Just in case you miss these, there are some great promo and blog videos here (make sure you're on broadband, obviously). Plenty of 3rd edition device clues, with seemingly the whole of the N-Gage game back catalogue about to be available on all 3rd edition smartphones. Plenty of sequences involving over-the-air trials and purchase, multi-player gaming, and so on. Set aside an hour and have fun watching.
Interesting post over at Engadget Mobile with loads of pictures of upcoming smartphones running N-Gage games, along with the glamour of Nokia's huge booth at the E3 games event.
Nokia's N-Gage team have started a blog from the E3 gaming event. Lots of news and photos from upcoming titles as the event unfolds. Hopefully. Our own Ewan will be here with an editorial on the latest N-Gage plans shortly... (Via S60 Multimedia)
So I've been fiddling with the scores in my (now rather huge) Grid, plus I've added the Nokia E61. Which is the perfect mobile solution for you? For me, it came up with the Nokia N70, with i-Mate K-JAM as runner up. Interesting stuff, hopefully!
The inclusion of an N-Gage hot title in the N93's ROM didn't escape Ewan's beady eye. In this editorial he argues that with the N70 and N93 each containing an N-Gage game, Nokia's next generation gaming platform is well and truly 'in beta'.
In an attempt to flesh out my dismissal of the need for a separate third party firewall utility for Symbian OS, I thought a little testing was in order. I grabbed the nearest S60 phone (a Nokia 6630) at random, pointed at the Internet's leading port tester/prober and sat back and watched. How did Symbian OS do? Updated: also tested Nokia 9500 over W-LAN.
Stuart Mudie has discovered who bought all the N-Gage gaming phones from Nokia. Turns out the TGV Train Service allows you to hire an N-Gage for the duration of your journey. Now, I wonder which games they have, and if there's a SIM card...
Having a mini-keyboard seems all the rage on Enterprise devices, but what if you're on a device that doesn't have one? Well you could live with T9 input, or look at the Bluetooth enabled Freedom Mini Keyboard. Steve Litchfield has reviewed it, and, while it's got some potential, it's a very niche product.
Steve's review of "Best Ball" from Smartphoneware reflects the fun of companies trading properties, because Ewan reviewed it under the guise of "Powerball" from Symbianware over two years ago. See how much they (dis)agree with each other in the dual reviews!
For all those occasions where you need quick and cheap web info on your smartphone and it's not covered by RSS subs or other Internet apps, what you need is a bookmarked page of essentially text-only 'useful links'. I've just updated the 3-Lib web guide.
For a limited time, AAS friend Mike Ullrich has made his DevMan (task switching, processor loading, that sort of thing) utility free, with reg codes generated automatically on the download page. Grab it while you can?
New to S60 smartphones and confused by all the icons and the way nothing's to hand when you want it? Steve Litchfield has just the 'How to' for you. Do browse through the rest of AAS's 'How to' section when you get a chance, there's lots you may not have seen.
Nokia has posted a press release related to its keynote speech at this year's Game Developers Conference which reveals that its "next generation mobile games platform" will launch in the first half of 2007, "with a range of titles and devices". For more on developer information revealed at GDC read our related news story. Another article about the same speech also mentions that by 2008 Nokia expects to have a userbase of 250 million Nokia smartphones.
Nokia is talking to developers about its next generation of mobile gaming at GDC in San Diego. The new platform, evolving out of the N-Gage, will be based on S60 and we can expect to see the first devices supporting it in the first half of 2007. Nokia is also showcasing its SNAP Mobile solution which enables online and community-based Java gaming.
SmartMovie, always a competent (though quirky) video conversion system for Symbian-based devices, has recently embraced the terrific CoreMP4 codec and boasts much better performance. Steve Litchfield reviews the result, tested in this case on the Nokia 9500 and N70.
