Chris Rydberg reviews The Journey (pt 1) and discovers one of the most innovative ways of playing an adventure game for many a year. With the game world interacting with your world, The Journey is the nature and the name of this award winning title.
So I admit it, I'm a fan of Symbian OS. But how would I objectively score every facet of the main Symbian OS contenders against other PDA/connected solutions, past and present? Find out over at 3-Lib.
It's the real thing, too. Well, H2G2, anyway. Kind of Wikipedia, but smaller. And with a bit more humour. And it's all online here, optimised for mobile devices. Whatever next, a Symbian electronic thumb?
Guest reviewer Alfie Dennen unpacks his shiny Nokia 7710 and gives us "30 Minutes with the 7710," his initial thoughts and a whistle-stop tour of some of the applciations bundled with the Series 90 multimedia smartphone.
Michele Sciabarrà has set up a Symbian C++ Programming Blog, where he'll be giving valuable hints and tutorials for those of you with knowledge of C++ looking to learn all about Symbian programming.
Vito Technology's Quick Contact promises a faster searching experience, and a better contacts manager for your UIQ device. Does it live up to expectations? Ewan's Quick Contact review should answer all your questions.
Steve Litchfield enthuses over his Nokia 9500 Communicator and looks back at its Psion roots. The best of the old and the best of the new, all in one box? Almost.
Fathammer launched the Series 60 version of Super Drop Mania last week, and since then (as promised) Ewan's been fighting gravity to bring you the first review of Super Drop Mania. Have we another classic puzzle game here? Could be!
Gerard Wiener, the boss of Nokia's Games division and effectively the head of N-Gage, spoke for over an hour in the chatroom on N-Gage.com today. As you'd expect, there were record numbers of N-Gagers present and he was asked a lot of questions on a very wide range of topics, from N-Gage 2 to an expanded Arena online service, from tour buses in Northern Ireland to customer service in Pakistan. Read on to find out more...
Nokia have released PC Suite 6.5, with a multitude of improvements and fixes, including better synchronisation, better stability and an image/video auto-uploading system. 6.5 works with the 9300 and 9500, as well as many recent Series 60 models such as the 7610 and 6680. Highly recommended. You can find it here.
While everything is nice and happy in the partnership in Symbian, there's alway rumblings about Nokia's influence. It's not as if they would ever leave... But Ewan has taken at look at some of the coding mantra inside Symbian OS, and speculates that Symbian could well have coded a trap door for any partners looking to bale out. Read on...
Although it was announced some time ago, EB Games will soon become the first retailer to stock the N-Gage QD for $99 (€77 or £52) on their website (and presumably in their physical stores too). It has a release date of the 16th of April. Unlike previous special offers where you had to sign up for a phone service, it appears that this time $99 really is the price of the QD. You go into the shop with $99, you come out with a QD and nothing else to pay, ever.
Gerard Wiener, the head of Nokia's Games division and effectively the boss of N-Gage, is going to participate in an online chat on Thursday the 7th of April. Anyone can attend, you can find out more details by clicking here.
Ever wondered where all the money goes when you're away on business? RMR Expenses lets you keep track of all those little bills and receipts in one place. Ewan's reviewed RMR Expenses to see just how useful it really is.
