N-Gage and N-Gage QD owners: you can now get all first party N-Gage games as downloads for €9.99 each at the N-Gage Game Shop. The selection includes: High Seize, One, Mile High Pinball, Rifts - Promise Of Power, Glimmerati, Pathway To Glory, Pathway To Glory - Ikusa Islands, Operation Shadow, Requiem Of Hell and Ashen.
Nokia has announced a range of music orientated phones. In addition to convergence uberphone the Nokia N95, the Nokia N75, Nokia N91 8GB Edition and Nokia N73 Music Edition will also be announced. The latter three phones will all available in black. Read on for first details and pictures. We'll be posting more throughout the day, from both New York and London events.
Nokia has announced a range of new music accessories, befitting their status as 'the world's largest manufacturer of digital music players'. Included are new stereo headphone sets, mini-speakers and new (mono) Bluetooth headsets. The full press release and details below...
Ewan installs Blackballer, designed to block unwanted calls and messages, and sets off round the world (again) - does it work and who is it designed for? Here's his review.
With the S60-powered E62 making waves over in the USA at a subsidised price point ($150) on Cingular, it's time for the modified (no 3G, 850MHz instead) E70 to go mainstream, though at the more sensible price of $450(!), using a different route, SIM-free direct from Nokia USA.
Thanks to all those who emailed in about Petteri Muilu's freeware Autolock, an indispensable utility for S60 smartphones - the new version 1.1 now works properly with the E70's foldout keyboard.
David Wood's latest Insight article on symbian.com looks at the weird and wonderful uses people are putting smartphones to. Golf swing improvement is just the start - washine machine cycle notifications, anybody?
So it's a slow news day - but still good to see the E61 being given various makeovers in black and pink. Definitely a market here, methinks, and also for the E62 over in the USA.
Maybe it's because I still feel S60 3rd Edition device owners are starved of good games that I've gotten excited over the release of the freeware S-Tris 2 by Elements Interactive. It plays well, doesn't use up huge amounts of RAM and is available for every other mobile device under the sun...
Giving Opera Mini a run for its money, I was interested to see that Bloglines Mobile, the web service that the AAS team tend to use on their smartphones to catch up on RSS-ed stories from round the web when out and about, has now had compression technology built into its core. If you're into grabbing news via RSS, check out the Bloglines announcement here.
Smartphones Show 15 has just gone live, with a video review of the Nokia N73 and a similar look at a similar 'candy bar' smartphone from the Windows Mobile world, the HTC MTeoR. You can view here on the web or subscribe to its RSS/iTunes feed here.
Nokia and Microsoft today announced that Microsoft's Live Search results would be added to Nokia's Mobile Search application. Microsoft will provide search results for web results and for other advanced services such as Encarta Instant Answers, stock quotes and movie times. Mobile Search is a web service client application that runs on the most recent S60 phones.
Eagle-eyed me(!) has just spotted public notice of this simultaneous four-city live event, Open Studio 2006, to happen next Tuesday. In fact, it's a lot more than four, as separate events are also scheduled by Nokia PR in many other cities. Rafe and Darla will be in New York, I'll be in London, to make sure you don't miss anything. Our best guess is a clutch of new Nseries 'multimedia computers', but you'll have to wait til Tuesday for any more....
Steve reviews Bar Billiards, bringing this olde worlde pub game of skill to a smartphone near you. For S60 2nd Edition, with a 3rd Edition version in development. Summary: best played with two!
Ewan's been a fan of Wi-Fi on a mobile device for some time and he's been musing on just what makes Wi-Fi so darned useful. Especially so on the Nokia E61, E70, N91 and N93, which he uses in his three example uses.
