Vodafone and Nokia will launch the brand new Nokia 6730, the phone will be available throught Vodafone shops around the globe. The phone will start shipping in June. Mobile internet, Vodafone Music Client and personal and business email access along with mobile navigation capabilities are all included in the Nokia 6730 classic. The device utilises S60 software which means customers can easily download their choice of additional applications from the web.
Peter Becker-Pennrich, Director of Terminals Marketing at Vodafone says “The Nokia 6730 is a great all-round handset – just as perfect for mobile internet users as for music fans who want to take their tracks with them. This product follows a successful line-up of Vodafone exclusive devices from Nokia and is another great example of our collaboration. “
With the Nokia 6730 classic, getting lost and being out of touch with your friends could be a thing of the past thanks to the mobile navigation capabilities on the handset. The services offer accurate turn by turn instructions helping both drivers and pedestrians to find their way. It also provides access to comprehensive point of interest databases and both white and yellow pages information making it easy for the user to find their destination, whether that is an address, a company or even a person.
“‘Feature packed’ describes Nokia 6730 classic really well. With its iconic design – available in sleek black or white – the device is a perfect upgrade for Nokia 6500c or 6300 users or anyone seeking an elegant device, optimized for mobile internet and navigation. What’s more, this mobile comes with industry-leading power-saving features and accessories” says Gustavo Eichelmann, Head of Vodafone Global Account Team, Nokia.
Since the E75 comes with N-Gage compatibility I thought that I should post a list of upcoming games. Some of these have been released but most of them are still in the development stages.
The game that I am looking forward is The Sims 3. I have seen a preview of the Sims 3 foriPhone and it looks amazing. The guys at Nokia have some serious competition. Let’s hope they don’t disappoint.
Anyway, here is a list of the upcoming games of 2009 for N-Gage:
Tired of the same old games here is an easy and fun one: Dance Fabulous. The game is for the N-Gage platform and, as you might have guessed, its a dancing one.
Unlike other games from its series this features stunning graphics (for a mobile game) and finger friendly gameplay. When I say finger friendly I mean that it doesn’t require a lot of buttons, just the middle one and your thumb (as shown in the video below). So you don’t accidentally press something else on the keyboard. Easy to to control and to play this one may turn out to be a hit.
You can also play your own tracks, which if you ask me, is best. I mean who wants to listen to their music anyway, each with its own. Also, the character creation in this game is very well done, much like the one in ONE. Have your own character dance its tiny virtual hart out to the music of your choice or compete with others.
Since sharing is caring, the producers of this game brought some interesting features in this department. You can share your best dance moves with others and more now you can take pictures of your dancers in photo booth Dance. Immortalize you sweet dance moves and show off in front of your friends.
To sum up, this is an awesome game and I for one can hardly wait its release. Better get your thumbs ready to shake your virtual booty to the beat. Here is a link to the games official site :http://dancefabulous.n-gage.com/
Today Ovi Store has opened its gates globally for more than 50 Nokia devices including the brand new Nokia N97.
Customers can visit store.ovi.com through their Nokia device browser to immediately begin downloading, personalizing and making their devices smarter and more fun with applications, games, videos, podcasts, productivity tools, web and location-based services and much more.
“Ovi Store is open for business and we’ve stocked the shelves with both local and global content for a broad range of Nokia devices,” said Tero Ojanperä, Executive Vice President, Nokia Services. “Ovi Store makes shopping for content and applications easy and fun for feature phone and smartphone owners alike.”
Now devlopers can publish their own creations by going to publish.ovi.com, also in some countries customers can download the ovi store application via the Download! icon.
Is this a prank or not? A few pictures of four new devices from Nokia have just sprung on the web.
What makes this surreal is the fact that they look like copies of other phones like Motorola RAZR. And the fact they come with names like Snapper or Mako, instead of the old numeral format.
The phones appear to be released by AT&T, hope we will hear from them soon. Whether it is a hoax or not the designs are not very original.
