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OpenGL Coming to your Cellphone
Little Hamster writes "SGI and Nokia have signed an agreement to co-operate on the development of a 3D standard suitable for all embedded mobile terminals, based on OpenGL. This could be used for bringing real 3D Games to mobile devices, 3D global positioning systems, 3D representations of buildings or even creating entire interfaces in 3D.
You can also find the press release press release here."
That is all I have to say. Thanks.
- Fucky
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Anonymous posting community when IDC confirmed that on-topic Anonymous posting has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all comments. Coming on the heels of a recent Slashcode change which plainly forces Trolls To post Anonymously at 0 rather than at -1, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Anonymous posting is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Monotony Report comprehensive Karma Whoring test.
You don't need to be a Karma Whore to predict Anonymous posting's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Anonymous posting faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Anonymous posting because Anonymous posting is dying. Things are looking very bad for Anonymous posting. As many of us are already aware, Anonymous posting Trolls continue to waste time. Mod points flow like a river of blood.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Troll leader Jamie McCarthy states that there are 7000 Trolls. How many on-topic AC's are there? Let's see. The number of Troll posts versus on-topic comments posted at 0 is roughly in ratio of 50 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/50 = 140 on-topic AC's. AC's that get modded over +2 are about half of the volume of on-topic posts. Therefore there are about 70 slashbot AC's. A recent article put Crapflooders at about 80 percent of the Anonymous posting volume. Therefore there are (7000+140+70)*4 = 28840 Crapflooders. This is consistent with the number of -1 posts.
Due to the troubles of VA Software, abysmal sales and so on, OSDN went out of business and was taken over by AOL who run other troubled websites. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Anonymous posting has steadily declined in signal to noise ratio. Anonymous posting is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Anonymous posting is to survive at all it will be among the slashdot janitors. Anonymous posting continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Anonymous posting is dead.
Fact: Anonymous posting is dying
This is not to say that I didn't enjoy playing Doom on a Nokia 9210 .. though the arrow pad is worst I've seen :)
Software should be free as in speech, but if we also get some free beer, all the better.
find decent 3d interfaces on my 1.5ghz machine with a cutting edge video card. I wouldn't expect it from a portable device!
Although this could be used well for GPS systems (as mentioned in the post) to display maps with altitudes.
Imagine how great it would be to have a FPS type of map of where you were? All you have to do is look down into your PDA and move arround the map to find out where you want to go. Oh well a man can dream.
and burn your bridges down...
oops! think i just did that with this post - oh well!
props to Nick Cave!
see ya in 24hrs!
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:
I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.
Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'
As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!
Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:
'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'
Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?
We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of posters to Slashdot by gathering together their postings and publishing them en masse to further his twisted and manipulative journalistic agenda.
Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them.
In addition, many of the Linux distributions (a 'distribution' is the most common way to spread the faggots' wares) are run by faggot groups. The Slackware distro is named after the 'Slack-wear' fags wear to allow easy access to the anus for sexual purposes. Furthermore, Slackware is a close anagram of claw arse, a reference to the homosexual practise of anal fisting. The Mandrake product is run by a group of French faggot satanists, and is named after the faggot nickname for the vibrator. It was also chosen because it is an anagram for dark amen and ram naked, which is what they do.
Another 'distro,' (abbrieviated as such because it sounds a bit like 'Disco,' which is where homosexuals preyed on young boys in the 1970s), is Debian, an anagram of in a bed, which could be considered innocent enough (after all, a bed is both where we sleep and pray), until we realise what other names Debian uses to describe their foul wares. 'Woody' is obvious enough, being a term for the erect male penis, glistening with pre-cum. But far sicker is the phrase 'Frozen Potato' that they use. This filthy term, again found in the secret homosexual 'Sauce Code,' refers to the solo homosexual practice of defecating into a clear polythene bag, shaping the turd into a crude approximation of the male phallus, then leaving it in the freezer overnight until it becomes solid. The practitioner then proceeds to push the frozen 'potato' up his own rectum, squeezing it in and out until his tight young balls erupt in a screaming orgasm.
