Two Python for S60 programmers, Bogdan Galiceanu and Pankaj Nathani, have recently launched a new site aimed to help anyone develop their own application for S60 handsets, powered by Python for S60. Both guys are well known on the Forum Nokia boards, and have quite a wealth of knowledge of Python, specifically used to create apps for S60.

The new site is called Croozeus.com, and is setup to be a starting point for anyone to learn about Python and how to use it to develop applications for S60-powered handsets. Python is one of many programming languages that can be used to write an application for S60, and most believe it to be the easiest, as well. The PyS60 application was recently updated, as well, with a few new abilities built-in.

I’m looking forward to digging into the various tutorials on Croozeus.com, and if you’re interested in developing for S60, I’d highly recommend that you check the S60 Applications Wishlist for ideas, and then slither over to Croozeus.com to learn how to do it!

[Via: Symbian-Freak]

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I’m a huge fan of DrJukka, the creator of Y-Browser (and a few other Y-applications) for S60v3 handsets. DrJukka has certainly been busy, and has released Alphas of two new applications designed to automate your S60v3 handset. Theme Scheduler and Profile Scheduler are both freeware applications that are able to change your theme or profile based on a timer.

Both Theme and Profile Scheduler are OpenSigned, which means you’ll need to follow this link and enter your information to be able to install the application on your phone. You can use these applications to have your theme change from a more conservative ‘work’ theme to a more fun ‘playtime’ theme, if you wish, at 5pm every day! You could also use Profile Scheduler to make sure that your phone doesn’t go off in a meeting, or to ensure that you don’t miss any calls from accidentally leaving it on Silent.

If you aren’t comfortable using OpenSigned, you can also get the same functionality, with a few more features, with AutoProfiles or AutoThemes, both from SymbianGuru, and priced at $10 each at the Symbian-Guru store.  These applications will allow you to change your theme or profile based on a set of parameters and integrate nicely into your existing profiles list.

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Hello Symbian-Guru readers, Olly here with a special opinion piece. Well, really I don’t know if it’s special per se, but it is an opinion, and The Guru has kindly given me some space to talk to you all about something very near and dear to my heart: Music. As you might have seen recently, Warner Music, one of the big 4 record labels, has signed on with Nokia’s Comes With Music initiative, and also listed their music library in the Nokia Music Store.

**NOTE** This is a guest piece from Ollywompus, who periodically contributes here on Symbian-Guru. You can read more from Ollywompus by clicking here. You can read his personal blog here.

Based on the conversations that Ricky has had with Nokians, Comes With Music will essentially be setup exactly like a regular Nokia Music Store account, only with everything listed as ‘free’. Thus, signing Warner Music is the 3rd step of the 4 step process to getting somewhere with Comes With Music, the 4th being the final nail in the record label coffin, the signing of EMI. Once that happens, there is very little to stop Nokia from launching the service.

Only, I think there SHOULD be some things that will make them pause, because I honestly, truly, 100% feel that the service is not going to work out very well for them, and there is one reason why:

There’s not enough innovation there to drag people away from iTunes.

In the geeked out mobile world that this blog is a part of, we all spend a lot of time talking about (or trying to avoid talking about) comparisons between the iPhone and (insert name of phone). Like it or not (I find it unfortunate), the iPhone has become the centerpiece of mobile discussion - you can’t hardly read a review anymore without some sort of iPhone comparison being made. Similarly, when you think of (legal) digital music downloads, iTunes occupies the mind space (and presently the market share). If you talk about buying music, and you aren’t talking about buying CD’s, it’s even become common speech to simply say “grab it off iTunes”. Is iTunes the greatest service in the world? No, it certainly has its flaws. Most of the store is still largely DRM’d (iTunes Plus is not even close to a good percentage of the store), it’s app based (meaning that if you don’t have the app installed, you can’t access the store), and in the end, it’s really only designed to work with iPods (although there are workarounds for other devices, these aren’t really mainstream and easy).

