Sittiphol Phanvilai's Forum Nokia Blog

Great success of Nokia 5800 in Thailand

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:47:43 +0200

Today is the first day that Nokia 5800 has been sold for the one who reserved for it in Thailand.

Nokia 5800 is the most wanted phone ever for Thai people. I must admit that I have never seen any phone that have very great feedback like this.

The phone started selling at 1.00 PM but let guess when the first one come to queue? ... 5.00 AM!! He is the student that wait 5800 for a long time. Congratulations, at last you owned it. ;)

Although the air temperature is quite hot (35C) but they are willing to wait. Thanks Nokia Thailand for well management. They have food for the customer in queue all the time. If who get tired or feel hot, they also have refreshing towel for free too! Wow! However, they are nearly no need since the queue went quite fast because of hundred of cashier counters Nokia managed for customer.

Not only well managed event is, but well designed too. I like this demo booth much!

The event was very big and professional. Staffs are very professional and have good knowledge on Nokia 5800.

Till now, more than three thousands Nokia 5800 have already been sold. And it's out of stock now. (As I said, it's for one who reserved for it only.) Wow! This is only the first day. They will be available for general users in next few days.

Congratulations once again to Nokia for great success. Your phone are rock!

Expand S60 on Symbian phone ability

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:49:16 +0300

Be honor to be invited from Forum Nokia to host a Talk to the Guru session this month.

I am happy to discuss with all of you in the topic "Discuss Innovative Ways to Expand S60 on Symbian Phone Ability".

Let's discuss about innovative ways to make your Symbian device more than mobile phone! I am happy to talk about my old projects, MobiTubia, MosKillTo, NeuTouch, NeuScreen, Neu360, NeuPen, etc., and also my near future projects, NeuKeyboard and ... FLV Player Open Source! Sure I never revealed it anywhere. Here is the first place. ;)

And here is video demonstration of one of my projects.

Let's share the idea and make the world move forward together.

Looking forward to discussing with all of you. :)
Sittiphol

MobiTubia Story

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:31:41 +0200

Hello fellow Forum Nokia Champions. I am so proud to say that! My success with the MobiTubia application in the Open C Challenge got me accepted as a Forum Nokia Champion, and I want to share some of my experience with you.

I am a student studying for my Masters Degree in the Department of Computer Engineering at Chulalongkorn University, http://www.chula.ac.th/chula/en/visitor/brief_en.html Thailand's first institution of higher learning. I am also a Symbian Application Developer and have developed more than 10 Symbian applications. The one I am most proud of is “ZThai”, a full Thai language localization system for Symbian 6.1 and Symbian 7.0s. It is bundled with Nokia 7610 and Nokia 3230 in Thailand.

This was not first time I tried to develop an application like MobiTubia for Symbian. I had tried to do it before but I failed since it was really hard to port a Linux application to Symbian C++. That time, I used a full month but there was no sign of completeness. I thought that it might take more than 6 months to complete it.

Then came Open C, and in 10 weeks my MobiTubia project was finished and was sent to join the competition an hour before deadline. It was a really tiring period for me, then I waited for judging. I did not expect much but I checked email every day. At last I got an email from the Open C Challenge team “Congratulations, you are the finalist of Open C Challenge”.

I was silent for a big while. I can’t explain how happy I was but I can say that it was the happiest time of my life. Contents in that email also said that I was invited to join “Nokia World 2007” at Amsterdam. http://www.nokia.com/A4423681 Being invited to join Nokia World in Amsterdam was really an honor for me. It was my first time going abroad alone and also my first time in using English in real life.

From that day, I worked on the necessary things for judging such as a PowerPoint Presentation and Video Presentation. I just knew that programming was much easier than these things.( LOL)

The awards evening was the most excited time ever for me. When announcing time came, Lee Epting, Vice President of Forum Nokia, called each finalist on stage one by one. At last, she announced my name and that I was the winner of this competition. I couldn’t stop shaking. It was the happiest moment of my life. I knew at that time why Miss Universe always cries on stage! (LOL) I couldn’t believe that a student like me can win a global competition like the Open C Challenge. I really overwhelmed.

After I won this competition, my life has changed quite much. I was contacted by many guys including operators and journalists. But more than anything else, the great experiences and many good friends I got from Forum Nokia Open C Challenge will keep those great times in my mind forever. Now I need to get back to my studies, but this experience opens some great opportunities for me when I finish my degree.

MobiTubia is distributed as freeware right now in http://www.mobitubia.com.

Really thanks to Kevin Sharp for helping me edit the grammar in this post. :)

Mobile Rules! Competition Finalists Announced

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:21:58 +0200

I believe that so many guys around here join the "Mobile Rules! Competition". I would like to inform all of you that the finalists of all tracks were announced 2 days ago. Please check at http://www.mobilerules.org