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21:47
November 6th, 2009
Posted By: wraggster

We've already got some smartphone beasts in the market like the Pre and the iPhone, but Android hasn't really had a supercharged, drool-worthy device yet -- a knight in shining armor ready to sweep the platform off its feet and ride off into the sunset. The DROID could very well be that device, so we're turning the question over to you: are you jumping in?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/p...-its-clutches/
17:10
November 6th, 2009
Posted By: wraggster
You know that smartphone you love, that ultimate expression of handheld convergence that some would call a mobile computer? It's crap. Or so says octogenarian, Martin Cooper, former lead engineer at Motorola said to have invented the handheld cellphone -- really, his name is on the "Radio telephone system" patent and he's credited with making the very first private handheld cellphone call from a busy New York City street on April 3rd, 1973. Well Marty doesn't like those newfangled handsets. In fact, according to our sterling Mr. Cooper, "Our future I think is a number of specialist devices that focus on one thing that will improve our lives." Words uttered this week during a conference in Madrid. Imagine it: a future where we carry a portable radio, film camera, wind-up watch, Kaypro luggable computer, HP calculator, and Atari handheld... oh wait, that was the eighties.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/c...icated-rock-n/
16:10
November 6th, 2009
Posted By: wraggster
So says research firm FADE. But nobody's making a fortune yet
The launch of the HTC Hero handset, as well as improvements to the Android Market, led to a 53% rise in Android games revenues in October, claims FADE.
The company's research indicates that Google's app store generated around $180,000 of revenues from game sales in October.
Is anyone making a fortune? Not yet. FADE estimates that the top-selling Android game, Lupis Labs' Robo Defense, sold 7,600 units during October at a $2.99 price point - just over $22,700 in revenue.
FADE claims that in the seven months since paid apps were introduced on Android Market, games firms have made a total of $850,000. However, it predicts that November will see sales jump 50% to $270,000 for that month alone, buoyed by more handset
http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/34958...-53-in-October
18:56
November 3rd, 2009
Posted By: wraggster
“Right now our sights are trained on Natal," says Studio head
Developer Rare has revealed in an interview with MCV that it is "hopeful" of creating an FPS for new Xbox platform Project Natal.
The firm, best known for its work on GoldenEye, Banjo-Kazooie and Perfect Dark told MCV that it is focused on Natal – which it saw as a "great opportunity".
“Right now our sights are trained on Natal, which is a great opportunity to break new ground with content and gameplay," said Rare's head of studio Mark Betteridge.
The revelation follows previous hints from inside Rare that Natal was being used to reinvigorate old IP.
“One [IP] I think we can do an absolutely phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal version on with Natal," the studio said in August.
"The interface, the way you interact with it... it would be an absolutely world-beating product. But we need to explore a little bit more in that direction.”
Speaking in MCV's special feature on the evolution of the FPS genre, Betteridge said that Natal was "an opportunity to exercise some genre evolution, so hopefully we’ll be able to develop something on that front.”
Betteridge also discussed the creation of GoldenEye on N64, which broke new ground in terms of the populairty of FPS games on console.
“The final product was a more traditional FPS than we’d first planned – it’s well-documented that the original design was all on-rails,” he added.
“As the work progressed we realised that it made sense to shift development in that direction, both as a game and as a potential asset for Nintendo.
"It turned out to be a great tool for attracting a different type of gamer to the N64. Up to that point the consoles had never been able to field many serious competitors to the PC FPS market.”
http://www.develop-online.net/news/3...atal-based-FPS
16:38
November 2nd, 2009
Posted By: wraggster
Nokia is to cease support of the N-Gage gaming platform, choosing instead to concentrate on its Ovi Store.
The company will keep the N-Gage site, where users purchase games, and the N-Gage Arena running until September 2010, it announced, after which the community features of purchased games will no longer function. Nokia will stop publishing new games for the format immediately.
"As mobile gaming evolves and begins to encompass social gaming, we want to offer one store front with an even broader portfolio of games - games for everyone," said a company spokesperson, via the N-Gage blog.
