Now, bear with me here, since I know nothing whatsoever about Softair, but I gather it's a replica weapon paintball-like sport that's mostly legal across the world? SoftairRealFight is a free smartphone aid that's available now for Symbian and Meego but 'coming soon' to other mobile platforms. The idea, as far as I can tell is that you set up a map for your particular Softair game and then the participants (again, who will also need to have Symbian or Meego-powered handsets) use the SoftairRealRight system to keep track of objectives and where everyone is within the game area on a 'radar' view.

From the developer's web page:

This platform allows you to play the Softair game as you have never done before... The platform permits you to play softair with your friends (mates and enemies) using a radar in which POIs and players (red and blue points) are displayed thru your device, just like a radar in a game! Once a game is started, all players will download the same informations about the map you are going to play, like POIs (image, coordinates and name), enemies and mates (name and degree) and each device starts to get geo-coordinates (using all kind of localizations) and communicates that over internet to central server to spread all positions to each others. Both teams have their own commander that can send messages and commands (e.g. reach a target) to their own mates using prestored texts and radio-voices...

So no real time communication, as far as I can see, you have to pre-set the texts and commands you might want to send out?

Here's the Symbian client for SoftairRealFight in action:

A nicely honed Qt interface, with carousel offering options to create a new game or join an existing one. Rather curiously, there's no 'exit' option, so I had to close from the Symbian multi-tasking menu; (right) logging into the SoftairRealFight server...

I couldn't actually test this application, since there seemed to be no games whatsoever actually happening.... Right now, I suspect that the Symbian/Meego requirement is a showstopper for the system to take off, much as I'd like to think that Symbian is still dominant out in the real world.

What do you think? Are you into Softair, or a similar mock-fighting sport?

You can download the client for free here in the Nokia Store and you'll need to register an account here.