Finding a man who has more information about Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s communicator line will be an impossible task after you sit down and have a chat with Michal Jerz. I had the pleasure of hanging out with this guy at the S60 Summit in Madrid and am amazed that he has been maintaing a website for 8+ years!

Check out the podcast to get the scoop on how he started, where Nokia has gone from the first communicator all the way to the current E90 and if the switch to S60 was a good or bad idea.

While we’re on the topic of Michal and communicators: Don’t forget to check out his E90 review!

GPS, power consumption, Symbian 9.5, S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, it is all in this interview between Eldar Murtazin of Mobile Review and Mikko Rontynen, Head of S60 Platform Marketing at Nokia (NYSE: NOK).

Rafe’s write ups are rich and detailed as usual, read what he has to say about all the booths he managed to visit.

Favorite line: We’ll be covering Feature Pack 2 in more detail in a future article.

A complete article dedicated to FP2, I can’t wait!

I think he pretty much used Technorati to find everything.

His list is complete.

Straight from Phil’s blog:

On the final day of the S60 Summit, Rafe Blandford of AllAboutSymbian.com, Matt Miller of ZDNet / Geek.com / MobileTechRoundup, Michal Jerz of My-Symbian.com, Stefan Constantinescu of RingNokia.com,
and I all piled into my little hotel room for a round table discussion.
Some of the greatest minds in the mobile industry all on one bed! It
was a great chat, we covered the event, the latest S60 devices,
widgets, iPhone, the possibility of a touch UI, Feature Pack 2, and
more. Enjoy!!

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From left: Matt Miller, Rafe Blandford, Michal Jerz, Stefan Constantinescu

Part 1 of Rafe’s S60 Summit may not interest you guys, he covers Samsung devices.

Part 2 however is the operators role in pushing S60. Summary: We want to hit the mid priced market, but S60 based devices haven’t reached that price point yet.

A photo gallery is also included so you can get an idea of what is happening:

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Phil posts his day 2 impressions and Matthew has an extensive photo gallery with detailed coverage.

I just came back from the gym and am going to get busy writing my day 2 coverage right now!

I wish Nokia (NYSE: NOK) would have recorded these presentations and shared them on their website, but all I have to share are PDF documents.

Enjoy!

Coverage of the presentations goes up tomorrow.

I take offense to comments made about me in this article, but a valid point has been made: Should Nokia (NYSE: NOK) have made more announcements at the summit and why wasn’t the event covered in greater detail?

The summit wasn’t meant to be a PR launch platform, but a gathering of people in the mobile industry to get the scoop on where S60 is right now and how other people are using it. This was more of an executive’s event than an outright techno-news-explosion, but isn’t that why we have 3GSM?

It would have been nice to see some phone announcements being made or major revisions to the S60 OS, but that wasn’t the point Richard. If you really want to see the powerpoint slides that we [the press] saw then feel free to look at my Scribd account.

My coverage is going up in bits and pieces and everything should be published by tomorrow night.

Back to your question: What was the point of the S60 Summit?

For people in the S60 ecosystem to connect with other members within the same industry. Nothing fancy, nothing really crazy to blog about, but you would be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks the summit was a waste of time. Yes we all enjoyed ourselves, yes Nokia could have made it more about themselves, but it was made very clear to us from the start that this is more of a gathering than an actual conference. It wasn’t about "what to blog," but more like "who to meet."

Why don’t you stop by in 2008 and see if you can muster a better job than the rest of the blogosphere? I’m sure you can, but you would be missing the entire point of the event.

Connecting with people.