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Android and iPhone gets 1st MMO
October 16, 2008 · Comments
MMOs for Mobile Phones
It’s been years since the first announcement about an MMO for Mobile Phones – Nokia’s HinterWars: The Aterian Invasion. It’s defined as:
the revolutinoary dual-platform Symbian Mobile Massively Multiplayer Online Game (3MOG) that allows gamers to play simultaneously with tens of thousands of others using either their Nokia Series 60 and Nokia N-Series gamedeck or their PC.
(as copied from the official site)
Well, MMOs for Mobile Phones are getting closer and closer to reality.
But first, we have to check out how the journey continued after Nokia’s HinterWars. The next step (or maybe backstep) was the availability of Mobile Applications that allows a player to check his character and his friend’s statistics.
For example, the EVE Tracker by Saggy Software, that keeps you updated on your pilots.
The features available are:
- Pilot pager – track your pilots; includes attributes, race, gender, bloodline, and more
- Currently training skill
- Pilot skills
- Skills database – search the skills database and plan the future of your pilot
There is also Rudip’s Warcraft Characters, that tracks your World of Warcraft characters anywhere and everywhere.
It features:
- Checking all your characters
- A summary of your character, similar to what’s seen on WoWArmory
- Ability to see all the items you are wearing
- See the ‘tooltip’ of the items
- Track your reputation stats
- Worldwide support for WoW-US, WoW-EU, WoW-KR, WoW-CN, and WoW-TW
These two applications are available for Apple’s iPhone only, but we can see how the MMO world slowly invades our mobile phones. A short stage but with a wide effect and opened plenty of possibilities for the players and the companies alike. Today, welcome the new kid on the block, a Mobile MMO by PerBlue entitled Parallel Kingdom: Age of Exploration.
As the name suggests, this Mobile MMO is set on a parallel world much like Earth. In fact, this world is on top of our world! Or if you’ve seen the movie – “The Spiderwick Chronicles” (or read the book), there is another world right here on our own planet that we can only see by some ‘means’.
This is what Parallel Kingdom is, and that ‘means’ is the iPhone and Android-based phones. By using GPS (Global Positioning System) combining it with the virtual world, a player will be able to explore this parallel world as s/he travels around the real-world (products that use GPS are called geo-aware).
Get to fight monsters in this virtual world, collect gold in this world, and even have a duel with another player (you two must be near each other in-real-world). The virtual world itself shows a Google Map of where you are in the real-world, imagine your phone as the window to another world giving you a visual of what our naked eyes can not see.
Parallel Kingdom is set to launch on October 31, and will use the same game network regardless if you are an Android user and your friend is an iPhone user. The game will be free initially, and we can hope that they release a 3D graphics version that will make use of iPhone’s and Android’s GFX capabilities.
And that is only just the beginning. Blizzard’s World of Warcraft team have been conducting polls for the past few months about Mobile Phones and Mobile Games, which led fans to believe that the company is considering developing a mobile version of WoW. Philippine online gaming companies are into Mobile Games development already, some are already providing Mobile services link to a player’s account. The possibilities are endless and the future of gaming and mobile phones are merging.
I can’t wait as our lives gets more mobile than ever, bringing online and social entertainment together and wherever we go. I just hope that they do not separate the game worlds between mobile, console, and PC (it’s possible). For now, I’ll wait for Motorola’s first Android Phone, then I’ll join the world of Parallel Kingdom.
Originally posted at: Technology Playground™.
Filed under Cellphones, Gadgets, Gaming, Mobile, Software · Tags: Android, EVE, gameshogun, iPhone, Kingdom, mmorpg, Mobile, nokia, Parallel, warcraftNokia 5800 Announced
October 6, 2008 · Comments
Remember Nokia 5800? The cellphone which was also dubbed as Nokia tube and was also called Xpressmedia instead of Xpressmusic. Nokia had just announced this new phone, anyway I will give you the specifications.
TFT touchscreen, 16M colors
360 x 640 pixels, 3.2 inches
Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
Handwriting recognition
microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB, 8GB included
81 MB internal memory
128 MB SDRAM memory
ARM 11 369 MHz CPU
HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Symbian OS v9.4, Series 60 rel. 5
Black, Red, Blue
3.15 mega pixels with Carl Zeiss optics, Flash & autofocus
Video (VGA at 30FPS)flash
secondary videocall camera
Built-in GPS receiver
A-GPS support
Nokia Maps 2.0 Touch
Stereo FM radio with RDS
TV out
As you can see, that is a touchscreen phone. What do you think?, can it be the iPhone and iPod touch killer?
JAM online
Google Phone Officially Launched!
September 25, 2008 · Comments
It’s confirmed! The rumor that was flatly denied by Google people which was disseminated after the launching of the very first version of Apple iPhone has been finally revealed.
Google has officially launched their G1 phone on Tuesday on New York Stage wherein no less than the founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin introduced it to the public. They both arrived on the venue on rollerblades.
The device is a joint venture between Google and T-Mobile and is known officially as T-Mobile G1 is actually manufactured in Taiwan by HTC. The same company who is developing some known products of Compaq, Palm, Vodaphone and other mobile carriers. Millions of people are actually using HTC phones – they are just not aware of it.
