Krisse has been reviewing arcade puzzler Li-Nuggz, a colourful and dynamic game for all Symbian platforms except UIQ 2. Verdict? Plenty of playability and great design, but you might want to turn down the sound effect volume!
ShoZu has rightly been applauded for providing a quick and easy route to uploading media (including pictures to Flickr and videos to YouTube) from your handset. They’ve now introduced “round-tripping” into the latest version of the application (downloadable from www.shozu.com ), which allows you to pull down pictures from your Contact’s Flickr streams (not just your own) and also to stream video from your favourite YouTube content.
If it's nearly Christmas then it must be time for an icy puzzler. Right on cue come Herocraft with Snow Lines, and our very own Attila Katona has been playing it for days to bring you a detailed review. Not that one is needed, to be honest, it's a great game, you already know how to play it and there's a trial version for every platform under the sun....
Despite all the fast 3.5G devices now available, it's still a criminal waste to have to download 1MB of HTML and photos just so you can read 1K of text. Which is why I love mobile portals and transcoders. And the folks at igloo have told me about their portal, which looks very well stocked. And don't forget about two other low bandwidth solutions, Mippin and Mowser, both of which have been updated recently. Happy browsing!
If you don't know what a 'Flurky' is then head for Krisse's great review of a great game. Flurkies is a platform puzzler and aside from a few colour oddities comes up trumps in almost every department. And the game is available for all S60 and UIQ platforms, so what are you waiting for?
A new version of mBrainSoftware's Pdf+ is on the way. The highlight of the new version is printing support and the ability to create PDF files (via a printer driver) on the phone itself. The new version will be available in three different editions: basic standard, and professional with differing functionality and price points reflecting different use cases for different sets of users.
After one of the longest beta test programmes I can remember, Opera Mini 4 finally got finished. Head for mini.opera.com on your phone or www.operamini.com on your PC. Highly recommended. Some more details below, but essentially it's a proxy-based web browser that runs under Java but compresses content hugely and thus saves time and money.
Symbian today announced its latest set of figures. In Q3 2007 20.4 million Symbian OS handsets were shipped representing 56% year on year growth (13 million in Q3 2006). The total number of Symbian OS handset shipped has now reached 165 million. The average royalty per handset is now $4.80 (down from $5.20 last year following license fee reductions).
Both Ewan and I caught up with David Quin from ALK at the recent Smartphone Show, to find out about the new CoPilot Live 7, becoming available for both S60 and UIQ. My video podcast was something of a lighting disaster and has been scrapped, but fear not for Ewan has a complete interview with David in AAS audio podcast 44.
The developers of the recently reviewed Final Battle adventure game have come up with a special offer exclusively for AAS readers: enter the promotional code aascrazysoft when buying the Final Battle for S60 3rd or the Final Battle for UIQ3 and you'll get $3 off the usual price. (Please note that this only works when buying through the AAS software store, and the offer is available until the 16th of November.)
Ah, you knew those crazy Greek programmers would come up trumps in the end. Krisse has been reviewing The Final Battle and it's a pretty decent graphical adventure game, for both S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3-based smartphones. Well worth a look!