And Red Hat is secret homo slang for the tip of a penis that is soaked in blood from a freshly violated underage ringpiece.
The fags have even invented special tools to aid their faggotry! For example, the 'supermount' tool was devised to allow deeper penetration, which is good for fags because it gives more pressure on the prostate gland. 'Automount' is used, on the other hand, because Linux users are all fat and gay, and need to mount each other automatically.
The depths of their depravity can be seen in their use of 'mount points.' These are, plainly speaking, the different points of penetration. The main one is obviously
More evidence is in the fact that Linux users say how much they love `man`, even going so far as to say that all new Linux users (who are in fact just innocent heterosexuals indoctrinated by the gay propaganda) should try out `man`. In no other system do users boast of their frequent recourse to a man.
Other areas of the system also show Linux's inherit gayness. For example, people are often told of the 'FAQ,' but how many innocent heterosexual Windows users know what this actually means. The answer is shocking: Faggot Anal Quest: the voyage of discovery for newly converted fags!
Even the title 'Slashdot' originally referred to a homosexual practice. Slashdot of course refers to the popular gay practice of blood-letting. The Slashbots, of course are those super-zealous homosexuals who take this perversion to its extreme by ripping open their anuses, as seen on the site most popular with Slashdot users, the depraved work of Satan, http://www.eff.org/.
The editors of Slashdot also have homosexual names: 'Hemos' is obvious in itself, being one vowel away from 'Homos.' But even more sickening is 'Commander Taco' which sounds a bit like 'Commode in Taco,' filthy gay slang for a pair of spreadeagled buttocks that are caked with excrement. (The best form of lubrication, they insist.) Sometimes, these 'Taco Commodes' have special 'Salsa Sauce' (blood from a ruptured rectum) and 'Cheese' (rancid flakes of penis discharge) toppings. And to make it even worse, Slashdot runs on Apache!
The Apache server, whose use among fags is as prevalent as AIDS, is named after homosexual activity -- as everyone knows, popular faggot band, the Village People, featured an Apache Indian, and it is for him that this gay program is named.
And that's not forgetting the use of patches in the Linux fag world -- patches are used to make the anus accessible for repeated anal sex even after its rupture by a session of fisting.
To summarise: Linux is gay. 'Slash -- Dot' is the graphical description of the space between a young boy's scrotum and anus. And BeOS is for hermaphrodites and disabled 'stumpers.'
FEEDBACK
Well, the only reason I know all about this is because I had the misfortune to read the Linux 'Sauce code' once. Although publicised as the computer code needed to get Linux up and running on a computer (and haven't you always been worried about the phrase 'Monolithic Kernel'?), this foul document is actually a detailed and graphic description of every conceivable degrading perversion known to the human race, as well as a few of the major animal species. It has shocked and disturbed me, to the point of needing to shock and disturb the common man to warn them of the impending homo-calypse which threatens to engulf our planet.
Doesn't it give you a hard-on to imagine your thick strong poker ramming it's way up my most sacred of sphincters? You're beyond help, my friend, as the only thing you can imagine is the foul penetrative violation of another man. Are you sure you're not Eric Raymond? The government, being populated by limp-wristed liberals, could never stem the sickening tide of homosexual child molesting Linux advocacy. Hell, they've given NAMBLA free reign for years!
Thank you for your kind words of support. However, this document shall only ever be posted anonymously. This is because the 'Open Sauce' movement is a sham, proposing homoerotic cults of hero worshipping in the name of freedom. I speak for the common man. For any man who prefers the warm, enveloping velvet folds of a woman's vagina to the tight puckered ringpiece of a child. These men, being common, decent folk, don't have a say in the political hypocrisy that is Slashdot culture. I am the unknown liberator.
