Alison
May 9, 2008, 04:17 PM
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Working at Astraware has given me a great opportunity to feed my addiction over the last few years with Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices galore. Now with our newest platforms S60 (http://www.s60.com/life) and UIQ (http://www.uiq.com/), I have an even greater selection of phones to choose from. I'm already the proud owner of a copper Palm Treo 680 and the Samsung SGH-i600 (http://www.astraware.com/company/blog.php?entry=71) running Windows Mobile, but with the release of our first titles for Symbian, I wanted to get a device to bring my knowledge up to date. I chose the Nokia N82 (http://www.nseries.com/products/n82").
In the past I've used organisers from Psion, which ran EPOC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPOC_(computing)), on which Symbian is based and a couple of earlier S60 devices - the Nokia 6600 and Siemens SX1, so I'm not completely new to the platform, but it's been great fun learning what an S60 3rd Edition phone can do.
The device I chose, the Nokia N82, is full of great features - a nice fast processor, bright clear screen which automatically rotates from portrait to landscape, and excellent audio quality, all of which show off games like Astraware Boardgames (http://www.astraware.com/boardgames) and Hidden Expedition Titanic (http://www.astraware.com/titanic) really well.
In addition, the phone includes wi-fi, assisted GPS (which enables it to get a position fix very quickly), and a 5MP camera with Xenon flash and lens cover which also shoots video. I took the phone with me on vacation recently and it's a real little powerhouse - with games to entertain me on the flight (in flight mode, obviously), the GPS proved invaluable for finding our way around Alabama in the hire car, and the camera came in very handy when the battery ran out on my camera during a day's sightseeing.
I'm looking forward to more of our games being available for my shiny new phone - look out for Astraware Solitaire (http://www.astraware.com/solitaire) for S60 and UIQ in the not too distant future, and lots more titles in the coming months.
Working at Astraware has given me a great opportunity to feed my addiction over the last few years with Palm OS and Windows Mobile devices galore. Now with our newest platforms S60 (http://www.s60.com/life) and UIQ (http://www.uiq.com/), I have an even greater selection of phones to choose from. I'm already the proud owner of a copper Palm Treo 680 and the Samsung SGH-i600 (http://www.astraware.com/company/blog.php?entry=71) running Windows Mobile, but with the release of our first titles for Symbian, I wanted to get a device to bring my knowledge up to date. I chose the Nokia N82 (http://www.nseries.com/products/n82").
In the past I've used organisers from Psion, which ran EPOC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPOC_(computing)), on which Symbian is based and a couple of earlier S60 devices - the Nokia 6600 and Siemens SX1, so I'm not completely new to the platform, but it's been great fun learning what an S60 3rd Edition phone can do.
The device I chose, the Nokia N82, is full of great features - a nice fast processor, bright clear screen which automatically rotates from portrait to landscape, and excellent audio quality, all of which show off games like Astraware Boardgames (http://www.astraware.com/boardgames) and Hidden Expedition Titanic (http://www.astraware.com/titanic) really well.
In addition, the phone includes wi-fi, assisted GPS (which enables it to get a position fix very quickly), and a 5MP camera with Xenon flash and lens cover which also shoots video. I took the phone with me on vacation recently and it's a real little powerhouse - with games to entertain me on the flight (in flight mode, obviously), the GPS proved invaluable for finding our way around Alabama in the hire car, and the camera came in very handy when the battery ran out on my camera during a day's sightseeing.
I'm looking forward to more of our games being available for my shiny new phone - look out for Astraware Solitaire (http://www.astraware.com/solitaire) for S60 and UIQ in the not too distant future, and lots more titles in the coming months.