So why is it, with these obvious flaws, that iTunes has so dominated the market for digital downloads? It’s simple: iTunes/iPod (think of the two in concert) offer an unparalleled double-whammy to the average consumer. You buy an iPod, you plug it in, you install iTunes. From there, it is a completely brainless process to buy music. You click “buy” and the music is downloaded and sync’d to your iPod. Easy as can be. And while other companies have come out with similarly easy solutions, because Apple got there first, they standout. To dislodge Apple shouldn’t be Nokia’s intent. But to steal market share from them should be, otherwise why bother with the enormous undertaking that is the ‘Comes With Music’ initiative? Despite the back and forth that we’ve seen on the matter, I’m not entirely convinced this is a hugely profitable undertaking for Nokia. I don’t think they are losing money, as many people have speculated, but I’m sure it’s a slim, slim margin after paying the fees that the record companies are offering.

With that in mind, I’ve been brainstorming on a few things that Nokia needs to get right, and some ways that they could innovate, that would truly make this a desirable service. In no particular order:

-Forget sideloading from an app. There’s nothing wrong with sideloading itself, and in fact it’s still my preferred method of buying an album off of iTunes even though I own the iPod Touch and could do it wirelessly. But I don’t want to install an app to browse music. Instead, I picture something entirely different: why can’t I have the iTunes store experience in a browser? And no, I don’t mean something like Amazon (which isn’t terrible), where you browse a website in the old fashioned way, and then download the music you want. I mean actual, sideloading from a browser app, perhaps something running on Adobe’s Air platform. Web apps used to be clunky and crappy (and many of them still are). But if you’ve checked out Adobe’s Photoshop Express recently, you truly begin to see how well a web app could work. Imagine being near any computer, logging into a web app, buying an album, and sideloading it to my device. If Nokia wants to start the transformation to a web company, this would be a great place to start.

-Keep it in the cloud. This is a big one, and in innovation terms would shoot them to the top of the charts in my opinion. What if that web app I mentioned wasn’t just a portal to a music store - it was a portal to YOUR music as well? Nokia’s music plans include keeping the music both on device, and on a computer, but what if, instead, the music wasn’t tied to either? Here’s the scenario I imagine: I download a song over 3G onto my phone. Great, it’s there, I listen to it, bada bing bada boom. I then login to Nokia’s “Comes With Music” web app, move to my library, and there’s the song as well. On the back-end, while I downloaded the song to my phone, a copy was also put into my ’storage locker’ as well. Forget syncing back from my phone to my computer, forget re-downloading it - it’s automatic because it’s done server side. I imagine a service where, when I buy a ‘Comes With Music’ phone, I am allotted a certain amount of cloud storage in an online music store. I have the option of purchasing more storage on the cheap as well, but most people would probably be fine with say 10-15GB (yes, there are those of us who have way more than that, but I think that the average consumer is still well below that). The final tie-in? If there is a song on my music locker that I don’t have on my phone (say one I purchased through the online store, not through my phone), there is a simple menu item in the music player that allows me to access and download on demand any of those songs. (Editor’s note - Could this be a future feature of Nokia’s recently launched Files on Ovi? There *is* a music streaming feature.)

-Improve music quality in phones. This is a big one for me. Even barring all of the other reasons that I have not gotten into using my phone as a dedicated app (the transfer process is horrible at the moment), the quality on the phone sucks. There are two things I don’t particularly like about playing music on my phone: first off, the actual sound quality is garbage compared to even the iPod, which isn’t the paragon of sound either. Secondly, if I’m listening to a track and am moving about the UI, the sound has a tendency to skip, and this is just unacceptable. If you truly want me to believe that my phone is my jack of all trades, it needs to be competent at those trades, not simply capable of the barest minimum. The only phone I have ever used by Nokia that doesn’t do this is the 5310, a dumb-phone with great sound since it uses a dedicated audio processor. If you are going to release a phone with ‘Comes With Music’ then that audio processor is simply a requirement. Oh, and a 3.5mm jack, although Nokia definitely has gotten better about that.