We shouldn't hate them, we should pity them for the misguided fools they are... Fanatical Linux zeal-outs need to be herded into camps for re-education and subsequent rehabilitation into normal heterosexual society. This re-education shall be achieved by forcing them to watch repeats of Baywatch until the very mention of Pamela Anderson causes them to fill their pants with healthy heterosexual jism.
Well, it just goes to show that even the holy Linux 'sauce code' is riddled with bugs that need fixing. (The irony of Jon Katz not even being able to inflate his scrotum correctly has not been lost on me.) The Linux pervert elite already acknowledge this, with their queer slogan: 'Given enough arms, all rectums are shallow.' And anyway, the PS2 sucks major cock and isn't worth the money. Intellivision forever!
For one thing, whilst Linux is a cavalcade of queer propaganda masquerading as the future of computing, NT is used by people who think nothing better of encasing their genitals in quick setting plaster then going to see a really dirty porno film, enjoying the restriction enforced onto them. Remember, a wasted arousal is a sin in the eyes of the Catholic church. Clearly, the only god-fearing Christian operating system in existence is CP/M -- The Christian Program Monitor. All computer users should immediately ask their local pastor to install this fine OS onto their systems. It is the only route to salvation.
Secondly, this message is for every man. Computers know no colour. Not only that, but one of the finest websites in the world is maintained by a Black Man . Now fuck off you racist donkey felcher.
Although there is nothing unholy about the fine heterosexual act of ejaculating between a woman's breasts, squirting one's load up towards her neck and chin area, it should be noted that Perl (standing for Pansies Entering Rectums Locally) is also close to 'Pearl Monocle,' 'Pearl Nosering,' and the ubiquitous 'Pearl Enema.'
One scary thing about Perl is that it contains hidden homosexual messages. Take the following code: LWP::Simple -- It looks innocuous enough, doesn't it? But look at the line closely: There are two colons next to each other! As Larry 'Balls to the' Wall would openly admit in the Perl Documentation, Perl was designed from the ground up to indoctrinate it's programmers into performing unnatural sexual acts -- having two colons so closely together is clearly a reference to the perverse sickening act of 'colon kissing,' whereby two homosexual queers spread their buttocks wide, pressing their filthy torn sphincters together. They then share small round objects like marbles or golfballs by passing them from one rectum to another using muscle contraction alone. This is also referred to in programming 'circles' as 'Parameter Passing.'
And PHP stands for Perverted Homosexual Penetration. Didn't you know?
Well, I don't know about terraforming Mars, but I do know that homosexual Linux Advocates have been probing Uranus for years.
*sniff* That brings a tear to my eye. Thank you once more for your kind support. I have taken faith in the knowledge that I am doing the Good Lord's work, but it is encouraging to know that I am helping out the common man here.
However, I should be cautious about revealing your name 'Cerberus' on such a filthy den of depravity as Slashdot. It is a well known fact that the 'Kerberos' documentation from Microsoft is a detailed manual describing, in intimate, exacting detail, how to sexually penetrate a variety of unwilling canine animals; be they domesticated, wild, or mythical. Slashdot posters have taken great pleasure in illegally spreading this documentation far and wide, treating it as an 'extension' to the Linux 'Sauce Code,' for the sake of 'interoperability.' (The slang term they use for nonconsensual intercourse -- their favourite kind.)
In fact, sick twisted Linux deviants are known to have LAN parties, (Love of Anal Naughtiness, needless to say.), wherein they entice a stray dog, known as the 'Samba Mount,' into their homes. Up to four of these filth-sodden blasphemers against nature take turns to plunge their erect, throbbing, uncircumcised members, conkers-deep, into the rectum, mouth, and other fleshy orifices of the poor animal. Eventually, the 'Samba Mount' collapses due to 'overload,' and needs to be 'rebooted.' (i.e., kicked out into the street, and left to fend for itself.) Many Linux users boast about their 'uptime' in such situations.
