Calling all particle physicists, today's game is especially for you! Nanoparticles is a game that takes the laws of physics and tweaks them for the pleasure of picoscopic particle perturbation! [Oh, come onnnnn - Ed] All that's needed is a keen eye and quick reflexes. It's your Symbian phone that will be taking care of the mind bending mathematics needed to diligently trace out the dynamic trajectories!
There are some games that you play because you think you can beat them. Others you play because being a Lego Han Solo has to be one of the coolest things on the planet (and it's just fun)! There are games you play because you really need to score more than your Dad (it's called Knot in 3D). And then there are games that just draw you in, hypnotically and additively. Wave - Against Every Beat is in the latter group.
Okay, Soundtracker Radio is an interesting one. It's another "music based social network" web service with a mobile client, but unlike Flowd, which I looked at on Monday, Soundtracker isn't as impressive in its presentation, or in the implementation of this application. It lets you stream music from user-generated "stations" of music, but there's not much else of benefit here.
Back when T.Rex played the first Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, it was easy to keep track of the eight acts that were playing what has turned out to be one of the largest open are music festivals in the world. In 2011, it's a little bit harder (the number of acts, singers, comedians, buskers and hangers on is in the thousands... plus The Wombles). Perhaps UK network Orange's mobile guide to Glastonbury 2011 will replace your paper guide, whether you are heading to the farm or watching it live on the BBC? The short answer is yes, by the way.
Here's a tricky sell. Creating a file manager utility for an OS that has included a File Manager application for the last six years. Yet this is exactly what Lonely Cat Games and Kenvast Software have done, aiming their applications at a more technical, more fussy audience than the general Symbian populace. The users who, when something goes wrong, are happy to dive under the hood, even into 'system' folders and the device's firmware, rather than give up. These then are apps for geeks - and why not?
This is going to seem an awfully trivial application review to start the week, but I should point out that 101 Big Sound Buttons is a lot, lot more than your typical (and infamous) fart application. I'm pretty sure such a sound is included here, but there are 98 others, covering a wide variety of 'uses'. And yes, that only makes 99 - the remaining two are missing in action! There's still plenty here for the sound effect board fan though.
We have social networks for location, social networks for short messages, and social networks for sharing everything with the mega-corporations such as Facebook. Now it's time for a new social network that promises to put you in touch with "your favourite acts' moves and grooves." Beyond the PR fluff, is it any good? Technically, yes. Socially... the ball is still up in air.
I'd originally planned another case review roundup for the Nokia E7, but several of the possible cases have failed to materialise, so I'm going to tackle a few of the best cases individually. Starting with the Nokia CC-3009, a simple, yet superbly made shell that both protects and enhances daily operation.
Do you have an eye for precise positioning? Do you have reactions for tight timing? Then you might like today's review of Stackup, which challenges your timing skills to build an ever higher house of cards. Think you have what it takes to keep your tower from teetering over? Then read on!
I'm a bit of trainspotter. Not in the sense of physically collecting the numbers of each train that I see on the platforms of Edinburgh Waverly - once removed from that. So the availability of an application that brings subway maps from the major cities of the world to my handset has a certain base appeal. Unfortunately, this application feels more like a programming exercise to show off the capability of the developer rather than a genuinely useful globe-trotters guide.
