Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
You know what the world needs? An update to Battlezone. But for the kids. With cartoon graphics, simple explosions, and no tricky driving to do. Just the guns. And with that thought in mind, it’s over to FishLabs’ Toy Tanks 3D.
Symbian Anna, the first “name” update to Symbian^3 is now in the Over the Air channels for the Nokia N8, E7, C7, C6-01. Should I update, or wait a bit and see what happens to Rafe and Steve’s phones? I’m in the nice position of having more than one, so for a while the E7 will stay on the older, and the C6-01 (the gorgeous little pocket Nokia that I love) gets to be on the shiny new firmware. There’ll be a lot of noise from the geekerati about the timescale of delivery, but will the man or woman on
Nokia shoring up their app numbers by comissioning 300 applications from a North American developer? Seems like a smart investment to me. The circle of life in an app store needs a virtuou circle of make apps, get them to users, get income, make more apps. For new developers to come on board, they need to be comfortable that the get income bit is going to work. So Nokia kicking off the process by putting apps in the store seems a good use of money. Choose another 20-30 developers and offer them a nice advance on some new apps so they
[audio:http://mediafiles.allaboutsymbian.com/aas_podcast_20110816_243.mp3] Rafe, Steve, David and I start by highlighting Gartner’s Q2 smartphone sales statistics, which suggest Nokia’s sales performance may have been better than previously thought. We then touch on the theme of Nokia strategy in North America, following reports that Nokia is exiting the Symbian and Series 40 business in the US. In the second half of the podcast Steve has a warning for Apple iSync users, David talks about NestDrop and the team discuss the closure of Ovi Calendar, which leads to a more general PIM and sync discussion.
There’s a lot that can go wrong when you write a karting game, the shadow of Mario Kart is very long, but the conventions have been set by many titles. So Shrek Kart HD needs to fit in with those, work well, and make itself attractive to the end user. Gameloft manages to achieve all that, but does it scale the dizzy heights of a classic? Nope, but it’s still worthwhile. Here’s why..
To Do applications have always been popular in portable computing – be it the PDA or the smartphone, keeping track of what needs doing is an admirable goal. In a way it upsets me that nobody has really been able to get a killer-app in this space. Yes, there are some efforts that get close, but one To-Do to To-Do them all? Not yet. And that includes Quick Milk.