Filed under Cellphones, Handhelds, Mobile, Telecom · Tags: G1, google, Google Phone, Phone, T-mobileNokia E90 Communicator Review
September 17, 2008 · Comments
[Photo courtesy of airgap]
If you were able to track the posts I have made in this blog, you might be wondering why I have a gadget review all of a sudden. Well, I just tried requesting for a trial from WOMWorld just like what Kuya did to review the Nokia E71. In my case, I requested for a Nokia E90 Communicator that shall be returned to WOMWorld after having the opportunity to test it out for a span of 2 weeks. Isn’t that cool? It’s hot! :)
Filed under Cellphones, Gadgets, Mobile · Tags: e90, Gadgets, nokia, reviewLG KC910 Announced
August 24, 2008 · Comments
Today LG announced their newest touchscreen cellphone. The LG KC910, it loads a ton of cool features. For its camera, this thing uses <strong>Schneider-Kreuznach optics</strong>. Anyway here’s the specs of the cellphone:
Filed under Cameras, Cellphones · Tags: 8 Megapixel, KC910, LG KC910TFT touchscreen, 256K colors
240 x 400 pixels, 3.0 inches
HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP
8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels (autofocus)
Video @ VGA 30fps & QVGA up to 120fps
Xenon Flash
microSD card slot
TV-out support
Xvid and DivX video playback
Dolby sound
Document viewer (DOC, XLS, PDF)
Globe iPhone 3G Countdown Launch Party!
August 22, 2008 · Comments
Are you wondering what happened last night at the Globe iPhone 3G Countdown Launch Party?
Try to the watch the archived (live) streaming of the event at Qik and Bambuser! The Qik stream was captured through a Nokia E71 while the Bambuser stream was created through my Sony Ericsson P990i.
Capturing photos was somewhat hard for my SE P990i’s had a weird reaction adjusting to the lights and all so I just thought that it would be much better to stream the event live. The connection I had used was one of the 5 free WiFi access points that Globe provided during the event at Ayala Tower One.
So how about you? Are you planning to get an iPhone too or do you have one already? :)
Filed under Cellphones, Events, Gadgets, Mobile, News, Telecom · Tags: globe, iPhone, launchPalm launches Treo Pro
August 21, 2008 · Comments
Palm has introduced the Treo Pro which, among others, boasts of 3G/HSDPA/EDGE/GPRS, WIFI and a 2-megapixel camera, and is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition. Get the full specs here.
Price is US$549, or roughly P25,000.
Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte INFO
August 21, 2008 · Comments
Nokia had just announced a new Arte series Cellphone. The Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte, this cellphone is different from Nokia 8800 arte because this time it is made of carbon fiber and some 3D designs. Anyway here are some cool specs of this Cellphone.
240 x 320 pixels, 2.0 inches
Scratch-resistant glass
Living wallpapers
OLED, 16M colors
4 GB user memory
3G supported, up to 384 kbps
3.15 MP (2048×1536 pixels, autofocus
Video (VGA @ 15 FPS)
Carbon fibre and titanium body
MP3/AAC/eAAC player
Durable stainless steel covers
Turn-to-mute
Yup, It is made up of carbon fiber and its body is titanium. The only this that I love in this phone is the Scratch Resistant. Too bad its video is only at VGA@15 fps. Anyway it has a autofocus so don’t be sad. The Phone’s Features are like Nokia 8800 Arte but the only difference is their body, As I said earlier it is made up of Carbon Fiber and Titanium. So boys and girls Expect that this phone will be very expensive.
Filed under Cellphones · Tags: 8800, Add new tag, Arte, Carbon, nokia, Nokia 8800 Carbon ArteGlobe Telecom to sell iPhone 3G for P41,899
August 6, 2008 · Comments
Contrary to what Apple proclaims about the iPhone 3G (Twice as fast. Half the price.), Philippine telco today announced in an investors briefing that the company will sell the phone at a starting price of P41,899. Read more »»
Filed under Cellphones, News ·8 Megapixel Samsung INNOV8
July 26, 2008 · Comments
Samsung officially announced the Samsung i8510 INNOV8 today.
Here are some cool specifications:
•2.8 inches 16.7 million color QVGA TFT
•HSDPA (7.2 Mbps OMG!)
•Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
•Symbian OS v9.3, Series 60 rel. 3.2
•8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, image stabiliser, video(VGA@30fps, QVGA@120fps), flash; secondary videocall camera
•Built-in GPS receiver
•A-GPS function
•Camera images geo-tagging
•Smart reader, auto-panorama shot, smile shot, blink shot
•DivX/H.263/H.264/WMV/MP4 player
•Video editing
•MP3/eAAC+/WMA/AMR/RealAudio player
•3.5 mm audio output jack
•Java MIDP 2.0
•FM radio with RDS
•Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
•Optical Mouse
Samsung INNOV8 is stored with a huge memory – 8GB and 16GB plus a expandable microSD slot up to 8 gb. It has also a GPS and WI-FI. Its Camera is 8 Megapixel auto focus with a eye popping frame rates at 30FPS@VGA and 120FPS@QVGA. All I can say is this is MONSTER SMARTPHONE.
Filed under Cameras, Cellphones, Gadgets · Tags: INNOV8, Samsung