If the idea of being a train driver was too sedate for you when you were a kid, then perhaps today’s game review might be of interest. Tank Hero puts you in control of a metal monster with which your aim is to be the last tank standing. With multi-touch controls and OpenGL graphics, do you have the skill to avoid incoming fire while aiming your shots? Read on to find out more.
From Ovi Maps to Google Maps to Here and Now, there are more 'what's around you' applications that you can count on every mobile platform. And into this crowded arena comes Poynt, written in Qt and offering business, restaurant and movie look-ups around your current location, complete with Ovi Maps integration for driving directions. Is it slick enough or comprehensive enough to matter?
This is a cute little strategy game, the object of which is to be the last player to place one of your marbles on the game board. Throw in some whizzy 3D graphics that make perfect sense in regard to the game, a smart computer A.I., along with the ability to make some nifty strategy choices, and you have a mobile game that appears to tick all the boxes.
If you have a need for speed and a penchant for polygons, then SpeedX might be just what you’re looking for. This fast-paced, obstacle avoiding, 3D racing game tests your reactions to the limit, with the object of surviving as long as you can. What’s more, this game also features a stereoscopic 3D mode, requiring anaglyph glasses. Read on to get the low-down on this high-paced speeder, along with my video reactions.
With the start of the Formula 1 season now behind us (the race yesterday in Australia proving to be an interesting curtain raiser), my eye now turns to keeping up to date with all the news from the F1 Grand Prix scene, and ESPN are hoping their Qt based application, ESPN F1 on Symbian, will be my route to updated news.
You've watched as I've taken the Nokia E7-00 from the box it was in, popped it in my sporran as I flew half way round the world to a conference to see what it can do, and then get seriously delayed on the flight home. Now it's the moment of reckoning. What do I really think of the Nokia E7? First up, this isn't a full, in-depth detailed feature review of the E7. We've taken care of that already on All About Symbian (over multiple parts, #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6). This is still a review though, but of the Qwerty smartphone after two weeks of solid use in the real world – or at least as 'real' as my time at the South by Southwest Conference can be.
First Aid skills are something that everyone should have some knowledge of. Fortunately, the Ovi Store has recently added First Aid Box to its catalogue. Is a mobile phone application any substitute for practiced skills? Can reading from a phone be a quick enough way to give help in an emergency? Read on to find out more.
For the scholarly amongst us, one genre of mobile applications that never seems to get old is that of reference applications. Most of which are scientific in nature, and you can’t get more so than the periodic table of elephants, pardon me, elements. I’m glad to say that Offscreen Technology has trumpeted the cause for scientific reference by producing a periodic table of elements application for Symbian touch screen phones. Read on to find out more.
Applications which dynamically pull live data from the real world around you are, of course, one of the benefits of the 'modern' definition of "smartphone". Such utilities have been less numerous that on other newer platforms, but it's good to see numbers still rising on Symbian, with TrainTimes being a pretty good example of the breed. It's not perfect, but I'd still give it my recommendation - with a huge caveat, of which more below.
What could be more simple than touching the screen of your smartphone? That, in essence, is what most games make you do, and Fruit Ninja is no exception. But what it asks you to do with the touchscreen, and how it presents it, that's where the skill of a game design team comes in. Read on for my review.