So without further ado I bring you the new Nokia devices(maybe):
Now you can wreak havoc on your E75 with the upcoming Mega Monsters game. The game is a N-Gage game with good graphics and entertaining gameplay.
Mega Monsters, promises to be one the fun games for your E75. Destroy your surroundings and vaporize everything in your path. That is the main point of the game and that is all you need to know. There are different playable characters, five to be more exact. Each one is a different animal (five animals to be more exact), fact which looks to me inspired from Godzilla.
Go on a rampage and knock everything down. Pummel to the ground building after building and compete against friends. See who is the ultimate destroyer.
Controlling your mega monster is easy just rotate your animal and swing at everything that surrounds. Of course you can also upgrade and customize your character. Give them extra speed, power or even some extra moves. Each one comes with its signature move. And you can dress them to suit your needs or better wants. You can out baseball caps or shirts on your monster, make it unique.
This game reminds me of Black&White, in which you could choose a monster and stomp on your enemies, or throw them in the air… fun times. Anyway, back to the matter at hand, the game looks like it was ripped out of a manga comic book or out of a Hulk issue.
All in all, this game promises a lot and lets hope it doesn’t stop there. I can hardly wait for the final game to get released. Hope you all have a great time playing this one and stomp your way to through the game.
N-Gage games will be motion controlled and the first is Bounce Boing Voyage. You all remember the bouncing game, if not it is the one with the rolling red ball.
A classic made better with the new motion control technology, or at least thats what the guys at Nokia think. As you all know by now this technology is not as new as they may think. It has been around for at least a couple of years. So there is one question I would like to ask them, and may sound like a line from a Hollywood action film “What took you so long?!”
Here is another thing I do not understand, Nokia has just released their first accelerometer enabled game for N-Gage. So far so good, but what is the future for this platform? They have been announcing better graphics and advanced gameplay but nothing so far. The only game with decent graphics is ONE. And Sony announced a PSP phone, which means that besides iPhone, Nokia may have a new competitor on the mobile gaming market.
Nokia better come up with something soon, because they are loosing ground, fast. This technology is old and there are a lot of games for iPhone that use it, with have better graphics. Its time to step up.
Before you start this tutorial keep in mind that you need a basic knoledge of Flash. I used Flash CS4 but in the pictures below the Flash version is CS3.
Step 1) Create a new flash document, set the resolution as your phones resolution. (Etc. 176×220/240×320)
(If you want to set your own picture as the background, press Ctrl + R, if the picture isnt the correct size, use the transform tool to resize it.)
Step 2) Click on PublishSettings. Step 3) Click on the Flash tab and change the version to Flash Lite 1.1.
Step 4) Add a new layer and name it Time.( To add a layer, right click on your first layer and click Insert Layer.)
As I was browsing the web I found a few interesting tutorial on how to make your own time displaying screensaver for Nokia. Here is the demo:nokia-screensaver demo video.
I will post the tutorial as soon as I am done with it. I have also created a screensaver for all you E75Blog readers. Hope you like it.
If you are a Nokia fan you can download the screensaver I made, by clicking HERE.
Nokia and Intel have announced oFono, an open source telephony solution based on Linux. oFono is licensed under GPLv2, and it includes a high-level D-Bus API for use by telephony applications of any license.
oFono also includes a low-level plug-in API for integrating with Open Source as well as third party telephony stacks, cellular modems and storage back-ends. The plug-in API functionality is modeled on public standards, in particular 3GPP TS 27.007 “AT command set for User Equipment (UE).”
oFono.org invites developers to maintain the current project by joining their community. If you are a developer then I suggest you take a peek at their site and maybe help out.
Vodafone and Nokia will launch the brand new Nokia 6730, the phone will be available throught Vodafone shops around the globe. The phone will start shipping in June. Mobile internet, Vodafone Music Client and personal and business email access along with mobile navigation capabilities are all included in the Nokia 6730 classic. The device utilises S60 software which means customers can easily download their choice of additional applications from the web.
