Nokia today revealed more details about the N-Gage its Series 60 based wireless mobile gaming console. The phone supports GRPS, and tri-band GSM making it a world phone. MP3 Playback and an FM Radio are also built into the device. Support for wireless gaming it through internet connectivity and bluetooth. Story updated with specs, and images.
Microsoft has finally decided on how to do away with Sendo's unreasonable assumption that doing business in a fair and professional manner would benefit everybody by throwing back the accusation that Sendo deliberately tried to produce a crap phone, or to put it another way; that "management determined to release an unstable and unreliable product". The only evidence that Sendo wanted to produce a dodgy product (which is what any company breaking new technology into a young market would want to do :roll: ) is that they originally chose Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 platform, but surely, Sendo can argue that any flaws found in the phone were 'features' or 'design decisions'? Anway, for more information view this article on The Register and see for yourself....
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Ewan's been casting his all too critical eye over one of the more popular applications for the Series 60 phones. You can read his review of Active Desk here.
A whole bunch of improvements like full support for the MGS games and a favourites view which makes it even faster to decompress your most used items [read more]
According to this ZDNet article Nokia are going to do a full press release for the N-Gage tomorrow. So we should then know the full specification of the device and initial software details. The article says Nokia are trying to break into the games market due to slow growth in mobile phones but expects them to have a hard time doing it. They did not mention release dates but the February Carphone Warehouse catalogue says the N-Gague is expected in May. It also said the 3650 is due in late Feb but the P800 is not expected until March.
Mobile Othello is a game of Othello (also known as Reversi) for the P800 which has been released as freeware by Markus Halttunen. You can play a human opponent or against the P800. More details here.
HandsetSoft-PhraseBook provides roughly 200 words in 7 different European languages in various categories (such as Transport, Arrival and Small Talk). The software can be purchased via Handango for $5.
JJL Software have updated there range of software. Message Saver has new icons and filtering, TodayView has new langauges, and Currency Converter has been reduced in price.
Terminator is a word game for Series 60. The object is to find words within a grid of latters, you get points for this. A bit like Boggle but with some added twists. The game can downloaded (as a demo) or purchased via Handango.
JShooter800 is a fun arcade style game. The game can be controlled via the Stylus or the Scroller. With sounds and powerups this game will keep you busy. The game can be purchased and the demo downloaded via Handango.
Resistance is a 3D graphics games based in space. You have the usual job of shooting everybody else. With 10 different missions and a cost of $6 this game should keep you amused for a while. The demo can be downloaded and the game bought via Handango
Dominique HUGO has released another version of FileExplorer that fixes some minor bugs and has some more features. Go to www.gosymbian.com for more info. The new version includes this:
In case you haven't seen it, there's a short but enjoyable column on infoSync looks at Symbian's current position compared with just two years ago when Symbian devices were still a dream. Give it a shot.....
Quake on your P800. Its sounds like a dream but it will be true. There is a port of Quake for the P800 under development. It is in early Alpha stage but you can see some screenshots here.