If only indeed. You can help our brave cause by moderating this message up as often as possible. I recommend '+1, Underrated,' as that will protect your precious Karma in Metamoderation. Only then can we break through the glass ceiling of Homosexual Slashdot Culture. Is it any wonder that the new version of Slashcode has been christened 'Bender'???
If we can get just one of these postings up to at least '+1,' then it will be archived forever! Others will learn of our struggle, and join with us in our battle for freedom!
I am compelled to document the foulness and carnal depravity that is Linux, in order that we may prepare ourselves for the great holy war that is to follow. It is my solemn duty to peel back the foreskin of ignorance and apply the wire brush of enlightenment.
I could make an arrogant, childish comment along the lines of 'Every time someone asks for 2.0, I won't release it for another 24 hours,' but the truth of the matter is that I'm quite nervous of releasing a 'number two,' as I can guarantee some filthy shit-slurping Linux pervert would want to suck it straight out of my anus before I've even had chance to wipe.
I sincerely hope you're Natalie Portman.
What the fuck?
Well bugger me!
Fuck right off!
IMPORTANT: This message needs to be heard (Not HURD, which is an acronym for 'Huge Unclean Rectal Dilator') across the whole community, so it has been released into the Public Domain. You know, that licence that we all had before those homoerotic crypto-fascists came out with the GPL (Gay Penetration License) that is no more than an excuse to see who's got the biggest feces-encrusted cock. I would have put this up on Freshmeat, but that name is known to be a euphemism for the tight rump of a young boy.
Come to think of it, the whole concept of 'Source Control' unnerves me, because it sounds a bit like 'Sauce Control,' which is a description of the homosexual practice of holding the base of the cock shaft tightly upon the point of ejaculation, thus causing a build up of semenal fluid that is only released upon entry into an incision made into the base of the receiver's scrotum. And 'Open Sauce' is the act of ejaculating into another mans face or perhaps a biscuit to be shared later. Obviously, 'Closed Sauce' is the only Christian thing to do, as evidenced by the fact that it is what Cathedrals are all about.
Contributors: (although not to the eternal game of 'soggy biscuit' that open 'sauce' development has become) Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, phee, Anonymous Coward, mighty jebus, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, double_h, Anonymous Coward, Eimernase, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward, Anonymous Coward. Further contributions are welcome.
Current changes: This version sent to FreeWIPO by 'Bring BackATV' as plain text. Reformatted everything, added all links back in (that we could match from the previous version), many new ones (Slashbot bait links). Even more spelling fixed. Who wrote this thing, CmdrTaco himself?
Previous changes: Yet more changes added. Spelling fixed. Feedback added. Explanation of 'distro' system. 'Mount Point' syntax described. More filth regarding `man` and Slashdot. Yet more fucking spelling fixed. 'Fetchmail' uncovered further. More Slashbot baiting. Apache exposed. Distribution licence at foot of document.
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.. under the Microsoft topic as well? "All your cell phone are belong to us" - MSFT
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.
But for me the main problem with this is that no-one has yet mention how MUCh it's going to cost me to a)get it, upgrade my phone, etc and b)How much it's going to to cost to use it. Cos I can't see systems like GPS, interfaces(on other phones/pdas?) being given away. If the cost issue can be sorted, even if all we get is a basic ballpark figure, then I may grow to be very interested in this indeed....
RoseColor red={0, 0xffff, 0x0000, 0x0000};VioletColour blue={0, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0xffff};find / -name *mybase*|chown you
..until i can play QuakeForge on my cell :)
Wow, now I'll be able to show off my m4d r4iling sk1llz to all these newBz in the subway on my 4'' phone.
Presumably this technology won't be available for at least a few years, considering that Nokia have not yet launched their full-colour mobiles.
The Nokia 7650 was scheduled for UK release in May but it's been put back to August.
