Nokia Mobile Reviews and Games

Carrier’s GDC: How Mobile Japan The Game In Avoid Developers Deck
Even with Flash if you spend a lot on the initial game, the porting cost is next to minimal,” he said. In Japan, Collier said the trend is to create short, simple games based on Adobe’s Flash Lite that create games in a browser. The most popular is Mobile Game Town, which for context, said has three times as much traffic as Yahoo! At the GDC Mobile, David Collier/Pikkle (mobile content provider in Japan), told developers how Japanese game developers are overcoming two of the mobile game industry’s biggest obstacles, device fragmentation (porting the game to hundreds of mobile devices) and sharing revenue with carriers. “With Java or Brew, you don’t spend that much on the initial game, but then you do when porting it. In some cases, people also pay monthly subscription fees. Via MocoNews “Flash does solve a lot of the porting problems, when you are turning around a lot of games every week,” he added. He said the games have been phenomenally successful. You guessed right - Flash Lite is the key - and we couldn’t agree more with David *** “There is a new type of application category that will bring us out of the claws of the carrier and bring us to the promised land of mobile entertainment,” he said. In another, the player creates an avatar and a room, where friends could visit and leave a message. He said by using Flash, the developers won’t have to tweak an application for every phone because it runs in the browser which are fairly standard. He said the business model is still evolving, but many of them rely on Flash ads inside the games. For one Japanese site, he tested the game on 20 phones, but it ended up supporting about 200. And because it’s not an application, it also means that developers can avoid the carrier’s deck as being the main point of distribution. Mobile, and gets about 15 billion page views a month. The company has 7 million registered users, and nearly 1 million Flash games are played daily. In one game Collier demonstrated, a waiter grabbed the food as a buffet passed by.

3 release Beta 6 for version new FlashDevelop:
There is a new version of FlashDevelop available, Beta 6 release for version 3. If you haven’t used/heard about FlashDevelop (which is a open source script editor designed mostly for Actionscript 2/3 development) read more here about it. The changes in the newest version (compared to the old ones) can be found from here. Download FlashDevelop 3.0.0 Beta 6

Live Press Nokia Box Barcelona Blog: in
Now talking about Ovi SHare 2.0. . 1058 Introducing Nseries devices. Full flash support. 1107 Q&A Related PostMobile World Congress Here I Come 350 Euros. 3q 2008. I’m in the press box above the Nokia booth watching the keynotes. My wifi access is going nuts, but I’ll try to make this work. 1030 Nokia gave us USB keys with pictures and info of the new products and services: Nokia N96, N78, 6210, 6220, Share Ovi, and Nokia Maps 2.0 1043 Missed the beginning of the keynote. 2q 2008. Read on as I try to liveblog from Barcelona. Pedestrian, Satellite and hybrid maps. 1048 Ovi video is showing. Starting from the announcement of the Nokia Maps 2.0. GPS. 550 euros. 1104 faster usb transfer for N96. More everything what the N95 is plus a kickstand. it is the N95 phone turbo-charged. Highlighting geotagging. 1102 Nokia N96 is the Nokia N95 successor. 1051 Nokia Music is Live in UK with good traffic. Nokia N78 is the update to the Nokia N73.

Demo Live Nokia TV DVB-H Vlog: N96
The 2.8 inch screen is enough to to satisfy. Amir from Phone Rush asked the questions while I captured it on video. It looks great on the Nokia N96. Related PostFirst Nokia N96 Sample PhotosNokia Nseries Mobile World Congress Virtual EventPreview: Nokia N96 Specifications LeakedVlog: Nokia N96 Battery Life Explained by Product ManagerHands on With the Nokia N96 I’m glad I finally saw a live demo. Take a look. Additional video format: Web high resolution, Mobile DVB-H is one of the features on the Nokia N96. I’ve read about DVB-H on the internet and devices capable of showing live TV. The only problem is that it is not widely available. I think only a half dozen countries can broadcast mobile TV. On a positive note, the Nokia N96 will have a built-in 16gb of storage plus an expandable microSDHC card slot. You can basically watch live TV on your phone. It is like having the secondary front-facing camera on my Nseries phones like the Nokia N95 and Nokia N82. Before the Nokia N96 DVB-H (live TV on your phone) demo at the Mobile World Congress Nokia booth, the the stand staff said, “Please don’t play around with it too much.” I’m sorry, but I haven’t seen anything like it and I know I won’t any time soon. By the time the Nokia N96 comes out, we will probably have up to 32GB cards for a total of 48GB of storage. My phone has it for video-calling… but I can’t use it in the US.

iPhone Flash to the coming
According to this article by Gearlive.com, Flash is finally making it’s way to the iPhone. Hope Flash comes to iPhone soon, and you all will make some success stories There is no official confirmation for this, let’s hope this is for real. Do keep in mind, that although iPhone is a favourite pet of press worldwide, the sales have been about 5 million devices - and Apple’s target is 10 million. So, in comparison to the volumes of Flash Lite enabled phones that for example Nokia is selling, 5 or 10 million isn’t really that much. If we think only in number of devices out there, iPhone should have no impact on the Flash Lite ecosystem; but it might very well be that the reality is different — currently Flash Lite is (still) suffering from “device base too small” syndrome amongst the distribution channels, and hence Flash Lite applications or games are not gaining visibility or marketing support in the field. But with a single platform like iPhone, a good Flash Lite application might be succesfully distributed, thus increasing the faith in Flash Lite platform among the developers and distributors alike.

Congress Virtual Nokia Event World Nseries Mobile
Any predictions? Notice the question marks? I’ll be there in person, but you can experience it through your computer by attending Nokia Nseries virtual event at the Mobile World Congress. From the itinerary it looks like two new devices, Ovi Share, and new Nokia Maps will be announced. You can directly ask questions to the product managers through the virtual event. I wonder what they have in store for us. Read on for the itinerary and your invitation link. Click on the image below for your invitation to the virtual event.

Guillemot games 2008: about Gameloft’s GDC mobile Mobile speaks
And even then developers have to submit their games to the carriers. Note: naturally the fragmentation is something that Flash Lite is able to handle well (optimally, only one build per language version is needed, instead of thousands of SKU’s - and the weakest point being market penetration of the Flash Lite devices (still too small for most distributors) Additionally, the non-standard data charges (how much does it cost to download data from mobile network) is an issue > although we are moving towards flat-fee rate charges mobile games industry groth actually slowed in 2007 due to: slowdown of the US economy and its impact on the world walled garden approach of carriers the distinct lack of gaming upon the iPhone delayed launch of Nokia’s OVI platform At the GDC Mobile 2008, Gameloft’s President & CEO Guillemot spoke at his opening keynote about mobile games and the market, all nicely put together in this Gamasutra article. Some keypoints: Guillemot showed just how much of a change has occurred in the industry by showing the growth of the large mobile developers, with Gameloft now making almost ten times what it did in 2003 (from 14.9 million US to 141 million US). The major problem that all developers face are thousands of different handsets in use and hundreds more that are developed every year, plus hundreds of carriers across the world with tens of languages to support. “That’s one of the difficulties of the business,” Guillemot admitted, showing that if you created five games a month, across 1,000 handsets, in ten languages, you’d end up with 50,000 SKUs.