It's not 100% clear from the Nokia and Sun Press Release, but Q3 2004 should see the Nokia SNAP Mobile (Scalable Network Application Protocol) ship in Sun's Wireless Toolkit to "expand the mobile online multiplayer experience to the wider Java gaming market." Read into that what you will. Here's the full press release.
Nokia and LG today announced that LG Electronics has licensed Series 60 as source code. LG Electronics joins as the newest member of the Series 60 licensee community that is made up Lenovo, Panasonic, Nokia, Samsung, Siemens and Sendo.
Spectrian is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum Emulator for Symbian Series 60 phones. Features include full high quality sound support, programs in Z80, SNA and TPA format and custom key mapping.
According to this FT article both Ericsson and Sony Ericsson will be exercising their right to buy some of Psion's Symbian shares. Currently they hold 17.5 and 1.5 percent respectively. Their new combined shareholding will be 27.6%.
N-Gage owners buy more games over the air than regular phone users. See, the N-Gage is making a killing in one if the marketing sectors it was targetted at. David Thomson digs a little bit deeper...
Now this is more like it! Pocket Kingdom is Nokia's first real title that is going to make the N-Gage desirable! It's a massive multiplayer RPG set in the land of Ulgress, where you start off as a single traveller, and eventally raise an army and conquer the land. That's if the 999 other players using the N-Gage Arena feature don't beat you to it... No release date yet scheduled, but here at AAN we'd expect Q3 to be realistic.
Samsung have announced a second Series 60 phone the D710. The D710 is tri-band GSM; it features include a megapixel camera (with flash), and an RS-MMC card slot. Further details shortly.
Nokia's latest Series 60 phone, the 7610, was announced at CeBit today. No info on release dates, but the 8mb internal memory, and a 64mb 'Reduced Size' MMC card, this megapixel cameraphone (runinng Symbian OS 7.0s) is clearly squaring up for a fight with the soon to arrive Sendo X.
Ewan's been taking a look at Symbianware's latest game, Powerball. Updating classic arcade action is an area fraught with danger. Have they managed to pull it off? Read the review to find out.
The Weather Photo Contest vote is open. You now have 9 photos with which to pick you favourite(s). *View Photos & Vote by Clicking Here* Poll closes on 21st Mar 2004! Good Luck to all who entered.
SmartMovie is a video player for your mobile device, with counterpart PC converter utility. With the converter, you may prepare any video clip for playback on your mobile device.
Going to CeBIT next week? It's one of the biggest exhibitions of tech in Europe, and most people get hopelessly lost at some point when they go there. Never fear, because Symbianware have created the Official Electronic Guide!
