The tenth Symbian Smartphone Show is behind us and I thought a week after the show would be a good time to summarize some of the news from the show from S60 point of view and find out what others have to say about the news.

First of all, we were very happy that so many of the over 5,000 delegates stopped by our stand. As mentioned in my previous posts, S60 and Forum Nokia shared a stand right next to the expo hall entrance. In the S60 part of the stand, we were demonstrating some new standalone web applications (widgets) that took advantage of the touch UI in the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and the new Platform Services features of S60, which expose device applications and data through Javascript extensions to the Web Runtime.

The guys over at the Forum Nokia side had co-operated with some developers to create four widgets for the show, which showed off what clever developers can do with the combination of the web and platform features. The demos included:

• A location-aware restaurant rating app that shows a list of restaurants close to where you are including reviews and customer ratings.

• Another restaurant app from Singapore that lets you save the address and phone number of your selections to the phone contacts, and also gives you a way to send the details by SMS directly from the application.

• A flight schedule application that looks up arrival and departure information on the web, and saves it to your device calendar

• “Callie”, a prototype of a call and messaging profile application, that aims to build a profile of who you connect with, and when, from the call and message logs on your phone.

The most important news announced at the show from S60 point of view were the announcement of porting Qt to S60, the newest member of the S60 family, the Samsung I7710 the announcement of Symbian Foundation’s new Executive Director, Lee Williams and of course the fact that more and more companies support the Symbian Foundation platform.

The All About Symbian team has obviously been very busy at the show! Check out Ewan’s video podcast of him “building a phone” and a special aerial view of the show. Also worth listening are the AAS Insight 44 from the Smartphone Show 2008 , the AAS Insight 45 – Symbian Smartphone Show part 1 covering first impressions of the show, Symbian Foundation and S60 as a platform for Internet Services among other things as well as AAS Videocast #34: Quickoffice and S60 with our own Sari Ståhlberg, Director of S60 Producty and Technology Marketing. Ewan and Rafe also sat down with Lee Williams to talk about Symbian Foundation.

Dotsisx over at Symbian-Guru.com has posted nice summaries of day 1 and day 2 of the show too.
The Mobile Industry Review folks have also been doing a couple of video podcasts. In this one Ewan shares shares his points about the Smartphone Show as well as the current and future state of the Symbian world.

In addition to these, many others have been busy writing their views on the news around the Smartphone show. Check out views on porting Qt to S60: here, here and here as well as Lee Williams’ appointment as the Symbian Foundation Executive Director: here, here and here. Of course there’s been talk about the Samsung I7710 too, for example here, here and here.

Finally, Oren took a video of Kai Öistämö, Nokia EVP driving the S60 truck on the stage at the beginning of his keynote.

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