Macromedia have made the runtime available for FlashLite on both Series 60 and UIQ available to anyone who wants it - just nip over to their website, pop in your IMEI and away you go. If you're looking for applciations that use it, then Macromedia's FlashLite Exchange is a good a place as any to start looking (Update: It appears the free promotion is now over. Pity).
Steve Litchfield road tests ROK TV, finds it works fabulously well and then discovers the chasm it could make in your monthly GPRS data bill... Summary: great technology demonstrator but the network operators need a rethink.
ScummVM has been released for the Nokia 9300 and 9500. ScummVM is an opensource program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games (such as Monkey Isalnd), provided you already have their data files.
Ewan gives Jewelrumble a good workout in his review and finds a Bejewelled clone that's well implemented, has some bonus features and is compatible with a large number of Symbian smartphones.
Ewan reviews WorldMate for Series 80 and is struck by the slick integration and the way everything just works. Hats off to Mobimate for this truly global application.
Forum Nokia recently released an updated version of Python for Series 60. New features in the 1.2 version include support for 2D Graphics and full-screen applications, Camera, Screenshot, Contacts and Calendar APIs, sound recording and playback, telephone dialing and rich text display.
Nokia's latest N-Gage game, One, is more than a simple beat 'em up. It's got connectivity galore, and is a massive connected prize fight. But can it take the punishment of an All About review?
Nokia are continuing what can only be seen as a successful strategy of releasing demo versions of the big MMC Game Card titles - following the System Rush demo, fans of Rifts: Promise of Power can now download the first few levels of the full game from the N-Gage Arena. Rifts is expected to be released to the world in the next few weeks.
Steve gets down and dirty with Go-DB Lite and finds a Series 60 app development system with a lot of promise but more than its fair share of rough edges.
Documents To Go for the Nokia 9300 and 9500, announced recently, is now actually available for download on the DataViz web site and from our Software Shop. Documents To Go consists of Word to Go and Sheet to Go which can open, read and write their Microsoft Office equivalent without losing any formatting or content information.
Steve Litchfield gets to grips with UIQ 3, the user interface behind the upcoming Sony Ericsson P990. What's new, what's different and what's been fixed?
Flush from the lightning talk at the AAS Pub Meet, Zingmagic have a number of Series 80 based card games avaialble. The bundle of Hearts, Spades and Euchre are probably the best bet value wise, but don't forget Homerun, which has graced pretty much every Symbian powered device since the early ninenties.
Sneaking out at The Smartphone Show was Visto's Mobile Secure Voice solution. Already championing their secure push-email solution to netowrks, their Voice application is a highly targetted solution that allows end-users to reply to email with voice messages. It's a targetted solution, which should appeal to the business professional who is on the road. Integrated into their ConstantSync push architecture, more information is at www.visto.com.
High Seize, the pirate based strategy adventure has set sail from Finalnd and should be in retail stores early this week. Can you find the treasure, save the girl and rescue your father? And what will you do as you travel between islands? Well you could nudge your memories with Asteroids, Battlezone, Black Widow, Millipede, Missile Command, Red Baron, Lunar Lander and Super Breakout. They're all part of Atari Masterpieces (vol 1) - both titles should now be available for purchase in your local N-Gage Emporium. If not, make them walk the plank.
It's finally here. Sure it's a beat em up, but the fact that this one looks so absolutely gorgeous, plays as smooth as it does (30 frames per second) and it's running on a mobile... One is pretty much a flagship title, and deservedly so. And that's before you consider global rankings, arena functionality, a massive customisation of your characters looks, and the sheer scale of combos makes it a perfect genre title that is exactly what you'd expect on a full sized console.
