the switch to s60 3rd edition...

no doubt that subject line means squat to most folk, but...

...whatever. in any event, i've been way wary of making the switch, waiting for a critical mass of s60 3rd edition applications to emerge beforehand. but, my current phone recently stopped waiting with me so i had no choice but to make the move. gotta say, it's not been bad so far. granted, there's not a lot of free/found-ware out there to trawl through, but it took me less than a day to get the basics up and running.

- s60 3rd edition themes are still scarce, but i grabbed a couple from mobile9. also stopped by astod.com to create my own. while i won't buy one of theirs, i've been willing on ocassion to pony up the $5 bucks for my own design. their online tool is a breeze compared to the pc-based theme studio and they wasted no time retooling for s60 3rd edition.

- on the mobile imaging/blogging/movlogging front, shozu - still my favorite such app (see multiple previous posts) - has a nice s60 3rd edition app and i'm up and running without a hitch.

- in terms of video, the folks at lonelycat offer an evolved s60 3rd edition smartmovie player which (minor amendment to earlier version of this post - i know, that's cheating...) unlike previous version packs key codecs into the app so they don't have to be installed separately on the device.

- as for im'ing, agile messenger - another old favorite - has also put out a s60 3rd edition app. also now up and running.

- and, the folks at google can be thanked for upgrading their mapping / local info app for s60 3rd edition as well (see previous post).

so, that's a start. but still missing some key stuff.

- as yet, no s60 3rd edition app for yahoo!go (previous post), which is a shame since i got used to the push email and won't sign up for the pay service just to get POP mail to my phone - guess i'll be g-mail'ing it for awhile (free is key).

- on the music front, the built-in mp3 (etc.) player on the device is sweet, but i still want my streaming radio (i can't seem to find an s60 3rd edition version of the virgin player i was using but did stumble across an interesting - if beta - alternative here). and. lastly, an s60 3rd edition version of symella is a must...

more later...