There is absolutely no need for anything 3D on cell phones. What I would like to see, and so far I haven't seen in Europe, is a cell phone featuring:
- full calendar with appointments, alarms, repeats and no-ringing "timespans".
- nice T9 SMS entry like Sagems (as opposed to "menu bloated" alternate word lookups in Nokia's T9 implementation)
- FM _and_ AM radio tuner
- MP3/OggVorbis playback capability with CF storage
- 300hour standby
- flip-out microphone so people can hear what I'm saying
- amber backlight instead of white/green/blue
- notepad/voicerecord/simple_finance app
- GPRS, HSCSD, Bluetooth
If I could find a set that had ALL of the above I could replace my walkman, mp3 player and a pocket calendar. Unfortunately I have not seen one cell phone that has all of the above. Anybody has seen such a beast in a standard cell-phone form factor?
OpenGL? Sure, 3d menus, crappy 3d games in 160x160, will wonders never cease... arghh
How soon until Microsoft convinces their cellular 'interests' to support a forthcoming scaled-down/scalable version of Direct3D for embedded and mobile devices? What would be even better? How about a 3D version of .NET! I can see the headlines now, "Now you can use your 'MS Office 3D.NET.11 for Workgroups' applications on your cell phone while you're driving down the highway in your SUV!"
You're only as smart as your brain.
3D Snake!
GPS and 3D-models of building sound great but somehow I believe that we'll only get yet another excuse to pay a months wage for a thing we can play games on.
First of, call me troll if you want. I don't care.
Cell phones are for talking, at most instant messaging. If I want to play games on a portable, I'd do it with a GBA or something. It's novel, yes, and cool technology. But why would you want to try and play a REAL game on it? I just don't see the interest.
Sorry for the contrary opinion. If you disagree, tell me why.
Sent from your iPad.
A phone with decent sound quality, a sliding 7110-style front, a good radio section (because I'm often in poor signal areas) and a big battery so I'm not constantly charging it.
I don't want games, I don't want mp3s, calendars, appointment reminders or anything like that. Just a phone.
I don't mind if the improved RF stage and bigger battery makes it a bit big. I don't want a phone the size of a domino. I'm quite big and heavy myself, and can easily carry a bigger phone. Just so long as it means the buttons and screen are a bit bigger, because it's a hassle to use a mobile when it's cold and you're wearing gloves.
It's the same with laptops - I want a new, modern laptop, but about the same size as my old 8086 Toshiba. Why? Because it runs for about 2 days on a fully charged battery, and has a proper clicky keyboard. The layout is a bit smaller, in the way that laptop keyboards are, but the keys have a lot of travel, like a normal desktop keyboard. It's so much more comfortable to type on.
About OpenGL
...
OpenGL is available on all other major computer platforms, including IRIX®, SolarisTM , HP-UX, Compaq® Tru64® UNIX®, AIX®, BeOS, Windows NT®, Windows® 98 and Mac® OS.
No Linux?
AFAIK Mesa isn't officially an OpenGL implementation, because it hasn't been tested, but aren't there any implementations that have gone through the tests?
Also missing from the list are the newer versions of Windows...
I doubt, therefore I may be.
Most likely the real application will be service providers trying to rip off customers by offering expensive "animated 3d logos", made by summerworking students getting minimum salaries.
They won't stand a snowball's chance of running DOOM 3 at full res unless you want them to double as central heating. And OpenGL for a cellphone UI would be overkill, and hard to use -- remember how VRML was going to take over the web?
But I can think of at least one valid use for this - streaming videoconferencing. Why stream 24fps video when you can run facial-recognition software, break a face up into polygons like a game model, and transmit the facial movements to be rendered on a screen. Lots of cellphones now come with cameras built in, so it wouldn't be that great a step up. Or perhaps if it was too cheesy for live conferencing you could have a face "read" text messages to you.
Any more ideas, or is this just another flash in the pan?
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Did they say 'in all devices'? That's pretty crap.
