The folks over at the N-Gage Arena mentioned about a month ago that they were working on a site to answer all questions about Nokia's upcoming Next Gen gaming platform. The Arena staff have now put up a link to the Future Watch site, however at the time of writing it's password protected and inaccessible to the public. In the meantime if you're interested in gaming on S60 3rd Edition smartphones you can still fill in the Future Of N-Gage Survey to give Nokia your opinion of what you think should be included in the Next Gen platform. Credit goes to to Arena member sbrasio for alerting people to the new Future Watch forum section.
The folks at Digital Lifestyles have been trying out 3's X-series in the guise of the only supported handset, the S60 3rd Edition-powered Nokia N73. Here's their write-up of the platform and services. Via Engadget.
Just a note of congratulations to AAS friend Darla, the Mobile Diva, who has just completed 1000 posts on her mobile/smartphone blog. Here's to the next 1000!
It's Yet Another Nokia N95 Preview - from the 'Mr Brown Show', and filmed on an N93 (though they go for too many out of focus close-ups.... FX: Steve wanders off, muttering....) Five minutes long, and in MP4, WMV and YouTube formats, too....
I've a feeling I could be spending quite a bit of time on S60.com's latest official blog, Mobile Security, by Neil Barclay. Welcome to the blogosphere, Neil! And, on the subject of the S60 blogs, the latest Voice of S60 is now up, featuring AAS favourite Tommi Vilkamo.
Nokia have publicly said that Nokia Software Updates to the N93, down since November 3rd, will remain suspended until 'early 2007'. This is due to technical issues with using NSU with the next-gen N93 processor, apparently. The new v20.0.058 firmware is now well established at all main Nokia service centres though*.
First Symbian start up the Smartphone Radio audio podcasts (though no updates since the launch, I note), and now we have an official video too, also probably a one-off, a three minute, whistle-stop tour of the Smartphone Show itself. Bang in the middle is a glimpse of AAS's own Ewan Spence. And note that this is nothing to do with my Smartphones Show... Confusing, isn't it?
Well, that's saved you an air-fare and taxi/hotel. All the presentations from the whole of the Nokia World event are now online in PDF form. Some very interesting stuff here and you get to view content from all the streams, not just one. Here are the PDFs for day one and day two.
Thanks to E61Life for pointing us towards a series of posts on The Creative Life, in which they compare video footage from the Nokia N93 with that from a Canon MV630i camcorder. Rather impressively, the N93 won convincingly, in the first 'good light' tests, at least.
SEPT-Solutions have now released their Mobile Office for S60 2nd Edition as freeware. The application can be downloaded from http://www.sept-solutions.de/officeS60.sis. Mobile Office is a viewer for OpenDocument err... documents.
Never mind GPRS, 3G, Wi-Max, etc. The comms technology we're all waiting for is now officially Ultra Mobile Broadband, which maxes out at an utterly staggering 280Mbps, or almost three hundred times the speed of the average home broadband. You'll have to wait at least three years though..... (via GeekZone)
After years of saying 'No', top handheld games producer Astraware has finally admitted that Symbian OS is on its radar, planning to produce at least a handful of titles for S60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3 in 2007. Let's hope it's earlier rather than later.
Interesting to see CNET interviewing Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer: "When it comes to smart devices, there really aren't that many players. Basically, you have Nokia/Symbian, you've got us." Read on for the full quote....
Now this is the best smartphone to receive for Christmas. Only 100g and isn't platform-locked or SIM-locked. And it's only 15 Euros... If anyone out there wants to buy a gift for a certain someone on the AAS editorial team...
Thanks to Andrea Trento for an interesting roundup of Flash Lite news - it seems that the latest all-singing, all-dancing release of this multimedia-centred mini-app system is now out and is free - with downloads for all S60 2nd and 3rd Edition smartphones, although you do have to register your details to get the player... If you've an idea for an application, this is now an avenue well worth exploring.
