Game or application? The jury's out on Astral 3D Effects, perhaps the visual equivalent of Brian Eno's famous ambient music apps on other platforms - the aim here is to mesmerise, inspire and entertain, with a dozen or so randomised graphical demos. If you ever sat spellbound by the stargate sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey then you'll love this.

Here's the main menu and furniture, followed by some of the effects, best viewed in landscape, in true 'stargate' fashion! Note, obviously, that the animated nature of the graphics don't come across that impressively here, in static form. Go grab it yourself and have a play....

I did experience a little flickering on some of the animations on the Nokia 808, it's not clear whether this is a Belle FP2 issue or not.... Comments welcome.

Obviously, the 'top' and 'bottom' references to animation speed become 'left' and 'right' when viewing the app in landscape mode, below 8-)

Rather curiously, this ad-free version promises that you can buy the full version from its menu. Tap this and you're taken into the Nokia Store... where the promised app is 'no longer available'. Very odd. Hopefully the developers will fix this in due course.

In the meantime, you can download Astral 3D Effects (free) here in the Nokia Store.