I can imagine some specialised people who might need this. So they can pay more for their mobile.
I on the other hand don't want or need 3d on my phone (not even my PDA/phone hybrid). Let me rephrtase that. I wouldn't mind it, if it was free. But it's not. And I'm not prepared to pay for something I won't use.
If they had differentiated the market, I wouldn't mind. That way, if ever the killer app for 3d on a small screen came up, I could get one. But in the mean time, when this comes out, I'll have to pay...
Oh, I'm a near graduated mechanical engineer, so I can see people saying 'but wouldn't it be great, you could show parts on your screen!' or 'you could show them what it looks like in the machine shop!'. But it doesn't work that way. Most 3d stuff has to be shown either full screen (as in game graphics; you need to see it the way the player would, anything else distorts) or large, on paper, building plan like. The last thing you need is misconceptions because of a missed detail.
Small 3d is very limited in use for most things except a small Quake game...and that's not as enjoyable as you'd think.
-- Waht? Tehr's a preveiw buottn?
You CLiT'ers can't do anything right, can you!!!
This could be used for bringing real 3D Games to mobile devices, 3D global positioning systems, 3D representations of buildings...
...3D pr0n, 3D strip poker, 3D ecchi games.....
:)
.sig is wrong, so what?)
Cheers
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Seriously though, how fast could this be? I know that there are some ARM processors with built in 3D acceleration.. maybe that's what it's targeting?
-- 2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2
Now it is confirmed: Slashdot is the world's leading ludditian web site.
What will throwing this extra functionality in - I assume an extra gpu to do the math etc. - do to battery life which is already painfully low! How about someone coming up with a revolutionary new battery or power source instead of putting 3d on a tiny screen?!
Okay I tell you why. I own a GBA. Recently I managed get a co-worker with a credit card to order me a backlight for it. With some skills I have not used in two decades(yes I am old) in managed to install the light and even to close it again. It works brilliantly. I now once again spend an awfull lot of time playing on it and might even buy some more games.
So thumbs up for the GBA right? Wrong. You see I work for a company called O2 as the web-developer, the cause I am the only programmer for the moment, for their online presence for the dutch branch. Holland was the first country in wich the XDA, a PDA with pocketpc(I know I know) and GPRS, was available. Apart that it is MS and is a bit underpowered the thing has one major advantage over the GBA, QUAKE!!!!!!! Yes it is tiny, yes the controls suck, but it is QUAKE!!!!!!! I have played doom on the GBA, trust me the two don't compare.
Since the XDA has gprs, and I presume that nokia will also, it has internet. Multiplay anyone? Fragging people why waiting for the plane could make waiting really fun. Only slight problem is that the processor is designed for boring old office type apps and so lacks the oomph needed to play later 3D games. With this move perhaps they will add a simple 3D accelerator as well
Try not to see this new devices as phones with gadgets but as mobile pc with a modem attached and if you only want a phone that can do voice. ehm what is stopping you? Just keep you're old one youre provider will love you since they will really get back the subsidie they made on it.
As for those wanting big screen, buy a nokia PCMCIA gprs/gsm card to play online while on the move.
I hope that someday soon I will simply be able to do quick FPS missions while travelling to work or maybe even a online RPG.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
With all the suppliers desperately trying to justify the 3G licences they've bought.
Now the only thing that is pointed at as a money spinners is pron (Virgin have signed with Penthouse or somesuch already).
Perhaps if the openGL takes off 3D mapping, gaming etc will be another revenue stream.
Annoying little girl picks up cellphone, hotly pursued by dinosaurs:
"This is a Nokia System, I know this!"
I call it "Billy and the Cloneasaurus"
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That sounds interesting. I am curious if anyone out there can point out some 3d interfaces fot the PC,
3D interfaces in mobiles will come as popular as they are on desktops these days.
If battery technology every makes a major leap forward (big IF I know), I could see 3D screensavers becoming fashionable on these things, especially among gadget lovers in Japan.
