Our sister site Pocket Gamer has gone all pink for the day. It’s blaming the launch of pink versions of the PSP and DS Lite for the girly makeover, but to be honest we’ve suspected something bubbling under the surface of some of the writers for a while. There’s only so many ninjas you can bloody, tanks you can bust, asses you can pop a cap in and motorbikes you can burn rubber on before you want to get in touch with your feminine side.
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Pocket Picks‘ multi-talented editor Stuart Dredge might be able to navigate three handsets simultaneously whilst playing Tower Bloxx with his feet, but that doesn’t mean he’s forgotten what it was like to be starting out with mobile content.
Accordingly, he’s just written an excellent How To guide for Vodafone subscribers over on our sister site Pocket Gamer, which should demistify getting games on that network for even the most, erm, mystified. It’s just the first of five guides planned to cover all the major UK operators, so if you’re not with Vodafone, bookmark that space!
Update: Erm, links work now! Thanks to our reader Jez for the tip off!
A little off-topic for Pocket Picks perhaps, but we thought you might like to know that sister site Pocket Gamer has just kicked off a new section dedicated to iPod games. (Well, it’s mobile content of a sort!)
There’ll soon be reviews of all nine iPod launch games in the section – already evaluated are Zuma, Mini Golf, Pac-Man and Texas Hold’em. (Pocket Gamer loves Zuma, Mini-Golf and Texas Hold’em, but thinks Pac-Man is “disappointing” as it doesn’t work well with the iPod’s scroll-wheel.)
If you’re confused about how to get iPod games onto your player, you might want to check out this walkthrough too.
Mobile entertainment may still be in its infancy, but Player X is one company already set on becoming a media-spanning megacorp, publishing and distributing everything from mobile games and TV to video, and also working in mobile gambling.
“We have huge confidence that mobile users see mobile content as their best form of entertainment delivery,” Player X’s CEO Tony Pearce told us in our interview.
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Fiddling with your mobile phone’s buttons is one of the defining activities of 21st Century life, like twirling your moustache 200 years ago – but could we soon instead be gesturing over our handsets like a fortune teller consulting her crystal ball? Maybe, if this prototype handset from Pilotfish and Synaptics is any guide to the future.
Rather than fiddling to press ‘5′ instead of ‘6′ (or indeed ‘7′), you wave your hands around about the handset to access its various functions. It all sounds very Minority Report, but what do you when walking down the high street? And surely a voice driven interface is the obvious way to rid our handsets of buttons?
(Via BusinessWeek Online).
Stuart has swanned off to the V Festival – he’s backstage snorting champers, no doubt – so here’s the pick of the mobile stories from those he left behind.
- Scoopt’s cameraphone Picture of the Day sees Royle Family actor Ralph Little with a G-string on his head. Really. (Via Scoopt)
- Crazy Frog peddler Jamster readies full song mobile service (via Fierce Mobile Content)
- Korean kids could soon have their underwear branded with a barcode of their parent’s mobile numbers (via Picturephoning.com)
- Could Sharpcast (currently in Beta) help you keep all your mobile data, and even emails, under control? (via MobileCrunch)
- Sony Ericsson’s Compact M600i QWERTY Phone review eventually reaches favourable conclusion (via MobileBurn)
- This Bluetooth earpiece doubles up as watch. (I know, how did you get by before?) (Via BlueTomorrow)
- Reviews and directory site Yelp has just launched a Wap version (via MobileCrunch)
- Nokia opens a swanky new
Apple StoreNokia Flagship Store in Helsinki (via Mobiledia) - HealthPia’s Glucophone – a mobile phone with a glucometer – is made for diabetics on the go (via Gizmodo)
- California’s GDC Mobile Conference is looking for mobile know-it-alls (via Kotaku)
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