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New iPhone Sci-Fi Accelerometer Game Launched; Introducing Nova Ball and Nova Ball FREE
Gary Sims, the technology consultant and author, is pleased to announce the launch of the new iPhone and iPod Touch game ‘Nova Ball’. Developed independently, Nova Ball is a space/sci-fi accelerometer game. In the game you control the ball by holding your device parallel to the floor and tilting.
The game has three modes: arcade, mayhem and missions. In arcade mode you need to see how fast you clear each level. Mayhem is all about survival; stop the stars reaching critical mass. In mission mode you have to clear each level to progress to the next.
‘I am really excited about this new game’ said Gary during the launch. ‘The iPhone, iPod Touch and now iPad is a great platform for developing mobile applications and of course games’
There is also a free version of Nova Ball known as ‘Nova Ball Free’. This lite version can be downloaded from the App Store and played without any limitations or expiry. However it is different to the full version in that the Mayhem mode has been removed and there are only 6 missions to play rather than the full 50.
The games can be downloaded here:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/nova-ball/id356162161?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/app/nova-ball-free/id357822431?mt=8
About Gary Sims
Gary Sims is an independent technology consultant and author. As well as developing iPhone and iPod Touch applications, Gary is the author of the book: Learning FreeNAS which is available from Packt Publishing and at Amazon.com. Gary was also a key member of development team for the Live Hacking CD a new Linux distribution packed with tools and utilities for ethical hacking, penetration testing and countermeasure verification.
4G Comes to Scandinavia!
4G networks have now become a reality and people in Norway and Sweden could be first ones to use the fourth generation in mobile networks. Telecom company TeliaSonera has announced that they have been working on two mobile networks in Stockholm and Oslo and people will be able to use the networks from sometime in early 2010. The networks are based on the Long term Evolution technology and users will first be able to access the network only through a laptop and a dongle as no mobile devices currently support the 4G network.
TeliSonera has said that the networks will be able to offer downlink speeds of upto 100 megabits per second and that many other operators will take on this new network. TeliSonera has not announced the costs a person will incur when he accesses the network. Customers will have to use a dongle to connect the network and it will be manufactured by Samsung. Mobile handsets supporting the 4G network will be available from the later half of 2010.
Source: BBC
Review of Nokia E72
Nokia is known for its top class smart phones. Recently, E72 was launched into the market. “E” stands for executive, so this is the latest addition in Executive class phones by Nokia.
E72 has an elegant smart design, that can impress anyone, but the more important thing about this phone is that it is feature packed.
Features of E72
- Full QWERTY keyboard.
- Measures elegantly 114 x 58.3 x 10.1 mm and weighs merely 128g.
- 3.5mm headphone sockets.
- 5-megapixel camera.
- It has 2.36-inch 320 x 240 QVGA display.
- Battery: 12.5hrs GSM talktime & 492hrs GSM standby
Along with these features it comes with all tradition features of a smart phone. This phone gives lot of reasons of why to buy it, so guys if you looking for a cool smart phone, E72 must be your choice.
The Next Generation Google Phone: Nexus One
It’s all happening with Google nowadays. Chrome OS is coming next year. Google’s android OS is already getting a lot of attention. And the new big thing is “Nexus One”. This is the most ambitious phone of Google that has the potential to rule the market.
This phone is special to Google, it is said that Google had planned it before the launch of Android.
We are here with some stunning features of this Monster.
- It will run on Android 2.1
- 5-megapixel auto focus camera.
- 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor makes it the fastest phone of its time.
- It will include a microSD card slot with an accelerometer.
We are eagerly waiting of when this phone will be actually launched by Google.
We are sharing some cool pictures of this phone.
Sony Ericsson is Now up With U5i
Sony Ericsson is continuously in the news for its new products that are to be launched in near future. These products are just too tempting to wait. After the announcements of the two mobile phones namely; Kurara and Xperia X10, we are hearing sounds of a yet another cell phone named U5i.
Unlike Xperia and Kurara we do not really know anything about U5i as nothing really has come out from Sony Ericsson. But even after that rumors and discussions have started in the field about the features, price and the launch date of U5i.