Anyway, there may not be many applications now, but that shouldn't be a reason to declare it not worth doing. It's inevitable that 3D will be put on every size screen because 3D capability has practically become a basic, expected functionality on any display.
Until your eyes have a HUD, a cellphone might be a perfect way to get a 3D view of what you can see PLUS annotations about what's nearby, an arrow for where to turn next (from your own perspective, which can be faster to grok at times than the overhead view), topographic contour overlay, star finder, etc. As long as the phone can sense its orientation as well as position, it could double as an cheap HUD. Saying your eyes can do this on their own disregards the advantage of the computer interlink the cellphone has.
But you we all know the manufacturers will...
..put in some annoying whizzy interface (complete with embarrasing sound effects) that shows a rabbit pulling your incoming SMS messages out of a top-hat or something.
You fool! You've given cheese to a lactose intolerant volcano god! Do you know what that means?
This is the greatest day of my life, openGL on the cellphone!!!
YES!
This is truly supper-wicked-awesome.
Take that Russia! um?... I mean Bin Laden (waving fist in the air)
Yes!!
what's a cellphone?
Now i really can look like a borg, i'll just watercool whatever graphics chip they have, and then when i use my phone to play quake and i get a call and put it to my head it will appear as tho i have coolant running through my head!!!!
Seriously, i thought my phone got hot when i talked on it! now its gonna do 3d?
moo.
Now my cellphone can have an annoying "personality" just like the Gadgetmobile. I can hardly wait.
Thinking fondly of days of yore, when telephones had only two controls and no display, and worked just fine, thankyouverymuch.
btw, check out this all-java PDA from kyocera, man that looks cool.
Kyocera Java PDA
"Further distancing itself from other and more mainstream PDA products, the user interface of the Pocket Cosmo is according to Kyocera entirely original with rich menus supporting 3D movement, smooth scrolling and instantaneous switching of applications..."
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Some people seem to be concerned about how good a 3D app would be on such a small screen at a low resolution. I think the best idea is to look at the state of 3D games on the GBA. There are a mirid of them and many of them are great. One of the best examples is V Rally 3. While most of the other racers use a technique called Mode 7, this one is fully 3D in all aspects. Since the GBA at 240x160 on a small screen can look good in 3D, I wouldn't be concerned with the 3D not being acceptable on a cell phone...
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From: Competitive Comparisons:
> [Windows 2000 offers] Better business alignment with straightforward licensing and clarity of intellectual property ownership.
So my choices are:
1) Pay big bucks and be sure of who 0wns me, or
2) pay nothing (aside from development costs) and not give a rats ass.
What's with all this hooplah with 3D? I say, "been there, done that"....Let's go straight to 4D!!!!
"You have the option of insanity. I do not. And that makes me crazy!" - Brian to Angela, My So-Called Life
How long until they sell that intellectual property to Microsoft? I don't trust the bastards anymore.
Because nothing makes you feel safer than a lot of teenagers driving around playing Quake on their cell phones. In fact, why don't I just get a gun and put it in my mouth right now.
- Full calendar which can synchronise with the desktop
- Pervasive T9 throughout its interface
- It's an open platform, so apps will be written to play MP3s and Ogg Vorbis (though it doesn't come with them as standard)
- 100-150hrs standby
- Speakerphone & good quality audio
- Full colour screen
- Notepad, voice recorder (and voice dialling)
- GPRS, HSCSD, and Bluetooth
The only item on your list it doesn't have is a radio. But more crucially than any of the above, it's an open platform, so applications can be written for it to do almost anything you want.For example, someone's already written a MPEG 4 video recorder for the phone, which I frankly find amazing.
Oh, PS... it won't work in the US. But you could wait a few months for the Sony Ericsson P800, which will do.
IMHO, this would be the best thing for developers, and with the elements within that article that discuss the previous display work that is hardware independent I think it would fit in nicely.