Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Reviewed on AAS: Imagine a world where you had to get to the exit. A world of squares in a grid. A world where you could never set foot on the grid but have to create safe havens by pushing over tower blocks. That’s the world of Ming Zhu.
Zen-like puzzles? Chill out? Casual and fun? Yes, the flavour text for Escape certainly appeals to me. The game itself does deliver, but with a few quirks and one gotcha in the game design. I wouldn’t say it’s zen, but it’s certainly a relaxing and slow paced little number that I’m enjoying.
Continuing the AAS look at making money from developing applications for Symbian, the third part of our series takes a look at using in-app advertising. From the decision to use advertising and the choices to make at the design process, to choosing an advertising partner to get the best potential income, the rise of in-app advertising makes this a powerful choice to monetise your hard work.
Here comes (yet) another streaming music application [for your smartphone]. It does everything that all the other streaming music applications do (with some wrinkles), it looks quite nice, and it gets the job done. In a market with a number of solutions, Deezer’s only issue is that some of its features are geographically locked out.
[audio:http://mediafiles.allaboutsymbian.com/aas_podcast_20110830_245.mp3] Steve, Rafe, David and myself talk about the new iteration of Symbian OS (Anna), the next iteration (Belle) and the new Nokia handsets, the 600, 700, and 701. Subscribe to the Insight podcast RSS for more weekly smartphone chat.
Janne Jalkanen, who has more experience of issues with Symbian/Nokia than most, found out: [lots of well presented reasons against Android] – Update: Janne points out these are specifc to HTC. Anyhoo, even if I did say that this never would happen, I’m back with Symbian. I got myself a Nokia E7, which is, especially with Symbian Anna, a pretty spiffy machine. Now, it’s got it’s own irritations (especially on the app development front), and my mind still boggles at the retardedness of the browser. Not shipping a first-class mobile browser at this day and age is simply inexcusable. The