"It's much more convenient to have one place to get all your mobile games, and this is what Ovi Store provides."
In the future, Nokia will offer similar community elements incorporated on N-Gage platforms through the Ovi Store, it added. "We understand how important community is to our gamers."
And handsets with the N-Gage application pre-installed will continued to be sold "for some time", however the company will no longer ship devices with the application.
Following the poor sales performance of the original N-Gage handset launched in 2003, Nokia announced, in 2005, it would move the platform's capabilities instead onto a series of smartphones. The full N-Gage service was subsequently made available to the public in April of last year.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...n-gage-service
19:15
November 1st, 2009
Posted By: wraggster
[Evow04] has been working hard to run Android on a Meizu M8 smartphone and we’re beginning to enjoy the fruits of his labor. The Meizu M8 is a Chinese cell phone very similar in appearance and hardware to the iPhone. The factory firmware runs Windows CE 6 but there is no official support for Android. It looks like [Evow04's] upgrade method is fairly easy; copy an IMG and BIN file to the root of the phone, backup the Windows CE portion, and then use the upgrade mode to flash the two files.
We’re pretty impressed with Android, especially the potential that it represents. Having another device that runs the OS is a good thing but at $350-$400 this isn’t any cheaper than just buying an Android phone.
http://hackaday.com/2009/11/01/andro...d-to-meizu-m8/
00:46
November 1st, 2009
Posted By: wraggster
Hi all sometime this weekend we will be moving to a much faster server with more ram 4 quad speed cpus and other stuff thats over my head so the future of the site looks a lot better, also Martin let me know that he should also be upgrading Vbulletin to the very latest stable version which should mean many new features and hopefully a lot of the bugs will go. The faster server should also mean the site loads a lot better too.
Im sure you will know if you have entered by any of the network sites that theres lots of errors on the pages, these will be fixed once the server is totally migrated.
Finally once i get a chance to add them, id like to say welcome to Nintendomax our newest affiliate, for those who dont know Nintendomax is an excellent French Homebrew and Hacking site that focuses on Nintendo Consoles, check them out here --> http://www.nintendomax.com/
21:05
October 31st, 2009
Posted By: wraggster

Not to say "we told you so," but we told you so. Google won't be releasing its own Android hardware. Not now, not ever.
Head of Android development Andy Rubin states the obvious by saying it would be foolish for Google to "compete with its customers" who license the OS. In his own words, "We're not making hardware. We're enabling other people to build hardware."
This is how licensing OSes has generally worked, with the PC and Windows Mobile. (But not with the Mac during the clone wars, which eventually ended in cancellation.)
As CNET points out, Google sometimes plays a part in designing phones. Apparently the hinge mechanism in the G1 was added at Google's request. But that's a long way from designing a whole phone.
Phones like the Droid were also rumored to have been developed with Google helping along the way. As long as the trend keeps up, I'm sure Google will be perfectly happy to let Motorola, HTC and others spread their OS like the sneaky little world-dominating thing it is.
http://gizmodo.com/5394191/just-to-c...s-own-hardware
13:00
October 31st, 2009
Posted By: Darksaviour69
DCEmu World Wide Prize Giveaway ends today! If you have not entered yet, what are you waiting for? Do it now
18:41
October 30th, 2009
Posted By: wraggster
xchg passes along a WiseAndroid piece on the drop in value of Garmin and TomTom shares following Google's announcement yesterday of Google Maps Navigation.
"Shares of GPS device makers Garmin and TomTom plummeted... through a combination of their quarterly results and the launch of Google Maps Navigation. Following both low guidance for Garmin's next quarter as well as poor results from TomTom, shares for the two fell 16.4 percent and 20.8 percent respectively and remained low through the entire trading day after news of Google's free, turn-by-turn mapping service became public."
Today Lauren Weinstein posted a number of reasons why standalone GPS won't go away any time soon.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/...Standalone-GPS
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