Super Miners from Infinite Dreams (authors of Sky Force and Explode Arena) is a new game for Series 60 phones. You look for hidden treasures and power-ups over hundred levels. With options for single player or cross platform multiplayer via Bluetooth, online higher score system, excellent graphics and sounds the game represents excellent value for money.
Chris Rydberg carries on his examination of the gaming market with the US launch of the Playstation Portable. In part two, he sizes up the three big players (and find out it's really two big players and the N-Gage, but there you go). "There We Were, Now Here We Are: More on the Second Handheld Gaming War" is here.
W.A.Y.D (formerly What.Are.You.Doing) by Corisoft is another feature-rich application designed to replace the default S80 desktop/launcher. W.A.Y.D also offers an agenda view, a task manager, the use of hotkeys and much more.
It can't have escaped your notice that the Playstation Portable has launched in the USA last night. And while it's not Symbian based, expanding the market for mobile devices is going to benefit everyone - what it's going to do to the N-Gage Ecosystem is going to be very interesting. In a special three-part series, Chris Rydberg looks back at the history of mobile gaming, the current 'race' and what the future could hold. Part one, The Casualties of Christmas Past, takes a look back to see where previous handhelds went wrong and what lessons can be learned.
Sam Fisher strikes back - and now Nokia have worked out N-Gage MMC Demos are a good thing, we've got a Splinter Cell 2 downloadable demo up on the N-Gage Arena. The full release isn't that far away folks.
SBSH Mobile Software have announced the availability of a beta of their Papyrus software for Series 60. Papyrus is a more robust and powerful replacement for the standard Calendar program. Features include daily, weekly and monthly view, and more effecient use of screen space that the standard Calendar. During the intial beta period the software is available for free download, and the authors are looking for feedback as to what features you would like to see added.
Heard all the mutterings about Python for Series 60 (and realised it wasn't a beefed up version of Snakes?) You might want to head over to Tarekseber.com for a nice introduction to Series 60 Python.
Apologies for another 3-Lib link(!), but Series 60 smartphone owners might like to read my walk through of how to use S60 Notes as a PC-compatible word processor.
There are menus, there are 3d menus, and there are great big spinning cubes that scream 'usability' at you. Infocube is one of the latter, and Gordon Ross, the Founder of Infocube, is a tireless attendee at trade shows. And he's very English about it. Ewan caught up with him to ask him why the future of menus is cubed. Read the interview here.
[Updated] Unstrung is reporting that Ericsson are suing Sendo for "patents covering GSM and GPRS technologies." Hugh Brogan is quoted (on BBC News) that "We do not want a free ride... We respect other people's intellectual property. We will pay a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory royalty." The Feature goes into a good bit more depth today on this.
ProfiMail from Lonely Cat Games is now available for Series 80. Profimail, previously available on Series 60 and UIQ, is an email client. Notable features include automatic syncronization (download) of messages from the server, support for IMAP folders, support for HTML messages, built in file manager, filters and rules for selective message downloading and more.
Sorry for the pun, but Wildpalm have done it again. Not content with forcing a ZX Spectrum and a Nintendo Gameboy into Series 60, they've now launched Sonic Boy, a Sega Game Gear and Sega Master System emulator. Well worth checking out if you have some legal ROMS.
The next podcast from The Mobiles Show, on The Podcast Network has been posted. Sun's VP David Rivas was interviewed by Ewan while at 3GSM, and the show is now available to download as an MP3 file or via your favourite Podcasting Client.
The 3-Lib directory of useful smartphone-friendly web sites has just been overhauled, with double the number of sites. All are guaranteed to keep your GPRS useage to a minimum. The directory is available in illustrated form (for reference) and in bare form, for bookmarking on your smartphone.
It's time for the 2nd Open Photo Contest. Please upload your Photos (taken on a Symbian Phone) to the Photo Contest 22 page. Vote will start on 3rd April 2005 to pick a winner. Winners Photo is displayed on Main Gallery page and can select next category.
