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All About N-Gage: The Next Generation
All About Symbian's sister site All About N-Gage is back and bringing you all the game-related news coming out of today's huge Go Play launch event by Nokia in London! Head on over there right now to see the revamped site, which is ready to inform you about all the developments with the Next Generation of N-Gage games on S60 3rd Edition smartphones.
Making it easier to Tune In
CorePlayer for Symbian arriving next Wednesday
Jaiku for S60 released!
Yup, Jaiku, the only real social network that has its own feature packed S60 client, has the latter finally out of 'beta' state. Here's the download link and here's the blog post announcing v0.80.
FreeFlight/Backgammon: Java games come of age?
Steve Litchfield muses on the Java games scene and reviews two smartphone titles that have caught his eye, with FreeFlight, a full 3D flight sim and Odesys Backgammon Lite, a polished Backgammon implementation. And they're both 100% free. I take back everything (well, most of the things) I ever said about Java....
The N95 and TV Out - It's what retro computers have become?
So, you've got a 332 MHz top-of-the-range smartphone from 2007 with 3D graphics acceleration hardware and a 16 million colour screen. What do you do with that? Obviously, you'd use it to emulate 8-bit home computers and consoles from 1982! Another winning feature from Krisse...
Nav4All becomes N95 and 6110-friendly
Nav4All, the Java-based voice-guided navigation system that's free (well, until 2008, at least) is now Nokia N95 and 6110-friendly, able to use the built-in GPS. 'Test version' 7.4.1 is the one that'll get loaded up if you use the link below.
8 ways to get a simple weather forecast!
With summer now in full swing (even in the UK), finding out what the weather is doing before planning the week ahead with the family becomes even more important. I've been investigating all the different ways in which you can now get a UK weather forecast using your S60 or UIQ smartphone. And nearly all of them are free.
Wave your smartphone to those ballads - RockLighter
Don't miss the Nseries Download!
In which I explore the current Nokia Nseries Download! application/service in gory detail... everything you ever wanted to know about which bits are worth downloading and which err... aren't. Download! is demonstrated on the Nokia N95, but most applications are just as applicable to other recent Nseries smartphones.
Talking Phrasebooks, take 2 - who needs Java?
Probably the Best Little Failure in the World
With Nokia's gaming plans set to be launched in the near future, Ewan looks at the mountain the next gen N-Gage platform has to climb in order to be acclaimed as a success. The original N-Gage has been recently branded a failure by Nokia itself - but if a first generation product leads to a better second generation then it has its uses after all.