Sony Ericsson actually has not yet having any official U series, but in spite of that guesses are being made that it will be a touchscreen handset. But i, at the end again make you recall the series of Sony ericsson phones which have faired off well in the market. All we can do at present is to just hope for something really amazing from Sony Ericsson.
Now Mobile Search Engine War!
We have been seeing the war between Bing and Google search on web since Bing was launched by Microsoft. In a step further, now they are competing on mobile web also. Bing has an enthusiastic team that is ever modifying the features of this search engine to impress their users.
Though Google is leader of mobile web too, but the features offered by Bing, have brought it to compete with Google and even go ahead.
In flight information tab in Bing you just have to enter the flight number and you get gate info, departure time and other information. NFL feature let you select your team and in seconds it gives all the recent updates and real time stats.
Though, Bing is not as feature packed as Google, but whatever they offer is better that its Google counterpart. Even the touch screen version of Bing mobile is very impressive.
Tesco to sell iPhones in the UK
UK supermarket giant Tesco, has joined the league of companies that are selling Apple’s popular phone –the iPhone. Though Tesco has not commented on the exact release date or the prices of the phone, company sources say that the phone would be released sometime before Christmas and the handsets are expected to be priced competitively. This news comes after O2, the only operator that was licensed to sell the iPhones in the UK lost its contract earlier this September and with networks like Orange and Vodafone offering the iPhones sometime soon.
Orange has started offering its customers the iPhone while Vodafone will start sometime in January 2010. Tesco mobile is a joint venture with O2 mobile which already has a large subscriber base and the popularity by selling the iPhone in the UK for 2 years. O2 had reported that it had sold about a million handsets earlier this year. Both the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS will be available with Tesco and all other operators.
Watch LIVE Football on your iPhone!
Now, sports fans in the UK with iPhones have more reasons to rejoice. BskyB, one of the leading pay TV providers in the UK have come up with a new feature that will enable iPhone users in the UK to watch their favorite sports on their phones.Subcribers to the new service can watch SkySports, ESPN and even Sky News on their phones for a monthly tariff of £6.
The service uses a wi-fi connection and a software named Sky Mobile TV that will help users choose from a number of sports including the Premier League, cricket, Golf and Scottish football. The application is free to download and install and company statistics claim that there have been over 2 million downloads of the application so far to iPhones and iTouches. BskyB has also said that users of other mobiles can use the application as well and use the TV service on their mobile operators 3G network.
Nokia’s Charger Recall
World leaders in mobile phone manufacturing, Nokia has now a new problem to face. Earlier it was overheating and exploding batteries and now, it is charger that charges those batteries. Nokia’s sub-contractor BYD, that manufactures the Nokia chargers have admitted to having the chargers being faulty. Nokia in a press statement said that the chargers AC-3U, AC-4U and AC-3E, manufactured by the Chinese manufacturer BYD were the faulty ones and that customers could check if their charger was faulty from the Nokia website.
Most of the charger manufactured by BYD where shipped to North America and Europe and Nokia has said that it hasn’t received any complaints from customers about the faulty charger which posed a risk to customers. An investigation conducted by Nokia on the charges revealed that the outer cover of the chargers were prone to getting loose and exposing the internal electric circuit. Nokia said that this product recall was a precautionary measure and that BYD would cover all the costs incurred in the product recall.
N-Gage Disengaged
Nokia has finally decided to shut down N-Gage, the not so popular gaming platform of the mobile giant. Nokia hasn’t set any date for the shut down but has just mentioned that it will be shutdown in 2010. Nokia has also decided not to release any new games in the N-Gage platform and said that existing games will be available for customers till September 2010. Following the failure of the earlier release of the N-Gage gaming mobile, the gaming portal has also faced the same fate.
There was mixed response from many users of the gaming platform and many expressed their views on Nokia’s blog. Nokia has also decided to move all of its gaming content to its Ovi Store and said that the Ovi Store would serve as a one stop place for all games and applications. Many are of the opinion that the mobile giant took its decision mainly after its financial hit in the last quarter.
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