Ohad of Mobile Game Developer Magazine posted a great video of a Bluetooth remote controlled car that uses the accelerometer to steer. If you want to know more about the Symbian Smartphone Show in London, here are some ways of getting updates:
Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/mobilegd
MobileGD-TV
http://mobilegd.com/tv/tag/smartphone-show/
The Best Mobile Game category was taken by Sketcher 2. Sketcher 2 is a really great game that involves simple keypad buttons and fast-paced action. Personally, I’ve always felt that a good mobile game creates an experience that is entertaining, but doesn’t require too much user input. It should almost play the game for you. For example, one button games don’t require much input, but they can provide a ton of fun by what that one button does. Sketcher 2 doesn’t require many buttons, but the cinematic effects that follow a simple button push, make the game incredibly fun. According to Mobile Content 2008, a good mobile:
“is regarded as the most popular content in the mobile era, delivering fun and enjoyment to users. Using 3D and broadband technologies, it provides not only virtual reality but also connected experience with other synchronous users. The category encompasses all the games made fit on mobile handsets and devices.
The next award up for grabs at Mobile Content 2008 was Best Mobile Infotainment and Community. Here is how the organizers see this category:
“Mobile Web 2.0 is hot in the market. With advancements in convergence technology, mobile community and moblog’ing a social networking opportunity as well as a new personal medium of communication arise. Users carrying a mobile handset can get connected to a search engine where they can obtain whatever information they need.
This category embraces all the services or content giving users useful information. This category seeks to highlight all the services or content not only giving users useful information, but also communication functions between peers and among groups sharing the common interests.”
Click through for the judging criteria and more about the winner
Here is more video from Mobile Content 2008. In this video, the awards introduces the first category for judging - Best Mobile Service. According to the conference organizers:
“Mobile music service has shown big growth as mobile phones proliferate into our daily lives and change the way music is created and distributed.
Along with evolution of mobile handsets, Mobile TV & Video emerge as one of the killer service where all the digital content is integrated and converged in the mobile gadgets. The development of revolutionary technologies such as DMB, DVH-B and WiBro, Mobile TV & Video will change the way content is being created and distributed. The market potential is so huge that content creators and developers exert every effort to go mobile.
This category recognizes the overall excellence of services including, but not limited to, mobile music, mobile TV and video, and also animation, mobile comic service, wall paper, etc.”
Click through to read more about the entries and winner of Best Mobile Service
I’m just getting the video from last week’s Mobile Content 2008 on the site. Here is the intro video that we watched before the awards took place. To be totally honest, this video does a better job of showcasing the mobile content than the companies themselves did. I was really hoping to see some awesome product demos, especially by Softbank, but instead they just had their company rep say thank you in an ultra polite manner. This video showcases some cool devices as well, check it out.
Fantalog is a mobile web browser that’s making waves in South Korea. IB is a revolutionary mobile web browser that is capable of delivering the same PC-like web contents to mobile. They won an award at Mobile Content 2008 in South Korea and for good reason. Their browser will support any phone with a minimum of 3MB of memory and provides lightning fast mobile web surfing using a proprietary browsing technology called a T-Interface. T-Interface makes for easy menu navigation using arrow keys and convenient page management using a Favorites List.
This is video taken at Yongsan Electronics Market in Seoul South Korea. My interpreter and I asked one of the shop owners (among 5000 shops in the area) to explain his best devices. Getting device names is difficult because they often change when entering new markets. This device, I believe, is the Samsung Anycall SCH-W550. The phone’s specs are decent with a 3.2″ TFT LCD with capacitive multi-touch display, and haptic vibration technology that uses a “music therapy” function and which can inform you of your bio-rhythms. Whatever that is.
If you’re in the Ottawa, Canada area today, I hope you’ll be attending Home Grown Innovations. It will be a great opportunity to talk shop with local gaming companies. We’ll be filming at the event and it should be a great show. BTW, I realize the futility in posting about an event hours before it happens, but it will be a regular thing. You can catch the next. Looking forward to the following companies:
· Fuel Industries
· Magmic Games
· DISTIL Interactive
· Sylien Games
· Head Games
Because I used to live in South Korea, I know my way around Seoul. After a nice dinner with the folks from the conference, everyone wanted to head out. Problem was, it was only 10pm and things don’t really get started that early in this city. Usually people are still eating and drinking at that hour and since we already ate, this wasn’t really an option. I told some of the guys I knew a good bar and word traveled fast. Before I knew it, I was leading a group of 30 people to my favorite bar. It’s a foreigner bar so it was open and good to go.
Continue reading this epic drinking adventure
One of my favorite speakers at the conference has been Mike Pearson who does corporate development for Google. During his speech he talked at length about the Google mentality and how it is incorporated into Android. He talked about how the Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, created Google from free, open source software, and how this should be the case for a mobile operating system.
Continue reading about what Mike Pearson had to say about Android
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