Courtesy of WildPalm. You can now enjoy thousands of classic Sega and Nintendo games, on your Series 80 (Nokia 9300 and 9500) device, thanks to WildPalm's two new emulators; Super GoBoy and SonicBoy.
Hey, Symbian at the forefront again. Nokia's new 7710 is the test vehicle of choice for this O2 trial of mobile TV, reports the Register. Anyone here live in Oxford?
We heard rumours about it for some time. All About N-Gage has now heard from several sources at Nokia that a new phone which will belong to the recently unveiled Nseries will be putting in an appearance on the N-Gage stand at the E3 Games Expo in Los Angeles next week.
MobilLuck, the Bluetooth presence / social software tool has been updated. Features in the premier version now include auto accepting of incoming mesasages, profiles and photos of other nearby Mobiluck users and more.
Asteroids, Battlezone, Missile Command, Red Baron... names from the dawn of time of arcade gaming. And now, with Atari Masterpieces, they're coming to the N-Gage! 8 classic games (along with three Atari 2600 games to unlock) should mean this title, due September 2005, is going to be eagerly awaited by the old school gamers. Screenshots and details in the Atari entry in the MMC Games Database.
Mixing together the collectible card game genre with the MMORG (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing) comes Spirits, from Jadestone. This gaming style has been very popular on other gaming handhelds (can we say Pokemon?), so grab your Spirit catching tools to continue the fight of Good vs Evil. Screenshots posted in the Spirits MMC Games Database Entry.
Indeed, what about it? Well, Guy Kewney over at Newswireless.net sums up the thoughts and opinions around the new Mobile OS from Microsoft far better than we could at such a short notice. Best you have a read of the reactions at his site.
More inventive uses for Series 60 Python, this time from GPS Wanderer. he's taken a little Python script that grabs your location from your bluetooth GPS, and then scurries off to get the relevant map from the Google Maps service.
Making the switch from Palm OS to Symbain UIQ is the iSilo Documents Viewer. Handling compressed document which you can create on your Desktop Computer fom text, html or Palm .doc files.
While the majority of N-Gage Users looked on the announcement of Kevin Siembeida’s RPG system coming to a Finnish phone near you as just another title, the dedicated Rifts fans were dancing in the streets with the news that it was finally becoming a computer game after twenty years. And the industry quietly wondered just what Psionic skills Nokia had employed to get the franchise. I sat down with Kevin Siembeida, along with Creative Director Trent Ward from Backbone, and Shane Neville from Nokia, the Producer of Rifts. You can read the interview here, or listen in to the interview over at The Mobiles Podcast.
Christopher is still out to crack the mystery of Atlantis Redux, and you can find out how he's getting on in his review of part 3 of the graphical adventure game.
Skype PTT from Usefulapps is a push to talk client for Skype to be used in conjunction with a Bluetooth enabled PC (the PC links to Skype, the phone is effectively used as a PTT headset). The obvious limitation is that you need to remain within Bluetooth distance of your PC. Skype have said they are working on a Symbian version of their client (though it is likely to be for Wifi or possibly 3G handsets only).
Symbian have released their unaudited figures for the Q1 2005. There were shipments of 6.75 million Symbian OS phones in the quarter (year on year growth of 180%), there are 48 Symbian OS powered phones shipping from nine licensees (BenQ, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Sendo, Siemens and Sony Ericsson). At the end of the quarter 41 phones were under development by 11 licensees. It seems like things are looking good, and we can expect more of the same in the rest of 2005.
At long last, Nokia has finally released its Network Bridge patch, enabling Nokia 9300 and 9500 owners to use the 'IP PassThrough' function in their Communicators, to access their desktop's broadband connection via the USB cable. Shame you can't use Bluetooth, though...
