Brightkite S60 Client

Yes, I, too would like a S60 client, and to be able to choose to use the onboard GPS or choose a location manually on there (for when I want to be less specific) ( Delete or Edit)

There are some very deliberate, S60 ways to make this possible -- Nokia Chat is already starting to implement them (in a closed protocol, sadly enough).

The S60 app could bind GPS Landmarks in the phone to locations in Bkite's directory. Then, when a user is near a Landmark, the Bkite app could check them in automatically, or raise an alert on the phone asking the user if they want to use the current location to check in.

Alternatively, they could use GPS coords in an always-report-location mode. ( Delete or Edit)

Good idea, except cells are huge. Sometimes over a mile in diameter. I'd see a problem with it checking me in at home when I'm over at a friend's. Having it suggest placemarks based on cells is a good idea though. ( Delete or Edit)

This is stated in several other threads as well. I've seen threads over 5 months old, stating that it was "close to becoming reality". Well, the longer people wait, the more people will go and use alternative services...

I hope this really is in development, any other way of polling location would also be great, like the ability to take the data from fire eagle... ( Delete or Edit)

Bear in mind that s60 has far greater market share than iPhone worldwide so should really be addressed before you go doing iPhone apps, as it gives you greater coverage from the word go. ( Delete or Edit)

Fully ackowledge! :)
Maybe I soon become one of thos non-iphone-users and I'm pretty sad, that S60 version of bkite is still missing :-/ ( Delete or Edit)

I second this! At least have a look at their S60-client. It's very clean and functional. ( Delete or Edit)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia... - shows why developing for iPhone, Android & WM but not S60 is like developing for Linux & OSX but not Windows. How can you hope to achieve market dominance in your area when you ignore the largest market segment? ( Delete or Edit)

Bah - Google Latitude runs well enough in Google Maps on S60. I'd leave off using BrightKite till they extract their digits from their ports & get real. ( Delete or Edit)

Admitting that you are relying on your users to enhance your product, is not really what people want to hear. Being told that if we want something, we can just go make it ourself, is not really the solution we are looking for. I think if any of us could make a Symbian app, we would probably do it.

I think most people here, are surprised that even though a large community (the symbian market) are crying out for an app, you are reluctant to commit any ressources to the project.

Forums like this are great for both users and product makers. But they lose their effectivity when the majority feels like they are beeing ignored, or simply told to do it themselves.

But thanks for responding and being honest about the situation. ( Delete or Edit)

I don't know if any of you are developers on any platform, but let me say something about Symbian OS. It maybe declared and promoted as 'open', but in fact it isn't. Depending on your mobile, you can not install every application, which has to do with signed and unsigned applications.

Symbian OS is very different from other platforms, which means you have to read a whole bunch of documentations to be prepared to build anything on this.

Even if anyone had this time you would need an additional load of time to built at least two version. Namely 3rd edition and 5th edition versions for different mobile phones.

More over Nokia one of the biggest Symbian OS supporters will turn to the new Linux based system called maemo, which is for example already in their upcoming N900 series phone.

I have a nice Symbian mobile myself, but in fact I won't get another, because I realized that there are only so few 3rd parity apps around. And I'm pretty sure it will die next year. At least I think you won't find any business smartphone installed with it very soon. ( Delete or Edit)

Yayyy for Pre! ( Delete or Edit)

Yeah, I know what is the purpose of those 'verified' or signed packages. But in fact it is more difficult to get a signed application and it means more effort for the developer. You also mentioned the fee which might not be that high for a bigger company, but there are more platforms like new android where you don't have to pay for.

And just to name an example where it's not so 'open' as it does promote:

I was not able to install the pys60 package on my Samsung i8510 Innov8, also the source is listed on Nokia's official developer site.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pys60

It won't install saying it's not signed. I even tried to self-sign one file and then it said it's a malicious version.

Compared to other OS, Symbian is still pure pain I think. It might be rock-solid with the out of the box features like the webbrowser, but if you want more out of it, you're almost lost.

Of course there are good applications for Symbian, too. Like Slick (Mutlimessaging client) or Gravity (Twitter Client), but on other platforms you have thousands to chose from.

What I also found striking is the fact that If you take a closer look at available applications you'll also see that most of them are not fairly native ones, but Java apps.

But enough of the bashing. I'm looking forward to maemo, too and hope for better software policies in the near future.

Anyone have a maemo version of bkite app ready? ;) ( Delete or Edit)