As the title says, Mobile VR Pool has come to the 7650 courtesy of Noumena Productions and it's not your jerky, wireframe nonsense, oh no! This is proper, 30fps, move around the table as you like 3D Pool on your Symbian smartphone.
For all you Nokia 7650 users who have been asking on the forums for a scheduled mail retrieval system, here is your answer. It's Active Mail for the Nokia 7650 by Cibenix......
Eldar Murtazin of Mobile Review has just run an excellent three part review of the SonyEricsson P800. If you haven't been following the reviews as they have been posted here, then go check them out (or read them from these links; Part 1, Part 2, Part 3). They include lots of screenshots and details of the applications that come with it. Many thanks to Eldar for posting links to these reviews at AAER6!
SmartAppz have released SmartSecure, an application that restricts access to your 9200 series communicator, taking the built in lock function a few steps further with excellent customization features.....
An anonymous 'Guest' user has posted in the forums regarding the availability of the Real One player for the Nokia 7650. With a .SIS file of over 500Kb in size, it's going to be quite fruity on the phone, but it is good to see such strong support for yet another Symbian device.
Ashley Montanaro has released another 7650 freeware utility. This one is called Torch, and is designed to turn your 7650 into a torch. Honest! It does this by by blanking the screen and leaving the backlight on. Now your 7650 is an exspensive Torch...
SonyEricsson have made available an emulator to allow J2ME developers to test their Java application ready for the release of the SonyEricsson P800 and T62u.
According to the Register Ericsson is not happy with the poor performance of the Sony/Ericsson joint venture with sales dropping 30% :(. They are threatening to stop their funding unless it performs better. It looks like the P800 could be crucial to their future, though I'm not sure if the P800 will have a big enough mass market appeal to offset the poor sales of its everyday phones. However as the Register mentions its unlikely that Sony would drop the venture even if Ericsson did drop out.
Hot on the heels (okay 24 hours later) Orange have annonced their intentions in the mobile games market. They are planning to release some "Massive Multiplayer Games" onto the market over the next 12 months.Information is sketchy, but more information can be found here.
Samsung is the latest phone manufacturer to sign up to Nokia's Symbian based 'Series 60' software for smartphones. This will further increase Symbian's dominant position in the Smartphone market. More details can found here and here.
MySQL Admin have released their MySQL administration tool for the Nokia 9200 Series Communicators. This means that, using your Communicator, you can administer databases, tables and the data therein...
WAP Industrial have been working on a Spreadsheet Midlet called MicroCalc. Up until recently, this has not been compatible with the Nokia 7650, but now with version 0.4.1, compatibility is provided.....
