UI, Feature Pack 2, and more. Enjoy!!

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From left: Matt Miller, Rafe Blandford, Michal Jerz, Stefan Constantinescu

During the first day of the S60 Summit I had met up with Stefan Constantinescu of RingNokia.com. We talked about his blog, himself, S60 widgets, the S60 Summit, and a whole lot more! Enjoy!!

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I'm a Nokia enthusiast who wants to evangelize my way into the company. I’m currently a student at the University of North Texas finishing my undergraduate degree. Once I'm done with that I want to pursue an MBA and eventually work for Nokia.

Having lived in quite a few parts of America, and in a house hold deeply rooted in Romanian culture, people often claim that my view of the world is vastly different than the norm. Whether that is a positive or negative thing is beyond me, but people seem to enjoy my company, and I likewise enjoy socializing.

I enjoy the simple pleasures life has to offer and can easily spend a day just hiking thru the woods and absorbing nature. One of these days I have to check out Finland in the spring.

Before the big S60 widget launch, Nokia had contracted Satama Interactive in Finland to develop the first widgets. I sat down with Petrus Lundqvist and Niklas von Knorring of Satama in their Helsinki office to discuss S60 widget development. If you ever think you may want to develop a S60 widget, than this episode is a "must listen"...

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Niklas von Knorring has a mobile technology background for over 7 years working with mobile technologies ranging from SMS backend systems to Symbian software. He is currently working as Team Leader and Technology Consultant for Satama’s Mobile Technology Consultants team. Prior to joining Satama, Niklas co-founded Mind On Move, a technology consulting company. Niklas von Knorring holds a MSc (Technology) degree from Helsinki University of Technology.

Petrus Lundqvist has 12 years of industry experience in software architecture and engineering, specializing in user interfaces, 2D and 3D graphics. He is currently working as a Technology Consultant at Satama in Finland. Petrus has previously worked in the mobile software industry at Fathammer as CTO and lead software engineer for the 3D game engine X-Forge, lead software engineer at Nedecon, as well as co-founder and partner of Eightball Media.

Ganesh Sivaraman from the Web Browser for S60 team is back for a third time on the Voice of S60. The last time he was on, he dropped a few hints about a big surprise coming soon to S60. Today he let's us in on that secret. And that big secret is....widgets!!

Check out the podcast for all the details! Also be sure to visit S60.com/widgets for more info.

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"Ganesh has been working in the mobile industry for over 6 years as Technology Consultant, Nokia's delegate in OMA standardization and S60 Application Manager. Recently, he joined the S60 browser team to promote the new & exciting Web Browser for S60. He believes that the entire mobile industry is renewing the strategy & offering for Internet related services & Web browser plays a major role here. Look out for innovative & exciting solutions in 2006 & 2007 as the industry gears up towards Web technology based mobile services."