Ovi Labs has been active developing games that rely on new technologies like location and accelerometer data, and Bounce Boing Battle is no different. It’s a multiplayer game, that resembles the old Pong! game. The video itself doesn’t look that good, but at least the idea is great.
The game will be up in the Ovi Store soon, and to game it you’ll need a phone with Symbian S60 5th edition (a touch screen Nokia).
Here is a test to show the accuracy on four different capacitive touch screens. Phones used in the test are the iPhone, HTC Droid Eris, Motorola Droid and the newest of them all, the Google Nexus One. Check out the video after the break!
Read an interesting mail today at work, regarding the Nokia N900. The mail was from a Nokia representative in Finland, and he wrote that we will only receive a small shipment of them now, and coming shipments will be delayed till February due to a “component problem”.
Not sure if this means that the N900 is having a hardware problem, or that they are just having shortages in shipments of some specific parts. I would guess on the later, since they would otherwise recall those N900′s that are on the market at the moment.
A new interesting product has come out of the Nokia Beta Labs. Gig Finder can find gigs (duh) near you. The service works currently in USA, Canada, UK and Ireland. A Symbian S60 5th edition is needed for this to work.
- Easy Search. Quickly find where to find the best concerts & other music events near you. Search by artist, genre, city, venue, specific date, date range or a combination of any.
- Buy Tickets. Direct links connect your mobile to various ticket vendors to conveniently find the best seats & prices
- Smart Recommendations. Get recommendations for live events and venues based on your music tastes (profile & on device music library) and location
- Get Directions. See where the event is and how to get there with a direct link from Maps.
- Start the Buzz. Share information about the gig to Facebook, SMS, or Email.
- Download Music. Events link directly to the artist pages in Nokia Music Store / Ovi Music (when available in your country) so you can preview or download music before or after seeing your favourite artists live.
Read more and download it here.
Google’s support forums has exploded with complaints that the 3G reception on their Nexus One is bad. Either the phone doesn’t even connect to the 3G network, or then it continuously keeps switching between 3G and EDGE. When a few users have tried with the same SIM on another phone, they haven’t had problems, so the problem is Google Nexus One related.
This could be a minor glitch in just a small amount of phones, or then it could be a really big/bad problem for Google.
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The European(GSM) version of HTC Hero got today updated to firmware version 2.73.771.73. No word on a changelog just yet.
Remember to do a backup of your phone before updating.
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Mark, from the Nokia Blog, has posted a few comparison pictures on the hardware of the Nokia N900 and Google Nexus One. He said that the screen on the Nexus One is simply said amazing, but the lack of a keyboard is an issue. Also the thinness of the Nexus One was surprising.
Check out the other pictures after the break.
