There's lots of new content on the Smartphone Show web site, including a detailed breakdown of all the speakers and panels. The show is the annual 'Symbian bash' and is on 11th and 12th October in London's Docklands.
The Nokia 6630 has been out for around six months. In his long term review, Steve Litchfield finds it an impressively versatile smartphone that you can now pick up quite cheaply.
In a recent 'report' ARCchart said that Nokia may be thinking about moving to Linux as the base OS for Series 60 and they may therefore be about to dump Symbian. Rafe thinks that they are off their trolley...
The new game page for X-Men Legends II on N-Gage.com reveals that the superhero RPG will feature "multiplayer gaming for up to four people globally in the N-Gage Arena". The online games will be turn-based and co-operative. It's unclear if the offline mode will be realtime as in the first X-Men Legends game, or if it'll be turn-based like the multiplayer mode. X-Men Legends II for N-Gage will be out in October 2005.
Following on from his review of Quickoffice, Steve takes a look at Documents To Go, the 'other' office suite available on the UIQ platform. In this review Steve finds a strong product, with excellent round-tripping abilities for your Office documents.
Steve's Project has given UIQ users (primarily Motorola A9xxx devices, but should be okay for Pxxx devices as well) a shot in the arm with ID's 'equal' to Doom, Heretic has been ported to Symbian as EHeretic. It's freeware and Open Source.
Having debuted their SettingWizard on the Nokia 6630, around six months ago, Nokia has been quietly rolling it out for other current smartphones and all Series 60 v2 and Series 80 v2 devices are supported. There's a new home page for it too. Fast and easy GPRS and email setup, well done Nokia.
This port is true to the original PC version and offers full sound support, multiplayer over bluetooth, the use of additional WADs, and more. You can read more about it and download the game engine right here. Update, also available for Series 60 platforms in the same place.
