The Nokia 5800 is very much in the headlines of late, no more so than for the growing number of games the touchscreen device is supporting. While it’s not an N-Gage compatible device, there are plenty of games coming out for the touchscreen wonder.
The latest batch has appeared on Nokia Hong Kong’s wesbite. What’s more, each one is free, so well worth checking out. The latest games on offer are Sudoku, Mahjong, Big 2 Masters, Shanghai Mahjong and DouDiZu.
This is the top story hitting the Nokia neighbourhood this morning, with other top stories being Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N95 and a great way to copy text on your S60 browser. Check out the full-fat version after the leap of faith…
The latest games on offer are Sudoku, Mahjong, Big 2 Masters, Shanghai Mahjong and DouDiZu. OK, now of them are about to win awards for or
We were alerted to these games over on the Symbian World blog, with the guys pointing out that in order to play these games, ‘first you need to disable the onboard keyboard. Just go to Settings > App Manager > Installed apps > Find the game that you have just installed > option > suite settings > on-screen keyboard > OFF.’ It’s a tip worth making the most of as these games look great fun.
When the story surfaced yesterday that some had hacked a Nokia N95 running Windows 3.1, we thought it odd but a little necessary. However, it wasn’t until Symbian Freak but the spin on it we liked that the story moved from ‘so what?’ to ‘ Interesting but useless’ pile. Basically, it’s a DOS emulator that has been designed for older PC formats.
As the guys point out, ‘Anyway, Symbian enthusiast Marcinprv, has managed to successfully run fully functional Windows 3.1 on a Symbian device, mighty Nokia N95 to be precise by using excellent Kolijoco's S60 port of mentioned open source x86 emulator.’
We’re still happy with S60 on our Nok and won’t be switching but if you want to get hold of a copy of DOSBox S60 3rd Edition, be our guest
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Here’s a cool little discovery from the chaps over at The Symbian Blog – copying text from your S60 browser. Now, we know there is no simple way of getting words from your S60 browser and copying them into other apps.
There are a number of workarounds but Mobitol that the guys are highlighting is a cool beta app that, as they point out, ‘All you need to do is visit Mobitol, enter the URL of the page you want the text from and select go. The entire text on that webpage will be put into a text box.’ How easy is that? Sounds like a good one to us!