-Finally, do away with DRM!!!! If you can’t, then don’t bother. I mentioned Amazon earlier in this post, and I have to say bravo to them because they HAVE won my business away from iTunes, simply through the innovation of selling DRM-free music. I routinely use 4 different operating systems (5 if you want to call it ‘OSX Mobile’ on my Touch). I need to know that I can play my music anywhere, whether it’s OSX, Windows, Linux, Symbian or my iPod. If I pay for music, then I expect to own it. I have no problem paying for music, in fact I pay for it much more often then I download it illegally anymore, but if you are telling me where and how I can play that music back then I’m not buying it - I’m renting it. I personally, rather than the whole “1 year free of music” deal, would be happy to pay for my music through Nokia and know that I can take it wherever, whatever device, if I want to. The 12 months free is a great gimmick, but if at the end of that I can’t burn it to a CD, or I give it up if I switch phones, no thanks. If I can’t take those tracks I’ve downloaded to my computer and play them back in any music software, on any platform, then no thanks.

I realize that Nokia is going to launch, regardless of the ranting that I may do, but honestly even as big of Nokia fan as I am, I have zero interest in this launch. There just isn’t anything compelling enough to me to say “sure, I’ll give up my iPod Touch and use my phone”. And in the case of the sound quality issues, there are actually reasons that push me the other way entirely.

I’ve ranted a lot to people about Nokia’s lack of marketing in the U.S., and their sound drubbing at the hands of Apple’s marketing department every time I turn around. But with this initiative, it’s not the usual case where the better product is losing due to bad marketing - it’s the case where they aren’t making a better product at all, simply more of the same rehashed mp3 player territory we’ve been stuck in for years. Go hard or go home Nokia - otherwise why bother?

-Olly

This has been a guest piece on Symbian-Guru from Ollywompus. You can read more of his writings here at Symbian-Guru here and here. Olly’s personal blog is located here.

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I already took a look at what’s in my ‘Crap’ folder, the extensive list of apps and icons that I have no use for in my N95-3 and other S60-powered handsets. Most of them are sent to the ‘Crap’ folder simply because there’s already another shortcut that gives me access to the app, and I don’t need them in my menus if I have a shortcut.

The next logical step to this three-part series is, if that’s in my ‘Crap’ folder, how is the rest of my menu setup? Personally, I think that my way is extremely logical, and simple for a new S60 user. Following this post, I’ve actually hard-reset my N95-3, and will take a look at how illogical the default menu layout really is, so you can look forward to that for the conclusion to this mini-series. So without further ado, here’s the Symbian-Guru’s menu:

Clock is always default-left, as I use it daily, and that gives quick access. Again, it’s been in that exact position since my 6620, so it’s staying there. The Applications folder has taken center stage, for a number of reasons. Inside is the Application manager, Download! app, and any games. If I have multiple games installed, I’ll create a Games subfolder, but otherwise, they’re simply left in the folder. I have the Applications folder center stage because I install applications constantly, as I try out new ones and whatnot. Having it front and center gives me the quickest access.

The default-right position is currently occupied with a Contact folder, though in the past, this has been somewhat of a ‘wildcard’ position. The Contact folder contains Jaiku, SlickIM, and whatever other contact-related apps I may have installed at the time. This position, however, is open to change.

The next row is always the same and consists of Web, Office, and Tools. Web is anything having to do with the internet that didn’t fit into Media or Contact; i.e. the web browser, the Home Media app, and that sort of thing. Symella, which is one of the first apps I install, bounces between Media and Web, depending on how I feel when I setup the menus.

Office is anything related to a ‘business’ phone. Clearly on the Eseries this folder has more in it, but on my N95-3, it contains things such as QuickOffice, Voice Recorder, Calculator, Barcode Scanner, etc. Any email clients I may have installed will go in this folder, as well.

