Civ for Symbian
It had to happen: Civ for Symbian! Should we be very pleased or concerned for eyesight and sanity?
iPod inside your Symbian phone
Those Symbian fanboys (and we are newcomers to this not-so-small group) posted how to put an iPod inside your smartphone (almost).
Gesture-based games using camera phones
A team at Georgia Tech has devised mobile phone games in which you play using movement gestures, not by pressing buttons. How is this possible? By using the camera on the back of the phone! By using computer vision techniques like motion blur detection and optical flow it is possible to detect up to 6 degrees of freedom, they write.
Hat tip: I found this via Pasta and Vinegar, the only blogger so far to write anything about the Serious Games Summit Europe 2005
Nokia 6630, VW Beetle of smartphones?
With its rounded bottom, a design previously ridiculed in earlier more bulky incarnations, the Nokia 6630 will, I predict, become a design classic emblematic of these mid-noughties. OK I’m biased ‘cos I have one but the phone is being featured all over the web as the representative smartphone. As I come across such images I’ll add them to the following list:
Opera 8.5 for S60 should zoom out too
Opera’s new version 8.5 of its browser for Symbian 60 has some nice new features but it lacks what I wanted most: to be able to zoom not in but out. I want to be able to see a page in its entirety, then zoom back in once a part of it has caught my eye. “Nokia N90 users will in addition have the ability zoom down to 20% to take advantage of the higher screen resolution,” Opera reports, but I want it on my 6630 too, and I don’t care if the resolution’s low as I’ll only be reading headers anyway while zoomed out.
