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How to install Ovi Store on the Nokia 6220 Classic
Another in our series, this time looking at how to install Ovi Store on the Nokia 6220 Classic smartphone. You can watch the video by clicking on the link or by watching an embedded version below. For more related videos, visit Ovi Gaming's YouTube channel.
AAS Competion: Win a Nokia N96 and Million Dollar Poker
We've teamed up with Nokia N-Gage to give away a Nokia N96, a license for the N-Gage game Million Dollar Poker and a few Nokia goodies. All you need to do is answer a simple question and give us your name and contact details. Million Dollar Poker is the most recently released N-Gage game.
Two new Ovi Store devices, the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic and the Nokia E72
Our sister-site All About Symbian has coverage of two new Nokia phones, the E72 and the 5530. The Nokia E72 is the beefed-up sequel to the hugely successful E71 smartphone, featuring a full QWERTY keyboard and 5 megapixel camera, while the Nokia 5530 is a budget touchscreen smartphone which is a cheaper "little brother" of the popular 5800. The 5530 should cost around 200 euros unlocked, while the E72 will be 350 euros unlocked, with both devices being released some time between July and September.
Nokia N86 8MP is now shipping
Nokia's 8 megapixel N86 smartphone is now shipping according to Nokia Press Bulletin Board. Outwardly similar to the N85, the N86 features a slightly redesigned casing, kick stand, non-flat chunky keypad, and of course an 8 megapixel af camera which is the highest resolution on any Nokia device so far. Our camera expert Steve will be examining this hardware in detail of course, but just to give the official specs the N86 has a variable aperture for low-light photography, a fast mechanical shutter and automatic blur reduction. The N86 runs Symbian S60v3 FP2, is compatible with N-Gage and Ovi Store, and comes with 8 gigabytes of on-board memory as well as a separate microSD card slot for extra memory. (via ZOMGitsCJ)
N-Gage on Nokia N97 video (Need For Speed Undercover & N-Gage app interface)
Steve Litchfield (editor of All About Symbian and Ovi Gaming's resident pool and golf expert) has had an N97 to play with for a while, and has posted a video of the N-Gage version of Need For Speed Undercover along with brief footage of the N-Gage application's interface. You can watch the vid below...
Screenshots and video of N-Gage running on Nokia N97
A Chinese website has posted screenshots and video of the N97 running the N-Gage application, see the third video for N-Gage. It seems the N-Gage app has been redesigned somewhat for horizontal use on the N97's large touch-sensitive screen, but the only game shown (Asphalt 4) seemed to be running at 4:3 aspect ratio rather than the full 16:9. (via brainimpact on Twitter)
How to make Java games/apps work in full screen on the Nokia 5800
The Nokia 5800 has a very large high res screen which is compatible with many touchscreen Java games in full-screen mode, for example Cooking Mama works on the 5800 in full screen. Unfortunately the default setting for many Java games and applications (including Cooking Mama) seems to have the on-screen "virtual keypad" switched on automatically, which makes the game or app shrink into half-screen mode. However, there is an easy solution to this problem which should let touch-compatible Java software use the 5800's entire screen. See below for a quick step-by-step guide...
The Nokia 5800 already supports multitouch, sort of...
The Nokia 5800 is criticised by some for being a single-touch device that can only register one finger press at a time. But is this actually true? Not quite. With a bit of clever interface design the existing 5800 hardware is already capable of registering two simultaneous screenpresses at once, and you can see how this works in the full story below (you can even try it for yourself, and there's a video of a 5800 game using it). The reason this is worth mentioning is that Nokia is already using a more limited version of this method in their just-released Maemo 5 SDK, which is the latest version of the platform they use on their internet tablets. If Nokia's already using it there, it seems very likely they could use it on their S60 devices too.
Nokia 5800 to get N-Gage, or just a printing error?
One of our readers has pointed out that a promotional site for N-Gage in India has a list of compatible devices which includes the Nokia 5800. The 5800 XpressMusic doesn't appear on any other N-Gage site, so this could just be a simple mistake. The site maintainers may have confused it with the 5630 XpressMusic, which definitely is N-Gage compatible but doesn't appear on the Indian site. UPDATE: They've now removed the 5800 from the page, so we're going to assume this was just a mix-up all along.
Nokia E75 starts shipping
According to a Nokia press release, the E75 QWERTY sliderphone is now making its way into shops, and may even be available already in some areas. As mentioned in previous stories, the E75 features Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2, a 2.4 inch QVGA screen, side-sliding QWERTY keyboard, GPS, 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera, 3.5G HSDPA and Wi-Fi support. It's also the first Eseries device to be compatible with the N-Gage platform. The full release is below.