The Tools folder contains anything that’s a utility of sorts, or settings related. This includes Y-Browser, Handy Taskman, the Jaiku tool (which, really, could just as easily go into the Crap folder, as much as I use it), and anything else. Also within the Tools folder are two subfolders - Connectivity and Crap. Crap has been explained, and Connectivity is anything that connects. Bluetooth, Infrared, USB, etc.

The last row is Profiles, Settings, and Themes, and this row is largely another remnant from the S60v2 days, when they were in the base menu. On my N82, I use an app called ThemesLauncher, which gives me the missing ‘Themes’ icon, for quick access. I actually change themes a few times per week, so having it handy is nice.

That’s it, really. With this setup, everything has a clear logical place, according to its function or focus. Sure, there are overlaps, with apps such as Symella and Real Player, able to fit in Media or Web, but for the most part, it’s simple. Best of all, if someone who has never touched an S60 phone picks it up, they can hit the menu button and have little trouble finding the appropriate app (I’ve tested this with my family a bit).

So, what do you think? Are you struggling to see the method to my madness still, or do you agree that it’s incredibly logical and well-thought out? How do you set yours up?

For those interested, here’s the detailed account of what’s in each folder (with numbers corresponding to the position on the menu):

1. Messaging
2. Nav - GPS data, Landmarks, Nokia Maps, Location Tagger, Google Maps Mobile
3. Media - Music player, radio, podcasting,video center, Real Player, Flash Player, Share Online, Internet Radio, Mobbler, Symella
4. Clock
5. Applications - App Manager, Download!, N-Gage
6. Contact - Internet Telephone, Jaiku, Slick IM
7. Web - Home Media, Web, Mobile Web Server
8. Office - Calculator, Recorder, QuickOffice, Notes, Barcode, Zip, Converter, Adobe PDF, Calcium
9. Tools - Connectivity, Crap, Memory, Y-Browser, Screenshot, Hi-N-Bye, MagicKey, Handy Taskman, Jaiku Tool
10. Profiles
11. Settings
12. Themes

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Recently released, the E66 is more like a new E65, it takes from the E65’s form factor, design, target market and builds on it to introduce a very slick handset that’ll take Eseries one step further when it comes to customer adoption.

Here is a head to head between these two devices showing the improvements that were introduced to the line with the E66 and the compromises that had to be carried in order to obtain the smoother look.

Dimensions

Talking about the physical aspect, the E66 is taller than the E65, and although it looks wider, both of them are almost the same width. When the sliders are open though, the E65 is a bit taller than the E66.

The E66 is much thinner than the E65, and that is mostly due to the fact that the upper slider part (ie the one that holds the screen) has been on a very extensive diet. The lower is almost the same thickness between the two.

Design

The E66 sports a more modern design, with the shiny dark metallic finish, compared to the E65’s matte silver metallic look. Personally, I prefer the E66’s appearance, even though it means more fingerprints, but it doesn’t get ugly, at least not on the front.

The true repulsive thing is the battery cover that collects fingerprints like it’s a job, and takes different shades accordingly. The E65’s battery cover is a matte leather-textured material that won’t show any fingerprint at all. This is probably the one and only thing where the E65 is superior to the E66.

On the left: dirty E66 back with fingerprints, smudges and color variations. On the right: well cleaned E66 back.

Another difference is with the E66 sporting the new design strategy from Nokia that was introduced with the N78: when the top-slider keys aren’t lit, they disappear as if there wasn’t a button. Only the green call key and the red end key are still visible. This isn’t the case with the rest of the keypad on the slider (the keys are visible even if not lit), but it does give the E66 a very slick look compared to the E65.

Keys

The E66 cramps 9 keys on the top slider part, other than the d-pad, whereas the E65 sports 10 keys. Although the E66 keys aren’t raised and might look a bit non-responsive, I was surprised by their overall performance and would rank them amongst the best keys on a Nokia handset so far. The Calendar, Messages and Contacts keys can be mapped to launch any application on a normal press and an extended key press. That means that you have 6 available shortcuts on the handset, compared to the E65’s fixed shortcuts.

