Oh dear. Puzzle Bobble may have a long and noble line of covnersions in the past, but the N-Gage version isn't one of them. Ewan reviews the MMC Game Card, and decides a Zeppelin award is the least he can offer.
99% of people are going to go "what's SSH?" The other 1% are going to go to the Sourceforge Project Page and download it straight away. Symbian OS is turning out to be a rather capable portable computer system in its own right. Told you we did, but did you all listen?
FastConverter 2.0 is the ultimate conversion tool for unit conversion. It has 14 built-in types from Currency, Time or Distance units to Computer units. It provides more that 260 available units including more than 160 world currencies. You can add new types and units needed for your custom conversions.
Ewan takes a look at Pandemonium in the first All About N-Gage review of the MMC Game Cards. Is this platformer up to representing the might and power of the N-Gage in the market place? Read on...
YewNes is a NES emulator for S60. In other words, it lets you play Nintedo 8-bits games on a Nokia S60 mobile - including the N-Gage. You can play any NES game on you mobile, and play anytime and anywhere.
Just a quick note to say that the journal Palmtop User, issue 6, is now out and on doorsteps. Main features are on MMS, spreadsheets, upgrading and RepliGo, with reviews of the Sony Ericsson P900 plus Tungsten T3, Sony UX50 and Treo 600. More info at the usual http://www.palmtop.co.uk/
Want to get some N-Gage games for Christmas? If so consider using Allack, an independent online N-Gage retailer. Up to £10 the full price of games. But hurry if you want an order to arrive pre-Christmas; the site advises ordering before 3pm on Thursday. Remember you can always accidentally leave a piece of paper with the URL and the game you want circled somwehere obvious.
Here you can find the Series 60 and UIQ version of the Pocketop IrDA keyboard drivers.They also work with the Palm Wireless Keyboard (Think Outside).The Series 60 version has been developed Chris Faherty and the UIQ version has been developed by Johan Frank AKA bowmanP900 in the forums.Great job guys!
Woolies (aka Woolworths - a UK high street chain) are selling limited numbers of N-Gages in some of their stores for £129.99. This is the lowest price seen in the UK so far, and brings the N-gage within £30 of the RRP for the Gameboy.
Metrowerks have announced the availability of the Siemens SX1 SDK. The SDK contains a commercial release SX1 as well as everything you need to develop for it. The cost is $1,150, but only limited quantities are available.
The Helix DNA Player Preview Release 1.2 is now available. This is the result of the Open Source Helix program (RealPlayer). The Helix player is effectively a more advanced Real Player. Supported media includes RealAudio G2, 7, 8, RealVideo G2, 7, 8, 9, H.263, AMR-NB, AMR-WB and MP3. The advanced profile version also supports 3GPP SMIL and 3GPP Timed Text.
An interesting Open Source J2ME Library has been released via SourceForge. The J2ME Game Libary is targeted at MIDP1.0 devices (such as the N-Gage), and provides classes for dealing with repainting, sprites and movement. Let's see what the Java programmers can do with that.
