Over on Russell Beattie's Weblog, he points out not only that it's been 10 years of DooM, but after a long courtship, he's starting to really enjoy portable gaming on his N-Gage... perhaps not in the way that Nokia intended, though.
All About Symbian have recently recieved a review SX-1 from Siemens. What do we think of it? Here's Ewan's 30 Minutes With The SX-1 which might answer some questions. And if it doesn't, you can always ask them here.
For no discernable reason, Friday is Wi-Fi day over at Mobitopia - they've got a bundle of articles on Wi-Fi throughout the day, so kep that bookmark handy.
UK Newspaper The Guardian talks about the speed in which mobile gaming has taken off in the last 18 months. The article is available at Guardian Online, and while there are some steps that seem a bit illogical, it's a nice read.
Tapland, a site for the Tapwave Zodiac (Palm OS powered Gaming Device) is reporting that Stunt Car Extreme multi-player is cross compatible between the N-Gage and the Zodiac. So if you have one of the devices, it can multi-player with the same device, or the other one! Now this is the way forward. With the Zodiac acceptting MMC cards (like the N-Gage) perhaps we'll see MMC cards with versions for both Palm OS and Symbian OS shipping in the future? Imagine that...
UltraMP3 from Lonely Cat Games is a new addition to the group of music players for Series 60. It is a handy application with cool graphical user interface, allowing you to listen to your favorite music on your Symbian mobile device. UltraMP3 loads and plays music in MP3 format, as well as MOD, XM, IT, S3M. The player has built-in playlist editor, which allows you to arrange music files on your phone, and play them in any order you wish. High degree of customization allows you to choose from one of more available skins, and skin editor ships with application - in a few simple steps you may create your own skin. Handful of nice skins is shipped already with the application.
Crystal Mailer is a POP3/IMAP/SMS/MMS/GPRS messaging application for Symbian OS powered mobiles. Crystal Mailer offers a powerful, multi-account e-mail & messaging engine to enable users to have greater control over the received messages.
Ewan has (finally) got his hands on an N-Gage, and the long term review has been done to death on the internet. So her'es his review after (about) 30 minutes with the N-Gage. AAN's previous in-depth look at the N-Gage is still online.
Rumours floating around are suggesting that LG may release a Symbian version of their SC8000 (Pocket PC) device next summer in Europe. The source of this information is this CBR article. Some information and pictures of the SC800 is available here. Its likely that the device would run the UIQ UI which is becoming increasingly popular in the Far East. Thanks to The Feature for the heads up.
Nokia have released a theme creator for the Nokia 6600 (Series 60 Developer PLatform 2.0). The free Java program is available via Forum Nokia. The program allows you to customise the idle screen wallpaper, application shell icons, colors, screen savers, signal and battery strength graphics, volume and slider graphics, scrolling indicators and the analog and digital clocks.
December 8, 2003 - Nokia today announced Operation Shadow, its second own published title for the N-Gage game deck. Operation Shadow is a war themed 3D action adventure that immerses gamers into the world of heavy combat action, lightning strikes and the latest military equipment. With multiplayer support for up to 4 players via Bluetooth wireless technology, Operation Shadow allows for fast-paced and action-packed competitive game play.
It's the sort of thing any James Bond needs to know - how to be cool when playing Bridge... after all, we have the "Q" Gadgets in our phones! But can Cascata's Bridge for Series 60 help you learn? Over to Ewan's review to find out.
FreEPOC and Ewan Spence have released a new app, called Event Core. Aimed at the newcomer to OPL, while it does nothing, it provides the source code to show you how that nothing is written, how to save states, interact with the OS... in general, how to be a good application.
To go along with the new release of the OPL Runtime, FreEPOC and Ewan Spence have released an update to Vexed - The Ancient Riddles. Join Sekushi Dianno as she journeys through Puzznic's puzzles, now with full Menu support and a standard S60 interface.