Concerning the rest of the keypad, the E66 has by far one of the best keypads I have ever had under my fingers. It beats the N95 by miles, so let’s not mention the N81, N76, N73, 6120… It’s probably as good as my old 3250. The feedback is perfect, the keys have a nice coating, are a bit raised and very well individualized. If you compare it to the E65’s keypad, you’ll notice that the E65’s keys are taller but much less wider which makes them less comfortable for typing. I only wish the E66’s keys were a bit taller, but not as much as the E65.

Compared to the E65, the E66 lacks the pen key, and although I have been a bit worried about it before, I think that I got used to not using it. My only problem so far is with X-plore (my favorite file manager) not supporting multiple selection with the # key. The E66 adds a very important key though, the camera key. My main gripe so far is that it doesn’t launch the camera (why, oh why?! WHY?) , but it allows using the autofocus and snapping the picture or starting and stopping video recording. One more thing that I noticed is that the volume up key on my E66 isn’t very responsive (almost not responsive at all). I don’t know if this is an issue with my particular unit or an overall design flaw in the E66 line. I hope it isn’t the latter.

Ports

The E66 replaces the pop-port on the lower side of the E65 with 2 different ports: a microUSB and a 2.5mm plug for the headset. The 2.5mm plug makes you almost wish that they kept the pop-port!

Screen

As you must have noticed, the E66 screen is much bigger than the E65 (2.4” vs 2.2”) and although the difference is small on paper, it does make a great impression on the device itself.

This is it for the physical differences between the E65 and the E66. I will later tackle the hardware and the software improvements that the new handset introduces.

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When I first handled the E66 at the Nokia press conference here in Lebanon, one thing struck me when I saw it with the E71. Both of them had a very weird red power key that just popped against the remaining dark metallic body. I immediately asked about this “abnormality” and was told that the red color means stop, or in other words it signifies the power of taking a decision, which is of high relevance in the business or enterprise world.

That explanation remained spinning in my head until I received the E66 and noticed that the side of the box is a very nice red color. When I opened the box, I was also surprised to see that the black leather case that comes with the handset has an extremely nice dark red interior. The red suits this handset more than any other color, in my honest opinion.

Another occurrence of the red color can be noticed when using the handset. Many of the main menu icons sport a red color, as well as the progress bars. In some themes, even the selected text is red.

I have grown accustomed to this very elegant mix of red and dark metal which can be carried by women and men alike. A striking opposite example is the very odd N810 case that sports a very light silver on the outside and a popping turquoise on the inside. Honestly, I love what Nokia has done with this color choice. But I would’ve loved if they publicized more the reason behind it.

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The Nokia N81 received a firmware update yesterday, on the 4th of July. The new update adds quite a few fun features, as well as plenty of stability improvements and whatnot. You can get the update through the Nokia Software Updater, which has an icon on the latest Nokia PC Suite (though, annoyingly, clicking on that takes you to the website to download and install NSU separately. Why isn’t it automatically included in PC Suite?)

V20.0.56 is now available, and pretties up the interface with new menu transitions. The transitions, which do not affect the speed of the UI at all, are a nice little feature, though nothing to get all in a huff about. The big news is the addition of Flash Lite 3 and support for Web RunTime, which offers a much more robust multimedia experience.

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One of the cool things about what I do is that I get a chance to play with a *ton* of cell phones, from all different manufacturers, but I also get to see a steady stream of S60-powered handsets. Mind you, the majority of them are for review only, and I have to send them back after a certain period. However, one thing that I’ve noticed is that it seems as though, still, each Nokia S60 device that I get has the menus organized in a completely willy-nilly way, and each one is different from the one before.

What makes this worse is that none of them are anywhere close to logical, at least in my eyes. I’ve been organizing my S60 menus the same way since the 6620, with a few changes over the years. I’ve recently had a few discussions about this, so I want to do a three-part look at this out of the box menu organization of S60, and offer some ideas on how to make it better.

