A downloadable demo of Catan for N-Gage has just been made available on N-Gage.com. Catan, pubilshed by Capcom, is a strategy game based on the extremely popular German board game "Siedler Von Catan" which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide. The full Catan N-Gage game went on sale earlier this month.
In a 'belt and braces' move, Nokia has signed a licensing deal with Symantec to preload the latter's anti-virus software onto (unspecified) future smartphones. Read more...
Nokia have launched a photo competition to find the best images taken with a camera phone. They have challenged five international photographers to inspire entrants by showing what can be done with a camera phone. Why not view the Nokia Photo Competition Site and enter your best photos.
Just a note that the only serious producer of themes for the Nokia 7710 has moved 'house' and is now hosted on my 3-Lib server. There are three free themes and a lot of other commercial ones.
Andrew Orlowski over at The Register reports in on their long term test of the Nokia 9300, and seems to find it in good favour. Check it out over at El Reg.
With the sneaky URL name of www.1001111-1001110-1000101.org, Nokai have launched the website for their 3D Beat-em-up, One. Worth checking out because whoever designed the site must have seriously been on the hard stuff with the interface they've come up with. One is due out before Christmas.
According to the latest Canalys report EMEA smartphone sales have increased by 170% in the last year and now accounts for 7.5% of all mobiles sales. Series 60 dominates with just under 80% of the market share with Series 80 taking another 13%. UIQ has 4% with Palm, Blackberry and Microsoft taking 5% between them.
Why are Smartphones the way forward? Who better to ask than David Wood of Symbian. He's just launched the first of a semi-regular series of articles. In his first Insight, Wood looks at just how useful the smartphone is, and why he believes they are the future. And of course, they'll be Symbian powered, naturally.
F-Secure previously documented a mobile phone virus that will infect the MMC card with a Windows PC virus that would infect if it was ever put in an MMC Card reader... and then quietly noting that while it appeared to be a proof of concept, it was the first serious malware. Now a Sophos senior tech consultant has a view on this announcement (reports Silicon.com), "...For the vendor to say that this is the first example of a serious mobile malware threat is plain bonkers."
Yes, it's magazine week here on AAS, with another plug for a paper publication of interest! This month's ('November'!) PC Pro has a feature looking at TV on the mobile phone, with a heavy emphasis on Nokia/Symbian handsets.
More confirmation of the successor to Sony Ericsson's UIQ-powered flagship P910i, here by the folks at Engadget, who collared SE yesterday at Apple Expo.
