ZingMagic are offering, via Handango, a bundle of their excelletn Backgammon, Gomoku and Chinese Chess games. All the games feature the ability to play against your phone, or against another human (either directly on your phone, by Bluetooth and even by SMS). There's also support for multiple undos of moves, customisable board layout and helpful playing hints.
Su Docu, written in OPL, is a version of the increasingly popular numbers puzzle game, So Doku, in which every 3 x 3 grid and every 9 long column and row must have the numbers 1 to 9 in it. You will need the OPL run time installed in order to use the game. Also by the same author is a version of Japanese Crossword and the Game of Life.
For those, really impressed by TomTom's recent Symbian OS efforts and wanting to invest, they went public today on the stock exchange. See here for details.
Christopher reviews Golf PRO Contest for the N-Gage and all Series 60 smartphones and finds it enjoyable and challenging, despite somewhat limited gameplay.
Nokia today announced the Nokia 770 - a Linux powerd Internet Tablet device. The device which does not include a phone or an PIM software runs on a platfrom called maemo and is based on Debian 2.8 and the user interface is derived from the GNOME UI. The device has a 4.1 inch 800 x 480 touch screen with connectivity supplied via 80211.b/g and Bluetooth 1.2. Clearly this device would be ideal for mobile use when coupled with a Symbian Bluetooth enabled phone. Expected availability is Q3 and the cost will be around $350.
Things got dotty on Friday May 13th, when the Tonight Show with Jay Leno featured a message sending/receiving contest between a mobile phone text messaging team and a morse code team. Click Here for video.
Christopher reviews Lock 'n Load - Rise of War for N-Gage and all Series 60 smartphones and finds it cutting edge for the smartphone but rather lacking when measured against modern expectation.
Nokia's 7710 (running Symbian OS) is the smartphone of choice for this mobile TV trial in Australia. Visual radio? Mobile TV? Yet more convergence and the way of the future...
Controversial, probably, but I've updated my Grid of 'real world mobile computing solutions', which now includes the new Nokia 7710 and the fairly new Nokia 6630. All comments welcome!
OK, so it's not directly Symbian-related, and our own Ewan is out there in the first place to promote AllAboutPalm instead, but if you're interested in following what he gets up to and his take on life in the big US of A, make sure you check Ewan's blog this week.
OggPlay debuts for Series 80. It's Open Source, it's free, it give you 45 CDs worth of stereo music on your Nokia 9500 MMC, what more could you want? More on the OggPlay page.
Now don't go panicing, we're not leaving you all high and dry, but we've just launched All About Palm. AAP will be providing the same community news and views service that you're all used to on All About Symbian, only for the Palm OS community. The full press release is here.
Steve spends a couple of days driving around with TomTom MOBILE 5 in its Series 80 guise. Although not quite achieving AAS Mega-app status this time, it's still a ground-breaking addition to the platform's application catalogue. Read the review here.
You wait ages for a decent, card-based satellite navigation system for the Nokia 9500 (and 9300) and then all of a sudden two come along at once! Navicore Personal comes on a 256MB card and is available from June 1st (and also available in Series 60 form), while TomTom MOBILE 5 comes on a 128MB card and is supposedly already out now but will probably take until June 1st to actually get into shops. We'll contact Navicore for a review copy as soon as we can; in the meantime, I have TomTom's 9500 version of MOBILE 5 and I'll be posting a review in the next few days.