Starting out, I want to take a look in my ‘Crap’ folder, which, thanks to S60v3 Feature Pack 1, I’m able to hide within the ‘Tools’ folder, so it’s not mucking up my main menu. The ‘Crap’ folder is simply a place for things which have no place, are redundant, or I simply don’t really need/use.

So what’s in there?

1. 1-touch - Cnce it’s setup, I don’t need it
2. 3-D Tones - Absolutely useless
3. Voice Comm - Don’t use
4.  Device Mgr - Never used
5. Settings Wizard - Never used
6. Switch - Used maybe 3 times since I’ve owned S60 phones, though I’ve heard it works great
7. Help - Never used
8. About - Never used
9. Contacts - I keep this as my first app on Active Standby, so it’s redundant to have in the menu
10. Gallery - As much as I hate it, my N95 has a direct button to this, so it’s redundant to have elsewhere
11. Log - The ’send’ button pulls this up, so again, redundant
12. File Manager - I prefer Y-Browser, so I don’t need this in my menus
13. Connection Manager - Never used
14. Calendar - Active Standby has this always up, so it’s redundant
15. Camera - Dedicated camera key makes this redundant on the N95-3
16. Actv. Keys - Never used
17. MyNokia - Apparently isn’t available in the U.S., though it was added to the latest N95-3 firmware. Brilliant.
18. Lifeblog - Haven’t used since I moved to Wordpress
19. Music Store - Again, not available in the U.S., yet added to the latest N95-3 firmware. Why?

Whew! Quite the list, no? As you can see, the list is mostly made up of apps that are either 1. completely unnecessary to consumers (Help, About, etc) or are made redundant by some dedicated key or shortcut. And yet, from the factory, this ‘Crap’ folder doesn’t even exist - these apps are sprinkled throughout my phone willy-nilly.

So, now you’re wondering, if all these apps are in my ‘Crap’ folder, how is everything else organized? I’m glad you asked. Check back tomorrow for Part 2, where I go through my main menu screen, and explain the logic that I use to organize my apps, and why I think all S60 handsets should come with that type of organization.

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For those of us sticking with the plain-jane vanilla version of the Nokia PC Suite, heads up, there’s an update! I’m not sure what all new features are gained, other than that it now shows battery and signal strength for the connected phone, which is very nice, and that some of the more recent desktop applications from the Beta Labs have been integrated into this new version.

You can download it here, from the official PC Suite pages. I’ve been using this version for a few weeks now and haven’t had any issues with stability or Bluetooth connections. Previous versions of PC Suite, in my experience, had issues managing Bluetooth connections with handsets, specifically when there are multiple handsets in range.

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Thanks to Jonathan at Atmaspheric | Endeavors for spotting a big Flixwagon upgrade, announced today and opening the previously somewhat closed beta up for anyone and everyone! Flixwagon is an app that allows you to stream live video straight from your S60-powered handset using WiFi or 3G data connections. With the new update, you can easily share your video to Twitter or YouTube directly from your phone, and can even customize the titles and whatnot.

You can also easily group your contacts according to privacy levels, and then determine which of your groups can see which videos, right from your mobile. Very slick! Another key feature is the ability to send messages back to the live chat that gets started around your video. This is handy when you’ve got someone asking a question or something during your video.

Something I really like is a new ability to choose between shorter delay and better video quality. This setting allows *you* to determine which is more important. For most of my videos, I’m much more concerned with quality, since no one watches my stuff live anyways.

You may remember, earlier this year I used Flixwagon, loaded up onto a few Nokia N82’s to live broadcast my wedding! (The resulting footage is available here, here, here and here). I also used Flixwagon recently while at the Galveston beach (as you saw earlier this week) and it worked great, even through a plastic ziploc baggie. The direct-to-YouTube upload feature is really handy as it’s one less thing to upload when you get home!

You can head over to www.Flixwagon.com to get signed up for your free account, and start broadcasting live from your phone!

UPDATE: They’ve also *finally* added a mobile download site, including the ability to setup a new account completely from your phone, without a computer! Brilliant! The mobile site is m.flixwagon.com/nokia, so click on over and get going!

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