Thanks to the releases of Ogg Vorbis Controller, a plugin for Symbian's Multimedia Framework, its now possible to use Ogg Music files on your 6600 phone (or any other Series 60 2.0 phone - such as the 7610). Ogg Vorbis Controller allows the decoding and playing back of Ogg Vorbis compressed audio files. It allows any application which uses the multimedia framework to play back these files.
Your N-Gage isn't safe anymore, and neither are any nother Series 60 phones you own. Why is this? A mobile worm. Symb/Cabir-A is a worm written specifically for Nokia Series 60 mobile phones running the Symbian operating system. The worm spreads as a .sis package, named as Caribe.sis. Inside the file are three other files, caribe.app, flo.mdl and caribe.rsc. However there is little danger given the multiple user prompts required to install this virus.
From the dawn of time, Codemasters have been producing quality computer games for all the popular platforms. Now, the Darling Brothers have committed themselves to the Nokia N-Gage with their Colin McRae Rally Franchise due on the phone this Christmas. It shuold feature every N-Gage Bullet point - bluetooth multiplayer, shadow racing via the N-Gage Arena, lots of exciting quotes from Nokia's Marketing people in the press release, and an expected Q4 release date. Let's hope it plays better than Sega Rally does...
Nokia is recruiting N-Gagers to participate in a focus study for a brand new online game. While neither the game title or the developer of the game is yet known, this seems like a big oppurtunity to get involved in the N-Gage community. N-Gagers in San Francisco can participate in testing a new massively multiplayer online game for the N-Gage on Tuesday, June 22nd, from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Aside from the chance to play-test a game no one else has yet played, participants will also get cash prizes! San Francisco N-Gagers can email jcrompt@aol.com to sign up. While the rest of us outside of California cannot participate, atleast we know a brand new massively multiplayer online game is on the way!
Ewan's been on a bit of an old style arcade kick at the moment, and he's been busy reviewing Klanoid. It's obviously trying to be Arkanoid, but has it succeeded?
Weather v1.0 is an Open Source Weather tracking program for Series 60 devices. It allows you to download and view reports provided by the United States National Weather Service about the current weather conditions for locations all over the world. Since its an early release you might expirence some bugs. Weather requires a GPRS INTERNET access point. You can download it from here and the source code from here.
Or, to put the apocalypse in another slightly less quotable form, your phone is about to be infected by the biggest Computer Virus outbreak since the last one.
Minimo is a project ot port the Mozilla Browser, and it has been confirmed that this open source project has now recieved some finance from Nokia. Two questions... Are all you Firefox fans rejoicing at the idea of a mobile version yet? And have Nokia and Opera agreed to disagree over something? (News.com)
Mapper/GB, the shareware classic from the Psion world has been reborn for the P800 and P900. A complete Geographical Information System for Great Britain, all in a few hundred K, you can find more details here.
The Nokia 7700 - a pioneer for its time,the first of its kind,the live child of a N-Gage and a P900 as some call it will not see the light of day. It was to be powered by Symbian OS and Series 90 UI and should've paved the road for a new class of "Mediacentric" Nokia devices. With its landscape oriented 640x320 touch-sensitive screen and EDGE support it should have made high quality streaming video and the concept of Visual Radio a reality, instead it will be a pilot/demo tool to network operators and media/content providers. The end of the 7700 is not the end for Series 90. Nokia are planning to launch a Series 90 based device sometime in 2005. Full story source - InfoSync World
A methodology of choosing the best bits from the 'competition,' rolling it into your own mobile browser seems to be evident from Finland. Nokia have decided to drop Opera from their Series 60 devices (remember it shipped with the 6600) and use their own in house Browser with XHTML, HTML, Javascript and page optimisation. Opera (and to a certain extent Netfront) have a huge lead in the pn-phone Browser market, so this move should be an interesting battle between Norway and Finland (CBR Reports).
Overloaded have done it again. Xyanide is a thrilling fast-action 3D Shoot ‘em up which puts you in control of an elite star-fighter against a mass of enemies and your own destruction. Its an Xbox port based on the N-Gine3D technology so you can expect quality graphics at high framerates from Xyanide. You can download the Series 60 version here. If you don't own a Series 60 device you can download a PC(Win32) version of Xyanide here. I was pretty impressed with the demo and can't wait for the final release! Screenshots are attached.
CrazyChip8 is an Chip-8 emulator.Some of the most popular games on the Chip-8 were: Pong,Space Invaders,TicTac and more.Chip-N is a Symbian port of CrazyChip8.It emulates the Chip8 only (not SuperChip8 extended).Chip-N in early alpha/beta stage and emulates few games so don't be surprised if you encounter some problems.you can download the emulator here and some public domain rom packs from Zophar's Domain
Ewan's been testing the new N-Gage QD. Ewan looks at the changes, compatibility, the 'smartphone bit' and the 'games bit'. The QD comes out with a AAN Recommended Award. Find out more in the review.
SymbianWare are on a roll.The name says it all.SpamKiller helps you to stop SPAM and messages from unwanted persons on your Symbian smartphone.It analyses each incoming message as it arrives, checks and filters it if it is suspect to be a junk message. It uses a customizable list of blacklisted sender's numbers and even content filters to filter out potential spammer messages.
