Similar to Uno, the card game that's currently popular again thanks to the Xbox 360, Mau Mau is a well-executed card game for all S60, UIQ and S80 smartphones. Krisse plays through a tournament on the E61 and gives the AllAboutSymbian verdict...
Long-time Civilization fan Krisse has been playing '4 Elements' for S60 3rd Edition (it's also available on S60 2nd and UIQ 2). Despite superb graphics and sound, 4 Elements lets itself down with poor instructions and more than a few playability oddities.
Short of 'look outside', Handy Weather on UIQ 3 devices is about as good a weather forecasting system as money can buy. Steve reviews (well, ehrm, writes some words about) it and why he thinks it's one of the nicest pieces of software out there.
Lumisoft has announced that there's now a new Super Scale version of its GB road map product, for S60, S60 3rd Edition and Series 80 devices. As the name implies, this features higher resolution maps. There's a nominal upgrade path from S60 2nd Edition to 3rd Edition and apparently GPS support isn't far away/
Hacker extraordinaire "Another Guest", over on My-Symbian, has completed a port of the PC Classic 'Duke Nukem 3D' for all UIQ 3 devices, e.g. the Sony Ericsson M600i. Hardened gamers won't want to miss this one...
Nokia is going to be one of the main sponsors of GDC Mobile, the phone game part of the Game Developers Conference. GDC and GDC Mobile take place in San Francisco from the 5th to the 7th of March 2007. Nokia's Next Generation gaming platform is due to launch across a range of S60 3rd Edition smartphones some time in the first half of 2007, so a March sponsorship of a major gaming event would seem to be well-timed.
3, the 3G mobile operator, has announced the launch of X-Series. X-Series brings 'flat fee broadband access to mobile'. 3 is partnering with other companies to create X-Series services and applications, these include Sling Player, Google, Orb, eBay, Skype, MSN and Yahoo. X-Series will launch in the UK in December with other 3 countries to follow in the new year. The handsets that will feature X-Series include the Sony Ericsson W950 (UIQ 3) and the Nokia N73 (S60).
HanDBase, the professional database system that's been such a major player in the Palm OS and Windows Mobile worlds over the last five years, has now been made available for S60 3rd Edition (2nd Edition has been supported for a while), albeit in beta form. If you're into databases on your smartphone, get involved with the beta - this is one app that I for one really want to see mature on Symbian OS.
Ewan's been struck by the buzz surrounding Papyrus and decided to try it for real. How does this S60 Calendar replacement fare on Ewan's E61 and N91? Find out in his review.
It's been a bit of an N93 week here. I took the Golf Edition out to the driving range at the weekend and was quite impressed by the vision behind Pro Session Golf and its implementation, letting me analyse a real world golf swing and find things that need addressing.
Ordance Survey Ireland will shortly make OSi Streetsmart for Dublin, an interactive mapping and information solution, available through its website. Streetsmart has been developed for Ordnance Survey Ireland (mapping) in partnership with Fáilte Ireland (point of interest database) by Augmentra, the same company who has developed the ViewRanger software.
