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[audio:http://mediafiles.allaboutsymbian.com/aas_podcast_20110627_236.mp3] This week’s All About Symbian Insight podcast, as Rafe, Steve, David and myself tackle the announcement of the Nokia N9 and the strategy behind it, the Sea Ray Windows Phone leak, 6 million downloads via the Ovi Store, and the upcoming Nokia World conference.
(Paraphrasing) Apple on Final Cut Pro and moving to Final Cut Pro X: Yes we know we’re stopping support for the old, loved product, but trust us, this next version is faster and more efficient with better access to the internet, and you’ll never notice the missing features. (Paraphrasing) Nokia on Symbian and moving to Windows Phone: Yes we know we’re stopping support for the old, loved product, but trust us, this next version is faster and more efficient with better access to the internet, and you’ll never notice the missing features. To be honest, neither of these are as
To be fair Nokia Sports Tracker was a beta project and closed down officially in June last year, but three of the team managed to get it spun out of Nokia and founded Sports Tracking Technologies Ltd in 2009 around the code. They’ve just announced that alongside the full website and Symbian client there is now a version available for the iPhone. Discuss.
Run and jump and run and run. There’s been a little bit of an explosion in the "always running" game on Symbian in the last few months, and what I’ve found wonderful is that each game is subtly different and requires a different way of playing. While each of them are simple "one key" games, each of them has their own flavour. "Dalton - The Awesome!" comes over as a delightful B-movie Zombie film.
Lost of lively discussion over on AAS about the Symbian Anna software update, mostly around the speed of roll-out: Stephen Elop, Nokia’s CEO, announced that the Symbian Anna software update for the Nokia N8, C7, C6-01 and E7 would start shipping in new devices in July and would be available for all existing device owners to download by the end of August. He also announced that, over the next 12 months, Nokia intends to bring 10 new Symbian based smartphones to the market.
Strategy first, soccer second, That’s how this quirky game from Onslaught Media is titled, and I think they’re on to a Championship winner here,. No, it’s not in the Premier League of mobile games, but there is promise here. That’s likely to come in a future game, because I’m not sure how far Strategy Soccer can be extended. That’s okay though, because I’m enjoying ‘Soccer’, at the same time recognising it’s not going to have massive mainstream appeal.
